Camp!

Saturday! The first day of camp. I had to be at the stake center by 530. All the YCLs had to be there early so we could go over our theme introduction skit that had been written the night before by Kim, Shannon, and Tanna. It was about Tanna, Shannon and Melanie being the Virtue crew. It was very funny. They did an awesome high five after they helped girls solve their problems. I sat by Shannon and Tanna on the bus. We listened to awesome jerkin songs on the way and ate treats. Ha ha good times. When we got there we unpacked, had lunch, then a few YCLs had an awesome dance party while everyone else finished unpacking. Then I had to go teach 2nd year certification. It was cool I taught about clouds and directions by the sun. Then we went to air riffle. That was cool too. After all of that everyone got together for flag and mail call. Everyone who had mail had to get up in front of everyone and write their name with their butts :)

Here's me and Miriam writing our name with our butts

The YCLs have to sing songs while all the wards line up for meals... This means we have to eat last. Oh well. Its fun.

Here's me and Shannon making awesome rock star poses while waiting in line for dinner.

Love this one! but I hate that its side ways :(

Shannon could seriously be like Michael Jackson or something!

We also had a photo shoot with Shannon while waiting in line. She looked like Zoolander.

Me and Shannon in the Virtue bus

Shannon and Kim telling the story of their friendship during dinner. To funny!

Me, Michelle, and Melanie watching the Lip syncs! Lip sync night is always the best. Don't have any photos though. Kinda sad. The YCL Lip sync was amazing! We did Sweet Caroline, but we changed the words to sweet ycl. After the Lip syncs, Sister Jones made everyone some delicious creme soda! It was so yummy.
Sunday! We got to go the the dedication of the Gila Valley Temple. It was such a good experience and I'm glad I was able to go. I love our prophet! The girls went in 2 groups cause there was alot of us. All the YCLs went in the first group. When we got back we were supposed to go do a service project. Most of the YCLs ditched out and stayed in the cabin. We had so much fun. We just sat around and talked for a couple hours. We also listened to some music :).

Paige and Shannon

Me and Paige

Kim with the waffle fries! Tannas mom bought her this bag of random stuff. It had a mini Jane Austin book, waffle fries, cards and a few other random things. It was really funny. We sat there and ate the waffle fries while Tanna read the book to us. :) the fries were really weird. You kind of expected them to be soft and crunchy cause they looked hollow, but they were really hard! Ha ha.

We helped Shannon put up her bug net. We had to go steel some tacks from the priesthood though. :) She looks like a princess!

Princess Shannon!

We hung streamers up on the fan. Shannon almost broke the fan though. She turned it on and they all like rapped around her body and the fan. It was pretty funny.

After all the groups got back from the temple dedication I got to go to my ward time with my bishop.

Bishop Thacker talking about our rock pile that has been there for a long time.

Me and Kaela with our rocks that we added.

Mclean and Brenda. Brenda came up with Taylor and she was a non member. I had such a good time teaching her while I led the SR ward through Nephi's dream for the spiritual program. I got to help teach her about the Iron Rod and about how it was the word of God and how we need to hold on to it. I know she had a really spiritual experience and I was so glad to be apart of it :)

Here's the whole ward! I love these girls!

Silly face!

I walked into the cabin after ward time and Michelle was in there all alone so I took a picture of her sleeping then went to the bathroom. When I came back she was awake and asked me what I was doing. I told her I took a picture of her while she was sleeping. She laughed then said thank you, then went back to bed. It was so funny. What a dork.


Monday! Tie dye day! all the YCLs dressed up in tie dye. Monday was also canoeing day for the 2 year girls. I went along with Melina. We had so much fun, but I don't have any pictures yet :( I will post some when I get them. It was really fun. When we got back we had to teach a little bit of certification and go to air riffle. I really hate teaching certification because I had no idea what I was talking about most of the time. Archery was really fun though. I hung out with Tanna and Michelle the whole time. Random story: Michelle had this weird red stain on her shoes and So i asked her if she was bleeding. She said that it was paint, but then she said it was enchiladas. So I was so confused. I looked down at her (she was sitting on a log and I was standing) and said "First it was paint, then it was enchiladas, there is something fishy about this..." then we both just busted up laughing. It doesn't sound that funny when its written but it was hilarious! I guess you just had to be there...

Me shooting the bow!

Tanna shooting the bowAfter some classes we had to do capers. So this is Shannon "sweeping the cabin" Ha ha

I ditched the second years Spiritual class and joined Tanna and Jessica in their snack bar duty. Shannon was supposed to be helping them but she was to busy dancing. Ha ha

Me, Tanna, and Jessica in the snack bar.

They locked me in the giant fridge. It was so funny.

We took some of the 5 dollar bills out of the money jar and wrote on them. It was really funny. I probably shouldn't say what we wrote ;)

We look out the window and see Shannon sitting on Alyssa's head dancing... It was really funny. Oh the things Shannon does when she is ditching her snack bar duty. ha ha


After dinner we played with Shannons sham wow. It was so fun. We made a commercial about all the things it soaks up. Inside joke: Wow, wow, Sham wow!! Ha ha
On Mondays the wards have to cook dinner themselves and have family home evening. The YCLs got to stay in the lodge and eat with the stake leaders then after have our own family home evening. We partied all night. It was probably one of the funnest nights of my life.

We made a huge cup tower! It was seriously like MASSIVE! we used every single cup in the kitchen.

Then president Perkins slid right through it knocking it down.

We were so upset! but we started over and made a few more :) And we got Pres Perkins back really good. We all pretended to play the cup game, then all at once we all just turned around and threw our cups at him. It was so funny. It started this huge cup war and we all threw cups at eachother. Good times.

We played the cup game so many times! It was so fun! We played it to the beat of MJ songs and We will rock you. It was pretty awesome. We played this game so much at camp. It was like our thing.

More cup game

Then we ran out of things to do with the cups so we put them over our ears. It muffled all the sounds so we were like screaming and laughing. I dont think i've ever laughed so hard at something so stupid. We were all just yelling random things and looking at eachother and cracking up.

Alyssa, Janie, and Jessica With the cups on their ears.

After we got tired of playing with cups Me, Shannon, and Paige got the wheel chairs out and had some wheel chair races. I think we were supposed to be cleaning. Whoops. :)
When we got back to the cabin Shannon was determined to start a fire with her little pop gun thing. It was so funny. We were like spraying it with fabreze and putting paper in it. We got some pretty huge sparks, but no fire.

Tuesday! I had to start of the morning by going on the second year hike... It was not fun. I got huge scratches all over my legs and it was so long. When I got back the YCLs were all playing games with the first year girls. It was very fun. After that I had to go teach about an hour of certification. I had to teach them about water purification. It was kinda gross. After that they all went to other classes but I ditched to go hang out with my home girls. Ha ha. We hung out in the snack bar for a while. That was always pretty fun. ;D

This is my YCL leader Sister Pottle. We pulled the dime trick on her. It was so HILARIOUS! The girls had never heard of the dime trick so I had to show them. Pretty sure she wanted to kill me after this. :D He he.

This is Shannon making a "gas chamber" in the refrigerator. She seriously cracks me up! I couldn't stop laughing at this! She wanted to be in the fridge so we put here in there and she said she would knock when she wanted to come out. She sat in there for a while and we were all outside talking then we hear this random laughing coming from inside the fridge. We open and ask her what she was doing. She answers, "Im making my own gas chamber!" Yeah we all totally died laughing at that point.

Shannon hiding because we're all laughing at her. Ha ha seriously so funny!
What happens in the snack bar stays in the snack bar? ha ha I dont even know why people talk to me sometimes. :)

This is the apple. We got about 15 quarters in there. It was funny because they were the quarters from inside of the money jar in the snack bar and we had no idea how we were gonna get them out. Maybe I shouldn't have taught them the dime trick. :)

Shannon with the apple.

oh the megaphone. Everything Shannon said had to be through the megaphone. It was so funny. After our snack bar time was up we went to the YCL cabin and hung out. We were listening to music and blasting it though the megaphone and saying random things. It was so much fun.

Later that night the YCLs got to go to the spiritual class taught by the stake YW leaders. It was very good, but I think we had a little to much fun drawing on Tanna's face while she was sleeping. Ha ha.
Shannon fell asleep too, but not from the lesson, she really likes to get her arm rubbed. Weird right? Ha ha.
Ok just so you know.. The girls like to torture us when we come for devotionals. It was the last night so the leaders were at a meeting and Michelle, Tanna, Rebecca, and Me were at the Centennial cabin helping them make thank you cards and Jaci, the ward YCL who is not much older than us announces that we were sitting in the hot seat, which was one of their leaders bed. Then they decided that they could ask us any question they pleased and that we had to answer it. It was pretty funny. When we were coming back from our hot seat experience with the Centennial ward Shannon, Kim, and Mayra decided to scare us from under the bridge! Ha ha they are way to funny. We stayed to watch them scare the other poor little girls from the Centennial ward. It was Hysterical.

I love this pic. Its Kim, Mayra, and Shannon all ready to scare little girls.

Here is some pictures from the crazy dance parties that the YCLs always put on the last night. It was so much fun. Dance parties are seriously one of the main reasons I love girls camp.

Later that night we might have done some pranking.. Might have :D Shhhh dont tell anyone...

Here's me, Kim, Shannon, and Tanna. This was taken at about 2 after pranking. We were definately so sleep deprived but in no mood to go to bed. We were so wired. Ha ha. I dont think we went to bed for about another hour. Good times :D


The worst day of camp... the last day D: It was so sad saying goodbye to all of my friends. There is seriously no bond like the bond the girls at camp have. Girls camp is such a special place to me. I love how I can just be my self around all the girls there. We can sing and dance and go insane and just have fun.

Tanna, Shannon, Paige, and Me. I definately got really close to these 3 girls. Love them so much!

Shannon, Paige and Me!

Me and My little sister Riley. She was so cute and I really enjoyed being her big sister. Meagan catching some Zs on the way home. Im pretty sure that everyone on the bus was sleeping. Ha ha

Well I had such a good experience at camp. I love camp so much. Its the best 5 days of my summer by far. This was probably my best year. I made so many good friends and memories.

YAY FOR CAMP!