More fun and frolic

Friday after catching up on the weeding and such we were off to the Freedmont Indian St. Park.

we took a couple hikes this was at the Sheep cave
The girls with grandma, yes I went along.

The girls checking out a pit shelter

more petroglyphs

In the museum there was a discovery area for children the girls

spent most of time here playing and checking out things like this

mood rock. Totally cool!!

Christianna offering us some delicious blackberries.

Victoria totally got into the native atmosphere with the hide dress

to play.

She didn't like the fox skin fur, kept saying poor fox.

Grampa's stying in his skunk fur though, don't ya think?

Is it really time to leave??? O.K.

In the museum the girls ground corn just like the Indians did.

So we came home and made our own Petroglyphs. this is mine the

Interlocking circles are actually my favorite quilt block, with Ron

and I in the center, each adjacent circle is each of the kids. There is a

peace sign in each of the three girls squares as each of our son-in

laws have or do keep peace. In the ovals that are in the intersections

are the grandchildren with a small star for Aiden, and yes I added

Olivia she's almost here. I also have trees, water and mountains to

represent life and nature, which we love.

This is Christianna's she did a moon with stars and while carving

it out she added bullet holes like we'd seen some that had been vandalized.

This is Victoria's sun/moon combo. They did a great job.

Thursday we stopped by the guild briefly to get patterns and a

couple errands and it was time for the park with water

The girls totally enjoyed playing in the water

Then it was home for supper and some people who came from Vegas to check out Pat's motorcycle.They were older and they loved it Tracy who was a widow for 14 years had decided she wanted to have a motorcycle she was thrilled with the bike and they even wrote us a letter after they got it home to thank us for being so nice and honest with them she is gonna love it. Victoria was a little sad as it was the first motorcycle she's ever ridden but Tracy assured her it was her first motorclyle and that she would take really good care of it.

Beehive Sleepover

I am pretty sure we need to rename this activity the beehive all- nighter. The girls arrived between 6:45pm and 8:10pm about 8:25pm we got together and read thru our Virtue insert for personal progress. We than did the #2 experience together. It was really a great time and mostly spiritual. Once the girls write in their journals they'll have passed it off. Sister Curry left for home and The 10 beehives who attended decided to play games. Then around 11pm it was time for scary games . About 12:30 am we actually watched the first part of Anne of Green Gables. Than at 2:30 am it was more scary games . Sarah and Kailey opted to watch more of Anne and promptly fell asleep. The other 8 however didn't settle down till about 4 am. Ron's alarm rang at 5:30 am and he was off to work. This is the scene at about 6:30am. Kailey and Sarah in the basement......

The rest of the girls in the back yard. Ron had turned off the

sprinklers set to go off at 6:30. So we wouldn't totally be mean

Thought that since I didn't pre- warn the neighbors, it'd be best

Not to wake them up with more screaming.

I warmed up the breakfast burritos and made muffins and

pancakes. But oddly enough the girls were not ready to eat at

7:30 am.

A few ventured in but only ended up on the couch till parents

picked them up around 9:30.

A few even ate breakfast.

The last girl left at 10:10 am and I was late for an appointment,

I went to welcome the two new beehives who will join us in August.

One appoint was at 10 am the next at 1 so needless to say I didn't get much

done today, mostly napped on the couch till Ron got home. So I survived

another year!!!

Well Nicole and Chris brought down the girls to stay with us a week while they went to Trek with their ward youth. So what do you do at grandmas for a week??? Yes , you bake cookies and invite Marquessa over for dress up and a tea party

And there are many processions thru the house ...

To escape the heat we need to spend some time dancing thru the sprinkles

And making up new games...

And bless miss Victoria's heart she made sure we finished up the quilts

For the Chineese orpahnage , that were not finished at camp.

Christianna was poking the needle back up.

Victoria would finish one quilt before breakfast and then get right at

the next one after. then on Wednesday we delivered 25 to go to China.

ladies from my sew group and some guild members dropped some off

so that was neat.

Side note Victoria has definitely caught the quilt bug and we hope to

make her first quilt while they are here.

Friday at Camp

So Friday was a busy day at camp this is the morning while still fresh. More fun games to play. I told the girls about the Chinese orphan girls and needing quilts so

they wanted to tie quilts at camp Brought up 6 so they could tie two a day.

And their is alway fun hair at camp!!!

There is also some tree hugging going on...

Oscar Fakahua was our guest speaker for our program on Friday

he talked to us about families and taught us how to ham bone

We then played a version of Red light /green light which he likened to getting through life to make it to the celestial Kingdom. First alone then everyone linked together and an all or nothing situation. It was really good lesson , frustrating and fun. And after talked with and questioned the girls it was great. they really learned alot and had some great insite.

Of course their were skits pretty cool, and always entertaining.

Hamilton Fort Ward was from Poland so we told a polish folk tail.

Then it was time for a bon fire and testimony meeting.

There was the usual love you"s but it was also very spiritual

and almost everyone shared some twice.

Than it was bed time I stayed long enough to tuck in my girls and then it was down the hill and home. Where we found Nicole and Chris and chatted for an hour. By the time I was showered and in bed it was after 2:00am

Girls camp 2009

So the YCL's went up on Tuesday 7th Teh stopped to repel on cedar Mt on the way up. I wasn't able to partake thus no pics. Tehy then went up and set up camp for the rest of the girls who arrived on wednsday. I was not able to come up to camp until Wednsday late afternoon. I was schedualed to usher and stay for The Secert Garden at Shakespear Festival. Teh play was awsome, who knew it was a musical. Not me. Anyway so Ron got done work early adn we were up to camp by 5 pm just in time to help with dinner. We had taco salad I unfortunatly cut up japalenos with out gloves. Problem being that when I took out my contacts that night it was not a fun experiance and needless to say I have since ordered new contacts. Major burning eyes was my experiance so I don't recommend that as a fun filled activity. So friday morning the girls were all bright eyed and busy tailed, making breakfast and trying to keep warm.

Some less willing to rise and shine then others... Katie looks so sweet while she's asleep huh???

Once she woke up she worked on her Petroglyphs, we used dry wall and carved in what ment something to us. Then shared later on in the day.

There were lots of fun girl camp games and brother Lyndaker even joined in , what a trooper

As with all camps their are fun crafty things like bracelets to make and such.

Sister Harris The Camp Director , wow she still looks fresh pretty neat, She is a born camper!!!!!

What do we do now??

I know steal sister Lyndaker's camera and tak e a group shot!!

Br. Lyndaker, Chartise, Lydia, and Sis Dansie looking their best.

July 4th weekend

What is the fourth of July without fireworks. We ended the day over on airport road watching fireworks and eating popcorn.
However we started the day at the wards annual pancake breakfast. It started
with a flag raising and patriotic songs. This year we had a swap meet also.

Then it was time to eat,,yummy yummy in our tummies!!!!

The best part was this year neither of us had to be in charge of anything

we just went and enjoyed ourselves. Then went to the parade.

Had a bit of a motorcycle ride, and got majorly dumped on. We got home just before a major downpour, complete with hail. But not in time to save the bike from getting rained on, messed up the clean sleek look. But was an enjoyable day.
We finally got our ride on Monday we went up to Beaver for you guessed it Cheese Curd.

Yummalicious!!! Really nice ride and even though I applied sunscreen I got a bit toasted. Tomorrow its back to work but was fun weekend just being able to spend time together.