Girls Camp 2010

We just got home yesterday from girls camp. It was a great four days, but, man, was I ready to come home!! We had 22 girls this year, and I'm happy to say that the whining was very minimal. Really, what was there to whine about? We were back up in Idaho at the Sunrise P River Ranch where we slept inside, had a full kitchen, bathrooms with showers and electricity. ALOT different from my girls camp experiences. We also had the log roll, horseback riding, canoeing and a waterslide into the river. Needless to say, we had great fun!
Then, there's the added perk of being there with my daughter. It's fun to watch her with the other girls. She's learned alot working at Camp Kiesel this summer. She and a friend who also works there were our song leaders. She had no problem leading songs at the drop of a hat. They also did a couple of skits. Man! She's growing up so fast.

Reminds me of myself at that age, except that I was never as outgoing or self-assured as Sadie is.

Here she is with her BFF. What a ham!

I'm so tired today, and I have a few bruises courtesy of the water slide, but my tan is better than its been in years and I had a couple girls tell me that I'm 'so cool' and that I'm their favorite. What more could I ask?? (As the photographer, of course, there's no picutures of me. It's better that way. The girls look great without makeup, me, not so much!)

Swimming Lessons

My younger boys just finished swimming lessons at Graham's Aquaticshttp://www.grahamsaquatics.blogspot.com/. I'm a serious slacker as this is the first time for them. With Spencer being 11 and going to scout camp this month, I was finally pushed to get them done. I worried about them being in beginning classes at their ages, so I looked around for a private pool. I found one and absolutely LOVED it! They went Mon-Thurs for 2 weeks and Spencer even passed his scout swim check (as a beginner, but still pretty good for only having one set of lessons.)

Hunter did really well, considering how uncoordinated he is. He loved being in the water and showing me how long he could hold his breath.

The class size was about 9, but they had 3 teachers, so the kids got alot of one-on-one time. The lessons are in their last session for this summer, but if you need lessons next year, I highly recommend it!

Max is a fish! He could swim the entire length of the pool after just a couple days.

4th Weekend

The highlight of our 4th of July weekend was my brother, Marc, and his wife, Terah, blessing their twin girls. It was great to have our family all together-almost. (We missed you, Matt & Kerrie and Mitch!)

On Monday, we went to my sister, Heidi's house for a BBQ and more visiting. All in all, a great weekend.