Goodbye to the Cosper's!

We are now down to just a few weeks left of being able to hang out with our good friends! We first met the Cosper's when we moved into the ward last year. They live a few miles away from us as well. They are our age and we have so much in common with them. Their "love story" is really similar to ours!! Adre has been such a good friend to me. We have served in the Young Women's Program for the last year, so I got to see her so much! She just got released, and I miss her so much! Matt is getting out of the military in ten days, so they are moving to Texas for him to go to Lineman school. Words to not express how much I am going to miss their family!! There will be definite plans to go see her over the years!

                                         

Run for Virture...Standing in Holy Places

About three months ago, I was asked to help Adre Cosper with putting together a "modesty fashion show" for the Young Women of NINE stakes. With me being an adviser in Young Women's, I knew about this big conference coming up, but I didn't know the extent of anything. The Stake kept advertising how amazing it was going to be! I posted the picture of the invitation. As you can see, it WAS going to be a big deal. Sister Elaine Dalton was going to be the special guest for the weekend! How cool is that? That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of how amazing this two day conference was. 

The Lacey Stake Young Women's Presidency was told by the Lord that Adre needed to be the one to do the fashion show. She was the Coordinator and I was asked to be the Co-Coordinator. We spend two months before meeting weekly of how everything was going to run. Neither of us knew exactly what to expect, but Adre was very in tune with the spirit. We had a local artist (who was a member) create the backdrop. We decided on the Salt Lake City Temple. Remember, we are representing how the Lord wants us to dress, so the temple was the only way to go. We started collecting greenery from members in the stake. We even used a bunch from my house! The big colorful flowers were used at Mormon prom a few months earlier, and they were still in great condition to use on our stage! As you can see, there was lime green toole along the run way sides. It looks sooo cute! We had a few "tech" guys help us with the lighting. The lighting was dimmed down, and then we had spot lights on the girls as they were walking down the run way. I am getting chills right now just thinking about how all the props turned out! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkR14BnBik

New Calling

I just received a new calling at church. I am still the Laurel Advisor, but now I am helping with the Young Women's sporting program. I haven't really done anything with it yet, but it should be really fun. We play volleyball at the Stake Center every Tuesday night. I am kind of nervous to start coaching (There will be two of us, but still!) I played volleyball in Jr. High and part of High School, but lets be honest here...I wasn't the star player ;) The only bad thing is the Stake Center is a half hour away. My Tuesdays and Wednesdays are now going to be super busy. I will get off of work and go straight to gym. I am really excited to help with this though! I absolutely love my YW calling. The girls are so great, and we have so much fun together. Last week we went ice skating together, and I felt like everyone bonded really well. We have a lot of different types of personalities, but on Wednesday everyone just had fun together. I will try to post some pictures of the girls here soon.

Thanksgiving 2012

We had such a fun Thanksgiving in November. We decided it was too far of a drive to go home for a four day pass, so we had Jared's cousins come up from Portland for the weekend. Brody and Sam stayed for the weekend, and everyone helped make a delicious turkey dinner! We had rolls, jam, mashed potatoes and gracy, corn, turkey, ham, and yams. Everyone helped in the kitchen, and we just had a fun weekend together. We missed getting together with the big family though. We are hoping next year to either go home, or have my parents come up. I was actually pretty nervous to make Thanksgiving dinner for everyone. I like to cook, but I had never made that much food before all at once. I am not so good on the timing part. I didn't have to worry about a thing though this time. Everyone was so helpful, and I was really only in charge of the turkey! Brody and Sam were our first visitors. Thanks for coming to share the holiday with us!!

14976 101st Way SE

I am so far behind on blogging, so I am going to be playing catch up! I will have to post what the house actually looks like with our decorations later, but here is basically what the inside of house looks like :) We love our house! It has been a lot of fun nesting over the past 5 months.