This Little Piggy...

Our May activity was centered on a nursery rhyme, "This Little Piggy". We had five workshops that consisted of smart shopping, design on a dime, cooking demonstration, scripture studying and finding joy through adversity. We all had a wonderful time attending these well prepared workshops and learned a great deal. We ended the evening with roast beef sandwiches, carnita tacos and cheesecake.

This Little Piggy went to the market:  Smart Shopping and Couponing 101

Use those coupons! Don't pay full price.

Goldie teaching how to use coupons and smart shopping techniques.

This Little Piggy Stayed Home:  Design on a Dime.

Lynelle with her wonderful buys from yard sales: 20 piece china set, home decor, clothes and more!

This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef:  Slow cooker meals.  How mistakes turn into delicious meals.

Sonia, Elizabeth and Hazelle, the cooking team!

Roast Beef and Carnitas in the slow cooker.

This Little Piggy Had None:  How to search the scriptures and feed your soul spiritually.

Laurie did an amazing job on giving tips to search the scriptures and making time for them!!

This Little Piggy Cried, "Wee, wee, wee, all the way home."

Megan taught us wonderful ways to finding joy while going through adversity.

Gardening 101 and Canning Jam 101

South Coast Sisters were taught how to start a garden of growing vegetables by Sarah.  She explained the advantages of having a pesticide free garden and a simple solution to keeping the insects away by using a peppermint soap (Dr. Bronner's) diluted with water.  Just spray it on the plants and the insects won't eat them.  She also said to plant marigold flowers with your plants as another deterrant to those pests.  Sarah likes using non genetically modified plants (GMO's), to get the healthiest produce possible.  She also uses a natural and organic fertilizer for (not Miracle Grow) her vegetables.  She feels it's healthiest and safe for her family.



Above picture is raspberry jam.

Goldie demonstrated how easy it was to make strawberry jam using the canner.  She also explained how easy it is to make freezer jam.

We were given Emergency Contact Cards to fill out and a whistle as a reward and grab n' go bag to take home to fill up.

The plants we planted: tomatoes and jalapenos.

The wonderful Sarah who taught our gardening 101 class.  We learned so much!

8 Cow Woman

Relief Society 

Enrichment Night

"How to be an 8 Cow Woman"

Thursday April 14, 2011

The evening started off with a classic movie, Johnny Lingo, 

which taught us three important lessons: 

Kindness,

Others Self Worth,

&

the True Value of Love

"Many things can happen to make a woman beautiful, 

but the thing that matters MOST is what she thinks of herself."

-Johnny Lingo

We touched on 3 topics that would help us all to feel more like 8 cow women and they were:

1.        Moo-sic Appreciation:

The influence of good music

2.  Mad Cow: Emotional well being

3. Holy Cow: Developing spirituality 

Our first speaker was Arianne Wilhite.

Arianne spoke on how her musical background has influenced her and was kind enough to play Disney's "When You Wish Upon A Star".

Our second speaker was Beverly Pale Lei.

Beverly spoke on the importance of striving to be an 8 cow woman and inspired us to find balance in our lives especial at those times that we don't feel worthy of 8 cows.

Our closing speaker for the evening was Linda Lofing.

Linda shared some wonderful perspectives on temples, our savior and self worth.

A great big THANK YOU goes out to these three ladies who when asked to speak, were up to the challenge, and we couldn't have had such a successful night without them.

Throughout the evening we also had additional musical numbers by:

Brian Tomlinson

"Come Thou Fount" 

on the saw

&

Lolohea Tonga

"I Know That My Redeemer Lives"

Solo/accompanied herself on the piano

Thank you so much to Brian and Lolohea for volunteering your musical talents.

And last but not least, 

Thank you to all the sisters who attended 

because, well, without you, 

there wouldn't be an enrichment night!!!

"Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life" -Berthold Auerbach

"Just as your car runs more smoothly when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feeling, emotions, goals and values are in balance." -Brian Tracy

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 Time for some

"Cow-Pies" & "Moo" Juice

 

 

 

 

 

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Cake Decorating to Celebrate Relief Society!

We had the privelage to learn how to decorate a cake by the talented, Lisa, and celebrated the Relief Society birthday as well. Sister Pulemau gave a nice history of Relief Society and why it was organized. We had a great time learning and creating.