Special Needs Girls Camp-Tuesday

The first day with the girls at camp! They showed up bright and early and we got going with a flag ceremony.

The first thing that we did with the girls was to decorate crowns. It was so fun to see how each of them did them differently. A lot of the girls wore them through all of camp. It was so cute.

How cute is Patricia's crown?

Loving Lisa's crown.

We found these adorable bags for the girls to color. They loved them and most of them were never without. You could even color them with crayons.

Showing off our amazingly artistic bags. I was pretty proud of mine (I think I was supposed to help the other girls with theirs, but I couldn't help doing one myself, they were so fun.)

Another one of our activities today was painting the girls nails. This gal here is Catherine. She has been my buddy since I was in high school. One of the funniest girls I have ever met. I knew her when I did Special Mutual all those years ago. I asked her if I could get a picture of her painted finger nails, this is what I got. You gotta love it!

My good friend Shellie's Mom, Tina, came to camp to be a tent leader. It was so fun to have her there. She is one of the best people I know.

Look how great Julie's nails turned out!

This was a moment I loved. We started singing "As I Have Loved You," and Michelle, one of the girls got up with us and started doing the sign language. It was so neat.

This gal was a genius! She brought her snowboarding goggles so the smoke from the fire wouldn't bother her eyes.

The day ended with singing songs around the fire. It was so much fun to because one of my friends that I was a counselor with at Oakcrest long ago was up there. We were the song leaders and it felt just like it did when we were at Oakcrest.