Sugar and spice and all things nice ...

Danae and Chris Jones welcomed baby girl McKenzie Reese on December 8th. She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz and measured 20 3/4 inches long.

Jenny and Neil Ellsworth welcomed baby girl Paisley Clair. She was born December 11th, weighed 8 lbs. 6 oz. and measured 21.7 inches long.

More Food Storage Gift Ideas

You can get some neat ideas for gifts or for your own personal food supply here:

http://everydayfoodstorage.net/

http://safelygatheredin.blogspot.com/

Get comfy and check them out. With resources like these it's actually pretty exciting!

Dear Solomon ward Sisters,

I just received an email from our Relief society President Sister Karen LeSueur , and she was passing on a request or a suggestion from our Stake President ,Pres Speakman. We are in hard times and the holidays are apone us , they are asking that when we are buying our gifts for family this year, or for ourselves that we consider year supply items . This can help in two ways , cut our out going cost for the holidays and help us to build our year supply or our 3 month supply depending on what you are working on at this time.

You can make this fun and nice by what you do , build a basket with Items in it and put a recipe in to give some ideas for those you are giving to . Have fun with it and make it something you would like to get . some Ideas for the baskets.

1. do items for a breakfast

2. Do a theme for a dinner meal and put in some hand towels or candy for the theme like chocolates from the country the meal would come from.

3. Sweets for the sweets, sugars of all kinds, sweetened condensed milk, honey , Karo , sugar , brown sugar, chocolate chips , you can have fun with it.

4. Add ribbon and clear wrapping and it will look like you bought it that away.

Hopeful the counsel of the Stake President with not fall on deaf ears, but that we will stay out of financial problems and help get us in a better place for the hard times that we are in, or will be in.

Eden

Congratulations to Star and Michael Rogers for the birth of their daughter Eden. Eden was born Oct. 24 weighing 6 lb. 13 oz and measuring 19 ½ in. long.

"Sharing the Dirt"

Mesa South Stake is having a "Sharing the Dirt" garden tour on Saturday November 15th from 9 AM to Noon. The following homes have opened their gardens at that time:

Carrol's 1046 E. 9th Dr.

Vance's 828 S. Allen Cir.

Ash's 1733 E. Gable Ave.

Lenkersdorfer's 1829 E. Hopi

Guthrie's 1018 E. Hoover

Vance's 1501 E. Glade

Guthrie's 1419 E. Harmony

So go on over and get ideas and inspiration on how you can also plant your own successful garden!

Sand, Swings & Slides

It's cool enough for park day again! We are meeting at Ellsworth park at 9:30ish.

Recipe Exchage Night

Enrichment Recipe Exchange NightTheme: Holiday Treats

Thursday, November 20th 7:00 p.m.

at Mindy Evan's house

Come taste everyone's favorite holiday treats and leave with new recipes! Bring one of your favorite holiday treats for everyone to sample, along with copies of your recipe for everyone to take. If you are coming, please sign up so we will know how many people to expect.

Solomon Place Mall grand opening tomorrow night!

Don't miss the Solomon Place Mall grand opening event! Tuesday, November 4th, at 6:00 p.m. All Relief Society sisters are invited to meet us at the new Mall (Solomon Ward cultural hall.)
Dinner at the food court! * Apply for a new credit card! * Drawings for prizes! * MUST HAVE items at each new store!

General Relief Society Meeting

The general Relief Society meeting will be held on Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Mesa South Stake would like to invite you to come out and enjoy a light supper at 4 PM and watch the broadcast at 5 PM.

Get ready, get set, go

Humanitarian Aid will start and will be held every Tuesday from 10 to noon. Current project is sewing balls for the primary children to stuff and donate. Please join us if you are able. We would love to have you.

Mesa South Stake Baby Shower

Mesa South Stake Baby Shower
for
Newborns in Need, Inc.

When: Sat, august 30th
Time: 9 to noon
Where: Mesa South Stake Center

Local hospitals are in need of the following donations:
Disposable diapers size NB,1 or 2
bars of baby soap or Ivory soap
onesies
sleepers
gowns
t-shirts
baby toys
blankets
burp cloths
bibs
socks
booties
hats
diaper bags or tote bags
gift cards or cash to buy items not donated
Thread
flannel
100% cotton baby prints or solids
fleece fabric
quilt batting
baby or sport weight yarn
This is come and go shower. Demos and work stations will be set up. All donations are tax deductible. Please put it on your calendar. It is a wonderful opportunity to serve in our community.

Marriage Class

For anyone interested, the Stake is offering a marriage class October 9th - November 13th. For more information or to sign up, contact someone in the Relief Society presidency or Bishopric.

New Monthly Enrichment Group

Monthly Temple Lunch Club - Meet us at the temple, Wednesday, September 10th for the 9:30 a.m. session. And if you would like, stay for lunch in the temple cafeteria after the session. For those with preschoolers, find someone to swap babysitting with and take turns attending.

There will also be an evening temple group Tuesday, September 9th, for the 6:30 p.m. session, with an ice cream run afterwards for anyone interested.

Hope to see you there!