Girls Camp!

I was the Girls Camp Director for my ward this year. OMG! It was one of the best years that I have ever had at Shalom. NOT to mention that La was there with me! We had 34 of us in our ward there this year.
Our theme was "Super Heroes" and our ward theme was "Latter Day Angels" (hence Charlies Angels)

Here are all my Angels! I love each of them!

Here is my very Favorite Angel!
And here are all of the angels the last night with the bishopric. "Blackhams Angels".

Cant wait for next year! Megs gets to go with us!

Slugger!

MEG LOVES SOFTBALL!


Megs decided to try her arm at softball this year, and it turned out that she LOVES it, and she is pretty darn good. Her team won the city championships!

AND she had the most RBI's for the season, and was voted best hitter by hear team.

We love to watch her play!

Slacker Post of all posts....

So its true, my life has gotten away with me. I have not posted in for forever. This is my journal for heavens sake! So here is me and my attempt to catching up. Sorry for the delay to all of our readers.
JULY 2010
Center Stage Boot Camp...La had an intense week of dance.
Although it's hard and rigorous-The Jr, Teen and Seniors love
this week!
Junior Company is ready for Nationals!

We love Junior Company!

Mason's New Do

Here is Mace's new hair do that he is sporting for the summer.

A side view-



NOT!

Ok so he is cute with a buzz!

Happy Fathers Day to the BEST Dad EVER!

We were on our cruise for Steve's Birthday so he didn't get the big hoopla for his birthday with the kids. BUT we really tried to make Fathers Day special for him. Because really, he is the BEST dad!
Sunday morning started off with our fun gifts to Dad-
Mikayla gave hime a huge candy poster- it rocked! It said: Dear Dad, Everyone knows that my
"POP ROCKS"! I love how he is "Extra" nice to me and brings me "mounds" of joy! I love his "kisses" and the way that he "snickers" when he teases me. He may be an
Idaho Spud" but he is no "Milk Dud"! He's a "Whopper" of a Dad. I am glad that I can be one of his "3 Musketeers" Love Mikayla


Meggie worked for hours on her gift. She is our little artist. She did a chalk drawing of the BYU cougars. It will be framed this week. HE LOVED IT! It will be going in his office. She also made him some carmel corn and a card. She is such a sweetie!

Mace and I we bought him his new favorite "Days of Wonder" game. It is called-"Shadows Over Camelot". It rocks! Mace refused to get a photo.


We went to church and the primary kids sang to the Dad's and the youth gave them all hot fresh cinnamon rolls.

We made his favorite dinner or teriyaki chicken and rice. Kayla made his favorite dessert called "Surprise Pudding". I hate it, but he loves it so he gets it at least once a year.

Meg was in charge of our Family Home Evening (we do it on Sunday's because we are busy on Monday nights). She had a fun unscramble game that she did. Steve loved it. We had to unscramble letters to make words that discribed Steve. Here are some of the words that he got.
-smiles, happy, nice, friendly, hot, kind, loving, works, priesthood, laughs, winner, bald, sporty, cool, understanding, respectful.

We then had a quiz to see how well we know our Dad. He got some funny laughs and responses.

We watched a great clip about fathers from Elder Kristopherson and had dessert and played the new game. It was a great day. We love our Daddy, he is the Best. He learned from the best too. We love our grandpa's, they are great examples to us all.

Pirates Treasure

Well I am all about free right now. All of our resources went to Megs vocal tour and any other resources are going to Mikaylas National Dance Comp next month in LA. So we do lots of FREE stuff right now. One of our favorite things is geo caching. I know, I know sounds crazy to many of our readers, BUT we have founds some really cool places over the past few years. It's been fun and adventurous. I (we) will always be grateful to Aunt Kristel for showing us the addicting ropes. Yesterday check out the beauty--

We were up Provo Canyon looking for the Pirate Treasure. It was a little hike. Mikayla had a little freak out at one point because she is anal about staying on the trail. BUT it was beautiful and Fun and a great little excercise. WE found it too-

D and Mace found it! It is always a race to get to it first. This cache was awesome because it really was pirate booty. We had to leave pirate treasure and we got to take pirate treasure.

If you ever want to go and learn the ropes call me...we are always up for a new adventure. Next week we are going to do one on the bikes. It's about a 6 mile ride on the Provo River trail. Should be fun!
The treasure for me is the beauty all around, and watching the joy of the kids play a giant "eye spy" game. Happy Caching! I forgot to mention that we left a travel bug from 2 years ago.

Geo-caching 2010

For some odd reason we didnt do a ton of caches last year. I keep wondering why we didnt. This year has been a slow start because of the weather, but we have started. Thursday I took Mason and Dayton geo-caching. They both found the first two of the season.
They both love it! D has finally figured it out and was bummed when I only had 3 ready to go. BUT I promised him that I would plan some more for this week.

Oh the thrill of the find!

I highly recommend this activity with any kids. It's fun and it's free and there are some really cool places out there. Just go to www.geocaching.com and sign up for a free membership today. It's easy. If you dont have a GPS unit, you can rent them at the scout office for $5 a day. AND geocaching is fun for a most excellent scavenger hunt for family reunions.
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