Stake Girls Camp 2010

This year Stake Girls Camp was up at Cabin Creek near Lake Alturas. It was a beautiful area. The weather cooperated all week and we were able to have a very enjoyable week.

The theme was M*A*S*H (More Active Spiritual Homes). So each of the girls was issued a hat, t-shirt, dog tag, and songbook upon arrival to Camp Zion: Operation MASH.


I will be honest I thought that I would be able to snap alot of pictures of all the activities, but I was in the middle of helping with everything that I didnt get really any. So note to self for the future. Call someone to be the camp historian so that everyone can enjoy pictures of camp. My roll at camp was Assistant Stake Camp Director, which was quite a change seeing as how the last time I attended camp was as a girl.


It sure was a fun experience, but glad to have all the meetings and planning over with. We started planning back in February and girls camp was June 21-25. So you can guess that we had quite a few meetings. But after many disappointing, successful and frustrating meeting. Things came together and it was a success!


Monday: Just the stake leaders, cooks and Junior leaders set off for camp. We got everything ready for the next day when everyone else would be arriving. We had plenty of free time to play games and enjoy nature. Then we enjoyed a dutch oven dinner. It was incredible to say the least.


Tuesday: Everyone arrived and put there stuff in their cabins and then headed off on their hikes. Then came back, decorated their cabins, got stuff set up, showered, and had free time. We ate dinner and then did our skits. We had them do their skits like a t.v. commerical trying to sell us something that would help make our homes more spiritually active. They were really good and they sure put some time and effort into them. Then we played games at the lodge and went to bed.


Wednesday: The 1st and 2nd years did their certification and then 3rd and 4th years did crafts. Then in the afternoon we had four 30 minute classes that everyone rotated to classes on the importance of recognizing the Holy Ghost , Family Home Evenings, Your attitude affects your home, Building Family Unity. Then it was Bishopric Night/Testimony Night.


Thursday: Morning was 1st and 2nd years crafts; and 3rd and 4th years certification. Then in the afternoon we had two boats and the girls got to go enjoy the lake. Then it was Stake Night. We had a live band play a few songs, then I gave a presentation on Spiritual Homes and used our family life growing up and my life now. Then a member of our Stake Presidency President Montgomery talked to us. It was a wonderful meeting.


Friday: We packed up and headed home :)!


We had a bear experience this year as well. We had a bear that was in our camp the first day. It was on the porch of my cabin, but we chased it off. Then the second day, I was headed down to talk to a cabin and on the path to the cabin about 50 yards or so away from me was the same bear. It was a little too close for comfort. So I turned around and hustled back to get our guy that had his gun. He chased it away again. I swear that the bear just looked at me like "Hey how are you doing". She didnt care that I was even there. She wasnt scared a bit. Just kept on walkin and didnt even mind that we were there. So the guy chased her off and she hissed at him so he put a bullet or two in her. Which upset several of our girls. They didnt understand why the could just come set a trap and haul her away. But apparently it was still bear season and the fish and game werent going to come get her. Instead they said that if she was going to be a bother to shoot her, so thats what happened. I say better the bear than one of the girls.


So we had a very good camp, with a little drama and a few pranks. But hopefully the girls had fun and enjoyed themselves like I did. :)!!!!!!!!!!!

This was one of the crafts. There was tons of different paper to chose from and the girls were very creative.

Expecting!

We are proud to announce that we are expecting baby #2. We were planning this one and cant wait for it to officially be a part of our family. This is such an exciting time for us. But we have to say that we are a little nervous. I guess that you are until the baby is here and everything is fine. But so far we were able to hear the heart beat and everything sounded fine. The nurse also gave me an educated guess on the babys gender based on the heart beat rate, but I am going to keep it a secret until the 28th when we officially have our ultrasound to see what we are having. So I am 16 weeks and 5 days along. I think everybody is thinking why did you wait so long before you went in, even the nurse thought that. Oh well. I figure that if I take my prenatal, eat healthy and take care of myself, then everything will be okay. So we waited and now that I am almost half way there, this pregnancy will go by fast not only for us, but for everyone else.

I havent been too sick. I have been nauseated just about everyday for the past 16 weeks. But I dont throw-up. I have been extremely tired which has been a challenge seeing as how I have had both Logan and Hailey. But we have gotten through it. Things are getting better, nausea is almost gone, but I am still extremely tired most days. Which wouldnt be so bad if my list of things to do would stop growing. I am just glad that so far things are going well and that we are half way to adding a new addition to our family. I cant wait. Oh yeah and Matt wants a girl and I want another boy, but seeing as how we dont get any choice in the matter, we will take what we get because you cant send them back and you wouldnt anyway. We just want another healthy baby no matter whether it is a girl or a boy.

DUE DATE: DECEMBER 11

So we have had requests for the;
8th by Tianna
10th by Flint and my Aunt Shelli
and
23rd by Kyanna (but sorry Kyanna I sure hope that I have the baby before then)

Check Back on the 28th and hopefully we will know whether boy or girl. YAY!!!!!!!!!!

Our Garden is Finally In

We have offically planted everything that we are going to plant in our garden this year. I am super excited for gardening season this year. It is such an awesome feeling to have everything in. I cant wait to see everything grow and I am even more excited for the harvest. I cant wait to can everything. We have sure used alot up this year and I really need to replace everything. So I hope that everything does well and I will definitely have enough to stock up my food storage as well as share.

I know you cant see very much but I will definitely be updating pics
 as things start growing.

So far the only thing that looks super good are my potatoes.

I had to replant my corn, peas, and beans. So hopefully they will grow this time.

If everything grows I will have:

19 Tomatoes Plants

(6 Celebrity, 5 Better Boy, 6 Roma, 2 Cherry)

12 Pepper Plants

(4 Bell, 2 Sweet Red, 6 Banana)

3 Rows Potatoes

(2 Red, 1 White)

2 Rows Peas

2 Rows Carrots

4 Rows Beans

6 Rows Corn

8 Cucumber Plants

(2 Eating, 6 Pickling)

Of course Pumpkins for carving :)!

I sure hope everything grows so that we can share with those that need it.

GARDEN SEASON IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunshine

YAY! We have finally had some sunshine these last two days. I sure hope if keeps going. Yesterday we got to spend the day down at Flint and Lisas and Ty, Tanille, Jace and Aiden came out. We pretty much sat outside all day and enjoyed the sunshine. It was a great sunday and it was really great to get to spend time with Ty and Tanille (we dont see them as much).

Then today I took Hailey and Logan outside to enjoy the sunshine. I have a little frog that you are supposed to fill with sand, but we dont have sand yet and we dont have a pool. So I filled the frog with water and they both played in the water. It was fun to just sit and watch them play.

Filling up the pool.

 The water was freezing and he wasnt so sure about it.

Hailey loved it and splashed until she completely soaked herself.

Bring on the SUNSHINE we are ready for SUMMER!