Family History Night!

We'll be having a Family History class tonight, February 25 at 7 pm at Noelle Murray's house. Remember to bring your laptop (if you don't have one, we can share), your member number (on your temple recommend), and your confirmation date. It will be so fun to learn how to use the new family history website and how to find our ancestors!

Mid-Month Reminder

Can you believe it's already February 16?! Since we're already more than halfway through the month, please remember to set your visiting teaching appointments so that you're able to see your sisters by the end of the month! If you don't know who you visit or who visits you, please let me know. You can email me at carahadley@gmail.com or call me at 208-339-0014. You can also find the visiting teaching message for this month here. Thank you so much for everything you're all doing with your visiting teaching! I promise it changes lives!

Beauty Night

Beauty Night turned out wonderful! It was fun to learn new tips from one another. Pamwent to beauty school in France so she taught us how to do French manicures (thought they DID NOT come from France) and she did Sarah's makeup... which looked beautiful!

Tiffany brought her cousin to our activity and here is Pam doing their nails.

Little did we know that Breeana is a makeup artist in the making... of beautiful eyebrows! She did almost all of our eyebrows. She taught us what shape works for our face, how to shape them, and how to draw them in (if needed). It is amazing how just a little tweeking and filling in can do to your face!

Here she is doing Noelle's eyebrows and Julia's.

Lindsey painted her toenails and my daughter's (Emrie). Thanks... even though she rubbed them off the next minute!

Emrie and Braden practicing the piano.

I also did scalp treatments on Lindsey and Sarah.

I also handed out a little packet of beauty tips. Click here for basically anything you might ever want to know about hair, skin, nails, and even homemade beauty tips.

Meeting With Elder Quentin L. Cook

I just wanted to share a few thoughts that Elder Cook shared in a special meeting that he held with all the Relief Society presidents and Elders Quorum presidents yesterday. It was a very casual and special meeting where he allowed us to ask questions, then answered them. A question was asked on how we can unite our Relief Societies and Elder Cook emphasized the importance of activities. We have a wonderful activities committee who work so hard to provide us with great activities that are fun and also uplifting. I would encourage each of you to attend our activities. Not only will you come away spiritually uplifted, but you'll also have the opportunity to become familiar with the other sisters in our ward. I'm very thankful for our activities committee who work so hard and give us great activities.

I'm also thankful that we had the opportunity to meet with Elder Cook and hear his thoughts in our Sunday meeting today. I love that he emphasized the importance of religious observance in our homes. Having weekly Family Home Evening or family prayer or scripture study may not be the easiest thing to do right now while we're so busy with school and work and young families. but we will be blessed if we make the effort. I know that I feel renewed motivation to be better in my own family with our religious observance.

What are some thoughts or impressions that you had throughout the meeting with Elder Cook?

Pillowcases!

Sarah, Liz, and Kristen all set up and ready to go!

Kristen did an amazing job teaching us how to make these cute pillowcases. Thank you so much!

It really was so simple. This was one of the first times Liz had sewn and she picked it up really fast. :)

Breeana making her pillowcase for her little sister.

Noelle and Emrie. She made her pillowcase for Emrie's bed.

Sarah holding her cute finished product... for her sister that is going on a mission. The fabric is a missionary stick figure that says, "I hope they call me on a mission" so cute!

Thanks to Cara for the extra help and a working sewing machine!

It was such a fun activity. We all wanted to do more!

Here is a really similar tutorial I found online:

http://www.vanillajoy.com/pillowcase-tutorial.html

(just in case some of you have a machine at home or want to make it again later)

Sewing Class!

Don't forget to come to the Sewing Class!

It will be so much fun.

Kristen Gedeborg will be teaching us how to make a pillowcase.

All you need to bring is your own fabric.

She said to buy 100% cotton fabric. 2 different patterns. Wash and iron your fabric before you come just in case of shrinking and so it will look pretty when we are finished tomorrow.

Measurements for the fabric:

3/4 of a yard for your first pattern (or main body of the pillowcase)

1/2 of a yard for the second pattern (or the hem of the pillowcase)

She also suggested adding an 1/8 of a yard to each pattern if you buy from Walmart. Their fabric seems to shrink a lot when you wash it.

Can't wait to see you there and to see our finished projects!

Slight Change of Schedule

Just so all of you know, our Relief Society meeting will be a little different this Sunday, February 7. President Harris (the stake president) would like to meet with our Relief Society and the 74th ward's Relief Society to discuss the power of the Priesthood. I'm so excited to hear what he has to say to us! So we will still be meeting at 1 pm with Relief Society first, we'll just be meeting in the gym with the 74th ward's Relief Society. I hope to see you all there. It will be great to have a meeting with President Harris!

Also, on February 14, we will be having a different meeting schedule. Our stake will be combining that day to have a general authority meet with us. I don't know yet who it is, but I know it will be one of the 12 apostles! We will meet that morning from 10-11:30 am, and that will be our meeting for the day. Hooray for morning Church and for spending time with an apostle! It's so exciting!