success!!

This morning when I crawled out of bed all the muscles in my shoulders, arms, and back were stiff and sore. I guess moving chairs and tables, hanging poms poms from the ceiling and making 150 cake pops and 75 mini cupcakes was a little more work than I thought.

The Primary Music Awards were a complete success.

Yesterday morning I met the other members of our presidency at the church to hang pom poms (the same idea I used here) and twinkle lights, arrange tables and chairs, and roll out the red carpet.

Then I rushed home, got Audrey some lunch and put her down for her nap and started baking. My kitchen has never been messier. Chocolate melting on the stove, cake baking in the oven, frosting piped in swirls. I made cake pops in three different varieties, and french vanilla mini cupcakes with raspberries on top to compliment the sparkly raspberry drink that we'd be serving.

An hour before everything started I changed my clothes, fixed my hair, and rushed back down to the church to set up the dessert table and finalize everything. We had a lot of our teachers show up as well as the Stake Primary Presidency and a member of the Bishopric.

We gave out oscar themed awards such as "Acheivement in Directing" for the most organized teacher and "Best Animated Feature" to the funniest teacher. The teachers came up and accepted their awards and gave small acceptance speeches that were funny and surprisingly spiritual. We had more than a few teachers get emotional as they talked about the kids in their classes.

At the end we showed a surprise video that we had made of each class saying something nice about their teacher. The clips were hilarious, at one point we filmed the kids singing "I am a Child of God" and hadn't noticed that one little boy pulled his shirt completely over his head. The teachers loved it. We received tons of compliments on the awards and the food.

I love my calling, and I love this ward.

And my dessert table looked pretty awesome if I do say so myself.