The Allen Crimson Club: Monthly Update!

Here we are a month later trying to catch up on blogging! I apologize for the long post! I have been very SICK and haven't been able to keep up with things around here! Dishes, laundry, cleaning, blogging, project life and many other things have suffered because of it! In between and during sicknesses, we did manage to do a few things around here! We had our Young Women's New Beginnings the beginning of March. The weeks leading up to it I was busy making invites, programs, a gift for the girls and yummy food! I found some frames that my friend and fellow counselor Sheena spray painted for me. Then I printed out the mutual theme for this year and made some flowers to decorate the frame. I think they turned out really cute! We had a short program that night including a skit, 'Virtue Academy' and spotlights on our two new beehives this year. The young women did a great job! I made cupcakes, little layered cakes, cake pops, chocolate covered oreos and pretzels. Everyone loved the food!

Frame before (I don't know why it's sideways)

After Sheena's amazing spray painting skillzzz! Much better!

All the circles (105 to be exact) I cut out to make the flowers to put on the frames

I saw this idea on a blog. You take address labels, stamp them and wrap them around Hershey's Nuggets. We had to have some gold for virtue, right? They were so cute!

I forgot to take a picture of the table spread before everyone dug in! Then we shared with the young men! There were a few cupcakes left and one cake pop so I snapped this pic before Tim ate it!

Two of our young women with their finished framed themes

Sheena brought this frame for the skit, love her!

Mar 3: So we have a new fish! We took Parker to the pet store and let him pick one. Then we let him name him! The list of names was long and hilarious! Some of the suggestions were: Twist, Star Fish, Nemo, Popcorn, Bubbles, Pimple (because he has a black head get it?) Bluey and the winner is SWIMMY! Parker loves him and talks to him all the time, it's really cute!

Mar 9: Our stake put on another amazing camp kickoff! It was weird being on the audience side of camp kickoff. I've been on the stake side for the last three years! We played minute to win it games for the chance to pick which value we wanted for our theme for camp. It was a blast! Then they announced the camp theme which is 'Your Path to Your Happily Ever After' every value had a princess to go with it and we got Good Works and Tiana from The Princess and the Frog. The girls are so excited for camp!

Terri had to swing this orange in the leg of pantyhose to knock over the water bottles

They were trying to grab a penny at the bottom of the pantyhose

Wiggle your face and try to get the oreo into your mouth, then chew and swallow

Our princess Tiana a.k.a. Malorie

Mar 16: I got to go on a field trip with Parker's preschool class to Sweets Candy factory. It was really cool to see how they make and package the candy and of course they give you a few samples along the way! Parker LOVES the taffy!

Parker's buddy Micah rode with us, they talked the entire ride!

They don't allow cameras inside the factory, but I took this one after the tour in the store

Here's the whole group which includes both the morning and afternoon classes

3-17 & 18 My friend Amanda invited us to attend her sealing in the Logan temple. We decided to get a hotel room and make it a little family mini vacation/getaway. We went to dinner at Fire House, went swimming and stayed up way too late! It was a lot of fun and Parker's first time staying in a hotel. He LOVED it! It was so great to see Amanda, Barry and the kids! They are getting so big! Of course I didn't get a pic with them! UGH!