Girls Camp 2009!

Well it is Saturday morning and I am recovering from girls camp again! My house is a disaster, there is no food in the cupboards (well that's relatively normal actually!), and I am really tired! We left for girls camp on Tuesday at 8 am. Got to millers flat around 10 and then had a flag ceremony to start of the camping. I decided that this year I would not even start day one with makeup or even "do" my hair, so I thought this was a good idea... Just think, so day old mascara to clean off on day two with cold water in a dark, dirty bathroom and no hairspray to act as a dirt magnet! Well it was really sunny at flag ceremony and I had not yet put on sunscreen, yeah whoops! So the very first hour we were at girls camp I got sunburned, not just a little either, I had blisters on my nose and forehead! The good news is I didn't get burned on my entire face, I was wearing these very stylish sunglasses, you know the ones that cover just over your eyebrows down to about your lips? Yeah those are the ones! So now not only do I have this bright red nose and forehead and partial cheeks and chin, I can't take of my sunglasses because the raccoon line is a little awkward! I was off to a great start!

Day 2 brought us hikes! I wasn't going to go on a hike this year, but started feeling like I needed to and so I decided to go on the "short" hike with the 1st years! After we had been walking for 1 & 1/2 hours on what was supposed to be a 3 mile hike, one of the stake leaders informed us that they made it a little longer this year so the girls didn't get back to camp so fast! Are you kidding me? Come on, seriously that's why I went on this hike! It turned out to be a good hike though and I am glad I went, even though I missed out on a nap! Later that night we had an awesome devotional! Deena Geddes came and spoke to our girls and she was awesome! She reminded me a lot of John Bytheway, or at least her style did! She brought the spirit with her and kept every one's attention for a good hour and a half! She spoke about knowing that you are a daughter of god and I want everyone to know, that I know. Anyway she was great, if you ever get the chance to hear her or book her, do it!

Thursday morning started off my favorite day at camp! Not only is it technically the last day at camp, it's testimony meeting day! And this year it was even better because Brian was our priesthood leader Thursday night so I got to share the most spiritual evening with him this year! The day was actually jam packed with things to do, we had our humanitarian projects, and certification projects to do which took most of the day! We also did a service project for one of the other wards and painted their nails. (That's only service at girls camp!) The stake president and our bishopric were our guests for dinner that night and it was fun to tell stories of camp to them! My favorite was when the bishop asked Mary Osmond, our camp cook, why her eye was bandaged? I replied that breakfast was a little late that morning and she had taken a hot dog roaster to the eye! She was a pretty good sport and commented that it was supposed to be ready at 8 and it was 8:06! We laughed a little and then told the bishop the real story, that she had gotten dirt in it and scratched it the night before.

For the most part camp was a success this year and we had a lot of fun! I am always glad that it is over, but more glad that I went! Oh and by the way, our theme this year was "Daughters of a King" and we used Disney Princesses for our camp mascots. Ours was Pocahontas!

Tee Ball!

This was McCoy's last year playing Tee Ball! He was not very happy at first when Brian told him that he needed to play for one more year before moving on to coach pitch, but I am so glad that Brian decided that. McCoy has played Tee Ball the last 2 years and they were both rough to say the least! The first year Brian and I took on coaching and McCoy was a little snot! He didn't want to play in the outfield and would throw a fit if he didn't get to run all of the bases at once, but he didn't want to be the last batter either! Therefore McCoy was the first batter of every inning and he ran all of the bases. How embarrassing! Last year Brian was the assistant coach in hopes that McCoy would behave better for someone else, nope!

This year however was different! McCoy played great and was such a good sportsman. He would run after the ball no matter where it was hit, and he usually got it! He also played first base a lot and was getting pretty good at catching the ball and tagging the base before throwing it home! It was a lot of fun to watch McCoy this year, I got to go to 3 or 4 games and enjoyed them all!

At the Lion's Tournament McCoy was amazed at the Coach Pitch League. He was almost late for his game because he was watching their game. He kept asking me if that's what he gets to do next year. He is pretty sure he can do it, but only if Dad gets to pitch!

I've decided that it is a lot of fun to watch your kids grow up and start new things! Maybe I do live a little through them, but who doesn't? Kids are awesome! I'm not saying that I would do it again, but I am saying that I wouldn't trade it for the world!

I was going to upload a couple of pictures but the blogger apparently thinks that the files are corrupt! Sorry!