It was our last Stake Evening in Excellence! With the program changing, we didn't know if there was going to be something to take the place of Evening in Excellence or not, but we wanted to have a nice evening to celebrate the Young Women organization and the end of the Personal Progress program. We have an amazing woman in one of the wards who can decorate and keep it simple but elegant. She did a great job for us.
We wanted to do a birthday party since it was the birthday of the Young Women organization. We had the young women sit in tables according to their birth month and they got to know each other. We had a game for them to play so they could find out things about the other girls in the stake who were born in the same month they were. I did a slideshow and talked about the history of the Young Women program and then our high councilman spoke a little to the girls.
It was a fun evening and I think the girls had a good time.
We had the end of season banquet for soccer and it was a lot of fun. The Seniors were in charge and they did a good job. They had a lasagna dinner and then a program where the girls talked about how they loved the other girls. The seniors gave candy leis to the girls.
This is Courtney's "Mom, I can't believe you're taking my picture" face. ;)
These are the girls from our soccer team who were on the SCHS team.
This was a cute card Courtney was given from the seniors. I was really impressed with this group of Senior girls. They took extra special care of the Freshmen and, in return, the Freshmen just loved them. They would make sure the girls had rides home and to team night and they really included them. I really appreciated them!
This was a crazy Halloween! Courtney and her friends wanted to go as drinks but she couldn't figure out what she wanted to do for a costume. Finally, the day before Halloween, she decided she wanted a t-shirt with the CapriSun logo on it. I had some transfer paper so I bought a t-shirt at Michael's and went to my parent's house to get the transfer done on an inkjet printer. I went home and followed the directions but it had one corner that wasn't stuck down to the shirt. I read the directions and it said to put the transfer paper back on the shirt and iron it a bit to fix it. But it didn't fix it...it ruined the entire iron-on!! It was so awful. Courtney was gone so I drove quickly back to Michaels and bought 2 more shirts (just in case I messed up again) and went to my parent's house. I printed 2 more iron-on sheets and went back home. I successfully did 2 shirts and then let Courtney pick which color she wanted. I think it turned out pretty well!
Ethan took on the challenge of answering the door for the trick-or-treaters. He put on his mask and answered. It was hilarious and the kids loved it when he opened the door!
Courtney and her friends met at our house and then went trick-or-treating around our neighborhood...and they got a ton of candy!
Courtney and Sammie: Courtney is CapriSun and Sammie is Sunny D.
For their Halloween activity, the young women decorated cookies and then delivered them. They had a lot of fun, even though there were only 4 of them that were able to show up.
In October the school does dress up days. One of those was "Cowboy Day". We got Courtney a cowboy hat at Partyland so she would look like she was dressed up. But her friend Emma went beyond that! She showed up dressed like a cow, with shoes to match! It was awesome so they looked like the cowboy and the cow.
We had the End of Season Banquet and it was so fun! I was in charge of the senior blankets. Since we are a new team, and we only had 1 senior last year, we had to figure out what kind of traditions we wanted to start. The other sports always give their athletes "Senior Blankets" and that was something I wanted to give to Ethan. The other senior moms were happy to do it and I was able to find a really good deal on plush blankets at Costco. The wife of one of the teachers at the school does embroidery. So I contacted her and she was able to get the blankets done for us in time. They turned out really good!
The dinner was nice. They had a slideshow of all the kids and one of the moms made a bunch of "yearbooks" and each rider got one. It was really cool. In years past, the kids had been given frames with team pictures and their race plates in them. This year they found that it was cheaper to do the yearbooks instead of the frames.
They did senior spotlights and the coaches were able to say something about the kids. I put the video of Ethan's coach after these pictures. At the end, they did a final Warrior cheer for the season. I was really emotional because it is the end of mountain biking for us and it was such a great experience. I was so glad Ethan did it and was involved for all 4 years of high school. It's been so fun to watch him and I love going to the races.
