Thursday, June 24, 2010

HOT! HOT! HOT!

For those of you that may not know this about me I am not a outdoors, get dirty, lets go build a campfire kinda girl. Which means of course I would be invited to girls camp, and of course I would me asked to be the 1st level camp crafter. Which put me in charge of 11 girls who I now had to teach, first aide, building and campfire safety, knots, and all the things I get married to be able to avoid having to learn. I was dreading it! However I feel in love! I had so much fun! I missed Aaron and my little cuties.... I missed them like crazy. That being said I think every woman should have the chance to go. I was a leader and I was with 5 women in a leader cabin and I think we stayed up later and had more fun than the girls did. I have never laughed and shared embarrassing phobias in one week than I did last week. At night we would sneak out and go to our nightly "meeting" which was the clean and clear pool. That is where the laughing and craziness began.I had a blast

The deer and ticks were crazy. I mean crazy one of the ladies had 9 ticks on the very first day.
Here are my sweet, sweet girls. Talk about amazing... I was floored at how thoughtful and caring these girls were. At one point there was a little girl how was over whelmed and missing home and when the other girls realized she was upset they all swept in and made certain that she felt loved and included.
I certified everything that I had to and we would do fun things to try to make it a little more fun. My favorite of the requirements was that they observe and discuss nature so we went on a short walk and then we came back and "planted a garden" (that they made out of construction paper and sticks) outside of their new big sisters cabins. They were just darling!


One of my buddies is Sheila Wheeler who came as the camp nurse. We have all decided that we need to get together each month just so we can laugh.
The best part was on Thursday my dad and mom were invited to come for Bishops night. I was so excited to see my adorable niece and beautiful daughter with them. Abi is already dying to go to girls came. I was in heaven with my sweet daughter by my side. I was totally thrilled to think about joining my sweet daughter in just a few years as she makes these same amazing bonds in sister hood.
They called Abigail and Lauren up to the front and asked them to join in "singing in the rain".She was adorable. It was a great week!
I just want to say a quick thank you to all my friends, family, and to Aaron for all that was sacrificed so that I could go. I truly needed a simple reminder of what a blessing being a woman and daughter of god really means. Thanks to everywhere that knew of my anxieties and offered to teach me and help me with anything. Thanks to all my new buddies I can not wait to see you all again. I love you all!

7 comments:

Casey Gentle said...

Tell me there was not a huge amount of snorting going on!! Camp is hot hot hot and great great great. It was awesome having you there. You were PERFECT for the job. Thank you for joining us. I promised a good time and delivered. :)
Now, when is our next "meeting?"

Katheryn said...

I'm not really a girls camp kind of person - but certainly did sound like you had an amazing time! I know the girls must have had an amazing time too!

Laurel Shaw said...

I totally loved it when i went to girls camp as a youth! I have GREAT memories of camp! It sounds like you had a great time!! Jealous!!

Kelly said...

Oh my I saw those pic and my tummy turned... such crazy feelings. I have kinda a Love/Hate with camp. Love it for a million reasons but then just a few you could do with out... no sleep, bugs, Hot, leaving the family for a WEEK!. But all in all it is always Amazing. I am heading out with McKinnley in a month. Crazy she is old enough to go. I wanna know how we missed each other by a year... me last year you this?. How sad we didn't go together! Im sure Casey had you rolling the entire week! Im so Impressed you both left your lil babies behind. ROugh!

Brittney said...

we sure did have fun! And i am glad that you got to be my campcrafer teacher! We sure had a lot of fun! I will miss camp O'leno even with all the man eating racoons funny story, and all the ticks and deer! But I will miss it! I hope that I get the chance to be with you at camp next year! thanks for all the lessons that you taught us and you made it really easy to understand! love alwasys,britt <3

Stacy Pettersen said...

So so homesick for camp O'leno... will I ever again see your tick-infested woods, swim with alligators in the river, and eat oreo cookie pie while singing camp songs? Alas, the prospects are bleak!

Brittney said...

mahahahaha you didnt get a pic of me but you were very close!!! i was standing right behind amy but you didnt get me love always britty <3