Silly Faces

Since my return from girl's camp, the only pictures I've taken have just been around the house while we're acting silly.

This first one of Cameron cracks me up because he loves to make this face at me with his head slightly down and his eyes up. I might have taught it to him accidentally but he loves to do it.





The attempt to capture a shot of all three of us. Cameron looks a little dazed and confused.












While Cameron was napping Leah and I were making silly faces one day, and she was playing with my hair while I was laying down. She has stopped taking naps now (which I'm still sad about) so we get extra one-on-one time together in the afternoon. And it's also her time to play games on the computer (she's really getting the hang of the mouse). She is growing up so quickly and will be turning four in a couple of weeks.

The much anticipated Camp pictures

I know everyone has been waiting to see these pictures so here you go.

It doesn't look like much, but we were able to sleep up to 13 people in this cabin with all the girls on the bottom floor and the leaders up in the loft.
And it was really nice having a cabin to sit in when it rained just about every day.












Here are the other two leaders, Anna and Alyse. I couldn't have gotten through the week without them. They helped me so much and made me laugh the whole time. We went up early before the girls arrived to set up everything. It was soooooooo hot when we got there.
















Most of the other wards had decorated their cabins, and I didn't really come prepared to do that with our cabin (I only had a month of preparation time before camp). So I pulled out some scrapbook paper that I remembered to bring and we cut out, stars, moons and I did a sun. It turned out pretty cute.






















One of our young women, Andrea, was the one we called when we had critters in our cabin, a mouse and a bat. This girl isn't afraid of anything. And she was the one who started our fire every night.
















These little guys kept the girls busy throughout the day. They are little prairie dogs at the campsite but commonly referred to as "pot guts". They were not the leaders favorite part of camp. But we did kind of get attached to them by the end. They would eat any scraps of food that we dropped and weren't afraid to be right up close to us.













This is the air mattress I slept on. The other leader, Alyse, brought her large one and we shared it. I'm so glad she didn't mind sleeping next to me.


















The girls all eating lunch. We had to put up both canopies and then rigged up some tarps to have some extra shade and protection from the rain.













Here's the whole group minus one leader that came up Thurs afternoon. We all had a different color from the YW value colors. And then each day we had devotionals with messages about the different values. This was one of my favorite parts.










The official Stake Hike got rained out that morning but the skies cleared up, and some girls planned another hike for whoever wanted to go. It was beautiful scenery. These are the girls that went on the hike.











Here is my fellow leader, Anna, and me walking on the hike.















After the hike I headed back to the area of the Stake Service Project to join the girls in making some hats for babies in the NICU. It was so fun to learn how to do it, and I hope I can start making some on my own for my kids and others.










Two sisters in our wards taught us part of the "Haka" chant that originates from Mauri warriors going off to war (I think). The BYU football players sometimes do it before their games. Every morning and night we went up with the entire stake for the flag ceremony. And during our roll call, each ward would so some kind of song or chant. This is what we prepared for roll call one morning.

We weren't quite as fierce but it was still fun.

Fourth of July weekend, part 1

I'm a little behind in posting about July 4th so just pretend it was this last weekend. I wanted to go up the canyon for the weekend to spend time in the outdoors. We had such beautiful weather in the mornings so I thought that would be the best time for the kids.

On July 3rd we went walking with the Barnetts up the Provo River Trail that goes up to Bridal Veil Falls. They kids always love playing in the water and throwing rocks into the water. We even walked along the trail past the falls, and it was so shady and cool. Leah collected flowers and snail shells along the way. We love being outside and were glad that our friends came along with us.

The kids found a big rock that they wanted to stand on and feel as big as us.

Cameron saying "cheese"

Visiting Living Planet Aquarium

We bought a year pass for us to visit the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. It was only a little bit more than paying for two visits so I thought we could go throughout the year, especially when it's cold and we need something to do indoors. Leah loves to see all the fish and sea creatures. She says that one day she wants to pet the sting rays, but when we get there she always "chickens" out. Cam loves to follow her around see everything too, especially the sharks, the penguins and the frogs.

We have a great time every time we go, and the kids are so excited to see everything and always want to run away from me. Here are some pictures from our last visit:

What we've been up to....

I'm playing catch up since I haven't been good about updating my blog in a little while. Here's one of the pizzas I've made in the past few weeks. I was making pizza every week so now Logan wants to take a little break from it. So here is our Canadian bacon and pineapple one before it went into the oven.

I even gave the recipe to my mom and talked her into making pizza too. It's such an easy recipe.





Leah loves to draw pictures on our white board while Cameron takes his afternoon nap. This picture is from a week ago when she wanted me to draw the bodies of ponies, and she would decorate them. She loves drawing families of ponies too.








Today she wanted me to draw a dad, a mom and a girl (just like her). Then she wrote Dad, Mom, and her name with a few extra letters attached. And this morning we drew pictures of a dog family. I draw their bodies, and she usually draws designs on the dresses.