These past two weeks have been busy and filled with family, classes & friends..

I was given the new job at church of teaching the Sunbeams (3 year olds), and I am so excited for this new adventure. I have 5 little boys and 1 little girl..They are so cute and so busy.. This coming Sunday is my first lesson and I am really looking forward to it. My lesson is on "Honesty".. I have lots of fun things planned.. I found a perfect book to read to them called "The Big Fib".. It is so cute and all about being truthful.

The Pinnacle High Fall Choir Concert was fantastic and my granddaughters Taylor and Madi perform in the concert choir. The music was fun and they did a super job.

Madi

Taylor


I also attended the Shadow Mountain Fall Choir concert and my grandaughter Karleigh is in the concert choir there. It was all popular songs and I loved it. Karleigh loves choir and she did great.

Karleigh

I had my first cricut class this past week "Cricut 101". We learned what all the buttons on the machine were and how to use them. Had fun with the gals and they had fun learning about their cricuts and making the project.


Taught my card classes last week and as always had a wonderful time with the girls and here are a few of the cards we created..

This weekend is the annual "Time Out for Women" in Phoenix. It is a 2 day event filled with inspirational speakers and music. I went with my daughter Kristan and met two very dear friends that we hadn't seen in about 20 years. Each year when I go, I come home so filled with inspiration & new desires to be a better person, to serve more and to do all those things that will help me to return to my Father in Heaven. The theme this year was "Infinite Hope", & all the speakers used that as the format for their talks.. Each one was wonderful and each one so different.. We laughed a lot and even cried at times when the stories were so touching.

On Friday evening one of my all time favorite women Sherri Dew was a presenter. She is such an amazing person who is an author, the President and CEO of Deseret Book. She has served as a member of the U.S. Delegation of the Commission on the status of women and girls for the United Nations. I could listen to her talk forever..

We were also able to be entertained by Dallyn Bayles. He is a Broadway performer and currently traveling with Phantom of the Opera musical . He has an amazing voice.

Saturday was an entire day filled with such wonderful presenters and music by the group Mercy River. I loved each and every presentation and felt such a strong connection with each one, as if they were speaking just to me. We had authors, a TV anchor from Salt Lake, professors from BYU and just amazing speakers. One of my very favorite on Saturday was Mariama Kallon, she was raised in war-torn Sierra Leone, after witnessing the violent murders of her parents and the loss of her siblings, she spent most of her time fleeing from the rebels fearing for her own life. She was given shelter by a loving family and introduced to the gospel of Jesus Christ and it turned her life around. She told of her adventures and how she ended up serving a mission at Temple Square in Salt Lake City and has been in America ever since. She is an amazing woman and so courageous. As a group we put together 525 hygiene kits for the Sorjourner Home in Phoenix. A shelter for abused women. We were each asked to bring items for the kits and the turn out was amazing.

A wonderful weekend and this evening we are having a family get -together to send off the white balloons to heaven for Kent and to celebrate.