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.

Special Needs Girls Camp-Monday

This past week I spent at Special Needs Girls Camp. I wish I could have video taped it and shared the experience with everyone. It was incredible. I loved it so much! I decided that I wanted to remember each day so prepare yourself for the posts. We got there Monday morning to the news that the men that were going to come up and help us pitch 10 tents forgot. So we got to do it ourselves...

Luckily Mindy brought her husband, sons and their friends. We would have been setting up tents forever!

Taking a rest from pitching tents.

The pictures above and below are the two ladies that I did camp with. They are both so much fun. As you can see they are seriously cute girls. We really had a great time.

Some of the camp princess decorations.

And of course we had to decorate the trailer (yes we were so spoiled to have a trailer!) with our princess paraphernalia.

At the end of an exhausting day the cooks prepared some heavenly dutch oven for us. It couldn't have tasted better.

Happy Fathers Day Josh!

Today we had a wonderful Fathers Day with our wonderful father. We gave Josh some surprises in bed.

At Summer Camp the boys made these #1 Dad aprons, pictures and wonderful cards for Josh. It was so fun for them to be able to give Josh a gift.

Doesn't that look like Lincoln and Josh?

The boys definitely love their Daddy.

We had a special Father's Day dinner.

We have a good Dad. He even helped with the Father's Day dinner.

A Wet Day at the Zoo

Our ward put together a day at the zoo today. It was so great of them to go to so much work. The day was incredibly soggy, but the animals were out for the first time since we have ever gone to the zoo. We are usually there on hot days when they are inside. We saw everything!

We all met together for a breakfast and animal show.

After breakfast we got a little animal show. We got to touch a lot of the animals. Palmer wasn't sure if he wanted to touch the armadillo.

Hunter decided he wanted to wear our friend Valerie's purse. Don't you think he looks cute?

Crazy boys.

Giraffes are my fave.

These umbrellas worked great.

There was a large crowd under the elephant canopy-It was pouring so hard!

Maybe you can't tell, but Josh is absolutely DRENCHED!

We went to lunch at Red Robin. We love that place!

De-li-cious!

A Surprise from "Family Fun"

A few weeks ago I got the most wonderful comment on my blog. It was from Meryl at Family Fun magazine. She had seen the post I did on the ad we loved in Family Fun. Today we got a huge package of wonderful things she sent to our family. The boys were so excited about it, they have never gotten a package before just for them. What a wonderful and generous thing to do.

Look at all of the wonderful things that they sent us. Thank you so much Meryl and Family Fun!

They each got their own "Family Fun" hat.

They gave each of the boys their own copy of Family Fun. They thought that was pretty cool. Lincoln went straight to the favorite ad.

Lincoln checking out the new issue that is all his.