I am His Daughter

Bailey was encouraged by her Aunt Kelee to sing the song, "I am His Daughter" from a EFY program a few years back. She really practiced and studied the words. The song has a powerful message. She used this as a 10 hour project for Divine Nature in her Personal Progress Book. The microphones are not cooperating as well as we would of like...thus you hear her voice come in and out. I am so very proud of her using her talents. She did a great job.

Blake...."Our Senior"

Blake had the chance at the beginning of his Senior year to have his photos done with Dawn Nicoli at Nicoli Productions. It was an amazing house around the corner from us with great locations to take fun photos. He took some great photos....and I wanted to share. He is having the time of his life his senior year. He has stayed busy with finishing his Eagle project, school, ASB assemblies, Showtime, Water polo and a social life....just to name a few. He is the major spark plug around here....can't think of sending him off to college just yet.

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Teresita Pines Escondido South Stake Youth Conference

I had the wonderful chance of being in charge of our Stake Youth Conference this year. We held the conference up in Wrightwood, Ca....only 2 hours away, although you felt as if you had been transported to another state once you arrived. The pine trees and the views were breathtaking.

This year we worked alot with implementing the Stake Youth Council’s ideas for how the whole thing would run. The kids really took ownership and we as the adult leaders, worked with them to accomplish great things. Our theme this year was the “The Hero Within”. We had all the life games and devotionals and speakers all work from this angle.

The conference lasted three full days....but it was jam packed with memorable experiences.

The kids loved the speaker and the dance the first night. It was a great way to get to know everyone. The second day was full of life games. The ones that were very challenging were the blind walk and the leap of faith games. The A frame stilts was also a very eye opening team building workshop. The kids really did a good job coming up with these ideas.

A highlight of the final day was the the beautiful lake just minutes away. There was a rope swing that scared me to death....but the kids loved it. The water was perfect to cool off in and the canoes were perfect.

The conference was a great success, lots of work, but worth the fun times and smiling faces of youth that really need to feel the spirit is such a gorgeous setting. I know they really drew strength and courage from one another....and they know that they are not alone. I am the luckiest person to get to work with such amazing Stake leaders and great y

Memorial Day Visit

We had lots of fun with a visit from the Moon’s for the Memorial Day Weekend. This meant Seaworld, having a hot juicy hamburger from Hodads’s in OB, a walk along the eye opening boardwalk and pier, and fun memorial car rides. A fun summer visit would not be complete with out a b-bque and a game of volley ball. We were so in to it. The girls were the Scandenavian team “Bobutskas” and we always disputed the calls. Way funn!!!!

Kelee is always so good to my girls. She got them all organized for the summer to get their personal progress in line....and it was so much fun watching the season finale of “Grey’s Anatomy”....very riviting...and can’t wait for the next season!!!!!

We always seem to break out the board games....and it is way fun to see the kids enjoying each other and getting along. Way to cute to watch Ryan and Brinley play together....we never have to worry about them because they are always together and in their own world. Brinley was crying today....and wishes her cousins lived closer!!!!

Justin Bieber....newest heartthrob!

It is true....I went to the Justin Bieber concert with the cutest girls in Escondido (my girls and Sam Haynie, Danielle Knox and Claudia Rodriquez) ....along with a sold out Kick Off Summer Concert put on by the radio station 933 at the Cricket Theater in Chula Vista.

It was a sold out crowd of 20,000 screaming teens mainly under the age of 16 and their mothers. The girls would start screaming for no reason and everyone in the crowd would think he was coming out to do a sound check. He really was a cutie and lets just hope the young man can keep it all together as he rises to the top.

I was grateful to have ear plugs....the type people use at the airport so they don’t hear the engine start up??? It was way loud, but an overall great first concert for my girls.