Girls Camp

Chandler Alma Stake Girls Camp was SPECTACULAR this year. This is a view of the beautiful sky and some of the sage brush we saw on the way up there. I also took lots of pictures of canyons and valleys but this is the one you get to look at! Here are some of the adorable girls that are in our ward. These girls are actually the older girls and I have had every one of them in Mia Maids before they went on to Laurels! Morgan in the middle is still a Mia Maid!We are doing a craft here. We made some cute little necklaces that have different charms on them represensting some of the different areas we can Dream about setting goals and such in.Sunday at Camp LoMIA is the best day. We have church in the Sacred Grove (see picture) then all of the Bishops and a lot of their Counselors come up and they meet with their individual wards for Bishops time. This is generally a time where they can talk to them and teach them and also have some fun. They all bring yummy treats to share with the girls in their wards.

Dennis and I like to walk around and see what each ward is doing during their Bishops Time. I'm sure Dennis is going to love this picture of the back of his head. (Since he never looks at this blog though he will probably never know!) It's always fun for me to see how every ward does something totally different but they are all GREAT.

This is us making more buttons to put on our bags! We had a blast making them. As you can tell you have to really concentrate hard and not look in the least bit cute while you are doing it. I didn't know my friend was taking my picture or I would be smiling like crazy. By the way, that is my red bunk bed in the background.

One little interesting factoid, we were innundated with SKUNKS up there. They were everywhere. We warned the girls not to scream but just hold still and miracle of miracles no one was sprayed all week. Last year a cabin got sprayed inside when girls went back to their cabin to get something, skunk inside, they screamed and....you get the picture but you can not even come close to duplicating the smell. Ewww!
Three adorable girls! Brandy, Alexa (Mia Maid in less than a month) and Kaylee! Brandy and Kaylee are Mia Maids already! Love those girls.



On Monday we all went on a hike. You could choose to go on an easy hike, a medium hike or a hard hike. Dennis and I chose the hard hike. I will not make that mistake again. I have the bruises to prove it wasn't the best idea for me. BUT, at least now I can say I did it. I'm still waiting for pictures a friend took of us on that hike! It was pretty amazing.

This picture is of our funny skit night although this is not our funny skit but another wards. It was hilarious and the costumes were amazingly clever. So FUN!

Tuesday was a day with lots of ward time. We did a service project where we made little headbands with bows for little girls with Cancer who have no hair. They turned out adorable and the girls had a fun time making them. Later that evening the 6th year girls put on what they call a commitment hike where they do a little play. It's very touching and is a good pre-testimony meeting thing (which is the last thing we do). It's a very great program and I am glad I got to be a part of it again this year.

This is the road in and out of Girls Camp LoMia. It is beautiful there and it was another fun year with lots of great memories.