New Year's Celebration!

In the beginning of November we had the unique opportunity to participate in a New Years Celebration recording. The church is producing this DVD and will be sending out the finished product to wards all over the world in December.

The event was held at the conference center. On drive up, we took a moment to OOO and AAH at Sister Upp's collection of car freshners!

Coming out of the church office building parking lot...we had some fun in the elevator. :)

When we got there, the place was packed!! We felt like cattle being herded around. We were lucky enough to get in and be amongst the last ones to get a seat on the highest balcony before they shut the doors. Our YM were not as fortunate! They were turned away and had to go home! Sorry boys!

It was amazing to sit in there amongst 20,000 LDS youth! The front area (where the general authorities and MoTab choir usually sit for conference) was transformed into a special stage just for this event. Over 500 youth auditioned and practiced for this program. At one point I turned to Sister Upp and said "This is like a gospel version of High School Musical!" The whole evening was jam-packed with high energy fun, complete with singing, dancing, and audience participation. It was definitely a new experience to be cheering and clapping and yelling in the conference center!

Here's all of us who could go. Thanks for being patient in the freezing cold so we could snap this picture! If anyone else has pics, please post them. Overall it was a fun, exciting night. We love our girls and love spending time with them! :)

It is always a Party!

Here are a few of the pictures we took from Wednesday Nights Picture night. They weren't from a professional camera,

but they still turned out cute!!

We had a great time! Devan was such a sport, she even posed for a few pictures!
Jordan let Becca do her make-up, Check her out!


Rita was checking out how to do photoshop and digital scrapbooking pages!

Cute Devan!

Her is Sister Syall being patient with all of our MANY camera questions!

There is our fearless Leader Sister Jones!

Jordan looks a little leary.
Rita with an AWESOME hair-do!

Sister Rex lookin cute as Ever!

A closeup of sister Hill-

Dang she is cute! What a great smile!



And Sister Upp really trying to keep her

eyes up and open!!

This one is for you Marc!

Getting pictures from the blog.

You can save any of the images onto your desktop if you click on the slide show and then click on the picture you want. Then on a mac you control click save image to a desktop. I am not sure how you do it for a PC sorry.

YW combined activity for Nov.

The photography night was so fun!! What gorgeous girls. As you can see some of the leaders were showing them how it is done. There seems to be so many of the same picture because I did the glamour to some of them but, it does not show up in the slide show. So I will try to get some printed off so the girls can see the difference. Thanks for everyones help. We tried to learn a little bit about how the camera works so we can get better pictures. Then, there was a place set up to work on digital scrapbooking that will probably take another activity to really have a chance to learn that. Also Rebecca my(Sis Syal) sister had make-up and books ready for anyone who wanted to look at make-up stuff and then we got to pose our little hearts out. Everyone was such great sports. What a fun bunch of girls. We sure missed those that were gone. But, they are not off the hook. I will get them sometime. ;-)

Combined YW photography night

The girls pulled it off! YW in Excellence was a hit. The room was so cute in all of its jungle glory. It was so fun to have everyone come and be a part of these amazing girls. Chauncey way to go on getting your medallion!!!

YW in excellence