Vieve's Place...Enjoy Your Visit
Tonight is our ward Christmas party, and we're just doing the same ole same ole, dinner, some sort of show, and Santa. I made a peppermint rice Krispy treat, which was bomb.
Then, onto the party. I was in charge of decorating Santa's room and then got a picture with the big guy himself.
Tonight was our ward Halloween party, and being sort of (?) in charge of it, I really helped out. I signed up to bring a cornbread and a dessert, and of course, Adam and I had great costumes. I know what you're thinking, are we going to see the costumes ? And the answer is no, I kept meaning to take a picture, but I sure didn't ever get one lol. We were Galinda and Fiyero from Wicked, but alas, no pics. That's fine, nobody is crying.
But I made my cornbread in the morning and then went to run some errands. I returned to find out
That Betty had sure gotten up onto the table and ate a good chunk of the bread. Gosh dang it this hacking dog. So of course, had to quickly make a new one.
The other thing I signed up for was a dessert, and I had chosen Black Velvet cupcakes. They were beautiful.
Look at these! I bought a special cocoa to make them black and not a dark brown and they were so good! I loved them so much.
The party was fun, Husband and I were in charge of beer pong (but not beer) for kids, and we had a good dinner of the chili cookout and then did a trunk or treat. These parties are always a fun time.
Tonight we had an activity for my ward, and I was in charge of it. I made it a paint night - but then since I don't love painting, I also brought colored pencils so that people could do whatever they wanted. I brought 4 pics - a temple, a pic of Jesus, and two floral ones.
The activity went like gangbusters! We had so many people come! It was amazing! I chose the picture of Jesus and did colored pencils, of course.
Y'all, I just did my first Midnight Mass at a Catholic Church and it was so fun! We got there about an hour or so early and it was a madhouse - there was a concert that took place right before it so there was a lot of confusion on who was staying and who was going haha. The inside of the church was gorgeous.
The service was so lovely and wasn't as long as I feared (being so late in the night and me usually in bed long before this started haha) and it was so great. Of course we took pics afterwards, to commemorate.
All in all, an absolute top night!
About a year ago now, I got a new calling as Relief Society Secretary. It's been a definite change from YW advisor, but I am not sure how it would be in real life, since we went into pandemic quarantine/social distancing pretty soon after I was called. So, needless to say, I send a ton of emails to everyone. I decided pretty early on to make these emails ridiculous. I start and end them with increasingly ridiculous intros and outros. I screenshot a few for my own enjoyment for posterity.
Nobody really comments on them, but I am having a great time with it. Hopefully I can keep this ridiculous train going.
Today, as I was in sacrament meeting, I was just chilling, and glancing around, you know, like you do. As I was looking in front of me, I noticed a visitor I can honestly say I had never seen at church before.
You can’t really tell, but I tried to point out with the arrow, but there’s a puppy there! The people here were visiting my ward, and they’re training a guide dog. He was so cute, I wanted to snuggle him, even though it wasn’t allowed. Take heart, though, I didn’t break any rules, and I didn’t touch him.
Usually, church is a pretty somber affair. Not to say it’s super serious all the time, and depressing, but it’s a quiet place, where you sit quietly for 3 hours, and enjoy the spirit of it all. Yesterday, as we were starting sacrament meeting, a family behind us tapped me on the shoulder, and said if we got bored, they had stuff for us to do. They were saying it as a joke, since they no longer have little kids, but they still carried their little kid stuffs, just in case. Of course, I took them up on it, and took the bag from them. I was astounded by the things I found! They had stencils I played with, quiet books, and much more. It’s not like I wasn’t paying attention either, I was listening to all the people talking, and really more into it than I usually am.
There were some finger puppets in there that we looked at, and of course, played with for a minute. Then a few minutes later, I see this picture pop up on my phone:
Yes, a gal behind us took a picture of us playing with them, and then tweeted it out! I laughed at that, and enjoyed the rest of sacrament meeting. Hope you guys enjoyed your Sunday as well!
Last night, I went to my first RS activity in my ward. Yes, I have been in this ward for over 2 years, and this is my first time ever going. In my defense, I usually have stamp & chat this day, and this month, it’s different, so I took the opportunity to check out an activity.
It was a getting to know you activity, so we filled out a sheet of paper with 2 lies about ourselves, and 1 truth. It took me a long time to think of two lies that were believable with my truth, but finally I got it. Then, we had to get up in front of everyone (nerve-wracking!) and read the three “facts” and then people would guess on which one they thought was the truth. The less people you had vote for your truth, the better. So finally, they tallied up the votes at the end, and I was tied in third place – only 9 people had guessed which one my truth was. My winning prize was this:
Sadly, I can’t use this, because I can’t use lotions or soaps like this, so I gave it to my sister, she had come with to the activity. So the activity wasn’t too bad, and maybe in the future, I might go to more. We’ll see!
Today my niece and nephew were baptized, and they live in St George, so we made the trip down to see them. I left after work yesterday, and got there at about 10:00. After checking into the hotel, I was getting ready for bed, and was in the middle of washing my face, and I realized, I didn’t pack any underpants. None. So I put on my clothes (since I was already in my pajamas) and went to find a Walmart at 11:30 at night. Luckily, we found one, and I got what I needed. Then, when I was getting dressed the next morning, I realized I also forgot a slip. Sheesh, I’m surprised I had anything, with how many things were going wrong! Luckily, my skirt had a built-in slip, so it wasn’t too bad, but all day I felt weird without it.
Finally, it was time for the baptism, and after going and sitting down, I was handed a program. I scanned it to see when I would be giving the talk, and:
They spelled my name wrong! Dang it! I pointed this out to my parents, and we had a good chuckle, and I wondered out loud if, because my name was spelled wrong, I didn’t have to get up and talk. It was my turn to get up and talk, I was giving a talk on the Holy Ghost. Luckily, Chelle had really hooked me up with both an awesome talk, and a great object lesson. I gave the talk, and was SO NERVOUS during it, I was so glad when it was over.
The day was pretty awesome, and I’m really glad I got to be a part of it. Hopefully the nephew and niece had a day that they’ll never forget!
Today, during sacrament meeting, I was sitting there, listening to the boys that were speaking. The YM had recently gone on a trip to Lake Powell, so they were all talking, recapping, etc. All of a sudden, I feel a small tap on my leg, and there’s a small girl there – the daughter of a new friend I’ve made, and my new visiting teacher partner. She handed me this:
and said she’d colored it for me. Then she turned and walked away after I said thank you. A second later, she returned to tell me, that she wrote my name up at the top, and her name is on the other side, and she wrote her mom’s name (mama) in the middle. I couldn’t believe how cute she was! And in case you wondered, the little sixes and stuff at the bottom is aliens. She had a hard time drawing the sixes, so turned some of them into aliens. I’m going to keep this page forever, or until I accidentally lose it, whichever comes first.
