Ward Camp Out

A couple of weeks after moving into our new ward Josh and I were asked if we would chair the ward camp out. I have to say I was a little intimidated but pretty excited at the idea of putting it together. My friend Jenn made this poster for us and it turned out so cute! We have so many talented people in this new ward!
As the camp out was to be held at the Ogden Boat Club, I wanted to do the decorations a little on the nautical side and a little on the small town country side (you know, for a camp out...). I ended up picking up some flowers (right now they are all so cheap as they are getting rid of them. Perfect for a party!) and we planted them in terra cotta pots. I had a TON of fabric left over from this little party and was excited to use some of it. I just glued it to the pots and tied twine around them. We used these bigger pots for the food table.

I used the smaller ones for the individual tables. Geraniums are so summery to me. I love them.
We put a couple on each of the tables. I loved how it turned out. Another plus was that these centerpieces were really inexpensive.
We had homemade rootbeer to drink (check another item off the ole bucket list) and had this old fashioned milk can to serve it in. I LOVE homemade rootbeer! I wish we had made it more often this summer.
This was the pavilion. I guess you can't really see the details... It was fun to have the lights strung from the rafters. It looked so pretty when it got dark.
We gave the centerpieces away in a drawing. It was so funny, I was picking names and almost every ones was one of my boys' names! One of the guys in our ward was egging them on to put their names and his in over and over. It really was funny...too bad they all had to share one :)
This guy is so great. He roasted a WHOLE PIG in this little contraption that he made. It is a huge propane tank he converted into an oven type thing. I can't even tell you how good this pork was (Josh couldn't look at it...sorry if it grosses you out, I thought it was neat!
There was also this awesome fire pit. After it got dark there was a HUGE fire going and they put some sort of stick in it that made the fire change colors!
We set up tons of games for the kids to play. Croquet was one of the favorites along with this little ditty-no idea what it is called.
It was so pretty up there.

McKay had a grand ole time running around checking everything out.

Bolo ball. Another fun game.

There were some GREAT climbing trees. Right when I saw them, I wanted to do a bit of climbing myself :) I was a bit of a tree climber when I was younger. Maybe that is where my little monkey boy Lincoln got it (a very angry neighbor came over yesterday upset that she found him on top of their camper...not my favorite moment).


McKay was in heaven in the rocks. He just sat there and threw them to his hearts content.
This may have been the highlight of the night. We had a candy sling shot (not shown) along with this little contraption that was hooked to an air compressor and shot candy. There was candy flying everywhere and the kids were in heaven. The canon-type thing shot it a little hard and a few kids got bonked on the head with candy, but I think they they got over it when they ate the candy. The men were enthralled with this cannon thing and I think they enjoyed it as much as the kids.
The candy frenzy...
The clouds turned the loveliest shade of pink. It was perfect. We had so much fun and ended up having a ball planning the whole thing. We worked with some incredible people and made some great friends.

We were only in charge of the evening stuff and everyone that slept over just did their own thing for breakfast.  We didn't stay the night which was sad, but soccer started the next morning and we had to be to games at 8:30 (4 hours of games is going to do me in!)  We had a great time and can't wait to go next year (and hopefully actually CAMP!)