NO BOYS ALLOWED!!

The mother/daughter campout was last night. My mom, Sydney, Lily, Marah, and I all went. Lily had a lot of fun with the idea of 'no boys allowed'. She kept naming all the boys she knew and how they couldn't come, including 'Sam'. I had such good ambition. I took our little tent and my girls and I were going to share our double sleeping bag and sleep out. I was actually excited for it, but my mom was there and she doesn't do camping anymore without the camper, so we ended up whimping out with her as well, but I had a lot of fun just hangin' out with the girls.

At the talent show, Marah was cuddling and making friends with all of the strangers sitting by us. Would she cuddle with her mom? Not a chance!

The pathway up to the new ampitheatre is lined with these awesome posts that light up and have the young women and boyscout values on them.

This is Lily and some of the other kids trying to encourage poor Martha to keep trying on her long forgotten accordian. She did great and she was hilarious to watch. She is one of my favorite people. Love you Martha!

You guessed it! That is Lily centerstage, shakin' her booty! People were bustin' up. To make matters worse, she had slipped in the mud earlier and was then wearing huge cut off pants, tied up with a rope, and she had to keep hiking them up as she was dancing. The first time she did this was pretty funny, but then the next act was a little shy girl trying to sing for everyone when my unruley child jumps back up on the stage and begins dancing circles around this poor child. I was at the top of the crowd and had to run down through all these people and practically tackle her off the stage, all the time trying to hide my face. Needless to say, I was mortified. Poor Lily just wanted to dance.

Marah was just having fun watching it all and in style.

Finally, Lily was suppose to be on the stage, and me, well I was forced. As this video shows, my talent is definetely not dancing, but the miamaid class and it's advisors were asked to help the middle back person with the talent she was turned in for, which was dancing. She didn't want to do it alone, but she is really good if you watch her. Lily did her scream and rock on pose at the end of the dance. Lily made quite the name for herself. People kept telling me she needs to be in some sort of dance classes, since she seems to love the stage so much. The whole thing was a lot of fun and I'm glad I had an adventure just with us girls.

Random Shots

This is Lily's version of our little templ. I love that the temple is so close. Lily is always excited when she sees it and loves to point out angel Moroni.

Our daisies finally bloomed and they are beautiful this year.

Back at Foy

Some how Lily and Anna were able to sleep in the middle of all the smoke.

Here is Sam and Lily on top of our little world.

Justin, Sarah, and Nathan attempting to take a nap in the one person bunk bed. Good thing they like each other.

Grandma and Mars in their coordinating camp clothes.

This is how we rough it these days. All the kids watching movies in the camper. All in all it was a pretty good camping trip other then a stomach bug that got Marah and me.

4th of July!!

I got a little bored on the 4th. I had to work so we really didn't do much. I decided to have some fun with the girls and take patriotic pics.

our boring 4th continues...

lily made a flag...

marah made... fireworks?

we didn't have a float to decorate, so lily figured she had to decorate something.

you know those pantene commercials where their hair is always unbelievalby smooth and shiney? well, lily's hair looked extra shiney and smooth and i felt like she should be in some baby shampoo commercial. plus, i never get pictures of her hair when it's down and i wanted to document the length. we even just cut about 4in. off about a month ago. it was down to her bum!

we are having a hard time with the thumb thing again.

this was about the extent of our celebrations, just hangin' out.

Fun at Foy

We just got back from having some good ole country fun up at Foy Lake. We went up Friday evening and camped over night. It turns out another family from our ward was doing the same thing so we ended up camping with them. All the kids had a great time and it was fun getting to know the Young's better. The girls slept in a small tent and Sam and I just slept under the stars. It was so beautiful up there and the whole experience just renewed my spirits. I just love the simple things we can do with our family. Enough of the warm and fuzzy stuff, I'm afraid I have to mention the down and dirty side of our outing as well. I'm sure the following pictures will explain.

This picture is priceless! It's definitely going on the walls.

Lily actually stayed pretty clean. I hope my o.c.d.ness isn't already wearing on her.

This is all the kids, making the most awful black paste out of the surrounding dirt and our minimal drinking water, considering our water cool slipped and spilled first thing.

Lily didn't make it 2 seconds in the car before she crashed. It's hard work turning yourself into a dirt ball.

60 Years in The Making

Here's some pics from our fabulous reunion at Timp Lodge.

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Grandpa, Lily, and, I brought up the rear on the hike. Lily did great, she's just a little slow.

We're almost there!!

This is Sam trying to ruin our camera, but it's a cool shot.

This is Lily giving away all of her candy after the pinata. Way to make a mom proud. It's little moments like this that I know all that constant nagging is not all in vain. Sometimes I wonder.

60 Years!!! I definitely want what they have.

Marah says 'hi'! She's her daddy's girls. She loves to scowl, but it's all in fun. Her hair do is complements of her "free spirited aunt". Love ya Whits!

This is my crew. I had to put this one because of Lily's 'rock on' pose. She had people laughing their heads off doing Dance Dance Revolution (or whatever it's called) shaking her bootey and doing rock on. I had no idea she could shake it like that. Definitely a little worried. I'm sad I didn't get it on video.

Here's just a handful of us before we all left. It was a sad day. I really did not want the reunion to end. I just love my family!