Brigham City 16th Ward Young Woman

Corn Maze

2010-10-24T17:19:00.001-07:00

We had a great night at the corn maze last Tuesday. It was perfect fall weather. Thanks to the Beehives and Sis McKenzie for a great night!

Better Late than never...

2010-08-10T11:08:00.000-07:00

Okay girls, I just am getting into blogging and finally figured out how to add things to the blog. Here are some pictures from our awesome dance in April, planned by the Miamaids for their 10 hour Integrity project. What an awesome night. Way to go girls!
-Sister Reeder

Future rock stars - Cassy, Sephie, Teaza, Jamie, Daniel, Ciara (and friend), Cassy and Dorothy

Jamie, Shaydra, Kristi & Daniel

Lipstick Pictionary

2010-04-27T21:58:00.001-07:00

Thanks to the Beehives for planning such a fun activity tonight for us. We were supposed to play a tennis game, but due to the crazy wind, it changed and we played Lipstick Pictionary. It was like pictionary, except we had to draw the pictures with the marker in our mouth! Ha ha. We each had our own marker, so it wasn't all germy...no worries.

Here are Shaydra and McKenzie taking a shot at drawing

Myrissa drawing while Dorothy and Cassidy take a shot as guessing...

Sephie gives it a try....

Shaydra getting ready with the marker in her mouth

What a cute group of girls! Cassidy, Jamie, Teaza, Sephie, Myrissa, Dorothy and Janelle...Shaydra was drawing and McKenzie was taking the picture =)

Such good friends....

Death By Chocolate

2010-04-08T22:14:00.000-07:00

Tiffany H. (our new Laurel) was in the play Death By Chocolate this weekend. It was a funny murder mystery that had interesting twists and turns. They did such a good job! Tiffany played Margaret Daniels...a "reporter" for Elite magazine...or so we thought. There may have been a twist or 2 thrown in there. Tiffany, and the entire cast and crew did a wonderful job. We look forward to the next performance.

Trying to convince the new owner to give her some details about what is going on....

What a great production! Good job to all involved. We are so proud of you Tiffany!

CONGRATS SISTER ADAMS!!!

2010-04-03T22:11:00.000-07:00

We just wanted to say congrats to Sister Adams! Her new little guy Ethan was born April 3 and weighed 6lbs 8oz and was 9 1/2'' long. Yay! We can't wait to meet this little guy!

I copied this pic from her blog... What a little cutie!

Bowling

2010-02-16T14:00:00.000-08:00

Well, we were supposed to go ice skating at the Merlin Olsen Park in Logan tonight for mutual, but due to the warmer weather we have been having, the rink closed on Feb 12th. So, we decided to hit up the 'ol bowling alley...it was a fun substitute and we had a blast!

The whole group getting started, choosing lanes and what not...

Bowling shoes are so awesome!

Clarissa got a strike, so Nicole taught her the strike cheer!

Followed by a spare from Sephie....Nicole was in rare form! hee hee

Janelle, Dorothy and Myrissa

Myrissa goiong for a not-so-traditional bowling style

Cheri's own ZERO face after TWO gutter balls! oops!

Our own twinkle toes...Jamie Flintstone!

Teaza must have beat Clarissa....

One silly group of YW!!!

Someone got ahold of the camera....Clarissa, Janelle, and Shaydra

Janelle and Cassidy (ps, we LOVE your hair straight Cass!)

Clarissa, Ciara, and Shaydra...I think you are making Ciara nervous ladies...LOL

Shaydra and Myrissa (who turned 13 the day after...Happy Birthday Myrissa!)

Clarissa and Sephie

Teaza and Sephie posing with their Dino-friend...who they helped to make

Clarissa and her "date" Mr. Dino

Dorothy and Cassidy with the little Dino...

Fun night ladies...let's do it again!

New Beginnings

2010-01-31T14:34:00.000-08:00

What a wonderful time to be in Young Women! Tonight we had our New Beginnings program and the spirit was definately strong throughout the whole program. Sister Balls started the night out by telling us of the updates that have been made to the Personal Progress materials... For more information visit... http://www.lds.org/pa/display/0,17884,6884-1,00.html We are excited for the updates in Personal Progress and excited that by following this program it will bring you closer to the Lord and allow you to have several personal and faith building experiences.

We have 1 new Beehive that will be joining us this year in July. Katherin Johnson. We had each of the girls ask a question to get to know Katherine better and her mom secretly got the answers for us. So, the night of New Beginnings we called Katherine up and each girl told us what they had found out about her. We are so excited for her to join us. Her spunk and spirit will be great fun to have in the YW program!

Our mutual theme for the year is in Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." The basis for the talks of the evening was taken from that scripture.

Our program and podium with all of the YW values

Sister Gleason started us out with her talk on "Be strong and of a good courage". Following her talk Sister Reeder's sister Brooke Betenson sang our special mucial number...Be strong. We appreciated her dedication and willingness to drive all the way from Logan to perform for us. Following our Special musical number, Sister Reeder gave a talk on "Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed" and encouraged us to come closer to the Lord. Sister Peterson then tied up the scripture with her talk on "for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest" and reminded that the Lord is with us at all times and in all places. Brother Beck ended the night with his talk on helping us to set goals. It was a fun night and a great push in the right direction to begin/continue our personal progress.

Sister Reeder and her sister Brooke, who performed our special musical number "Be Strong".

Our Beautiful Young Women with their new Personal Progress books!

And the night ended with our delicious refreshments made by our sweet Sister Jeppsen...fruit soup and cookies! YUM!

See you all again next year!

Ogden Temple

2010-01-19T22:25:00.000-08:00

We had another fun trip to do baptisms tonight. Clarissa, McKenzie and Sister Balls left a little early, so we only got the 1 picture...But it was so cute, we had to put it on the blog.

Love you guys!

A Very YW Christmas...

2009-12-01T15:21:00.000-08:00

Tonight we had our YW Christmas party at Sister Reeder's. It wasa wonderful night, and we thank the Mia Maids for planning such a wonderful night for us.

We started out making magnetic nativity scenes.

And then moved on to a Christmas Bingo...

During Bingo we had a special visitor....SANTA!!!! He talked to us for awhile and then we each had the opportunity to sit on his lap and tell him what we wanted for Christmas...

MOST of us were excited to see santa, but Allison wasn't so sure....

Jamie and Santa

Shaydra and Santa

Clarissa and Santa

Janelle and Santa

Teaza and Santa

Sephie and Santa

Myrissa and Santa

Kristi and Santa

McKenzie and Santa

WAIT A SECOND..... ha ha, Brother Reeder and Santa are good friends from what I hear =)

After heading Santa back to the North Pole, we continued our festivities...more Bingo and White Elephant presents...

Cute Kristi!

Goofy girls...Clarissa, Shaydra and Janelle

And of course a group photo!

We love you girls...MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!!!!

(thanks again Sister Reeder for letting us invade your beautiful house!)

Thanksgiving Pie Crusts...

2009-11-24T15:41:00.000-08:00

Being a few days before Thanksgiving, we thought it would be a good idea to help out in the tradition and learn how to make pie crusts for our yummy Thanksgiving pies. Miss Burton is quite the cook and agreed to head up our activity and teach the girls how to make a pie crust that we would later give to our moms to have for Thanksgiving. There is nothing better than a yummy homemade pie crust!

Jamie getting the group started...

Teaza loving her polka-dot apron!

Janelle and Shaydra hard at work...

hmmm, maybe this wasnt as easy as we thought...

Myrissa and Sephie getting there...

Different reactons from all....

Rolling out the dough...

Almost there....

Last step....

And final product...TA DA!!!!!!

Young Women in Excellence 2009

2009-11-17T15:53:00.000-08:00

We had another wonderful Young Women in Excellence tonight. It was so much fun to learn about each girl individually and to get parents involved in the night. Our theme this year was "We VALUE the Temple" This helped us to focus on how the Young Women Values that we have to follow will lead us to the Temple.

For decorations: We set up in the Primary room where we had taped several pictures of the temple all around the room and had a trail of value colored foot prints leading to a picture of the temple...

Along with the picture of the temple, we had baby blessing dresses, baptism dresses and a few wedding dresses displayed reminding us these are all steps we take as we work toward being sealed in the temple.

To start the program out...Sister Balls welcomed us all following which the girls in the senior Primary classes sang our opening musical number "I Love to See the Temple". It was a fun way to get them involved and excited to come to YW in the next few years as well...and they are just so cute!

(this was taken during practice, but looked just like the real performance)

We followed on with a talk from Clarissa who recently received her YW Medallion. She talked to us about how the activities/experiences in the Personal Progress book are helping her to prepare for the temple. Following Clarissa Sister Balls spoke about how staying close to the Lord and the YW program will lead you to the temple as well as a few of her own personal experiences getting to the temple from her experiences getting to know the church from the YW program, conversion, baptism, mission and experiences.

Following Sister Balls we had each girl's family/parent give a spot light on each girl to help us get to know them better as well as to learn about their favorite things from YW. We had asked each girl in advance a few questions ie: favorite value, why, fav, YW experience of the year, fav temple etc... and their families shared the info with us. It was awesome!

To end the evening Brother Dunaway gave us a message from the Bishopric about how the YW Program will help you get to the temple. We ended with a piece of wedding cake that had a temple mint on it.

And of course had fun visiting afterwards....

Silly Burton Girls....

Shaydra and Sister Peterson...such good buddies!

Thanks to you all for a WONDERFUL NIGHT! We look forward to ding it again next year!

Water Softball

2009-06-02T14:45:00.000-07:00

This was such a fun activity that the Beehivesand Deacons put together. It has been really hot the last couple of days, so it was fun to get wet and play a good old game of ball. Unfortunately a storm blew in and we had to cut the game short, but it was still a super fun night!

All lined up and ready to go...

Sephie takes a swing...

Janelle tries out her pitching skills

Swing batter batter bater...... (Dorothy)

Shaydra sliding into home

A Swing and a miss... (Cassie)

Teaza...sliding in for the extra point....

Kenz on third waiting to get home...

Check out that slide by Miss Jamie Burton!!! Nice one!

(Most of the gang after the game....just before the thunder and lightning hit)

Seminary Graduation

2009-05-28T14:57:00.000-07:00

We want to congratulate our 2 Laurels Brooke and Makenzie for graduating from Seminary this week! These 2 girls have learned so much from their seminary teachers and we are so proud of them! The graduation was so nice, and it was wonderful to see these two (who were both chosen to speak) sitting on the stand with their Young Womanhood medallions on. It is our wish for everyone of you to graduate with your Young Womanhood award! Congrats you two!!! We love you!!!!

Brooke and Kenz with their 2 favorite YW leaders...Sis Balls and Sis Munhall

The proud Frischknecht family

And the proud Burton family!!!!

Soccer

2009-05-19T15:03:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately my camera died during the game, but i was still able to get one shot of the girls playing soccer this week for our combined YW activity

Walk With Christ

2009-04-21T13:18:00.000-07:00

What an amazing night! Tonight for mutual we all had the opportunity to take a walk through Christ's life. This was Brooke's 10 hr integrity project that she has worked sooo hard on. She arranged for different speakers to come and talk about the life of Jesus Christ. She decorated the basement of the church with white Christmas lights and had the lights turned off, which really helped maintain a spirit of reverance. We broke into 2 groups and had the opportunity to visit different rooms where speakers met us and talked to us about the prophecying of Christ, His birth, The Sermon on the Mount, Forgiveness, The Atonement, and The resurrection.

Brooke Frischknecht headed up this activity to complete her 10 hr Integrity Personal Progress Project.

This is what we saw as we headed down the stairs...

The whole basement was decorated with white Christmas lights and Pictures of Christ throughout His life....

Even the stairs were decorated so beautifully.

This was an INCREDIBLE night and all those involved did a wonderful job. Words can not describe the feelings the spirit brought and the messages we were all touched with. I know that each person in attendance was touched and became more grateful for the miracle that Jesus Christ is. Thanks so much Brooke for sharing your love of the Savior with all of us and for working so hard on this project!

EASTER EGG HUNT!!!!!

2009-04-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

Since Easter is almost here, we decided to have a combined YW/YM Easter Egg hunt. We (the leaders) hid 250 eggs all around the church. We broke the group into teams and each team had to find 40 of their color egg. Inside the eggs were words that went to a story about Joseph Smith. So, once they found the eggs, they had to work together to put the right words to the story...It was fun for all!!!

Look what Jamie found..ps....we LOVE the new look Jamie. Cute hair...and NO GLASSES yeah!!

The orange team working hard to get the story right...

Cute picture of Miss Cassie Gleason

Teaza and Cass working hard to find those purple eggs...

The yellow team... Sephie, Makenzie, Brooke and Shaydra

General YW Meeting...

2009-03-28T15:40:00.000-07:00

I can not believe how awesome of an opportunity it was to be able to go to the General Young Women meeting in SLC! We had quite a few extra tickets, so a few of the girls' mom's were able to attend, too. Our seats were incredible as we were only about 9 rows from the front. AND...we sat on the side that President Monson came out from. We were so close to him and it was so amazing to be able to feel his Spirit. The meeting was wonderful and presented us such great messages of hope and inspiration through stories and scripures that were shared. (click on picture to enlarge)

Scouting for food

2009-03-28T13:59:00.000-07:00

Our Young Women were such great sports and helped the Scouts pick up food for the March Food Drive. Here they are...Dorothy, Shaydra, Makenzie and the barely awake...Kristi =) Thanks for your help girls!

Bowling on St Patrick's Day

2009-03-17T13:11:00.000-07:00

Happy St. Patricks Day. We decided to all go bowling...wearing green of course tonight for our combined mutual activity. And of course, also had to wish Shaydra a Happy Birthday! Yeah...another Mia Maid!!!!!

Hey cuties!!!! Clarissa and McKenzie

Jamie...sporting a nice green outfit.

Kristi gives Shaydra a birthday hug!

Makenzie and Myrissa loving the bowling!

Dorothy, Cassy, Teaza and Sephie on the approach!!!

Mormon Ad

2009-03-10T14:09:00.000-07:00

For a stake meeting that is coming up, we have been asked to come up with a Mormon ad. So, the girls all put their heads together and came up with ...GO FORWARD NOT BACKWARD.... Here they all are hard at work....

Cassy, Dorothy, and Teaza

Group work..

What you got Kenzington???

Myrissa hard at work

And, the final plan.... (I forgot to take a pic of the final product...oh well)

New Beginnings

2009-02-15T14:22:00.000-08:00

Tonight we had the opportunity to have our New Beginnings celebration. We have only 1 new Beehive that has joined us this year...Miss Myrissa Barlow. She is such a sweet addition to the Beehives! We had a great program and Brady took a few pictures of us all mingling afterward.

Shaydra and Janelle just chilling...

The Burtons Laughing it up... Whats so funny?

The Stephens (above) and Gleasons (below) having a good time

Look at those yummy refreshments

and...Brooke, Sis Balls, Jamie, Kristi and Kenz chilling after.

Love to all of you girls...may 2009 be a wonderful year for us all!!!!

State Swim Meet

2009-02-07T13:38:00.000-08:00

One of our Laurels...Brooke... qualified to swim at the State swim meet. It was fun to see her swim and she has had a great season as the Captain of the swim team. Congrats Brooke on a great season....We are all so Proud of you!!!!

An overview of the pool....

BEHS gearing up for success!!!

Our very own Brooke getting ready...

Look at her go!!!!!!

Way to go Brooke!!!!!

Makenzie's basketball Game

2009-02-05T14:02:00.000-08:00

We had to watch Makenzie play ball before the season ended. We had fun watching the lady Bees play a good game against Mountain Crest. And...I had to say that I was impressed that Miss Burton was the only member of her team wearing a white shirt under the tank jersey. We are so proud of you Mac!!!! Congrats on a great season as the Captain!

Go number 20!!!!!!

We love you Mac!!!!

Tied up Dinner

2009-02-03T15:22:00.000-08:00

Tonight for mutual, we had a tied up dinner combined with Young men. Everyone's wrists were tied together to the person sitting next to them and they had to learn how to communicate together to be able to eat their dinner. It was interesting to see how they did this....

Some invented their own way when they didnt want to take turns

Church Cleaning.....

2009-01-17T13:46:00.000-08:00

Ah yes...service. It was our YW's turn to clean the church. So, we made sure to have fun while doing it... I mean, come on, isnt that what service is all about.....

Brooke and Kristi not so sure what they have gotten themselves into....

Brother Balls cleaning the bathrooms...

Jamie cleaning the windows....

Brooke and Kristi working hard in the classroom...

Miss Makenzie sweeping...

Look at those happy faces...can you see them...Brooke and Kristi.

When we're helping we're happy......Just remember that for next time ya'll!!!!!!!

Temple Trip

2009-01-09T15:07:00.000-08:00

Tonight we had the opportunity to go to the temple and do baptisms for the dead. Going to the temple is always such a privilege and the spirit we feel there is so special and so personal. Please prepare yourselves every day for this opportunity. Hopefully we will be able to go back again soon and we would love for you all to be there.

Pretty girls outside the Ogden temple... Jamie Burton, Makenzie Burton, Kristi Frischknecht, McKenzie harmon, Clarissa Thornock, Cassidy Gleason, Dorothy Fidler, Teaza Stephens and Sephie Stephens (click on the picture to make it bigger)

Special Needs Carnival

2009-01-06T13:00:00.000-08:00

For our activity tonight we invited several guests from around the community that have different special needs. Each class was in charge of making a booth with a game. We had all kinds of games. Ring toss, cake walk, fish pond and even a bowling alley! It was a fun night for all and fun to see everyone interact so well.

Look at them....pretty maids all in a row.... Cassidy, MCKenzie, Kristi, Clarissa, and Jamie

Best buds Devan and Jason

Shaydra and the fishing pond...

Ring toss for a soda....Cassy and Dorothy

And our lovely bishopric making cotton candy. What a fun night!

MERRY CHRISTMAS......

2008-12-16T15:23:00.000-08:00

We had our combined YW Christmas party tonight at Sister Reeder's house. We played games, ate yummy treats, made ornaments and even had a visit from a very special visitor....SANTA!!!!

Santa with all the girls.

Then it was time for a little one on one with Santa

McKenzie H.

Cassie G.

Dorothy F.

Makenzie B.

Janelle B.

Shaydra R.

Sephie S.

Teaza S.

Cassy Y.

Brooke F.

And even a few of the leaders got to visit with Santa....

Sister Gleason

Sister Reeder

Sister Stephens

And Sister Munhall....who sits on Santa like that? Come on!!!

Part of the group figuring out how to play the syllable Christmas song game. Everyone has to say part of the word at one time and the other team guesses what song it is.

Making Ornaments.....

The finished Product...Kenz, Shaydra and Janelle

Merry Christmas to you all! Hope you all have/had a very wonderful Christmas Season!

Young Women in Excellence

2008-11-19T11:51:00.001-08:00

Last night we had our Young Women in Excellence celebration. Thanks to all involved to make the night such a great success. Brother Dunaway spoke on the importance of Personal Progress in our lives, we watched a video the Reeder's made from pictures of activities, and interviews with our YW to get to know them and their Personal Progress projects/interests better. Sister Balls spoke on her experiences with the YW program and joining the church and the night ended with a special musical number "Walk Tall You're a Daughter of God" sung by the YW leaders to the YW. It was a fun night! We didn't take too many pictures, but here are a few... Thanks again to all involved to make this night a success!

A trail of stars leading from the stairs to the gymwith leaders and YW names on them

The "Red Carpet"

Mingling

Bro Balls likes to sneek into pictures (be careful)

Little Brother Dunaway

Hand Prints and autographs

Our Movie Premiere....

A few of the leaders....(dressed in the value colors=)

"captain" Reeder:)

Cleanup!!!!!!

Clothing Drive

2008-11-11T12:33:00.000-08:00

Tonight for Mutual the Mia Maiads and Laurels combined to help Kristi Frischknecht collect clothing donations (that were donated to St Anne's homeless shelter) from around the ward boundries for her 10 hr Good Works project. The donations were numerous and so many people contributed that when all together the Frischknecht's living room was a sea of bags of clothing...... Congrats on a successful service project!

Young Women In Excellance

2008-11-05T19:27:00.000-08:00

Just a reminder to all you gals... the leaders will be going around this Sunday to record each of you for Young Women in Excellance which is November 18th. Just remember to be prepared to share your experiences with us.

Barbarian Dinner...

2008-11-04T12:13:00.000-08:00

The Barbarian Dinner was our combined YM/YW activity for November. Thanks to the YM who spent much time making turkey, potatoes, gravy, ham, salad...so yummy!

YW and Pumpkins

2008-10-21T12:41:00.000-07:00

For our combined YW activity tonight we carved pumpkins and took them to a few of the girls we havent seen at church for awhile. Here are a few pictures of our night.....

2008-09-30T14:42:00.000-07:00

Miamaid Activities:

10/7 - Combined YM/YW (Laurels) Service
10/14 - Childcare Service activity
10/21 - YW Combined - (Beehives) Pumpkin carving & Delivery
10/28 - Personal Progress 10 hr project TBA
November
11/4 - Combined YM/YW (Priests)
11/11 - Combine w/Laurels - Food Drive
11/18 - YW in excellence
11/25 - Personal Progress 10 hr project TBA
December
12/2 - Combined YM/YW (Teachers) White Elephant Exchange
12/9 - MTC - Combined YW
12/16- YW Combined (Miamaids) Ice Skating
12/23 - No Mutual
12/30 - No Mutual

Dating Survey

2008-09-27T13:49:00.000-07:00

The New Era Magazine has a survey that wants to get your opinion on dating! Here's the link! http://ldschurch.inquisiteasp.com/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.dll?idx=N5W4T6 . Since we just talked about dating in our lessons last week maybe you gals have a few good fresh ideas!

General Conference

2008-09-27T13:48:00.000-07:00

General Conference will be October 4th and 5th. That means Fast Sunday is this Sunday, 9/28.

Fireside

2008-09-27T10:30:00.000-07:00

This Sunday (9/28) we will have a Stake Youth fireside with Jill Stevens as the Speaker. She served in the military and was Miss Utah! The Fireside begins at 6:00pm and refreshments will be served. Invite your friends or any inactive members! Come with a prayerful heart that you will be able to be taught by the Spirit as Sister Stevens shares her experiences! we hope to see you all there!

Update

2008-09-22T09:20:00.000-07:00

We had a great time at our getting-to-know you activity. Thanks everyone for coming! We had a new Laurel Presuidency set apart on Sunday. Mackenzie Burton- President, Brooke Frischknecht as First Counselor, and Janelle Beukers as secretary. It was neat for me to listen to the counsel that was given to each of the girls as the members of the bishopbric set them apart. We have such a great group of girls and we look forward to getting to know all the girls better!

Laurel Activities

2008-09-15T10:00:00.001-07:00

Here are a list of the up and coming activities for the Laurel Class. This is an "attentive" schedule and is subject to changes so please come to church so we can keep you updated!!!!

9/16- Geneology Activity at the Family History Center
9/30- Game Night
October
10/7- Combined YM/YW- Service Project Raking Leaves
10/14- Dog Training activity with Brother Gleason
10/21- Combined YW Activity
10/28- "Spiritual Cornmaze"
November
11/4- Combined YM/YW Activity ( Priests plan)
11/11- Combine with Mia Maids- Food Drive
11/18- YOUNG WOMEN IN EXCELLENCE
11/25- Personal Progress Night
December
12/2- YW/YM Combined
12/9- M.T.C
12/16- YW Combined- Mia Maid Plan
12/23- NO MUTUAL
12/30- NO MUTUAL

September Activities

2008-09-11T11:40:00.000-07:00

This past tuesday we planned out our combined and individual class activities. Next tuesday, the 16th, we are meeting at the church to have a fun "get-to-know you" activity! Please arrive at 6:30 so for the combined opening with the Young Men! We hope to see you all there! If you have questions what the rest of the activities are for the rest of the month please contact your adviser or one of the members of the Presidency!

September's lessons

2008-09-11T11:38:00.000-07:00

If anyone wants to know what we will be talking about this month, here are the lessons. We love when you guys answer questions, so please ponder these topics each week and come ready to give your thougths and ideas!

The Lessons for September are as follows:
9/14- Avoiding Dishonesty
9/21- Dating Decisions
9/28- Marriage Standards