Standards Night~YW in charge!!

So we had THE BEST Standards Night ever!! We decided our theme was going to be Happily Ever After, a theme that comes from Elder Utchdorf's address to the Yw in the last YW Conference. My mom was in town at the time, so I had her read the talk with me and when we were finished, our creative juices started flowing and she really helped me figure out a really fun way to present the talk. I was excited to to take the idea to our Presidency (but not sure if they would think it was over-kill:) and was so super excited that they liked it and wanted to do it! From there, we all collaborated together to fine tune everything and put our ideas into play and here is just a snippet of the final product:
The idea was that we had several Princesses, Princes & Fairy Tale characters to teach the youth about the Standards of the Church. So...

Beauty and the Beast...(by Dawn and Mike Taylor) The standards they taught were Bad Language & Anger. Beast has a horrible temper and does not treat Bell with respect. Bell developed a bad habit of swearing back at the Beast. They finally learned the importance of respecting one another and learning to love and control their tempers.

Rumpelstiltskin and the Miller's Daughter...(Joe and Stacy Smith)Tithing--- After spinning all of the straw to Gold, the Miller's Daughter wants to pay her tithing. She knows of the importance of it, however, Rumpel doesn't, and will not let her take any of the gold to pay it.

Aladdin...(Leon Crandell) Honesty--Aladdin learns the importance of being Honest and makes a commitment to change his ways to be a more honest person.

Cinderella & Prince Charming...(Heather & Cory Staheli) Service --Even though Cinderella was treated badly by her Step mother and sisters, she still served and loved them. She was blessed to meet and marry her Prince Charming, because of her faithfulness and acts of service. Her Fairy God Mother is with her in this photo:)
Shrek...(Ed Cunningham)-Word of Wisdom-- Shrek taught us about taking care of our bodies. He was such an Ogre'! :) We Loved having Shrek there with us!!
Rapunzel...(Shavonne Updike)--Modesty--she grew her hair as long as she could so that she could dress inappropriately and hide her clothing behind her hair so her mom wouldn't see.
Rapunzel's hair coming out of her door:) I loved this!



I was so excited to make a castle cake!! It was my first time and I had so much fun with it!!!

Laurie came up with these stinkin cute!! Frog Prince Cupcakes!! She did an awesome job on them, they looked so cute all around the castle!!!

Dawn and Maddy drew two huge Temple's for me!!! After visiting all the the Fairy Land Characters, we all met in the chapel and watched the video of the talk. We talked about our 'paths' here on earth and how our goal should be to return to live with our Heavenly Father. The only way we can do that is to live righteously and to go through the Temple and remain worthy to enter it at all times. Amy cut them out and mounted them and I just think they turned out Amazing!!

Shelly put all of this awesome take-home gifts together! I loved these and thought she did such a great job!! She even made sure the dresses had 'sleeves' on them to keep them modest:) She typed out a message on them, but I need to get from her exactly what they said, bc if I attempt to write it out now, I'm sure to butcher it up badly...so I'll have to add it to this post later.

Maureen took on a big job to get the projector screen and all set up and have the video of Elder Utchdorf's talk. Pres Smith came and spoke to the youth as closing remarks and it just really turned out to be fun for all of us! We have such an awesome ward with so many people willing to just jump in and help and we really feel blessed for that! Thanks to everyone who helped our Presidency with this big event!!!