Girls Camp Care Packages

We did it! 
Our Top Secret service project was a complete success.

As a Relief Society service project we created care packages to send to our Young Women at girls camp. We had many wonderful sisters that helped with the care packages. We had SO MANY yummy treats, beautiful love letters and loving hands that tied each and every bow. Each young woman received a bag full of treats and then another bag with their hearts, love letters and inspirational quotes. We kept the entire project a secret from the girls and their leaders.

Their camp theme was Be Beautiful to Him

Loving hands put each bag together.

Each girl received these precious hand-made hearts. 

Each heart had a little message for the girls.

Bright bows and tags adorned each bag.

We had two big boxes FULL of love!

At 2:45 pm the girls received their care package. After a rainy night (with a tent that leaked), just a few hours of sleep and a long morning hike the girls were enjoying ward time and soaking their feet. When the girls saw their gift from the Relief Society, you could see their eyes light-up. They were so touched, grateful and thankful for the gift. Girls Camp always has a sweet spirit and you could definitely feel it. The Lord took our efforts and they were magnified... It was neat.

One young woman grabbed me as I was leaving and said, 

"Thank you. No one has ever done anything like that before... for us."

I'm so grateful the girls KNOW they are loved by their RS sisters.

Kayla Berryman and Kelli Lowry showing their beautiful smiles!

Tori, Akasha and Rylee Brickey

Bethany Barrett, Sierra H. and Ashley Stone

Sarah Wilson

Rachel, Maddie and Ashely Price

Audrey Goodsell

Katherine and Lisa Free

Madison M. and Adria Riley

McKenzie Smith and Brooklyn Stone

Fun with Grandpa Dennis

We've had Grandpa Dennis staying with us for the past two days. It's been so fun to have Grandpa here. My dad made a tailgate out of a piece of wood to replace a missing tailgate on the boy's truck. Derek kept saying, "Grandpa is so smart!!" Derek also loved playing "hunt animals" downstairs with Grandpa. It was a real treat to have him here with us.

Grandpa was able to see our water-system at work.

Caleb started using pieces of wood to make bridges.

Some Old Photos

I had these old photos in some archives I'm sorting through. It's so fun to look at old photographs.

I LOVE this photo of me on the lamb.

Deep Thinker

Brennan had some really deep questions tonight. I was tucking him in to bed and he told me he was worried about some things. So I asked him what he was worried about. With tears in his eyes, he told me that he was worried about getting married. How was he going to know who to marry? We talked about that for a while and I told him that when the time came, that Heavenly Father would help him know who he should marry.

Brennan enjoyed hearing that Clint and I met on our missions in Texas. He asked me, so when you met dad and knew you liked him did you go home and get married or did you finish your mission? I told him that I like daddy as a friend when we were on our missions, but that we didn't know we would get married until we were back in Utah.

His next worry, where was he going to serve his mission. He is a picky eater and he told me that with his taste buds that he's scared he won't be able to eat the foods where he serves his mission. I shared with him some stories form my mission where I ate things I normally didn't like. I also told him about my companion, JJ Shlerf, who ate some of my veges for me. She took them from my plate when our host wasn't looking. I LOVED that girl! She was so nice to eat those yucky veges for me.

After a few stories about my mission, he was calmed down enough to go to sleep.

Brennan's First Cub Scout Daycamp

Brennan had fun at his first Cub Scout Daycamp on July 14th. Clint was able to go with him and they had a blast! They attended Camp Fife.

21 boys were able to attend the camp from our ward.

What a great group of boys!