4TH OF JULY

This year we got to celebrate the 4th for 2 day!!! We started Saturday with a barbecue at Aunt Peggy's. The boys playing their usual basketball gameThen Sunday we had homemade icecream and fireworks over at my moms. Waiting for everyone to get to Grandma's

Waiting for it to get dark the kids played in the jumper

The boys played HORSE

FINALLY IT GOT DARK

Rylan was so excited to help Uncle Jeff do his first Fireworks

PAISLEE'S LEG IS FREE

Paislee got her cast off today. You would think that would be exciting for her and I, but it really is not. She finally got to the point that she was walking with her cast and now we are back to scooting on her butt and a lot of screaming to be carried places. The doctor told me it will probably be about two weeks before she will fully use her leg again. Let me just tell you how unhappy I was to hear that. We are spending a lot of time in the pool to try and get those muscles re-built faster. She is even enjoying riding her bike again. Anything to get those leg muscles working again!!!

GIRLS CAMP (VACATION)

This year for Girls Camp (June 22nd - June 26th) our Stake Presidency asked each ward to do their own Girls Camp. Our wonderful Young Women's President came up with a great plan to take the girls to Salt Lake City.

We left Tuesday morning and we had a very busy week a head of us. We started by driving to Manti, for the wonderful MORMON MIRACLE PAGENT. We ate dinner at the church with the famous turkey dinner. After the pagent we slept in the dorms at Snow College. This night our 3rd and 1st years decided not to sleep. Needless to say we had some very sleepy girls AND LEADERS.

Eating Lunch in Parowan

The Dorms!!!

Wednesday we headed for Salt Lake. He stopped and had lunch at Draper Park and there we heard all of the girls car songs. What creative and talented girls we have in our ward. Once lunch was over we went to Temple Square. I was amazed at how many girls had never been there. We were able to take the girls to see the Joseph Smith movie. I don't think the girls realized what Joseph Smith had truly gone through. There wasn't a dry eye in the theatre. From there we went to the Church History Museum for a scavenger hunt. Once that was complete we went to the Salt Lake City Cemetery. We started with a short talk about Mary Fielding Smith and then let the girls wonder until we met at President Hinkley's grave. After dinner we hiked Ensign Peak. I had never done that, and oh my, what a beautiful view of the city. Once on top of the mountain we had a few spiritual talks and then we showed the girls the Virtue banner we had made with each of the girls pictures on the temple. The banner turned out so good and the girls loved it. Thursday morning was when we were able to do baptisms for the dead, in the Salt Lake Temple. This was kind of my baby, I was asked to get the names together and make sure all went well. Once we got to the font I was asked to stand at the top of he font and hand towels to the girls as they came out from being baptized. I don't think there was a better seat in the house. What a beautiful thing it was to see each girl come out of the water, I swear they were shinning from the heavenly sky's. What radiant daughters of our Heavenly Father we had with us. After baptisms we had an opportunity to go the new Church History Library. This building is only about a year old now and they do not do tours there. We have a Sister in our ward serving a mission there and so we were able to take the girls in. They do not give tours there. We were able to see a lot of really cool things. A few things we were able to see was a first addition Book of Mormon, Wilford Woodruff's journal and my favorite was one of just twenty-seven original pages the Church has of the Book of Mormon from Joseph Smith's translations. The page we saw started with Oliver Cowdery writing and then in the middle of the verse it changes hand writing. They think to Emma Smith, but they are not sure. The verse that he is in the middle of is one of my favorite scriptures, 1 Nephi 3:7. After that tour we got to go have lunch in the Church office building. While eating some of the girls got to see Sis. Dibb's. Once lunch was over we went over to the Relief Society building. I had never been in there. We were able to go up to Sis. Beck's office and look around. We weren't able to see Sis. Beck, she was down at the Provo MTC, but we did get a tour from Sis Bradshaw, one of the wonderful women on the General Relief Society Board members. Thursday night we went to This is the Place. The girls got to take classes from the pioneers about dating, manners, and dancing. This was a great time for the girls.

Sis Beck's Office

Friday we went to Welfare Square and got to see how the church handles the welfare programs. I don't think the girls had any idea how much the church does for people. After that we went over to the Humanitarian center and sorted cloths for about 2 hours. I was very impressed how hard the girls worked. We then went up to the Granite Mountain's. What an amazing thing to see. We then kept going up the mountain to have a campfire, dinner and testimony meeting. What a wonderful group of girls we have. I was so impressed how beautiful these girls testimony's were.

Granit Mountains