The Ward Softball Team

just a few pictures from the game the other night.

Ward Activity: Smith Park

Great activity we had on Saturday, May 16th. We were served Steak and potatoes! Thanks to Bishop Ogden and Brother Murdock for cooking those steaks. The Perkes cooked tons of potatoes at their home. Great job guys!
Bocce Ball and Kickball were played by some, but most just hung out, got to know each other and talked.

Preparing their potato

Standing in line for steaks

yummy food
The Campbells on the right
Robert Brown on the left

The Whites and The Clingers

Trent VanderSloot sharing his juice with Kiari

The Westons: Shalee with Skyler and Andy with James Nelson

Mike and James Nelson

Relief Society Brunch

We had a yummy brunch of fruit, bagels, flavored breads, french toast sticks, and cinnamon rolls. Then to work it off, Bekka taught us some international dances. Way fun!





Don't forget to shimmy...




The Windmill move....


Planting seeds move....



James was tired after dancing with his mom....I was more tired holding him

Cooking/ Food Storage Group 4.28.09

We learned how to make pancakes using common food storage items. Check out the recipe here. These pancakes are delicious and pretty healthy too!




Starting to put the mix together.




Waiting to put the pancake mix together.


Before Brittany shakes it all together



Brittany, Paige and Melody shaking it all together


Katherine holding my James.



Thanks Shonda for sharing this great recipe and putting everything together!



Then we talked about some questions people had about food storage. Don't know how to start a food storage, start here.

Happy Birthday to the Relief Society

We had our Relief Society Birthday Party on March 17. We had bread bowls with yummy soup. Then had a wonderful program/skit to learn more about past Relief Society presidents. Then we had delicious raspberry chocolate cake.

Basketball!

We won our first game in the playoffs.



We won another game on March 17th and then had another game a couple hours later that we lost, but we worked really hard. We were down by 10 or 12 and then caught up and were only down by 2 in the last minutes. It was great playing and thanks those who cheered us on!

Nursing Covers

These are from one of our craft group days....Emily Perkes brought in directions on how to make nursing covers! There were many moms that have been dying to know how to make these including me.






Directions straight from Emily

Cut Material:

• one piece 37 1/2 inches wide and 28 inches long
• Two piece 24 inches long and 4 inches wide for the ties
  
• One piece of stiff plastic 16 inches long and one inch wide (strips from plastic floor runners, gallon ice cream pail handles, or boning found at Porter's fabric section or at Joann Fabrics)

Ties: fold material in half with right side to the inside. Sew close to the edge---on one end, begin a diagonal 4 inches from the end- to the point. (This makes the end of the tie) Inside out the ties-using a scissors end to get the "point" as sharp as possible. Iron---then attatch to cover-up part.

Cover-up part: Sew small seams on both sides and then bottom of large piece.
Fold over hem on the top---large enough for the plastic piece to slide through-make sure you allow for the seam line as well. ****If there is a selvage at this end, you do not need to fold a hem underneath-fold over 1 1/2 in and then make a 1/4 inch seam. ****If no selvage, turn over a bit to form the hem, but be sure you still have a 1 1/2 of a "sleeve" to pull the plastic through.
Put the 16 inch piece of plastic or boning directly in the middle of the top, then attach the ties (the two 24 inch pieces) immediately on either side of the plastic. Sew the ties on all four sides across the hemmed down part and the tapers of the tie toward the outer edge of the cover-up.

Doesn't make sense contact Emily Perkes or I bet Shalee Weston or Bekka Hansen would be glad to help you out.

OR see this other blog for help with pictures, but theirs is double sided and a little more fancy. http://makeitandloveit.blogspot.com/2008/12/nursing-cover.html

sorry this took so long!