Soooo....Girls Camp. We had our wards girls camp back in October. I was called to be the Camp Director. It was a bit challenging because we had a "ward" camp. So I had to come up with everything. I had the most amazing committee to work with. In fact I think this was the most fun...making new friends. We had many long meetings laughing, stressing, figuring it all out. Kelli Bonham was my assistant....she kept me sane! Stephanie Denman and Christi Starks were also on my committee. As it was, stephanie volunteered to be the food person and totally came through! She planned, went and took care of everything! She even played Mary Kathryn Galleger (sp) for one of our skits. Christi wasnt sure if she was going to be able to go or not, but still came and helped us plan. Thank goodness she was able to go because can I just tell you she is amazing! She could remember skits off the top of her head and helped with so many things! We had the best time the night before we left. Christi was teaching us the cup game and we laughed and laughed until we all learned it!
We ended up staying at Brother Busbys family lodge in Heber. It was the perfect place. There were zip lines, swings, piano, basketball courts. So many things to do!
We ended up having our theme be "Just do it....Be your own star!" We made star blankets, necklaces, made name boards with the theme on it. I will post a few pictures so you can see. I really had a good time. I felt bad because the first night we got there...Kim, Emily, myself and the YCL's all went up the night before and I had forgotten that there wasnt any carpet in the place so we had some cleaning to do. Kim and I were walking around and there in the middle of the floor was a dead mouse. We decided we couldnt let the girls see it so we swept it up and threw it in the fire. So that night I was a little bugged and laying there sleeping, or trying to sleep with all the snoring going on. It was dark and all of the sudden I felt something crawl across my face and so I reached up and grabbed and squished whatever it was and like threw it. I was so bugged. Everyone except for emily was asleep...she was like what are you doing. I was trying to quietly tell her but could not sleep after that. So combined with my mind not shutting off with everything I had to do and the thing that crawled over my face I didnt sleep much. The next night I was exhausted and with 20 more girls added to the room there were all kinds of snoring going on. I just sat there and laughed. Stephanie and I were the ones that ended up sleeping with the girls...everyone else either slept outside or in another trailer. I had fun laying there listening to all the girls talking etc. I just laughed to myself at some of the conversations.
I ended up breaking my own rule and pulled out my ipod to try to tune it all out. I could go on and on with so many stories....I learned to love the girls, most of which I had alrady taught in achievement days years before so I knew so many of them already. I was stressed as it was going on, but I couldnt have asked for better girls. They are all gems and I hope they all "just do it and be the stars they already are!" Hope you enjoy the pictures!
