Long time no blog.

Sorry about that.

Playgroup.

Friday.

10:30 AM.

Nielsen's Grove.

Be there.

Enrichment Group Run Down

You'll never be bored on a Wednesday again!

Our ward has a lot of Enrichment Groups, so here's the whole list to try to help everyone see all the options and who to contact if you're interested in joining a group. There is an open invitation for all of these Enrichment Groups.

Everyone Has A Story - Marjorie Harward
This class is a fun way to write your personal history. Each month they write about a different topic and meet to share stories.

Craft Group - Jalyn Bringhurst
This group is a fun way to get together just for fun to make things. They meet once every other month.

Playgroup - Caroline Shillig
This group is a great way to meet the little ones in the ward and their mommies. Caroline does a great job planning fun activities for the kids and the parents can't help but enjoy as well.

Quilt Group - Claudine Snyder
Learn to quilt from the pros. Right now they're working on a table runner. They can also help you with a project you are working on.

Sewing Basics - Jennie LeFevre
Again, learn from the pros. There are tons of tutorials online these days, but none of them are as good as one of these sewing basics classes. So far they've made pillow cases and hemmed pants.

Quiet Book Class - Kathy Snyder
I hope this will help Nigel learn to be reverent! The book is darling and full of activities for situations like sacrament meetings.

Cooking 101 - Meredith Harris
Share recipes, learn the basics of cooking, how to feed a family. It's a great class.

Tammy Strunk is our Relief Society Enrichment Counselor, so you can always contact her with any questions.

Quiet Book Class Tonight

You can choose one of two pages for tonight's class.or you can finish the page we did last month

For tonight's class you will need to bring:

• heavy weight Pellon
• HeatnBond
• fabric markers or paint
• velcro
• pencil
• scissors
• sewing pins
• sewing machine
• thread
• Optional: felt or material

Contact Kathy Snyder with any questions.

Make up day for the bread class!

Our last Enrichment activity was a great bread making class. We had a class on how to make a special recipe for bread that you can use for 50 or more different breads: pizza dough, cinnamon rolls, etc.

If you missed the activity or want more practice there is a make up class tomorrow!

Wednesday, April 15
7:00 - 8:30 PM
@ the church

Canning Butter Correction

Margie Harward just let me know about the most recent information about canning butter. She said this:

I received a food safety bulletin from the extension service--Utah State University. It says that the method to can butter at home has not been developed and may potentially lead to botulism or other food borne illnesses if they are stored at room temperature. Information can be found on the website http://extension.usu.edu/utah. You can also consult the USU Food Safety Program website at: http://foodsafety,usu.edu.

They changed the method of canning tomatoes a few years ago also. I guess they are always finding new information about ways to keep us safe.

So I guess I'm in the market for a cow again :)

General Conference

That was lovely, wasn't it? If you missed any sessions (or talks because the couch just got to comfortable...) you can already listen again on the church website. Just click here and choose your session or talk. You can also download the sessions or talks and put them on an ipod for portable listening.

Enjoy over and over again.

Who knew?!

If you're like me you've been trying to figure out how to fit a cow on your shelf for food storage. I LOVE butter, ice cream, milk, sour cream, cheese, cream cheese, and anything else you can think of that comes from a cow.

One of my favorite ingredients really is butter, which is why I'm excited to share with you HOW TO CAN BUTTER. This came from a ward recipe book that Micah's mother, Olivia Anderson, gave me for my birthday about 5 years ago. I can't believe it took me this long to learn how to can my cow!

Here's how...

Use only the highest quality butter. Heat jelly jars in 250 degree oven for 20 minutes without rings or seals. While jars heat, melt butter slowly until it comes to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Pour melted butter carefully into heated jars being careful not to get any butter on rim of jars.

Add lid and rings and close securely, they will seal as they cool. Shake jars a few times during cooling to prevent separation although this step is optional. Put into refrigerator or other cool place until butter hardens. After hardening, butter will store on shelf for 3 years.

Quiet Book Class meets for the first time tonight!

March 25th from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

We will meet on the stage at the church. Kathy Snyder is the teacher and will be going over the basics of making a quiet book and then we will start making a page.

For this class please bring:

• fabric markers,
• fabric paint or fabric crayons (Kathy doesn't recommend fabric crayons as a matter of preference.) Just bring one type not all three.
• white velcro - 3/4 inch hook & loop 1/2 yard

You can purchase markers, paint or crayons from a craft or fabric store.

Velcro from a fabric store. (Cotton Shop has it 40% off right now - you will need more than 1/2 yard for a quiet book if you want to buy more)

There will not be a nursery provided for this class so please make other arrangements for your little ones.

If you have any questions contact Kathy Snyder.

Playgroup tomorrow at Petsmart!

Wednesday, March 25
@ Petsmart (20 W University Pkwy Orem, UT 84058)
@ 10:30AM
Come bring the kids for a tour of all the animals to buy or adopt
(no purchase or adoption necessary to enjoy the fun)

Learn FIFTY uses for ONE simple bread recipe tonight at Enrichment!

Tonight we have the special privilege of having a mother-daughter team give us a bread making demonstration. They have one recipe that you can finish from start to finish in only ONE HOUR!

The other great part about this recipe is that you can use it for more than 50 different types of breads: cinnamon rolls, pizza dough, etc.

And yet another great part about this recipe is that instead of using oil it calls for an ingredient that has a much longer shelf life than oil so this can be a pretty reliable food storage recipe.

Wednesday, March 18th
6:00 Dinner
7:00-9:00 PM Demonstration with samples!
Children's Class provided

Fast Sunday for April

Fast Sunday for April will be the 5^th Sunday, March 29^th because of General Conference.

Also, because it is the 5^th Sunday we will have RS meeting combined with the Priesthood.

Playgroup Tomorrow!

St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Caroline Shillig's Home
Tuesday, March 17th 10:00 AM
There will be a "green" craft.
Bring "green" treats to share if you would like.

I'm not sure if that means eco-friendly or just the color, but either way we'd love to see you at Playgroup!

Tomorrow's Lesson - JS #30 Valiant in the Cause of Christ

Tomorrow's lesson will be given from the Joseph Smith Manual. It is called Valiant in the Cause of Christ. You can find it on page 349 of the book or read it here.

Quarterly Enrichment Activity

March 18th will be our next activity. Of course there will be a delicious dinner served at 6:00, then from 7:00 - 9:00 PM there will be a bread making demonstration, all the while a children's class will be provided.

This is not your typical "bread making demonstration".

This mother/daughter team is in high demand and we lucked out! The 9th ward had scheduled the demonstration a year in advance, but ended up not being able to make the date work, so they offered their reservation to our ward!

Here are some cool facts about the evening:

• Learn how to make bread from start to finish in 1 hour.
• Use 1 recipe for more than 50 dishes (bread, pizza dough, cinnamon rolls...).
• Their recipe uses an alternative ingredient to oil that has a longer shelf life than oil, so it's food storage friendly!
• Sample some of the 50 delicious recipes that night!

We need a head count so the people giving the demonstration will know how many mouths to be ready to WOW. Please RSVP in the Relief Society binders on Sunday, or directly to Tammy Strunk, our Enrichment Counselor.

Preparedness Tip For March

A quick alternative to enchilada sauce for half the price:

8 oz. can of tomato sauce
1/4 to 1/3 package of fajita seasoning

The end.

(That's simple!)

Ward Temple Night

Ward Temple Night is tonight! Please be in the Temple Chapel at 6:00 PM to attend the 6:20 session as a ward. You may care to read or listen to Elder L. Lionel Kendrick Of the Seventy's talk entitled Enhancing Our Temple Experience to help mentally prepare for service and worship in the temple. He gave the talk in April 2001 at General Conference.

There are several other conference talks pertaining to the temple you can find in your copies of the General Conference edition of the Ensign or online at www.lds.org

Reminder and update about Dance Practice

Our first "dance" practice is tonight for the ward film.
We're meeting at 7:00 PM as opposed to 8:00 PM because the young men and young women are not having mutual tonight.

I always put "dance" in quotes because it's so simple - anyone can do it. Most of it is stationary, meaning we just move our hands, arms, and legs a lot.Remember, it's a comedy so the dance is supposed to be funny too.

We'll go over the whole script tonight so you get the idea and then we'll start moving our hands, arms, and legs! :)

See you tonight!

Draper Temple Open House

The Draper Temple Open House is open through this Saturday, March 14th. You can make reservations online at www.lds.org or call 1-800-537-6181 or 801-240-7932.

*Choreographed Dance Practice Update*

The Young Men and Young Women have agreed to be a part of the dance for our ward film. They don't have mutual this Tuesday, so we are going to have our first dance practice at
7:00 PM (not 8:00) in the cultural hall at the church.

This will be so much fun! Thanks for your support. There will be some kind of snacks.

Also, I'm going to film the dance so anyone who can't make it to a practice, or just wants to practice on your own time can watch it over and over any time you want. It will be a small enough file size to email to you. Let me know if you want to see it.

Choreographed Dance Practice
Tuesday, March 10th
7:00 PM
cultural hall @ the church

Stake Road Show Film Festival

This year our stake is hosting a Film Festival instead of the traditional Road Show. Micah and I were asked to be in charge of the Grandview 1st Ward's film along with Greg and Julie Rhineer, the activities committee chair-people. What a fun project! We are really excited about our screenplay and the footage we have filmed already.

A lot of people have expressed interest in being a part of the film and we are ready for your help! We have 3 big scenes left to shoot that we need a LOT of people for. Ideally we could have the whole ward :)

Theater Evacuation Scene - We are working to secure an actual movie theater to film our ward watching a movie and having to evacuate because of a fire. It's definitely a comedy and there are lots of opportunities for humor in this scene. We need as many people as we can get this Saturday, March 14th to help fill and evacuate the theater. Micah really wants a bunch of kids to trample Dave Price. It only gets funnier from there...

Choreographed Dance and "Credit Parade" - We will have a total of three practices for our dance because it is that simple. You won't need to practice any more. We invite ALL AGES to join us for the next three Tuesday nights (March 10th, 17th and 24th) in the cultural hall at the church at 8:00 PM to learn the really simple (mostly stationary) "dance" that was a requirement for the film. The dance has nothing to do with the story. It's just a comical way to entertain during the "Credit Parade".

The "Credit Parade" will be a line of primary children, their families, and leaders walking intermittently across screen in front of the dancers during the "dance" carrying posters with the movie credits written on them. We thought this would be a fun way for the primary children and anyone who wants to be on screen but not have to act to be involoved. This will be filmed on Saturday, March 28th at Kiwanis Park.

Baseball Game Called Because of Rain - We need two full little league type baseball teams, coaches, and a CROWD to watch the game. The scene will be a heart wrenching community little league baseball game that has to be called because of rain. The bishopric will be playing the coaches and umpire but we still need a lot of kids for the teams and A LOT of people for the huge crowd that is there to watch the big game. This will also be filmed at Kiwanis Park on Saturday, March 28th.

There is one more small scene that we will need three to five boys, aged 12-14 to help out with. They don't have to say anything, just act like they are sitting around a campfire and then have to put out a really annoying camp fire that keeps lighting back up. If you know anyone interested, please let me know. We will also be filming this scene at Kiwanis Park on Saturday, March 28th.

THANK YOU for reading this much if you made it this far. THANK YOU to all the people who have been a part of the scenes filmed so far. It's been fun, right?

If you would like to read the screenplay let me know and I will email it to you.

If you're interested in any of these specific scenes and haven't contacted me yet, just email me.

If you have any other questions - email me :)

bootstothemoon@gmail.com

Sewing Basics Premier Class is tomorrow!

Sewing Basics Class
Saturday, March 7th
10:00 AM @ the church
Project: Pillow Cases

Come learn the basics of sewing taught by Jennie LeFevre. The first class we will be sewing simple pillowcases. You can choose to buy some of Jennie's fabric for $3.50 or bring your own. To figure out how much fabric you need, just measure a pillow case you already have and add 4 inches to 2 sides. The width of the fabric you buy should be 45 inches.

Eat cake, book club!

Tonight at 8:00 PM the book club will be meeting at Marilyn Miles' home to discuss Jeanne Ray's book, "Eat Cake".

You're still invited if you haven't read the book and they'll announce the book for the next month.

Quilt Group

The quilting group is meeting tonight at 7:00 PM in the nursery room. These are pictures of the current project: a table runner.

Come to learn more about the project, bring your own project to work on, or just come to ask questions. These ladies know what they're doing!

72 Hour Kit Tip

I heard this tip from a digital scrapbooker the other day. She said that she has her photos stored online, backed up on a hard drive, and then she has them saved on two flash drives. (Thumb drive, jump drive, memory stick... it all means the same thing :)

She keeps one of the flash drives in her 72 hour kit and the other is in a lock box somewhere away from the house.

That is some serious photo protection! I thought I would pass it along.

Super Sale Alert!

Lisa Moore let me know about a great sale Albertsons has going on until Wednesday on C&H sugar. If you buy 4 (5 lb.) bags of sugar for $10, you get $3 off, making each bag only $1.75.

To compare that to a 25 lb. bag, it would be $8.75! That is cheap for sugar these days. You do have to buy them in multiples of 4 to get the deal, and you have to have their Preferred savings card.

ALSO, after you buy all that sugar....

If anyone is looking for a pediatric dentist, Lisa's dentist gave her three coupons to give to people for a free appointment. She said to just let her know if anyone wants one. She said she really likes him and his staff and they only work with children and they do a great job.

Playgroup Tomorrow!

St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Caroline Shillig's Home
Tuesday, March 17th 10:00 AM
There will be a "green" craft.
Bring "green" treats to share if you would like.

I'm not sure if that means eco-friendly or just the color, but either way we'd love to see you at Playgroup!

Visiting Teaching Conference

All of Relief Society including women serving in all auxiliary programs of the church are invited to attend the Visiting Teaching Conference to be held this Sunday during the first hour of church. This is the regular time and place that Relief Society is held. I'm not sure about the logistics of this, but I can't wait to find out :)

My bad indeed!

I don't know what my deal is. I type faster than I think, I guess. I need to clarify that the Quiet Book Class will meet for the first time exactly one month from today, March 25th. Not tonight as I posted earlier, and not March 17th as was announced in Relief Society.

You will still need these supplies:

Fabric Markers, fabric crayons, or fabric paint. (Just buy one not all three.)
Fabric Markers - purchase from Robert's Craft or Joanne's Fabric (Crayola Fabric markers cost around $5.00 or others sold separately.)
Fabric Crayons cost around $5.-- - purchase from Robert's Craft
Fabric paint costs around $1.00 - purchase from Joanne's Fabric store
White velcro 3/4 inch hook and loop

But not until a month later than I posted earlier today!

Everyone Has a Story class is tonight!

The topic tonight is "My First Car". This Enrichment Group is designed to help you write your personal history. You can write about the topic however you would like to and bring a copy of it to share with the class if you want to. Even if you don't write a story it would be fun to go and listen to everyone else's stories.

Everyone Has a Story
7:30 PM
@ the church

This is a picture of my first car... well, this is how they make it 21 years after the model I drove in high school :) It was my dad's old commuter car. My junior year in high school my sister and I got to share it and then it was all mine my senior year. The air conditioning was broken so I was always driving windows down style, but the heater worked great. I just tried to remember that all summer - in the winter the heater would work great! It finally died the summer after I graduated from high school with almost 400,000 miles on it! Also, when my brother was 14 he would sneak out in the wee hours of the morning in my car to do his paper route. He taught himself how to drive stick in the foggy Central California mornings.

Playgroup!

This week's playgroup is tomorrow.

Wednesday, February 25
Heather Higbee's home
10:00 AM

Contact Caroline Shillig with general questions about playgroup.