New Beginnings

Our girls are in Young Women's together!  I wasn't sure Brinley would choose to stay through her Senior year but she did.  The Leaders put on a very nice New Beginnings Program a couple of weeks ago.  I'm excited for Aubrey to begin her YW journey.  (On a side note, our boys are in Young Men's and sometimes their activities bring back some anxiety from my YW days!  It seemed we always were doing Personal Progress or some boring activity while my brothers were always hanging out in the gym playing b-ball or some other sport.  I was an active girl and I wanted to be doing those things with the boys please!  The past two weeks the girls have had this Sunday dress church program and then they did Family History/Indexing while the boys have done planning and gone out to get snow cones and played video games.  Seriously?????!  The girls have seemed  content though so that's good.  I won't pass on my past issues!)

Brinley was introducing the new Beehives who made it for the program. 
Martha McKown is in the background.  She is the YW President.

They had a beautiful spread of treats.  Also, they gave
the cutest gift bags to the girls.  They had a book mark laced
with colored hair ties to represent each value, a really
pretty heart necklace and some chocolates.  The new Beehives
received their Personal Progress book and For the Strength of Youth
book as well.

FIERCE!  (Aubrey and Avery)

Lft-rt: Analise H, Melanie Ormsby, Brinley, ?, Aubrey, Trinity O, ?, Natalie H,
Avery M, Martha McKown, Cinthia Hernandez, Lauren Ross

I love the YW program.  There is friendship and focus and fun.  Aubrey has already started working on her Personal
Progress goals.  The current YW are spectacular.  I'm especially glad Aub and Bryn have
a few months where their out of the house activities intersect a little bit even though they are 6.5 years apart.