Girls Camp!

Girls camp was a lot of fun! It flew right by! It was full of games, laughing, pranks, and testimony building experiences! Let's be honest I worked hard on filling it with pranks. Allison and I had a good time teaching the girls the art of a good prank. There were fake snakes, spiders, and a mouse tied to fishing line to the bathroom doors, there were stolen clothing thrown in the lost and found so that others would have to dance to get it back, and there was a bra on the flag pole! There would have been more if I had been faster then Allison! But she got me. It was all fun! The ride home was full of Chinese fire drills... I still hurt, and am still tired but hopefully I will catch up on sleep soon... Oh girls camp I can't wait for next year! But I will need new pranks before then... HMMMM back to the drawing board!



Girls headed to games.



Muddy Sophia!


My muddy Beehive girls!

I love how Kierra looks like she isn't sure about this... She loved it!

First day at camp they played monster games. This was the volleyball one. I didn't get pictures of the soccer game or the kickball game because I was playing too!

Swimming lessons!

Ok I am lame AGAIN! My 4 older kids are all taking swimming lessons for 2 weeks. I kept forgetting to take my camera and then figured Oh well they have another week of it.... oops I won't be here next week to watch Grandma will be here with the kids while I am at Girls Camp with the Young women from our church. So... again sorry no pictures. But here is another mental picture of Hayden being very brave for her swim teacher, blowing bubbles, going under the water and jumping off the side of the pool (all things she does not do with me! She is more cautious then any of our other kids.) Picture Brock and Amelia doing a great job learning how to side breath, float, and doing a great job and swimming! Ethan is learning all kinds of new strokes and is even learning how to do flip turns! (I can't even do that!) Then here is the best mental picture yet. Picture Ruth constantly kicking and squirming to get away from me, flashing her cutest smile the second she is free and then running as fast as her little legs will carry her to the water (almost falling in if I am not faster then her!) Then picture by day 3 me giving up and sitting outside the fence to watch and her walking yes I am not joking or exaggerating walking between the bars of the bike rack! Then finding that there is a DOOR that goes through the pool house onto the pool deck! Yes the last 15 minutes of that lesson were spent chasing her out of there!!! I then found I should just shut the door (even thought they like it propped open!) That is what we have been doing this passed week. Around the lessons I have been doing all I can to prepare for girls camp... I leave Tuesday morning. I think it will be a lot of fun and look forward to spending the time with my Young Women. I will miss my family tons. Every time I am snuggling Ruth, getting sticky hugs, or listening to her jabber (which she does A LOT lately) I think of how I will miss her little sounds and all that! It will be fun though to! I was sad I couldn't go last year because Ruth was still a baby and nursing and I wanted to go be with my girls, so I am excited to go with them this year! My kids are going to have lots of fun with Grandma! I will post what ever pictures I have next week... It will be a different set of faces, and fun stories I am sure!

Week 11 of Summer vacation!

Last week on my way to the beach with the Youth I had 2 of the Young Women tell me that they wished we were going to the zoo instead and that they loved the zoo! I told them that we wanted to go Friday but didn't so we were wanting to go next week, so they should come with me. They were really excited so we set a date for Tuesday. It was so much fun to have 2 teenagers with me. The kids thought it was fun too. It was nice having a few extra hands and fun people to hang out with. (Not that my kids aren't fun to hang out with!) I was glad Amanda and Shellbie went with us. Even if it did take to long to get there, and they had to listen to 5 kids all day. They seemed to have fun too. It was great.



The Lion's are "new" at the zoo. It was the first time we have seen them. The statues were cute so I piled the kids on them for a quick picture!

This is Amanda Quinn with my kids looking at the cute animals.

Kids and a giraffe! So cute!

Brock's sweet friend Leah made him this dinosaur kite. I had to take a picture of him trying to fly it Thursday. It actually does ok.

Can't go camping with out a campfire! The kids love this part of camping. Who wouldn't! It was fun. We didn't do marshmallow's this time but we did have cobbler. Yum!


Out on the boat! Brock and Ethan both took some really great knee board trips. They saw a guy do a 360 on a knee board while we were there so they decided they were going to try it. They both got really close. They could do a 180. Pretty cool!

Week 7 of Summer break!

One of the highlights of me week before vacation was this activity with the Young Women. I had been planning it for about 2 months and we kept having to bump the date... We ended up doing it with all the YW instead of just the beehives so I wouldn't miss it while on vacation. I gave all my stuff to the Mia maids class so they could run it since they were in charge of the combined activity this month. It was a daddy daughter activity that was lots of fun! Larry came to be a "dad" for one of my sweet beehives. They had lost of fun. The dad's "caught" pudding in ice cream cones, caught Cheetos on their heads covered with shaving cream, relay races eating things out of a bag, and a pie eating contest. We had so many pies left the Young men got in the action at the end and then they talked the Young Women Leaders in to doing one. I won. (Technically I didn't eat the whole thing, I had about a quarter left and I knew it was NOT going to fit so I smeared it on my face to make it look gone.) It was funny though. I was smelling pudding for the rest of the evening till I showered and got a good clean nose!





This was the week right before our family vacation. So I didn't get it posted before we left. It was crazy busy mostly with preparations of going camping for 8 days but there were a few highlights!