Pizzeria Night

3/3/10

This was a YW combined activity that we were in charge of. We wanted the girls to learn some cooking skills & also talk about the importance of dinner time with the family. Sooo, we came up with the idea of a pizza night. We would sit down as a YW 'family' & have dinner together at our YW's Pizzeria! :-)

When the girls arrived, we had pizza dough for them to shape into a personal pizza & put their toppings on. While the pizzas were in the oven cooking, we talked about the importance of spending dinner with our families & having conversations with them. We had the girls put together & decorate conversations jars to be used in their own families. They had to cut up strips of paper with questions on them & put in their mason jars. We got the pizzas out of the ovens & put them on the table where we sat down together & used some of the questions from the conversation jar as practice. It was a fun evening & the pizza was awesome!

One of our class activities was preparing for our combined YW activity. We had the girls put together invitations & make place mats/name tags for each YW:The Invitation:
I used 'Godfather's Pizza' logo & put in the 'Young Women's Pizza' instead.I used some black aprons from work for the girls (Mia Maids) to wear:
I stapled on the logo I made for the night:I also borrowed 2 black chef's shirts from work for Sis. Bowman & I to wear:
I put the logo on our chef shirts too.I used color chalk to decorate a chalkboard for the night:
It was like our agenda for the night.Some of the homemade pizza dough that I made:
YUM!
Decorations:
We strung up lights in the entryway:Our Menu Chalkboard in the entryway:Sis. Bowman & I showing off our Chef duds:The tables set up for the night:
We had checkered table clothes & candles for the pizzeria affect.Place settings & Conversation Jars:
Action from the night:
The girls forming their pizza pies...Look at the one flying in the air!Putting sauce & toppings on their pizzas:Fixing my own pizza:Do I look like I know what I'm doing?
I didn't think so... :)Getting the pizzas in the oven:Putting together their Conversation Jars:Pizzas' ready!Time to EAT!Look at all of that great conversation...What a fun night!And the pizza was amazing...Taking a well deserved rest... ;)The Mia Maids with their crazy leaders:Don't we look cute? Great job, ladies...The whole crazy crew...

Fancy Nancy Night

2/17/10

One of the Laurels in our YW put on this activity and it was lots of fun! I took photos, so I thought I would share...She told everyone to dress fancy. I was proud of our youth, they did a great job of dressing up. The youth ordered off of a 'mystery' menu. You know the kind where they have funny names for items, so you don't know what you're really getting. They had 3 courses from an ice cream bar. They had to order their spoon & everything, so some came out with just toppings and no ice cream. Some didn't have a spoon to eat with. It was funny.

The leaders took the kids orders...:...Went into the kitchen to prepare the orders...:...and delivered the orders:No spoon, but very resourceful with a credit card: lolI'm not sure if they're security or not? :)Fancy Fancy:
Cute tutu...Pink Everywhere:After the ice cream consumption, we played a game:Our 'fancy' look...y'all look fabulous!Great job!

Service With a Smile!

1/27/10

For our Wednesday night activity, we wanted to do a service project. We pondered who we could serve in our ward and came up with a sister who was going through chemo. She had 2 small kids. The relief society was bringing in meals & already helping out, so we thought about what we could do. Sis. Bowman drove by their house one day & saw a bunch of leaves in the yard, so we decided to clean their yard & plant some fresh pansies because they make you smile. We had the girls meet us there at 4 right after school and we got to work. I'm sure we surprised the family when we broke out on their lawn with rakes & garbage bags. ;)

Pulling Weeds:Raking Leaves:
Even with the gloves, I had blisters the next day...My husband would say it's because I'm not used to work - LOLThe girls worked hard & we put the last bag away & planted the last flower right when it started getting dark. Perfect timing! Great work, ladies!Afterwards, we took the girls to Braums to get some ice cream. What a great group of girls we have!