A Black and White Affair- 9/19/2012

We had our Evening of Young Women in Excellence on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012.  It was wonderful!  Our theme of Black and White was to show the girls that there are no Gray areas with Excellence.  You can't be just a little immoral, or dishontest, and so on.  Our invitations, decorations and refreshments were all black and white too.

Here is the invitation...

Here is the reminder invitation...



Here is the program for our night...

We had it open up to the middle...

  The decorations...

 The lower sign says:  "It's a matter of Black and White."

Our YW president bought the black chair covers and white sashes for herself and then let us use them for our night.

The refreshment table...

We served small white powdered doughnuts and the little chocolate doughnuts too.  We served white chocolate covered pretzels, oreo truffles, white puff cheese balls, black licorice, white grape juice and water.  There were black olives with a cream cheese mixture in the middle and some other chocolately cookies.  YUM!

A view from the front of the table we had the programs on and where the YW presidency sat...

The bookmarks and certificates and medallions for those who had earned those...

The TV for our black and white video presentation from activities we've had this year.  We also did a video presentation of pictures of the girls who had earned their YW recognition awards.  My daughter Jordan worked hard and earned her YW medallion in time for this event.  Very proud of her.  Kate has only 3 more things to finish.

Our YWPresidency...  We are down one, because the 1st counselor is moving this weekend.  Karen Beheshti is our fearless leader and has such insight and vision for our girls and for events like this.  And Fern Flannery who is so organized and did our video presentations.  As you can see, we also dressed in black and white.

My husband was the keynote speaker and spoke about what he wants for his daughters (he has two in YWs right now and one there in less than a year).  He used some of Pres. Hinckley's Bees as a guide and one don't Bee - pride. 

The young women sang "If the Savior Stook Beside Me" as the closing song.  Then we had the girls go stand by their displays on long tables in the center of the Cultural Hall.  These were personal progress items they had worked on.  It ranged from reading the Work and the Glory books, to art work of the plan of Salvation, to quilts and school or athletic awards.

Kate had a quilt she made with me a few years back.  Here work uniform for working at the pool which she used as her Integrity project of showing integrity by being part of a team or leader.  You have to show integrity in a job to keep it.  They want hard workers who are on time and do not only what is asked, but what needs to be done.  She also displayed awards from school.

Jordan just finished a quilt with me (and the help of her G-ma Karen Olson).  She also did a project this summer to help gather food for the Food Bank of Arkansas.  And her swimsuit represents her integrity and being part of the swim team.

I didn't get a picture of Joran getting her Medallion, but I'm very proud of her hard work in getting that done.