The Nolden Family

Our ward (or geographic church congregation) rented a bus in July 2010 and a bunch of us left at 5:00 am for the Columbia South Carolina Temple. It was an awesome trip! The Atlanta temple has been closed for a year already and will be closed at least another 6 months for renovations. You so take it [...]

Pioneer Treks are a semi-recent tradition in the LDS Community. Each year (typically in the summer), LDS youth in different parts of the world have the opportunity to pull handcarts, dress like pioneers and do a lot of the same things the Mormon Pioneers did in the mid to late 1800s. Our Stake offers this [...]

Every year our church has a camp for the girls ages 12-18…called “Young Women Camp.”   There are tons of them all over the world…you go to the one determined by your congregation’s geographic boundaries.  I’ll have more pics of that when Liz, Megan and Mikayla go in July. All of the girls certify in different [...]

Every year our Stake (multi-area church group) has one or two Youth Conferences for our kids ages 14-18. In the Spring, for the past several years, they have held a Carnival for kids with Special Needs as part of the Youth Conference. They had pony rides, a petting zoo, miniature golf, face painting, snow cones/popcorn, [...]

Hitomi and the Activities Committee put on a great Easter get together for the ward.  There were games, an easter egg hunt and lots of good food.  Thanks, guys!! Ward Easter Party: Hanging Out from Shayne Nolden on Vimeo.

Every year our (church) Young Women’s group has a “New Beginnings” program where we get reminded what the program is all about, why it is important, why we should be setting goals and encouraging the girls to set goals and accomplish them.  I didn’t get that many photos because I was running around trying to [...]

Every year our Young Women (ages 12-18) at church have a program called “Young Women in Excellence.”  This is where we celebrate the goals they have set and then completed in the “Personal Progress” Program over the past year.  This year we had theme of:  “The Oscars: A Night of Stars.”  The girls dressed up [...]

Twice a year the youth (ages 14-18) from church get to go to a “Youth Conference” where they have fun (dances are involved), get a spiritual boost and also perform service for people in the community.  In November we had a 2 day event at our Stake Center.  The service projects included raking leaves/doing yardwork and [...]

We were able to have both of Frank’s siblings and their families over for Thanksgiving this year.  The weather was great and the kids were able to play outside in the forest and ride the 4-wheelers…it was a LOT of fun. Here is short video of the “Turkey Bowl” Football game.  Watch Marc Anthony as [...]

For 20 years now our Ward (or church group) has been doing an annual “Teacher Appreciation Dinner.”  All of the youth (6th grade through high school) invited their favorite teacher to attend.  This year, even the 5th graders got to invite one, so Ashley got to come too…which meant we had 5 of our 7 [...]