New Beginnings

 Tuesday night was my first New Beginnings...and also Cali's!  Luckily, I have the greatest Personal Progrss leader, Sister Riddle.  She put together such a wonderful program and I am so excited for this year and that Cali gets to be a part of it all.

My contribution to the night...Chalkboard!

 We started out the program with 4 of the Laurels "spotlighting" each of the incoming Beehives.  Kaylee Riddle had Cali...

 Then, the Mia Maids and current Beehives each took a value and explained what the value was and how we apply them to our lives.  It was really cute.  Sister Riddle had each girl hold up a pair of shoes and it tied in the value and our theme this year of "Stand in Holy Places".  She also had a bouquet of flowers, representing each value color.  Whenever a value was presented, flowers were placed in 4 vases, one for each new Beehive to have.

 

Sister Riddle spoke more about Personal Progress and then the Bishop closed the night.  It was so special.  Here's our cute group photo:

 The "newbies":

 And since the whole Bishopric was there, we took a group pic with them because we love them:

 My little girl....will be 12 this year (sniff, sniff....)