5 Years From Now...

We wanted to emphasize the importance of setting goals. While they have goals they need to set in order to get their Faith in God Award, for the most part if they come to the activities they will pass most of them off. We felt that we needed to prepare them for bigger future challenges as well as all the goals they will have to work on their own once they get to the Young Women's program. We actually had the Laurel class come and help us with this activity. We talked about setting big long term goals and then setting smaller goals to work toward reaching the big one. We talked about the kind of person they want to become and how to set goals to become that person. Afterwards we did kind of a time capsule activity. I had the girls fill out a questionnaire about who they are right now. Link to the questionnaire is here:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/518758450800439195/
I then had them write down 3 goals they want to have achieved in the next 5 years. I then had them write letters to their future selves. I took all of these and put them in envelopes for each of the girls to be opened 5 years from now.

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Mother Daughter Tea-less Tea Party

Amazing girls all come from amazing moms and my girls and their moms are beyond amazing, they are spectacular. To celebrate Mother's Day this year, we decided to throw a little tea-less tea party on my back porch. I made mini muffins and scones, chocolate dipped strawberries, cupcakes and punch. We asked sisters in our ward to donate teacups and mini tea sets to use as decoration (reassuring them they would not be used for drinking by small hands). I also found some really awesome cupcake wraps that look like tea cups so we could at least have tea cups at each place setting. When we were announcing this activity, a few of the girls asked what we were drinking since there was no tea. That gave me an idea for a little game. We played name that beverage. I had a few different sodas and juices that I poured into little cups and they had to guess what it was. For our lesson, we talked about the importance of spending quality time together and gave them some ideas of what they could do to spend time as mother and daughter.
Link for tea cup cupcake wraps is here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/170026860/12-tea-party-tea-cup-cupcake-wraps-diy?ref=shop_home_active_1

Thank you to my amazing sister who took all these pictures (Alisa Duenas Photography)

http://www.alisaduenas.com

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