My St. George Valentine

I spent Valentine's /Presidents weekend in sunny warm St. George with my two boys. A/C on in the car?!? What?!? It was great! We also celebrated Jacob's adoption day which is actually on Valentine's Day (the day we went to court to legally adopt him) What a blessing he is to our family. It was a very relaxing and very fun get a way at Grandma and Grandpa Taylors winter home. We missed Elise who stayed home to go to a dance and do student council stuff.

Happy Birthday & New Beginnings...

Happy Birthday to my husband, best friend and favorite person... I love you!



I slaved over these "brownies 3 ways..." Caramel swirl macadamia nut, chocolate ganache, and cranberry orange with cream cheese icing.... I don't think we saved any calories, not having cake... :)
Elise's last "New Beginnings" for YW's. It was such a beautiful night. The theme was D.O.T.S. "Depend on the Savior." I'm thinking we should steal it for our stake primary leadership! Each girl was given an attribute with a rose and amazing Ari (new president) talked about "pointalism" and how we are all part of a bigger "picture." Elise gave a beautiful talk and made a video with stills and video of Christ in the Americas with music, then pictures of girls and more and more pictures scanning farther away until they were just dots (she downloaded like 6000 pictures), then all the dots formed a picture of Christ. She had great scripture quotes with it as well. It was very touching. I want her to make one for our primary leadership about children... I may need a box of kleenex though... What a great ending to 6 years of New Beginnings.