When I grew up, I had the best ward. All of my friends wanted to be in this ward...
IF they weren't all ready.
I loved the teachers, leaders, bishoprics, kids, and adults.
{STILL DO!!}
I had good friends that were the same age or older or younger than me...
We had about 20 kids my age (most of us had been in that ward FOREVER) and we all were able to graduate together.
This ward always knew how to have a great time, NO matter WHAT!!
Here are a few pictures of the kids my age:
FAST FORWARD about 7 years, and my favorite ward is still the same!
HARMONY PARK ROCKS!!!!
The parties never end!
Lance and I teach the 11 (turning 12) year olds. We love it! Our class is hilarious. A bit HYPER at times, but I'll blame MOST of that on the biggest KID in there...
(that's YOU, "Brother Cummard")!!
Scope out our cute class: (The girls are imitating the boys)
A couple weekends ago the Harmony Park threw a party since there were so many
new people in the ward.
I was asked to be on the comittee with some really awesome girls.
(Jamie Bloomfield, Amanda Raine, and Peggy Moffat)
The theme was "Start Your Engines".
It was TONS -O- FUN. I think everyone had a good time & got to know some of the
"new comers" a little better.
{Thanks Jamie, Peggy and Amanda for all that you put in to it!}
Enjoy a couple pics:
OUR GREAT BISHOP and his wife... (The Chiles)
Last weekend, the WOMEN in our ward went to a RETREAT in
Heber at the Stahles awesome cabin.
{WHAT A BLAST}
There were so many girls I didn't know very well & I got to know some much better this weekend. We had so many laughs, we all had stomach aches!!
(Thanks so much for all the hard work Sister Lori Hamblin, Shellene Garner, Dalene Harmon, and Candice Huffaker. It paid off!!!)
(The Stahles relatives had a trailer close by, & my moms friends kept calling it "the double wide" .. in the most W.T. voices ever! (I slept there with my mom & a few of her close friends)
Jamie Bloomfield: WOW, she cracks me up.
(had such a good time driving with her)
Friday night, we played game after game & had so many good laughs.
One of the funniest things while being there...
(I'll tell the short version)
... A few of us were talking about
"BLUE DARTS"
(this is when people light their "farts" on fire)
ANYWHO, this innocent lady in the ward wanted to know why we were laughing SO hard. My mom decided to try to fill her in... which made us laugh even harder....
Can you tell how SHOCKED she was to know that people actually did this?? HA Ha HA!
We could not stop laughing at how shocked she was... THEN she went and asked Jamie: "What's the PURPOSE?"
HOLY COW. I almost died when she asked that.
I had such a headache (along with my stomach ache) from laughing at that whole conversation.
WOW AGAIN.
Meet Shellene Garner, incase you haven't.
(AKA: SHEENA )
She is my friend, Michelle (Garner) Yamamoto's mom. (my friend too)
ALSO my visiting teaching companion.
(Speaking of stomach aches from laughing...)
She is a HOOT!!! When ever you need a chuckle, go hang out with her!
AFTER playing all the fun games, some of us stayed up and watched this movie...
(If you have not seen it yet, WATCH IT ASAP with your family or loved ones. NO, it's not a church movie, but just a "Feel GOOD, make you want to be a better person" kind of movie. Grab the BOX of Kleenex, though.)
The angels of all angels.... Sister Carol Stahle!!
Our wonderful COOKS: (Brother Garner, Hamblin & Stahle)
On Saturday, I was put in charge of our CRAFT.
(Lori Hamblin had a bunch of extra premade sets with ribbon, & other small things in them.)
I wanted to think up something SIMPLE so those that weren't into crafts wouldn't be overwhemed. When I showed all the ladies what we were making, I told them to be creative & that they could be inspired by mine and change it however if they wanted to... I was very impressed!
Here are just a few journals:
(my original)
The REAL photographer:
Sister Debbie McKennan
They said they didn't plan this... YEAH RIGHT!! *wink*
(I V.T. the one on the right, Sister Rhonda Angle... When her & Sheena get together it is OOC!!)
So, What did I come home to?
UMM, Can you say WAL-MART customers?
My sisters gave me warnings. There was more than just these things.
Good thing I'm having a garage sale in a couple weeks. SORRY ELLE.
(I hate stuffed animals & JUNK!!!)
We had an awesome GUEST SPEAKER, all though I wish she stayed longer. This is Sister Caye Mabry. Her talk was so inspiring. The whole retreat was about "Destiny Is A Matter Of Choice", she did such a good job. She brought us all these cute books, too....
Some ladies made these towels:
13 comments:
you bet-your-boots that I am up at 2am when I have 8am church. I'm trying to get my website & newsletter work done before Sunday so I can be a good girl & not 'work' on Sunday. But, I guess I broke that commandment 2 hours ago. I decided to check your blog real quick before I went to bed, since I see that you just posted the project idea. I knew you were gonna try posting this today (I mean yesterday). This post is hilarious. You know that my favorite pictures are of Sister Hoffman. That is so funny & you got great shots of her SHOCKED face. Although I already knew the story I loved reading about it again! Also I like the picture of "SHEENA" sliding backwards. Now get to bed if you haven't already.
I love my blog.
O.k., WHO logged in as "SUZANNE CUMMARD"?
THAT COMMENT WAS NOT MADE BY ME, even though I do love bloggin.
I am a blog junky.
HP forever.
Shalae and I are innocent- we were both at her house and neither one of us were on the computer.
WOW - Wow - WOW. First - I could kill for all of those sweet growing up shots- I thought that was Geoff with the pillow over his head - nope - me. 2. I have never been so proud of big blue (Sheena's silky nightgown) - it takes pictures well. Oh and the shot of her listening to Sis. Mabry Sonic cup in hand - classic! The only thing that would have topped off the trip would have been to be her roomy :)
these retreat photos are definitely making the rounds. you should have cropped me out, though! the journals are cute and thanks for making mine after i ditched out early.
Looks like you had fun! I didn't know Debbie McKinnon was in your ward! I grew up in the same ward as her - she is such a nice lady!
Suzy you are totally right about Harmony Park Ward! There is not another ward like it. I miss you and everyone else. I was just down visiting my parents for a couple of days and I saw Sis. Jarvis and she told me about Jennys blog. I love it! I can see everyone I miss. I was thinking about you the other day. Do you remember when... During YW I was play the piano and I totally messed up and ran out of the room all the way home because I was so humiliated. You and Miki came over and dropped me a note to say how much you loved me. I still have that note to this day. I am now in YW and I used your note as an example of having great friends. My YW thought your note was so cute. Thanks for that note it meant alot!
Looks like you had lots a fun! I laughed so hard at the cute old lady wanting to learn about the blue darts...hillarious, thanks for the laugh!!
I am seriously planning on going to next year's retreat. I consider myself invited since I was in that ward for 20+ years! Way too much fun!
check out ellie on my blog. she's a crack up.
Loved the ward! We really did have so much fun there. So many kids! Must be fun to still be there!
Post a Comment