Final Young Womens Project

All year I knew that I wanted to recover some Book of Mormons for my Young Women as a Christmas present. My friend Kirsta Evans taught me how, and then I proceeded to make 19. The first step was to rip off the covers and take out the pages. Talk about feeling guilty ripping apart BOM's. Next, I recovered them with paper and embellishments, I went to Hobby Lobby and bought the paper. Here are what the finished books looked like. The bummer part is that I was released two weeks before Christmas, but the wonderful new YW pres. still let me give them out. I sure will miss those girls!

Cottonwood Christmas

The Ledbetter Law Firm Christmas Party. The famous 5 lb chocolate bar and Santa! I didn't attend this year, instead I went to Prescott and finished my Christmas shopping before I got to miserably pregnant! On the first weekend in December Cottonwood has a huge Christmas Parade. This year Emma decorated a Girl Scout Brownie float, and Sean decorated a Flip City Preschool float. While Shiloh and I enjoyed watching the parade with just Ryan and our hot cocoa!!

Raking Leaves in December

Having fun raking leaves with Mom!!

These are the last pictures with our camera, because Ryan dropped it after we were finished.

Sorry there are so many- but it was a nice afternoon!

The Big Pool

Ok, I had a friend do this online baby pool and it was a blast to participate. So I thought with just over a month to go I would start one up. Click the Expectnet icon on the right and give a guess. The winner will get a prize!! Good Luck. (You can guess more than once too!)

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Fall Fun

The kids used up almost all the Lego's to build this enormous tower- that actually stood on it's own for a few minutes! Thanks goes out to Dad who helped!!

This year I went all out in the canning department. I canned Peaches, Pears, and Applesauce. Yummy!! Here are a few snapshots of the process. Special thanks goes out to Cindy Kleinman who spent a lot of time with me helping me out! More Thanks goes out to my helpful young men who were all too willing to help! Thanks Sean and Ryan.

Here is Sean grinding up the apples to make the applesauce!

Ryan was a big helper, but did not want his picture taken.

When I bought the pear they were individually wrapped and Ryan unwrapped each and every one. I just had to throw the mess away and it kept him entertained for a long time. :)

I had to let them ripen on my counter for a few days and they were rearranged numerous times by my kids. Ryan being the most organized one.

We went to Cottonwoods first ever Airport Appreciation Day.

We walked around and looked at airplanes, helicopters, and cars for almost two hours, ate some pancakes, and watched some shows. We even had 3 F16s fly over- the kids loved all the excitement.

These were cool fast little planes doing fancy maneuvers Here are some WWII biplanes that flew over 4 times They performed the Missing Man formation- it was awesome to watch!

YW Activities in Review

So for the 5th Wednesday of September we combine the three wards in our building for one large youth activity. This time I was in charge- so I planned a Scripture Scavenger Hunt. My presidency and I created passports for everyone and they had to go to 7 places to receive a stamp. BUT in order to get a stamp they had to either answer a question or do something. At each station I had a member of the church dress up as a scripture character. Brother Allred went all out with his outfit. It was a very successful evening and everyone seemed to have a ton of fun. It was worth all the effort.

For a combined Young Women's activity the girls wanted to do Karaoke, but I was unable to find a machine and so to improvise we played American Idol on the Wii. It was soooooo fun and silly. Yet hard- it actually let you know if you were on key. We have a few talented girls that were fun to watch, but I have no talent and just had fun with my performance. Here is the grand finally with all of us singing. Ahhhh

Breakfast with CJ and River

I just love spontaneous friends! CJ called up and we went off to breakfast. Here are the two boys hamming it up with their mom's.