Happy New Year!

Another year has come to a close, and a new year full of wonderful possibilities lies ahead!

The spring semester is full of meetings that will keep our focus on this year's mission of The Mom's Group: "Live Simply."

Remember that we offer rolling membership, and we encourage mothers looking for fellowship and support to join us for a meeting at any time of year.

Here's to an exciting 2014!

It's Registration Time

It's that time again. Time to register for another fantastic year with The Mom's Group.  You may find the registration for this year by following this link: TMG Registration form 2013-2014.

Our first meeting will be Thursday, September 5th at 9:00 am at Crossroads Church. We hope to see many returning members as well as new ones.

The Spring Semester

The Spring Semester brought us amazing, fun, informative meetings (hello Bra fittings!), national speakers, and mom's nights out.  

Plus, it brought us a SPA day!  How perfect is that! 

Be on the lookout for a new updated fancy website for The Mom's Group of Monticello.

If you are interested in joining our little crew, please do!!  You can reach a director(s)  Danielle at danielle.ann.anderson@gmail.com or Brittany at brittanyarcand@hotmail.com

February Meetings

This month we have had two great meetings! 

First we were educated on Finance from Chesser Financial Group.  It was a great presentation and gave us a lot to think about and discuss with our significant others.

The second social meeting of the month was Yoga.  Two members brought in their amazing Yoga instructor and we downward dogged and breathed!! and were quiet for a good 40 minutes.  It was awesome!  I'm sure others are as sore as I am today! 

Not even the birds in the building bothered our small amount of peace in the day.

Mommy Daughter Event

The Mommy Daughter event was held last weekend.  A Pancakes and PJ's themed event with lots of homemade pancakes, jammies, books, pillow case decorating, and all around silliness! 

All had a great time! 

Such a FUN group of girls!

All the pictures from the event can be found HERE

Meetings, Meetings, Meetings!

We've had so many great, engaging meetings, that I've forgotten to take lots of pictures of them!

From Christmas merry making and services, to learning about our weight, to great books to read, we've had fantastic, successful, meaningful meetings. 

So sorry! 

But really, it isn't all my fault.

It is theirs :)

November

November brought us two great meetings!

First we had the fantastic  Karrie Ingelsby teaching us about our body types and what we should and more importantly, should NOT wear.  It was such a great meeting that I didn't snap any photos! 

Our second meeting of the month was a social meeting.  The ladies were taught how to knit just a little bit and how to do a simple needle point stitch.  I'm biased but I think it was wonderful.  

Social Meeting: Brand Vs. Generic

Lori lead us in a great social meeting the past week.  She organized and came up with a group of different products to test out.  From tin foil to cheerios to hand lotion, we tasted, felt, and used a gamete of supplies. 

Tallys were made, opinions were changed, fun was had. 

Thanks Lori!

Fall Family Fun!

Despite the rain and wind, the Fall Family event went on!

Thanks to the heroic effort of Jen and Josie (and lots of other moms/dads), the fall family fun day was just that --FUN!

Chili, veggies, soup, hotdogs, and desserts to feed our families. 

Angry Bird Fun!

Scavenger hunt fun!

What a great day!  Thanks for all who came!

The easiest place to see our photos is here!!  

Photography .101

We were lucky to have one of our own members, Carrie, give us a lesson on basic photography.  We covered a variety of things from lighting, to how to use our cameras (who knew!),  to more advanced things like aperture and white balance. 

We got out our manuals, did some practice shooting, and spent time giggling as we all attempted to work our cameras. 

A lot of members went away inspired to capture those most important moments!

Eat!

The last meeting was yummy!  So many good foods and SO many great lunch and dinner ideas!

Thanks for those who brought things to share. 

The take home - homemade taco seasoning.  It is the best!

(sorry for the bad phone pics - I forgot the last thing I had to bring that day - my camera!)

First Wonderful Meeting Of the Year

Our first meeting of the year was wonderful.  We were lucky to have an amazing 30 women come and welcome the new year.

Our fantastic and charming speaker, Brian Shore, taught us about our bones and gave us all the bad news that we have to eat healthy and exercise if we are going to make it.

The next meeting is a "social" meeting with go to foods as our topic and share.  Yumm!