Rockin' Around the Clock

Friday, August 2, 2013

We didn't have much of a chance to celebrate the triplets birthdays, so when we were all back in town in August we threw them a big Sock Hop.  Chris and I ordered a box a records online and made these centerpieces out of paper flowers

We also set up a photo booth area.  I painted this jukebox and we set up a sheet with records hanging from it for a backdrop.

I also made a cake.

The birthday girls were all dressed up and ready to party.

They were big into taking photos.

A pretty good mix of boys and girls came, about 30 kids.  They ate hot dogs and hamburgers and drank rootbeer floats, danced, and played games.

The highlight of the night was when Chase did a whole dance from Teen Beach Movie while everyone was eating their cake and ice cream. It was awesome.

We had tons of leftovers, so the next week we had the family over to eat it and swim in the neighbors pool we were watching.

Camp Friday & Saturday

By Friday, the 4th years had done all the camp activities so they went on a short hike with the 1st years and then just hung out the rest of the day- which involved napping

and trying to keep dry. 

We ate leftovers for lunch which included an amazing dessert- French toast with chocolate, marshmallows, and Sis Van's raspberry jam. 

That night President Jenkins spoke and then we had a fire and bore our testimonies.

The next morning we hightailed it out of camp. It was a great week but we were ready to get home. 

We had to brave wet roads again and Bishop Tanner even drive our van up one hill that was giving everyone trouble. 

We met up with my folks at the Mavericks in LaVerkin to get Cam and Seth back then hurried home to shower after a long, dirty week. 

I was glad to spend the week with Lex and the other girls in our ward.

Camp Thursday

On Thursday morning, Brother Shafer took us down to Kolob Resevoir to go canoeing.

The girls took off, and we leaders hung out by the shore. 

When the girls got back, they dried off. Alexis looks like she wet herself on this rock. 

All week my 4th years complained about how the water in camp tasted so on the way back to camp we stopped by a little store and I bought each girl a gallon of drinking water on the promise I would hear no more complaints. It was the best $5 I ever spent!

We spent the rest of the day prepping for our skit. Alexis wanted to be a hobo. Ours supposed to have something to do with Italy, so it was about diVinci looking for a muse at Girls Camp. It wasn't the best- the YCLs was- but it definitely wasn't the worst either. 

Camp Wednesday

Wednesday was filled with more activities.  We set up chairs near the zip line to watch the girls and visit.  Syd cracked us up. She was fine doing the zip line but freaked out about climbing down the ladder to get off. 

In the afternoon, we had target practice. 

Just as we finished shooting it started to rain. We had rain all week, but it never interfered with our planned activities.

Rain just made us huddle under our tarps and hang out together. 

Camp Tuesday

Tuesday morning the 4th years went down to the lower camp to try their hand at archery and to repel.

It was fun to watch girls, like Summer who had never even camped before to try these adventurous activities. 

We got back to the main camp in time to help our ward finish setting up camp. I ended up in this red tent (a bad omen) with Linda and Wendy.

We had an opening flag ceremony and the Stake provided dinner so we had more time to get settled in. 

After dinner I helped Summer and Taylor make these wreaths. At the time I was unaware they made them because Justin Bieber gives one girl a wreath at each of his concerts. 

That night was a night hike, where we hiked to different trees that represented ones in scripture- the tree of knowledge, thre tree of life, the Garden of Gethsemene, and the Sacred Grove.

Camp Monday

Monday, July 22, 2013

I volunteered to take the 4th years to camp a day early, since Alexis was in that group, along with Shae, Taylor, and Summer. We met up with all the 4th years in the stake and headed to Zion to hike. 

The girls slept a lot on the way up. We stopped at the Maverick in LaVerkin and got shakes. Summer and Taylor tried to watch the premiere on the new 1D video and actually cried when service cut out. 

We hiked Weeping Rock, which was very short but steep and took pics under the waterfall. 

Then went on the Riverwalk Hike. The girls waded around in the river and took cute pics. 

After the hike, we went back to Mavericks to get some supplies then headed into camp just as a down pour began. We drove in through rain, hail, and lightning. The road was so muddy and  the van slipped all over the place. The brakes were making a crazy sound that prompted us to pray for safety. 

We finally got into camp in time for dinner, then the rain let up for us to put up a few tents and dig some trenches. It got dark and Chris and I hadn't got a tent up so we slept in her car. Lets just say that was pretty close quarters when sleeping with someone who snores!

Cousin's Camp

July 19-27, 2013

As we traveled to Utah to pick up Alexis from EFY, we dropped Zack, Camryn, and Seth off with my parents so they could spend a week at the cabin while the rest of us were at Scout and Girl's Camp.  

The kids worked on the pathway to the campfire,

practiced their archery skills,

went fishing and

geocashing,

(they found a cashe that Lee's family had previously visited and had left Seth's birthday party invitation from 2 years ago in it

and a beautiful waterfall),

went to a parade in Panguitch,

built an amazing fort,

and made s'mores.

They had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa and didn't miss us at all.