Girls Camp

The girls went to Young Women's camp with Nate's Parents ward. They had an great time and learned a lot and grew a lot. The very first day there I had the opportunity to go up to the camp. Nate's mom was asked to be a speaker so she invited me to ride up with her. The camp area is really nice. We prepared for winter because there was still snow up there and the girls said that it wasn't even that cold. They got to sleep in cabins. There was running water and toilets not outhouses. They had a full kitchen that was staffed with someone from the ward to cook for them everyday. Doesn't sound much like camping to me at all. They also only sat around a campfire one night. The girls took their cameras up there with them. These are about all of the pictures they took. Actually Nichole only took the video at the end.There were lots of deer up there.This is Natalie and her friend Marissa on the way up to camp. Nichole rode up to camp with my first grade teacher. The crazy part is that she recognized me I didn't recognize her.This is the girls cabin. Nichole slept on the top bunk and Natalie slept on a bottom bunk. Natalie's bunk is the hello kitty one.The girls did secret sisters while they were at camp. The decorated pillow cases for the secret sisters to put their stuff in. Natalie took a picture of hers. They got fun things like hair accessories, candy, drinks, goggles, bubbles and tons more stuff.

Art City Days 5k

Natalie, Nichole, Joy, and My Dad all ran the Art City Days 5k. I was so proud of how well they did. Especially since they didn't train at all. They ran 5k 6 days before the race so they would know the race route (which they actually didn't go on because it was the wrong route).Before the race at my dad's work. My dad stops by there every time to see if anyone from his work is going to run with them. There were 3 other people that ran from dad's work and 2 form Joy's. There were over 2 thousand people running that race. The fastest person came in at a little over 15 minutes.And of course I couldn't be left out so at the last second I decided to race. I ran it in 10 min. and 3/100's of a second. Man I am fast. (the funniest part is the guys on the left of the picture cheered me on when I crossed the finish line).I almost missed Nichole. My mom and I watched and watched for everyone to come in. Nichole ran in with a group of girls all about her size. My mom said I think that's Nichole about 15 seconds before she crossed the finish line. I had just enough time to snap a picture. I wasn't even sure if it was her. I had to zoom it in and read the numbers on her back to see if it was her.Natalie stopped running at about 2 miles and just decided to run walk the rest of the way. Joy stayed with her. It was a lot harder then she thought.Here are all of the people that ran the race.Good job girls. At the end of the race they handed out power bars and power aid, fruit, Ice cream bars and hot cocoa? yet hot cocoa. Nestle sponsored the race and were not shy on giving away stuff.