Its official..........

We will be having the Relief Society Meeting Birthday Commemoration on Thursday March 22. What a nice way to spend an evening. (There is also planned a stake activity on Emergency Preparedness, BUT send your husbands and bring your little ones). There will be a yummy dinner and a short program which will include a video and a musical number. Plan to attend!!! Also invited are the Young Women. Laurels and Miamaids will be joining us for dinner, Beehive will be able to have a fun time in the Kitchen or Nursery helping. (They will get fed too).
Remind your neighbor, bring a friend.
See you there.

Stay Tuned.........

As the announcement Sunday not to hold meetings on the 13th and the 15th for Caucus meetings, the Birthday Commemoration is on hold. Please stay tuned to see when it will be rescheduled.
It is going to be a very nice evening and we do not want you to miss out.

February Relief Society Meeting

Helping hands are needed to complete this humanitarian project on Feb. 16th at 6:30pm   The kits will be assembled. We will need unbreakable combs, toothbrushes(packaged), toothpaste(6-8 oz no pump) bars of soap(4-5 oz), hand towels(new 15"x25" approx), or sewn terry cloth towels of the same size.
Tasters Table will be enjoyed. Bring your favorite appetizer and the recipe to go with it. Sign-up sheet will go around sunday(but you do not need to sign up to bring something)  Yum Yum.
Nursery too.

January Recipes

Lemon Poppy Seed Bread (Natasha Wight)
Lemon cake mix with pudding
1 large instant lemon pudding
4 eggs
1 cup water
1/2 cup oil
2 Tablespoon poppy seeds
Mix and cook in bread pans. Bake at 350 degrees.  45-50 minutes

Zucchini bread or muffins
1 cup sugar
1cup brown sugar
3 beaten eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups grated zucchini(peeled optional)
3 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
3 teaspoon cinnamon
combine dry ingredients. mix and bake at 350 degrees. 1 hour
muffins bake at 350 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes

Breadsticks (Sarahn Mund- from Jody Anderson Willard 1st ward)
2 cups  flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon yeast
1 1/2 cup hot water
1 1/2 cup flour
1 cube butter (1/2 cup)
*optional: garlic salt, parmesan etc. for topping before baking
Mix 2 c. flour, sugar, salt, and yeat togther. Add hot water . Blend, then slowly add 1 1/2 flour. Knead in mixer or by hand for ten minutes. cover and let rise until double (45-60 minutes) Roll dough out in 10x14 rectange. Cut into 1" strips with pizza cutter. Melt 1 cube butter in 9x13 pan. fold dough strips in half, then twist. Lay ent to end in pan. cover pan and let raise about 30-40 minutes.
Bake at 400 degrees.  10-15 minutes or till golden brown

Cinnamon Bread Delight
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 (5 oz) package instant vanilla pudding
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup applesauce
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 Tablespoons cinamon sugar
Mix flour, sugar, pudding mix, soda, powder, salt, and cinnamon. In separate bowl, mix milk, oil, applesauce, eggs and vanilla. Stir both bowls together until smooth. Grease and sprinkle bottoms or 2 loaf pans with cinnamon sugar mixture, and divide batter between the 2 pans.
Bake at 325 degrees   about 1 hour

Vegetable Barley Alphabet Soup (Tresa Peterson)
2 stalks chopped celery
1 chopped onion
3 Tablespoons olive oil
4 cups chicken broth
4 cups beef broth
1 (14.5 oz) can peeled diced tomatoes with juice
12 oz v-8
1/3 cup uncooked alphabet pasta
1/2 cup quick- cook barley
1 cup frozen corn
1 cup beans
1 cup peas
4 potatoes peeled and diced
1 cup carrots sliced
salt and pepper to taste
In a large stock pot, saute celery and onion in oil for 5-10 minutes. Add broths, tomatoes and juice and V8. Add potatoes and carrots. Bring to a boil, Simmer for 30 minutes. Add remaining vegetables. Add barley and alphabet pasta. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes OR put all soup in a crock pot and cook for about an hour.

"Be a Better You"

What a wonderful evening for our January Meeting.
 And a special thank you to Sister Elizabeth Lund who gave us insights into how we can each improve daily.

 An invitation went out to all sisters to make goals and to achieve them. Those who did not get a personal progress book and would like one please let one of the presidency know.

                Thanks to those who attended and those who brought bread to share.

Just a reminder

January RS Meeting
Please come join us the evening of the 19th at 6:30 at the Three Mile Creek Building.
Meet in the cultural hall.
Soups on. and yummy breads too.
If you did not sign up for breads, there will be a sign up each month for something.
Come sit and enjoy the wonderful evening.

January Relief Society Meeting

Announcement
We will be having the first meeting in 2012.
January 19th at 6:30pm - 7:30pm in the Cultural Hall.
Sis Elizabeth Lund will be our speaker.
"Be the Best YOU  - Wife, Mother, Friend, Neighbor"
We will introduce ways to set goals.

Tasters Table-  SOUP    and
Bring your favorite bread to share, and also the recipe.
We will post recipes on the blogspot.

Bring your neighbors.