I have Yet to See Another Stake Like Ours

I have yet to see another stake like the one Dave and I are in now. Every year we do an awesome stake picnic. They have games, cotton candy, snow cones, hamburgers, hot dogs, and everyone brings a pot luck salad or chip. It is a blast. Our ward does not only a Christmas party, but we do a Chili Cook off among other activities. Keep in mind our ward is very very poor (money wise). Our entire stake is very poor. One year we even did a Stake play. It was The Sound of Music. My favorite of is all is the yearly stake ball they put on. No kids are allowed. It is strictly single adults or date night for couples. There is a different theme each year. There is dancing, all sorts of order vs (chocolate fountain with stuff to dip in it, crackers and cheese, veggie trays, sausages, and meat balls), and there is a mid show of ball room dancers that perform. Even our friends the Anson's continued to come to this one after they moved out of the ward.

I have moved a lot, but have not been active my whole life, but this is the most interaction I with an entire stake that I have ever had. I love it. I also love that the entire stake follows the hand book. I have been in few wards, if any, that strictly follow the hand book. After all the hand book was put out by the First Presidency and should be followed. Anyway I was gazing through some pics and that is what got me going on this post.

Here is Dave and my Brother-in-law Steve. They went to the ball with us in 2007. Our dear Friends that usually come with us moved to St. Louis and we missed them, but we had fun with Sheri and Steve too. The theme this year was ranging from the 50's to the 90's. Dave was excited to put on his Elvis wig that his former clogging teacher, Mr Tucker gave him.

Here is Sheri and Steve. Steve is representing the 70's? Sheri is representing the 80's. Aren't they cute? I am supposed to me swooning over "Elvis." I didn't have a costume so I was just in Sunday dress. A lot of people do just Sunday dress. It is about 50-50 on who dresses up and who wears Sunday dress.

This is Dave and Amy Anson. We are going to the 2006 Ball. I can't remember the theme, but what a cute couple. Ahhhhhh.....

Here are Dave and I. I am pregnant with Kimball here. Yes, I even busted out the moves with this belly.
Dave and David bought these jackets in High School. We had to do a picture of the brothers.

This was 2005. The theme to this ball was Nauvoo. We didn't bring out camera this time, but at least they were doing pictures there. I made the dress and Dave's vest with the help of Amy's mother. Amy and I both made our dress and our husbands vests the day of the ball. We were definitely cutting it close. Thanks Heaven for he mom.

Here are Dave and I posing in our Sound of Music attire. Dave was one of the main Nazis and I played his wife. I got the biggest line in the play "shhhh" I was good at it too. LOL. Here we are posing by Dave's Nazi mobile. The play was lots of fun and I hear we may do another next year.

I don't have a picture of the 03 and 04 balls on my computer. I love to dance. It is great exercise, lots of fun, and I get to act like a total geek. We have lots of fun in this stake and ward even though they do keep us busy with our callings.