Girls Camp by Hannah

In June I went to the Alaska State wide girls camp. It was the first state wide girls camp ever in history. Every day we did many fun things.

On Monday my ward met at my church building and took pictures. Then we went to the fair grounds and checked in. We got little wrist bands to wear. Then we went to our camp site and started to unpack stuff. After that we had a scavenger hunt with temples and an opening ceremony. Then we just hung around for the rest of the day.

On Tuesday we had a morning devotional and then went on a nine mile hike in the pouring rain. It was fun, but all my stuff got wet. When we came back we had creation station--were we could make stuff. The we had dinner and then had a devotional with brother Clayton. Then we played tons of games. That day was fun. 

The rest of the week was also fun, jammed packed with activities like these. My favorite day was Wednesday when we had our service project. My ward went to the veteran's home and I planted flowers and weeded gardens.

All in all girls camp was amazing and I hope to do it again.

Me and Taylor

Kaitlyn

Me and My Mom

Me and Sister Stevens, Counselor in the General RS Presidency

Me and Sister Stephens, Counselor in the General Primary Presidency

Me on the Cope Course.

Minion Twinkies

Summer Favs So Far....

Hannah's Spring Violin Recital

Hannah participated in a Volleyball camp with her good friend Rachel.

The most awesome girls camp ever. (Will blog more about this later)

One morning I made a huge pancake in the rice cooker. It was so awesome!

Mom and I took the boys to the zoo one sunny day.

A FHE hike to the waterfall. We had Kaitlyn stay with us for a few days and decided to hike to the waterfall Robert and I had our engagement pictures take 15 years ago.

Secret Grandaughters

In April and May Winnie's Activity Leaders did a really cute activity with Secret Grandmas. There was a shortage of grandmas in the ward, so I was asked to be a grandma! We spend three Sundays before the activity exchanging gifts with each other and then in May had a garden party where we met each other! So cute. 

Winnie's friend Quinn who is not a member of the church participated too. They are best friends and so cute together! They always go to activity days together and love it.

The decor was lovely. They served finger foods and lovely homemade cup cakes.

Winnie's secret grandma was Sister Clayton. Winnie was so excited because she loves her.

My secret granddaughter was Ashley. 

It was such a neat party and idea. We played get to know you games and planted flowers and made paper hats.

Good Friends

This is lovely picture of Hannah with her dear friend, Rachel. I am so grateful that Hannah has god friends to associate with. Friends are so important in life. I really am glad that we live in an area with lots of good people.

Nice Shot

We like to go to the gun range for FHE. This was Bobby's first time shooting a 22.

Father's Day

This is the best husband and father ever! He does so much for our family. I can't imagine my life without him.

Memorial Day Fun

We spent Memorial Day weekend down in Ninilchick this year. There were so many people from our ward there it felt like we just moved Eagle River 5 hours north. There were huge wild fires going on in the Soldotna area, but the wind was blowing the smoke away from Ninilchick, so it wasn't that bad. 

We stayed down there Friday through Monday. Robert and friends took the boat out on Saturday morning and caught a couple of small halibut. We just spent time visiting with friends and cooking and visiting the beach. We didn't clam this year, but we did see a lot of beautiful Eagles.

On Sunday we visited the Homer ward and then we all went down to Homer Spit to look around and take pictures. 

This kids loved answering gospel questions to get ice cream cones at the Rampton's cabin. Bobby would go over all by himself and then show up back at our trailer with a huge ice cream cone!

It is times likes these that make me so grateful for my life and for my Heavenly Father. He gave me such a beautiful earth to live on and such a wonderful family and wonderful friends. I am so glad that Alaska is my home. It is not perfect in every way, but I can't imagine living anywhere else.