Sarah and Amy Go To Girls Camp

I got the awesome opportunity to be a chaperone at the church's Girls Camp this past week. It was AWESOME. It was the perfect week. Perfect girls, perfect weather, perfect camp- it was an amazing week. I took it all in and just had a great time. Girls Camp is a yearly camp for church. All young women aged girls can go (ages 12-18.) We have fun time, we have spiritual time, we have a blast. It's not for the weary though! I counted it up and got around 15 hours of sleep TOTAL for the week. And felt fine!.... until I got home! But it was SO much fun. I wanted to remember these moments!

 

Upon arrival all the girls claimed their beds and dug into their snacks!

Kate Forrester

Zoe Solomon and Katie Peters

Alicia Solomon

Sarah Harris

Anna Peters

Summer Dossett

Eve Harward

 Dana Moser and Sarah Harris

Cecily Dossett, Charity and Jessie Hill 

The girls sand "A Child's Prayer".... it was beautiful!

Millie and Zoe Solomon were officially adopted the day before camp. They have been fostered for several years and we couldn't be more excited that the adoption finally went through. So we had a "We are Glow-ing with Excitement" party for them complete with glowsticks, disco ball and lots of laughter.

We go each year to a place called Latimer Reservation. It's just gorgeous!

Addy Barry

Millie Solomon- my new best friend. I love this girl!!

Liz Elam and Kate Forrester with me and Amy

Each year they have a sunrise hike. The girls get up at 4:30am and walk to this beautiful overlook and wait for the sun to come up. It's so gorgeous!

Emery Welsh and Paige Jones- I started calling them the Bobsey Twins.

Amy with Kirsten Pike and AnnaBelle Elam

Jordynn Burk, Zoe Solomon, Katie Peters

I brought Grandma's Daisy to wake the girls up each morning. It was a quite a hit! And I loved that a piece of Grandma with me.

Dana Moser, Millie Solomon, and Maylee Robbins
We went on this mountain bike ride. It was.... extreme to say the least. We got a little lost and ended up going up hill, down hill, over trees, under branches.... it was insane. The ride didn't phase Millie as she was leading the pack and hardly got off her bike. She was a trooper! Maylee was too. Oh the young! I was laughing with Millie about how fast she was. She said "Well, it's probably because I'm young and you're just a little bit old." hahahahaha. She is so funny! 

These cute girls wrote a camp song. They did an amazing job!

Me with the other 3 adult chaperones from our ward- Cecily Dossett, Jessie Hill and Dana Moser. Awesome ladies and I had so much fun with them.

Alicia Solomon and Sydney Burk

All of us with Bishop Barry and his wife, Amy, on the last night after the Bishop Devotional. It was a beautiful and perfect week! Isn't this picture gorgeous?!?

One Year with Marty

We celebrated on year with Marty on June 13th. We bought him a few new toys and Amy made some dog treats. We have totally become dog people and just love him! 

 

 

Feels Like Summer is Half-Way Over!

 In so many ways I feel like the summer is half way over and it's barely gotten started.

Lee is getting a bit older and we laugh that he needs reading glasses AND a flashlight to play Guess Who with the kids.

Tyler's new way of wearing a mask. Its a great way to get in a nap!

Will is enrolled in a Summer School/Camp program. I have to speak his praises because he's been doing great. I imagine it's really hard to go to bed early and get up early, in the summertime, and when your siblings don't have to. But he's working hard and doing it really well. It's just through the month of June, so he's half-way through. Oh and when I asked him about maybe wearing matching socks he said, "Mom- it's summer school. No one cares about matching socks." So there you have it.

We got our free Krispy Kreme donuts of Donut Day! Will decided he didn't like them anymore, so Amy ate his. :)

Will and Tyler have joined a Kickball league. The morning of their first game was unbearably hot. So we all donned hats and loaded up on sunscreen. I tried getting Amy to take a picture with me, but she's a teenager now and wouldn't.

Hot and sweaty after a day of Master Gardening volunteering. Braids are my new look of the summer.

Marty thinks he's human and likes to curl up like one.

This picture made me laugh because he looks so small and like he has tiny stubby legs. Must have been a funny camera angle.

Our friends went out of town and asked us to feed/let their cats out every day and night. In the meantime they gave us access to their pool so we took advantage of that a few times.

I said goodbye to one of my best-friends, Talana Knox. She's been a part of most every hike as well as tons of other adventures. She's one of my favorite people. Her family moved to New Mexico for her husbands new job. I'm going to miss this lady!!

We've been having really pretty sunsets and then followed by a summer storm right behind it. All the foggyness in the left side of the picture is rain. I thought it was kind of cool to watch.