Pre-Camp

      This past week my sister and I started our new jobs. We are both working at a girl's camp. She is in the craft shack and I am a counselor. This week was called pre-camp because this week was just staff. They taught us our schedules for each week and we learned how to hook up the zip line and repelling. We also went hiking and there was so much snow and it was really cold. Just a lot of preparation and training. I am even now CPR certified! Woot woo! This coming week we will be getting the girls. They are 12 and 13 years old and each counselor is in charge of 10 girls. I am so excited and yet really nervous. There is only 1 of me and 10 of them.

We got cabin roommates. 2 counselors per cabin with roughly 30 girls in there sleeping. We all have nicknames up there. Mine is Sunny, my sister's is Ric Rac and my roommates’ is Buttercup. So if I keep talking about them, that's who I'm talking about. Back at home they need a dictionary to help translate what we are saying since each bathroom, cabin and staff member have a completely new name. (ex. the 2 bathrooms are called Skunk and Daisy) Mom got really confused when we were saying things like, “Well then Boots was telling Squeaky that the group was meeting at Brownie Rock.”

Buttercup and I had to deal with a ton of moths and a dead mouse that we found in a trap underneath our bed later in the week. At this point I'm already thinking. "Oh for Pete's sake, might as well bring on the misquitoes!" I know it's going to be so much fun though.

It’s also cool because not only is this a job and we get paid for doing it but it’s also a calling that we are set apart for. We have to be up there Sunday nights and we get back Friday’s late afternoon. No cell phone’s aloud and no internet access. All staff members have Walkie-talkies to communicate with each other which are pretty fun.

Here are some pictures.

(Above) On the hike

Mutual Night on Thursday, we each received at rose

Indian Legends Ceremony

Zip line!

A lot of snow

On the way up the hill to our cabins the snow was to my knees

It is so gorgeous 

So close...

This is really killin' me. School is so close to being over. Today was my last day of testing! I am so happy it is over. My cousin graduated yesterday and I was super jealous. I don't understand why we have a "last week of school" because it's always filled with free time, movies, and parties. I'm not saying it's not fun but when you want to graduate, it doesn't help.
My mom and I have been trying to search for a graduation dress and it isn't working. My sister and I went to the mall last weekend and I swear we walked through every store that looked like it could have dresses. Either it doesn't stick to my budget, it doesn't have sleeves, or it's too short. Meh! It's hard. My mom and I might attempt to just make one if we still can't find one soon.

Last Friday Night

      No, this doesn't apply to anything related to the Katy Perry song. I'm only saying how awesome my weekend was.
      Last week was one of those types of weeks that you wish the weekend would come sooner but because you hoped it would, it doesn't. It's like watching the clock and if you hadn't blinked, you could have swore the hand on the clock went back a few ticks. CRAZY! My grandparents came to visit towards the end of the week which with that said alone, enough has been said. I absolutely love when they come. I remember when my siblings and I were younger my mom would get tired of the questions, "So when will Grandma and Grandpa be here?" and with a follow up question of "What time?" It would be one of the only days we would volunteer and actually enjoy doing chores.
     On Friday my sister and her roommate K came. It was an exciting day to bring a friend over because whoever came over had to help out outside pulling out weeds and moving tree branches. I don't think they will be coming back anytime soon. :) No, but we had fun though.
     Saturday felt a lot like Friday since we were working outside for most of it. The yard looks very bare with the lack of trees and bushes. Once we were done, we cleaned up and took everyone out to Red Robin to celebrate. We came home and watched Despicable Me 2. My mom had to buy it because she loves the minions. I get a laugh out of her every time I turn on the soundtrack with them singing.
     Sunday night we had family over and celebrated both my Dad and my Grandma's birthday. We ate pulled pork sandwiches and played the thimble game. We played another fun game, you place quotes underneath the plates everyone will use and somehow they have to use that quote during dinner. If someone recognizes what they think is a quote they yell Happy Birthday! Some of them were pretty funny to hear how people tried to sneak it in. Mine was, "It's nice to be nice to the nice." My Grandma got the quote, "I'll snap you like a chicken". It was hilarious.
    It was such a great weekend.

Fun New News

            So a couple of months ago my parents and I were talking about places to work that I could apply for and work for over the summer. I decided to rule out any fast food places since I have absolutely no interest in working with food. After awhile, my Mom suggested a girl's camp. It clicked in my mind and suddenly I wondered why we hadn't thought of it before. So I got on the ball and found application deadlines and all the extra to-do's and I sent them off. I had to have a bishop's endorsement (which sort of scared me since we are new to the ward) and three letters of recommendation. It was sent off and a couple of weeks later I heard back from them with an interview date!
            The interview day came and it was a little scary since there were a board of members who were the interviewers, about 7 or 8 of them. The interview went really well. They said they would respond back in 3 weeks. In three weeks I got a letter from them informing me that they wanted me to be part of the staff. I read that paper and it felt like I was reading mission papers! I was so excited. My older sister had also applied for a camp job and she was accepted as well. I called her and we squealed. Boy, we are excited!
This job lasts 10 weeks long in the summer and I'll be in charge of a new group of Beehive aged girls every week! I'm so happy that my sister is coming with me. Now we get to think of a camp counselor name...this is a girls camp but I don't want it to be too cheesy.....ex. Sugar, Pixie, Buttercup.

The hunt is on...

Have you ever played Where's Waldo? I love to play it along with ISpy. But when it seems like you've misplaced something, you want it to be just as easy to find it as in the games. It seems like our new house is  giant black hole waiting to steal something important while we're not looking. I've misplaced by school binder and a library dvd. Which were of great need these last couple weeks. You can only ask the question "Now where did you have it last?" only oh so many times. But what else can you do?

Wet Ducks

          Today was a fun day. It was Dad's day off of work and he went straight to working on some more remodeling. For lunch we headed to Costco and while we were there we decided to purchase the new hard wood (laminate) flooring. It took a lot of work to load it onto the cart because they are heavy. The weather has been overcast for a couple of days now....heh heh heh. So we pushed the cart of flooring to the otherside of the parking lot where we are parked, and over to our trailer. We get over there and we see a little hail starting to come down. In a matter of seconds we are in a complete downpour. I have never seen so much rain come down so fast! We all jumped into the truck because we were getting drenched.  We just sat in the car for about 5 minutes hoping the rain would let off, meanwhile we hadn't brought a tarp and the flooring was just sitting in the cart outside. We keep hearing Dad say Why! Why! Why! Everyone else just thought it was funny. It was the first time this summer it had to rain.
            It was flooding the parking lot. We all jumped out of the car because we needed to at least hurry and load it because it didn't look as though it would stop. I had never been in nor witnessed that much rain. With half of it being rain and half hail it was like standing under a cold shower. My older sister and I were getting pelted, it was so wet I had a hard time keeping my pants up and we were laughing so hard that it was difficult to lift such heavy things. It was hilarious! We got all loaded and we quickly got in the car and we were soaked to the bone. My sister and I were ringing out our shirts and squeezing water out of our hair.
            Then finally on our way home about 10 minutes later, it stops. We went inside after unloading then and we had to open all the packages and had to quickly wipe them dry. As Mom said, "It's the first time we are mopping the new floor".  It was fun. I would do it all over again if I could. I think everyone would have except Dad. :)

Fair Week Day 1 & 2

             It's fair time again! We drove to my Grandma's house and got here yesterday. When we got there we found out that my Grandpa took my Uncle and Cousin fishing. Later on in the day more family came and we decided to go into town and watch Despicable Me 2 at the theatre. It was so cute, it's well worth the money to buy. After the movie we went to Jack in the Box for dinner and played a big mean round of the game Pit, back at home. My Aunt got my cousin and I addicted to a Despicable Me 2 : Minion Run game on our tablets. Beware, you can't play it just once.Then we ended the night off with my cousin and I watching "Shark Week : Megalodon in current waters?". It was so much fun.
            Today we woke up early to go to the parade. We parked ourselves in the shade but by the end we were baking in the sun. The parade seemed a lot longer this year. After the parade we hung out awhile at the house until the men returned from fishing.  They caught and brought home a big bag of trout. They said they wouldn't complain if they went back out. We then went to the local D.I. which is pretty much a must every time we come. Later in the evening we went to the fair grounds to watch cattle sorting. It was very embarrassing but when I sat down of the bleachers during the cattle sorting, my pants caught on a nail and I was stuck where I sat. I didn't mention it to anyone until after about 10 minutes of trying to maneuver it off by myself. Nope, I ended up having help. It was embarrassing but funny. Then we got a Maple Bar, and headed for home.