Young Women in Excellence

Tonight was our ward's Young Women in Excellence program. Tonight was also the night Kent's brother Truman and his family flew in to Utah from Texas. Because Kent wanted to be able to visit at least a little bit with Truman and his family before we left for Florida Kent offered to pick them up from the airport. So, as soon as Kent got home from work, he left in the van for the airport. And I got to go with the kids to the Young Women's program.

It was a county fair theme and they decorated everything so cute! They also served extremely tasty scones with divine strawberry jam, corndogs, home made rootbeer, popcorn and licorice. (Score! I didn't have to make dinner! :))  It was very cool to see the diverse talents, interests and abilities the Young Women in our ward have. 

Savannah showcased her viola (Knowledge, Individual Worth) and Virtue (she completed the challenge from the YW leaders to read the Book of Mormon over the summer prior to the Youth Conference in August).

Samantha's showcase was a 'work in progress'. She is going to learn to sew a shoulder bag. (We are going to learn together with my awesome new sewing machine so I am very excited!)

I am so proud of my girls and the women they are becoming! They are truly amazing and I thank my Heavenly Father multiple times a day I get to be a part of their lives!

Sadly Kent got home kind of late because Delta didn't send Truman's luggage with Truman's flight so they had to wait for the next flight from Vegas to bring it in and there was pretty bad traffic on the freeway. Kent wanted to get to spend a lot of time with his brother... guess he got what he asked for. :)

If you look closely at the picture below you can see the cop and the construction truck the cop asked to block the freeway. Kent was stuck behind this accident for awhile because they had to lifeflight someone to the hospital. Sad! On the plus side, the time stuck in traffic when this picture was taken was while they were on their way to Salt Lake to eat dinner while waiting for the luggage to fly in so it wasn't like it was time wasted on the way home or anything.

And, of course, before leaving for the church, I forgot to put the memory card back in the camera and left the camera bag at home. Not a huge tragedy since we only lived 2 minutes away from the church. However, I didn't notice I didn't have a memory card until the night was almost over. So, I snapped a bunch of way cute pictures all night that were never recorded (my camera would show me a copy of the picture before a message would flash saying no memory card but I only looked at the screen long enough to see the picture and not the message). *sigh* Is it time to leave for Florida yet?