Girls' Camp

I got to go to girls' camp this year. It's the first year that I was able to go the whole time. It was quite the adventure! We went to a place called Reid Ranch. We stayed in tents, but we had some nice facilities and activities, like showers, a pool, three meals a day served to us, paddle boats, and horse back riding!


We did some crafts. Here the girls are making t-shirts with the word "BOOT" which stood for "Build Our Own Testimony."


At the lake.


In the paddle boats.

Swimming!

Hiking.

Horseback riding. The girls were excited about horseback riding, but some were pretty nervous. They went a couple of times while we were there. On the second time around I was the only leader that went with them. Something spooked the horses and they all started to turn around and run back down the mountain. A total of 15 girls were thrown or jumped off their horses! Only me and one other girl stayed on! There were a lot of bumps, scrapes, and bruises. And one girl hit her head and hurt her leg pretty bad. But, luckily there were no serious injuries. It was honestly one of the scariest moments of my life! I'm just so glad that it all turned out okay.

After the whole ordeal, the cowboys came to our camp and explained that the horses must have smelled something that made them turn and run like that and apologized for what had happened. All the girls were head over heels for the cowboys, so they loved the visit!

Lots of fun memories with a fun group of girls!

One BUSY Week

It has been a pretty crazy week. First of all, my parents were staying up in Snowbird, using their time share. We went up last Saturday night and had a fun time playing card games with my mom, Brad, and Niki. My mom whooped us all!

We went back up to Snowbird on Wednesday and did all the fun activities: the zip rider, the alpine slide, and we took the tram to the top. It was gorgeous and Brady loved it, and wished he could have a tram for all his hunting trips to give him a bird's eye view to spot deer. And sure enough we saw a deer on the mountain.

Wednesday night, I headed to Girls' Camp. It was my first time going to camp as a leader, and it was very.... different. I just wanted to play with all the girls rather than be the leader. But, it was such a neat experience, and I loved it! I had forgotten how awesome girl's cam is. Although I was very excited to get home and shower.

But, I wasn't home very long. We packed up the same day and went to Brady's family reunion at Payson Lakes. It was gorgeous! We went fishing out on Box Lake and caught tons of fish. We made some pretty amazing smores at night. (Check the chocolate all over Brady's face!) We didn't get home til midnight on Saturday night (or Sunday morning I mean) and I was so grateful to get home and sleep in a bed! But, it was a very fun week.

South Willow

This last weekend we went camping up in South Willow Canyon. It was so much fun! It was the first time we got to try out some of our new camping gear that we have been acquiring.

Brady made this grill to put over the fire. So we made hamburgers right over the fire, it was so fun, and they were yummy!

My parents, Loie and Ef, came up to enjoy dinner with us in the great outdoors!

Brady got to test out his new hatchet and loves it!

We got to sleep in the new tent that I got Brady for Christmas. It was perfect! Although it was hard to get to sleep because the people in the camp just down from us were drunk and got in a fight and finally the sherriff came to break it up. Crazy!