Girl's Camp 2011

I was a Camp Mom this year for our ward. It was my first time back to Ensign and my first time to girl's camp since graduating from High School! Long time! It was a lot of fun and a lot of work! When you are a teenager you just bring your stuff to camp and don't worry about anything else. Now I know what goes behind the scenes. A lot of prep and work! Our whole YW presidency came and it was so much fun to be up there all together. We each had a different assignment and mine was over the food. We had frito banditos, spaghetti with cesear salad, hawaiian haystacks, yogurt parfaits, french toast, eggs with hashbrowns, bacon and croissants. It turned out really good. My Mom watched the kids while I was at camp (THANKS SO MUCH!!!) and so she met me up at Ensign to pick up my kids. Our camp was from Tuesday through Saturday and we stayed in Teepees.

These are the Valuables aka the oldest girls at camp. They got to stay with the Stake people and did the fun stuff and were in charge. They all were dressed in a value color the whole week of camp so it was fun to see what outfits they came up with. The girl in yellow gave Preston her bumblebee head band with a wand and he was lovin' life. He kept saying, "I a bumblebee!" over and over. The girls all were laughing and loved him.

Our theme was Flourish so each day we focused on a different topic: Plant, Nourish, Grow and Bloom. They had us plant seeds in the planters up front and each morning the flowers grew until the last day and they were like this...big beautiful flourishing flowers.

Our YW presidency: Danielle Apken- president, Christina Miller- 1st counselor, Erin Lolohea- secretary and me- 2nd counselor. We get along really well so of course we had fun. ;) We were by far the most involved leaders. The girls from other wards wanted to be in our ward because they thought we were so fun!

I had to post this picture because it makes me laugh. Erin was sitting next to me in the amphitheater and she put her hand on my leg. She left it there and I HAD NO IDEA! Finally, after several minutes Christina and Danielle were laughing and then I noticed her hand. Hahaha! I guess I'm used to being touched my kids all day and didn't notice! Erin did it a few more times and I still didn't notice right away. Too funny.

Our Ward sign that Christina made. I noticed the "A" in "Park" is missing. She did a beautiful job making it and even got this cool faux wood kit to make the cardboard look like wood grain! Amazing! She's crafty like that.

The girls making breakfast one morning. The girls were great and chipped in and helped all the time.

Yummy!

Some of the girls in the amphitheater. The girls liked destiny hour (spiritual talks), solo time (time to be alone and read scriptures, we were given packets with talks and scriptures to read), golden hour (big activities and/or presentations or videos on the theme), singing in the trees and of course the crafts and water activities. I got to go on a horse trail ride with the 3rd years and that was fun. I attempted to climb the rock wall, went on the slip n' slide, canoed, went on the rope swing in the lake and the rope swing on dry land. I also did the polar dip at 6am in the river the last morning. Brrrrrr!

We ate all those cheese balls gone! There were A LOT! The valuables had the same container so we were trying to eat our bucket before the did. They won.

We had 10 girls come to camp this year. They were L-R: Dominique (friend), Mari Perez, Danielle, Rebecca Croft, Christina, Laylani (friend), me, Paula Butlay, Emma Croft, Jacque Herrmann, Karen Thorp, Jasmine, Erin and Sandra Butlay.

For an activity with our Bishop and his wife we had to make this quilt to sit on for dinner. They gave us random fabric and duct tape to put it together with some rules. We did pea pods, sweet pea flowers and a block "b" and "p" for our ward Beverly Park. We were pretty proud of it. All the white squares are pictures that the girl's drew.

As we were cleaning up and getting ready to go home, Erin moved her air mattress and calmly said, "there is a snake under my mattress." We rushed over to see and were grossed out that there was a snake sleeping under her! eeks! Good thing it was only a gardner snake. One of the girls picked it up and named it Beverly and showed it around. Gross. We had a great time, but were all glad to go home to shower and sleep!