February Happenings

Here are our random February Happenings!

Time Out for Women is an event put on by Deseret Book for women to attend.  It goes over Friday evening and most of the day on Saturday.  I have gone each year for the past 4 years and every time I go, I enjoy it.  It is filled with speakers and singers who are inspirational, motivating, and usually very funny!  We spent our time laughing and crying and the best part is I get to be with women I love.  This year Jennie, Leslie, and Mo joined me.  I've been friends with Jennie and Mo for 21 years, and Leslie for 29 years!  Holy cow, when did we get that old??  I can't imagine life without these ladies, and even if it's been months (or even years!) since seeing each other, it's just like old times immediately.  Goofing around like high school or college girls.  We eat out, stay up late giggling like a slumber party, and gossip about boys (husbands...)   I sure love these gals!

Since Miles is now 8, he has joined the Cub Scouts.  It's a whole new world to me.  Miles has a lot of fun at his den and pack meetings.  Here he is at the Blue & Gold Banquet receiving an award.

 The Cub Master made this cool arch and the boys had to put it together, using the scout motto as their guide.

At Freedom Elementary, the 5th grade classes do a "Living History Museum" each year.  Each student is given the name of a person from US history and they have to research and report on that person, in first person.  So they dress up like them and tell about their life story to their classmates, and to the school during an assembly, and to the parents in an evening program.  It's a really neat night!

Tess was Ellen G. White, founding member of the Seventh-Day Adventist church.  I guess she's like the Joseph Smith of that church.  As a young girl she began having visions and revelations and she wrote them down to teach church members.  She and her husband founded the church and she went on to write dozens of books throughout her life.  According to one website, "she is the most translated woman writer in the entire history of literature, and the most translated American author of either gender."  Who knew?  I had never heard of her before this report!  Tess did a great job!  (And she sure looked cute in her costume.) :)