Young Women Birthday idea...

So I finally got around to taking a pic of this birthday chair cover...I am in charge of the birthdays in my YW and wanted to make it a little more special for them and so I put this together....you know how I love me some zebra print and of course the pink boa! I just measured the chair and sewed the sides together..I sewed on the boa around the sides.
Simple and Adorable!! The girls love it, and I hear they really love the glitter cups...WHEW, I am soo glad they approve...heehee!!

Halloween Glitter Cups...

I actually made another one at the beginning of October, and I didn't take a picture...darn because it was alot cuter than these ones.
I added some bling on the spider....cute!

Last night....

I went to a Stake leadership meeting and just wanted to write down my thoughts on what was said and what I felt. Can I just say I love this gospel!! I truly know that our Stake YW leaders are called of God, that they pray for guidance and inspiration to know what our girls, each one individually needs. I inspire to be more like them, to have the spirit with me as I teach my girls and to be guided DAILY to lead these girls on the direction that they need to be but not only that to teach them to have the desire and want to be the best they can be.

I was truly struck with the power of the spirit when I heard that as a leader I need to "create" spiritual experiences for these girls so that they can feel the spirit first and then "point out" the feeling of the spirit when it is there, when I know they are feeling it. This helps them to facilitate and understand these two powerful facts and be able to witness miracles and have an identity of who they are....hence a daughter of God, and of a God who truly loves them.

Once they truly grasp this knowledge of thier identity, they can better be equipped and have the tools and understanding of the gospel, to know and then live the standards, to know they are not perfect that they will make mistakes but that there is repentance through the atonement and last that they each can recieve thier own revelation and be able to recieve answers to thier prayers.

This is all in better words to strengthen thier relationship with a loving Heavenly Father and a saviour Jesus Christ.

They also talked a little bit about modesty and how this affects our inner self and how our self esteem is better and closer to our Heavenly Father when we dress with him in mind. Modesty is at the center of being pure and chaste, both in thought and in deed. And because it guides and influences our thoughts, behavior, and decisions, modesty is at the core of our character. Our clothing, our hair, makeup, jewelry, it all reflects who we are, HOW we feel about ourselves and WHO we want to be. I feel that since I am so into fashion, that as long as I am not "addicted" or spending money I don't have and that I can balance it...this is really just a part of my personality and not my identity. These two are seperate to me and I feel I do good at this balance. I have really fashionable trendy shoes that I paid 5 dollars for and not 1000 dollars...!heehee

I am SOO grateful for this calling and better yet for such great examples of Modest, Loving, beautiful women I have to look up to, who truly live thier life showing the YW identities that they can have, I know I have a Heavenly Father who loves me and who loves these girls.....and these are GREAT girls!!

Halloween T's for my girls....

My kids at thier elementary school are not allowed to dress up in their costumes for school, understandably HOWEVER they are allowed to wear, black and orange!! So of course I had to create my own thing and this is what I came up with....

The rhinestones I added because I LOVE bling and recently learned how to do it! Cambrie's is the same and right now am working on the bows for their hair...I still have another week, so I have actually been quite busy working on doing a few alterations for Sabrina's Candy Corn Witch costume (it's quite short and goes off the shoulders she ended up having to buy the "tween" size.....darn those immodest costumes...HELLO don't these people know that you don't just do away with modesty just because it's Halloween..!!) GGEESSHHH!!
And I have been making Bella's costume....YES I know, but I just couldn't get myself to buy the lady bug one at the store...seriously not cute and girlie enough!

It's been really fun, though...the wings are giving me some issues but I will be done with it tonight sometime after my kids get home, (lucky me it's a half day and usually I am STOKED about it, but today is a REALLY bad day for half day!!ugg) and I help one of my YW with her personal progress project, help another one of my YW with a halloween costume, go to THREE parent/teacher conferences(lucky for me I didn't have to meet with any of R.J.'s teachers, he is doing SO good with school) and then attend a Stake YW meeting tonight! By the way I have to finish her costume because tomorrow night is our Ward Trunk R Treat....! Oh yeah I can't forget the committee needs our Hot Dog Cart for that AND I have to set up our Beehive Booth.....There is actually more to put down but I am tired of typing....heehee

Anyhow such is life....Right?!

Halloween Cupcakes....YUM!

Last night Ray and I made these little spookies! We got the kids off to bed and he said, "Do you wanna make cupcakes, babe?" I said...."Oh yeah!" So this is what we came up with...
We were going to sit down and watch the Notebook movie, but our friends picked it up earlier so we sat and fed eachother.....it was sweet! It's nice to have some "alone" time when the kids are in bed....!

Like Mother Like Daughter....!

Sabrina wanted to do some crafts to decorate her room, so off we went to the dollar store again and picked up this halloween bucket. She got some black glitter and did the face of it and then added the ribbons and a tag that says, "Take one IF you DARE!" She put some candy in the inside....very cute and creative!
She also helped me to put this cute banner together......I think we work great as a team...what do you think??!! She is so cute and always find the fun in everything she does, something so small as these two little crafts she made into such a huge deal, calling her friends and telling them and then so excited to show them......what a cutie!!

Havin a Halloween breakfast!!

So I attempted to make these "ghost" pancakes for the kids and I guess they turned out alright, they look like duck feet to me..lol!

The "BOO" turned out good, except the kids had to each take a letter to eat....


Sabrina had a friend spend the night and so they wanted thier pic taken with thier ghosts...heehee
Colton said, "Now me mom"...(I'm surprised his ghost didn't fall off the plate....!)

Bella wasn't quite sure what this thing was but quickly went for the chocolate chips...

I guess the pancake ghost was yummy too....!!