Camp memories

Next week is girls camp and our theme is "Happily ever after." In preparation for camp the girls were asked to write down, blog, or text three times a week what they makes them happy. I have been doing it, I am just a few days behind, but I can catch up fast.

Last night we were doing some last minute preparations for camp and I talked to the girls about how much fun I had at camp. One of the counselors in the YW presidency talked to the girls about spiritually preparing for camp. I remember feeling the spirit very strongly at good 'ol camp Shalom. I also told the girls about all the inside jokes my friends and I had. Here are a few and I know there are just 2 or 3 gals who will get this, but here goes--

*"Any one want some Christmas candy?"
*"So what you're saying is I'm fat"
*Which lead to the three fat girls
*The snorting game
*Gadgets
*Papa Joe
*Don't go down to the biffy in the middle of the night...we lost Anne Lott there just last week
*Choice and Accountability and orange, every year
*Tacos, tacos, and more tacos
*Sisters
*Waterfront
*The leaches in the waterfront lake
*Getting lost on a hike, but only if Ann was the leader
*The buses

I know there are lots more and I can go on and on, but I won't. Have a happy day!

Fun at BYU

Last week we all heading up to my dad's office with all the grandkids. We had to go out side to see the mirrored walls and Ethan thought it was so cool. Here he is admiring himself in the "mirror."

Here are all the noisy, wild kids. (No, they were really okay, at least I think so.)

Mmm BYU ice cream

After visiting Grandpa, we headed to the creamery on 9th for some ice cream. Ethan wanted green ice cream, luckily mint chocolate chip was a choice.

This is a childs scoop!
Ethan and all the girls smiling for the camera. I'm not sure what Isabel was doing, I hope she wasn't trying to get out of the picture. But you can see her hand and the soccer ball on her shirt.

From the left, Jyllian, Meg, Ethan, Mattison, Jasmine, and Isabel's shirt and hand.

Happy Pioneer Day!

Yesterday Ethan and I went to the This is the Place Heritage Park with my family. We had a lot of fun, despite the heat, learning all about pioneer life.

One house was full of chores for the kids to do. Here is Ethan watering the garden. Did you know that the youngest member of the family had to empty the chamber pot in the morning? From our group, that would have been Ethan or Jyllian.
Here are Dominique, Meg, Ethan, and Mattison carding (I think that's how it's spelled) the wool before it's spun into yarn.
We stopped by the Andrus house and were told that for $1 we could leave our kids there and they could spend the night in one of the beds upstairs. Ethan thought that was such a great idea, he picked his bed right away.
We saw all the farm animals and while the peacock shaking and crowing scared Ethan a bit, he thought petting the baby goat was so cool. I sure hope he thinks the baby calves at our family reunion are just as cool.
After a long day in the sun, we adults rested while we watched the kids run crazy wild through the play ground playing in mini pioneer houses.

Fun memories of ME!

Have you seen this little tag going around on blogs? I left a comment on one, so now I've got to do #2 on the list.So let's play:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

It's ALIVE!

Okay, maybe it's just working. After almost a year in our house Mike and my dad have found the sprinkler system we knew we had but has been hidden (it hasn't been used for so long that the sprinkler heads had sunk into the grass, hidden from view). Then they fixed it and now it works, somewhat. I haven't seen the finished product, but Mike told me that "we're in business!" He says there is still a little tweaking that needs to be done, but soon I won't have to water my whole lawn by hand, just the 2/3 of our huge backyard that doesn't have a sprinkler system. Whoever put in our sprinkler system must have gotten lazy and decided to quit! I'd love to meet that guy and ask him come finish the job, pro bono.

Ethan and Mike's tie

This morning, Ethan woke up a lot earlier than he usually does, especially on Sundays. I usually have to wake him up at 8 and he was up and at 'em at 6:45! Needless to say, he was there, in the room, with Mike when Mike was getting dressed and ready for church. Ethan likes to help and always helps Mike pick out what tie to wear to church. Today, Ethan wanted to wear a tie too and her is the end result

He wanted to wear it to church so we let him. He got a lot of comments on it and doesn't it look great?