Braided Headband

We made these super cute braided headbands at girls camp so I'm going to teach you how to make them! 

You will need:

•3 pieces of fabric about 3ft 8in long and 1-1 1/2in thick

•A hair tie

•A hot glue gun

•Scissors

Line up the 3 pieces of fabric and tie a knot

Put it underneath something heavy and spread out the fabric

Start braiding 

Keep braiding until it is long enough to fit around your head

Tie a knot in the hair tie

Cut the knot off 

Put the end through the hair tie

Fold it over and glue it with the hot glue gun

Fold the other side through the hair tie and glue it

Let it dry and you've got your headbands!! 

~Josette

Girls Camp

Hi everyone! I literally just got home from a week at girls camp and it was amazing!! This was my 2nd year so it definitely was a lot easier since I've done it before. This year our theme was Brave like the movie! We did so many fun things like do super fun crafts, do lots of camp songs, and just bond together! One of my favorite things we did was help build a rock wall on a trail up there. Everyone put on their work gloves and we started moving rocks from one place to the other. We decided to split up into two assembly lines and passed rocks to each other down the line. We started singing songs like I am a Child of God and As Sisters in Zion. When we were finished, one of the priesthood holders who was in charge of the service project said, "I expected for everyone to get only half of the rocks moved, but you guys moved all the rocks!" I thought that it was so great that all of us young women came together to get a job done and it made me realize that we can make a difference in the world if we all work together. I also got to know many people a lot better. There was this one 2nd year who got to come up to camp this year and she had some mental problems. But she was one of the sweetest girls that I have ever met! She always gave people hugs and she always said hi to everyone. One of the days at camp she wrote a song about being brave and she got to sing it in front of everybody and I almost started crying because I felt the spirit so strongly. Today at camp she went around with her notebook and gave everyone her autograph. She's one of those girls that I am really going to miss a lot. It was so great to hear everyone's testimony during testimony meeting! Everyone had totally different perspectives on life and I just loved hearing what they all had to say! I actually got up enough courage to go up and share my testimony. I made it short because other people wanted to go up after me but in my short little testimony I said that I know this church is true. I know it for myself and I hope you all know it too. On testimony night, the bishopric from all the wards came up to camp and they all came wearing kilts! My dad just so happens to be second counselor in my ward's bishopric so it was super funny to see him wearing what looked like a skirt! My dad had gone up to our cabin this morning but when I came home today, I found a note on the counter from my dad and it said, "Dear Josette, Welcome home! You survived another year at girls camp! I hope you had a swohiggety sweet time. We missed you! I noticed that our family was not the same without you. I was glad to be able to come up to see a little bit of what it was all about. I was proud of you for bearing your testimony. It was the highlight of my week. I love you! Love, Dad" I just loved that so so much! It was such a great thing to come home to! I hope you all are going to your girls camp or had fun going! 

~Josette

Flubber!!

So we found a flubber recipe on Pinterest and decided to try it out!!

You will need:

2 bowls

2 bottles of glue

Food coloring

1 tsp borax

3/4 cup cold water

1/2 cup hot water

Pour the bottles of glue in bowl 1

Pour the cold water into bowl 1 with the glue

Add some food coloring 

Mix well and put bowl 1 aside

Put the borax into bowl 2

Add the hot water and mix until the borax dissolves

Add the borax solution to the glue solution

Mix together and voila! You've got flubber!!

Have fun with your flubber!!

~Lexie, Alyssa, Madison, Josette

Hi... I'm Alyssa!

Hi! My name is Alyssa. I am 11 years old and my older sister is Lexie and I am the second oldest of 4 kids. I play the fiddle and piano. I also do ballet. Ballet is my life! I have been dancing since I was 3 and I am getting my point shoes this summer!! My piano teacher is Mormon and is very nice. I love piano because my teacher teaches me hymns and other church songs too. I love playing the fiddle! It is super fun and I really enjoy it! I also have been joining something called the Rainbow Fiddle Kids. This is something my teacher runs and we perform in front of retirement homes a lot and that allows me to serve others. I am very excited to go into young women's. I can't wait to go to the temple and do baptisms for the dead. I am also very excited to go to girls camp and can't wait for that great experience. I have had many great experiences from

traveling. When ever we travel we go and see the temples. In Rome we went to the temple though it was not finished, yet we still went and saw the construction site! I really hope we can go back and see the Rome temple when It is finished! I have a lot of older friends like Madison, Brooklyn, and Josette. None of my younger friends that go to my school are Mormon so I tend 

To hang out with all of the older Mormon girls. I wish I had people my age that are Mormon and go to my school. But I love Madison, Brooklyn, Josette, and Lexie (my older sister) and love hanging out with them and I have learned a lot from them!! 

Tube scarf tutorial!(:

So one day I was randomly experimenting with my old Fitness T-shirt cause I wanted to do something AWESOME with it! I ended up with this super cute tube scarf! Here's how it works:

Start out with an old tshirt that you won't wear anymore. Cut underneath the sleeves so that all you are left with is the bottom part of the shirt!

Now take the bottom part of the tshirt and cut little 1inch wide strips, but make sure not to cut all the way through! I would leave about 1 inch at the top uncutted. After your shirt looks like this, you are then going to lightly pull each strand. 

Until you get this:

Your scarf is now ready to be worn! Have fun with it!

~Brooklyn Christensen

The Fab Five!

Here's a picture of us five! From left to right: Josette, Madison, Alyssa, Brooklyn, and Lexie.

Hello... I'm Lexie!!!

Hi! I'm Lexie! I'm 13 years old and I'm the oldest of 4 kids! I have the amazing opportunity to travel to a lot of different places with my family! Whenever my family and I travel somewhere we always try to find a temple that we can go see. We have been to the San Diego temple, the Washington DC temple, and the Laie Hawaii temple! We also just recently went to Rome where we were able to visit the new temple site! When we were in Rome we had an incredible experience! We were walking along the street when we saw an big group of LDS missionaries! We stopped and talked to them for a while and they told us about their missions and about all of the wonderful experiences they've had. There were four sister missionaries in the group and as they told me about their missions I got really excited and inspired to go on a mission when I'm old enough! We also had the great opportunity to walk through the Bountiful Utah temple before it was dedicated! This was an amazing experience because I was able to see all of the rooms where they perform sacred ordinances such as marriage, baptisms for the dead, and sealings. Temples are a very big part of my life. I love to visit temples and just walk around the grounds to see the beauty of them. My family has a fun tradition where whenever we're driving in the car and we see a temple we automatically start singing the song "I Love to See the Temple" this is great because it helps me and all of my siblings remember that the temple is a holy place where sacred ordinances are performed. Since I am 13, I am allowed to go to the temple and do baptisms for the dead. I love doing baptisms for the dead because I am able to help someone get back to Heavenly Father who didn't have the chance to on earth. Whenever I do baptisms for the dead I feel the spirit very strongly and I feel so grateful to be a part of this wonderful church! Some of the things I like to do in my free time are ballet, play the guitar, play piano, and sing. As I was signing up for my ballet classes next year I noticed that my main ballet class happened to be every Wednesday at the same exact time as my Young Women's. If I signed up for that class, I would not be able to go to Young Women's for the year. It was a hard decision for me to make because this was the main ballet class that I needed to take. But eventually I made the decision to sign up for a couple different classes so that I would be able to go to Young Women's and excel in my ballet lessons. 

Hello... I'm Josette!

Hi! My name is Josette. I am 13 years old and the oldest of 5 kids. My little sister is going to be baptized in a week and I get to have the opportunity of playing I Am a Child Of God on the ukulele at her baptism! My little sister is super excited to get baptized! Along with ukulele, I also play guitar, violin, and piano. My piano teacher happens to also be Mormon which is nice because I don't have to worry about Sunday piano recitals. Last year, I decided to try doing track and field at my school. Some of my friends thought I was crazy because I hate running. I actually ended up liking it and had a ton of fun doing it even though I wasn't the best runner out there. For my field events I tried hurdles and long jump and really liked those too. I'd just like to say, do not be afraid to try new things. Just this week I tried wake boarding and got up for my first time! I really liked it and want to get even better at it! So always try new things, you might end up liking it! Pretty soon, we get to go to girls camp! I am really excited for that! I am going to be a 2nd year. Our theme is Brave like the movie. I think it's going to be lots of fun! I really like our youth theme this year! Try to make wherever you stand a holy place. It might be hard to do at times. People at my school swear all the time. Sometimes it's hard to ask them to stop. They might stop or they might just swear more. It's your choice to stay or walk away.

Hello... I'm Brooklyn!

Hi I'm Brooklyn! I'm 14 years old! I am also the oldest of 6 siblings, which tends to cause a lot of needed responsibility(: Recently I had the AMAZING opportunity of going on a Pioneer Trek. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a youth conference they do every 4 years for ages 14+. They take us away to the "plains", make us wear long skirts and aprons( well if you're a girl, if your a guy then you usually wear khaki pants and suspenders.), and they have us walk for 3 days in a row. But it actually is a lot more fun than it sounds! It really changed my life or the better because I was able to have the realization that Heavenly Father is always there for me no matter how hard my situation is, but in fact, that is where he is near me the most. I am so glad that I had that AMAZING experience! It is small things like this that strengthen my testimony in so many ways. I also dance! I've done ballet since I was 6, and I love it to death! However, my current studio where I attend has their recitals on Sundays... and that really is tough because of the tough decision I have to make. But it really isn't as hard as it would be, because I would remember my old primary days where I would promise myself to ALWAYS keep the Sabbath Day holy. So I always end up going to church on those days, and later getting some sort of questioning and ridicule from my fellow dancers.. and it gets really tough! I've also recently had another amazing experience: I am a soon to be Freshman in high school, and so a few weeks ago I took the opportunity of trying out for my high schools dance team. Before trying out, I had known that the practices were going to be in the morning (which would conflict with Seminary) but I had pushed that thought aside and just continued with the tryouts. Then I  made it. All along I knew that I would be faced with a hard decision, but I just didn't want to think about it! It was a tough decision, but I emailed that coach and told her that I have to quit the team because I would be unable to successfully practice. After sending the email I was very disappointed, and started crying. A few hours later, she emailed back saying that she would really LOVE to have me on the team, and that she would be flexible with my hours, and that I could come in late as long as if I would work hard. Then I started crying tears of joy. I couldn't believe that I had just stood up for my standards while making a difference! That experience totally brought me out of my shell, and now I am not embarrassed in any way to share my religion or beliefs with anyone! I love to know that my father in Heaven is always here for me and I love the fact that I am never alone!

Welcome to our Blog!

Hello and welcome to our blog! We are just 5 Mormon Girls Livin Life to the fullest. We created this blog because we felt we had many spiritual, yet inspiring stories to share of the everyday life of a teenage Mormon girl! We will also be posting fun crafts or DIY activities, and hairstyles... well, pretty much anything Pinterest! Our names are, Brooklyn: I'm the oldest! I'm 14 and will be 15 in a month. I love to dance, play the piano, play the flute, and read. Josette: I'm 13! I love to play the piano, guitar, and ukulele, and snow ski. Lexie: I'm 13! I love to dance, play the piano, play the guitar, and sing! Madison:  I'm 13! I love to play the piano, dance, and hang out with friends. Alyssa: I'm 11! I love to dance, play the piano, and play the fiddle! We're all Mormon. We know it. We live it. We love it! We hope you enjoy our blog and let us know if you have any suggestions! Thanks(: