2008 YM and YW Christmas Caroling

We spent a cold evening singing Christmas carols throughout the neighborhood. Runners would go ahead and knock on doors to give the homes a heads up that we were coming. Afterwards, the YM leaders warmed us up with hot cocoa and yummy doughnuts.

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2008 YW Laurels Handing Out Christmas Plates

Is there anything better to do during the holidays than to hand out treat plates and let people know they are appreciated and loved? We LOVE our Laurels!!

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2008 Turkey Bowl

Happy Thanksgiving! We woke up to Turkey Bowl with our neighborhood. It was a perfect morning for the game and it's fun to go watch & cheer... and take a few photos too. It's wonderful to see them watch out for one another... the older men, the young men and boys. Everyone takes part in the fun...

-Brenda

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2008 YW Laurels in Photo Booth

We headed over to Kmart and took random photos of ourselves to complete our All About Me books that we are working on. Afterwards we treated ourselves to ice cream at Macey's!

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2008 YW Standards Night

Tonight we gathered together for Standards Night at the church. We had an extra yummy dinner and watched a John Bytheway talk about standards. It was a wonderful evening.

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2008 Shooting with Grant

Occasionally Grant will take the men in our ward out to polish up their shooting skills and have guy time!

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2008 YW Yoga

We had a wonderful time learning basic yoga moves with sister Amy Williams. We filled up the relief society room with pretzel twisted bodies and plenty of laughter.

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2008 YM and YW Tubing Down Provo River

We had a great time tubing down the river with the youth today. With a few basic rules and some waterguns in hand we headed down to Vivian Park for watermelon and donuts.

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2008 YM and YW Floating Deer Creek

We had a great time floating on Deer Creek. It's one of our favorite summertime activities!

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Scouts Uintah 50 Mile Hike

These guys have been through a lot... a far tougher hike than they imagined. Ask any of them for a story and they will be glad to tell you :)

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2008 YW Ice Blocking

We had a fun time ice blocking down the grassy hills of Cascade. A slippery activity to say the least! Afterwards we played wiffle ball and snacked on ice cream sandwiches.

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2008 YW Stuart Falls

We had a great time getting up in the mountains and hiking up to Stuart Falls... some even dunked themselves under the frigid falls!

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2008 Cascade 5th Youth Conference

Youth Conference at Camp Williams this summer could not have been better. A HUGE thank you to brother Grant Watson and the leaders that made this possible!

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2008 YW Camp Shalom

Highlights this year:
Wonderful Y/W leaders & young women, Camp Happy Feet, yummy meals, girl time, night time in our cabins talking, giggling and singing, making tootsie roll poopies and putting them in the toilets, stealing camp flags from others wards and mixing them up, time around the campfire, yoga (NOT pretty), sister Loveless braiding hair, chicken taco chicken taco, snipe hunting, humanitarian projects, camp bunny rabbit, playing games, camp crafts, shampoos with warm water (thanks sister Christensen), RS visit, stargazing, Sister Kirkby getting locked in food cabin, canoeing on the lake, confidence course, hiking to the snow this year, bishopric night with pies, singing in the meadow and testimony meeting (which makes all the hard work worthwhile). It was a wonderful time and we all came home very tired and dirty, but with smiles on our faces.

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2008 YM and YW Burn your homework activity

The kids gathered their homework from the school year and we headed up the canyon for a weinie roast and burn party to celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of summer!

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2008 YM and YW American Idol Finalist Party

American Idol was too good to pass up for a Y/M and Y/W activity. This year our own Utah David Archuletta was in the finals with David Cook. We roasted hotdogs and hung out together as we shared our opinions on who should win. Go David A!!! Go David Cook!!!

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2008 RS Bike ride to Utah Lake

The women in the ward were invited to bike ride from Vivian Park to Utah Lake. It was a great morning, downhill most of the way... with a few 'we are almost there Sue' encouragements! This time Brenda Birrell, Debbie Anderson, Sue Mendenhall & Vicki Packam were ready to go.

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2008 YW Laurels at Arctic Circle

Audra couldn't come to young women's tonight, so we came to her! The Laurels met at Arctic Circle for shakes, french fries and time to work on Young Women Achievement goals with Sister Kirkby. We love, love, love our Laurels!

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