The Nolden Family

Another fun year at camp for the girls!  Liz wasn’t there this year, since she had graduated…but it was Ashley’s first time as a Beehive. The theme was “Enjoy the Journey,” and the leaders did an amazing job putting it together.  The highlight was a trip along the “Iron Rod” that ended up at the [...]

School started in late July…CRAZY!! It was nice to get back to a routine, have some peace and quiet in the house…but none of us was ready to start getting up super early again. But love it or hate it, the first day of school always comes around and at least everyone looked Fabulous!

Young Women Camp (better known as “Girl’s Camp”) is a highlight each summer for girls ages 12-18 in our church.  It is a week away from the world where they get to concentrate on spiritual/fun things. Liz (YCL), Megan (4th year) and Mikayla (3rd year) got to go to our Stake Camp this year and each [...]

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 [...]

Mikayla is going into High School next year!!!  I can’t believe how they are all growing up! Mikayla spent her 14th birthday by going to Six Flags with two of her friends and then having the traditional pizza with cake and ice cream at home later. Mikayla Turns 14 – Singing “Happy Birthday” to her…

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 [...]

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 [...]

Liz, Megan and Mikayla got to go to Young Women Camp in July.  They do Stake Camp every year here.   It was held at a local camp facility where they had cabins for the girls, a swimming pool and a dining hall….no roughing it this year .  They all seemed to have a great time.  [...]

Mikayla has soooo much hair with tons of curl…and she doesn’t like it for some reason. But her hair is REALLY beautiful. Today I took her in to my stylist for a cut and style…she looked amazing! Above: The BEFORE shot…. That’s Amy Steinberg, our stylist…she is awesome!! She owns GrassRoots Salon in old town [...]

We all went to Six Flags over Georgia for the first time at the end of May. We went in celebration of Mikayla’s birthday. It was Memorial Day weekend and we thought it would be really crowded. Lucky for us, however, there was a threat of rain that day…the traffic was REALLY light. It did [...]