June Bug

June is rushing by! The crape myrtles are in bloom and the heat wave has begun!

With the 1st of June came the start of Huricane Season and the Start of our Summer Workshops. We had our 2009 Summer Kickoff at the library. This year's theme is "Once Upon a Time" and kids were encouraged to come dressed up as their favorite fairy tale character. We had craft and game stations set up around the library (pin the tail on the dragon, make crowns and wands, ring toss on the gingerbread men, etc.) and they could come and sign up for the Summer Reading Program. It was so fun! Sarah transformed the Children's Room into a Gingerbread House and the picture is of me standing by the bean stalk (you can see the gaint's foot above me). We also had the Bookmark Awards Cermony. My favorite was created by a 6th grader. It has a knight and a dragon and the knight says, "Thou Dragon, I have come to slay thee!" and the dragon replies, "Can it wait until I finish this book?" and he's reading a book entitled How to Breathe Fire For Dummies. Isn't that ingenius!

There are different workshops every day and musical and comedy acts visiting (Roger Day, whom the kids love, Healing Force, etc.).

So, that's work...Church has been just as busy...

A couple of weeks ago, we had a "Soup"er Sister Party at Church and I made homemade chili. I thought it turned out pretty well. We also had our first LDS Book Club. We read and discussed Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games. I'm hosting June's, and picked one of Dee Henderson's stand alone books, Before I Wake (not my favorite, but it's what I could get).

The first Saturday of the month, I went to a Seminary Training Meeting (They have one every month). It was at the Baton Rouge Institute on the LSU Campus. I was hoping to be able to go to the temple while over there, but the training was from 9 to 3 pm and the last session ends at 3pm. I got another calling in the Branch- I was called to be the Temp Prep Teacher. We have a couple going through the temple next month and it's exciting.

Last Saturday, I went back to Baton Rouge and went to the Temple. It is so beautiful. I stayed and went to the Adult Session of Stake Conference and then me and 2 other ladies in the Branch got a hotel room for the night. Sunday morning I woke up to them sing Happy Birthday to me and presented me with a chocolate cupcake and a candle. It was fun! We went to the General Session of Stake Conference and they reorganized the Stake Presidency.