Want to be a Queen For A Day?  If you live in the Queen Creek area, now you can!  

To help raise big bucks for girls camp, my Young Women are hosting an entire day of pampering where you (if you are a woman) or the women in your lives can come to be treated like Royalty!  Morning services include a Spa Day for Yourself, Mom, Grandma, Sister, Aunt, or Friend, and a Princess Party for Daughter, Granddaughter, Niece, or Friend.  Then that evening, the Young Women will turn their spa into a Child Care center where you can drop your kiddies off while you go out for a night on the town with your Prince Charming (or just stay home and enjoy some peace and quiet! :))

Saturday February 27th

Spa Day:
(includes relaxing atmosphere with music and twinkle lights, hot-rock foot massage, sweet & savory treats, and your very own pedicure kit to take home)
Manicure $10.00
Pedicure $15.00
Mani/Pedi combo $22.00
Available time slots: 9:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30am


Princess Party:  
(includes mini manicure, dress ups, games, crafts, tea party, and treats!  Moms and daughters can coordinate Spa & Princess Party times and come together. For girls ages 2 - 9)
$8.00 per Princess
Available time slots: 9:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30am


Babysitting 5:00-8:00pm
(Includes dinner for the kids, games, crafts, and a movie. For ages 6 months - 11 yrs.  This will all be highly supervised with adults.)
1 child $12.50
2 children $17.50
3 children $22.50
4 + children $27.50


Help send our Young Women to camp and treat yourself or the women in your life like Royalty!  Leave a comment (or call me) and I'll reserve you a time slot!  All money is due Feb 23 (but seriously... don't wait that long!  You don't want to miss this!)

I've child-proofed the house, but they're still getting in!

S.O.S.

Think she looks so sweet and innocent?  Don't be fooled.  This little master of disaster is turning into a serious climber!  I feel like we've entered into a whole new phase of parenting.  Not that we ever really had things totally under control (don't tell the kids!) but now I feel like I spend my days just chasing after Shae in a flustered, defeated panic.  Here are just a few of the places I've found her on top of lately:

from the floor, to the couch, up to the ledge

from the piano chair, to the piano keys, up to the top of the piano

from the kitchen chairs, to the table, up to the chandelier... makes a great swing!

We now have to keep all chairs OUTSIDE and then move one in every time we want to sit down.

from the bottom drawer, to the door handle, then she grabs the burners and hoists herself up on top.  Yesterday the door opened on her and she came crashing down.  The oven was on.  Bruised but not burned.  Hope CPS doesn't blog surf.

from the toilet, up to the vanity sink for a nice foot soak

from the dishwasher, to the counter, up to the breakfast bar

Yikes!  Can't leave these windows by the changing table (on the 2nd floor) open any more! And yes, the big girls' beds always look this messy even before Shae gets to the top.

She is so fast and so sneaky, every day she finds new places and new ways to climb on top of or into things.  And she is a buckle freak - she is determined to buckle anything she comes across, and yesterday after wrestling with a fellow ward member's baby car seat for the entire sacrament meeting, she figured out how to UNbuckle the raved-about 5-point safety harness.  Great!  No more confidently driving down the free way with this monkey 

unsupervised in the back seat.

Whatever happened to these calm days?  How did they disappear so fast?




.....I guess those days were crazy too, just in a less life-threatening way.







(p.s.- no I didn't clean my house just for these pictures.  Joel took most of these pictures one time long ago when the house was clean - he wanted to capture the rare moment.  It never looks this clean!)

Aren't these the cutest Valentine's Day cards!?

Okay, so who wants to try it and make one for me?

Rolls

Have you ever done something with good intentions and then realized after it was too late that you shouldn't have done it? 
I just did.  
I spent this entire day slaving away in the kitchen making a butt-load of mouth-watering cinnamon rolls for all 41 of my Young Women to highlight the lesson I'm teaching tomorrow, and I just realized tomorrow is Fast Sunday.  
Dang.

It's like my dad says, "Nothing is as sad as doing something well that should have never been done at all."

It is true.  And sad.

Have I done any good in the world today?

I loved this talk!  I thought it was so good!  Often people ask "why does God allow bad things to happen to good innocent people?"  I don't know all the answers, but I think one reason why is to allow others the opportunity to help their brothers and sisters.