Heber Valley Camp

Girl's camp this year was like going to the Sheraton! No roughing it here. It was really nice though and we all had a great time. The girl's were angles to what I've seen in the past with other girl's camps I've been to and we all slept in the same Yurt (cabin).
I have a limited amount of pictures, Scott's the photo taker in our family so I'm not that quick to realize when there's a "Kodak" moment. If you want to see some more fun pics from camp check this out.

Here's our camp site (if you can call it a camp site)

The inside of our Yurt. It was set out in a circular pattern and it really made it fun to interact with all the girls.

This is the Frog we got to take care of up at camp. The girls loved him so much they almost killed him. His name is Gorf, Oscar, Bubbles, Charlie, and so on. I like Gorf best.



A shot of our girls and some of the leaders preparing lunch. In the background you can see the shape of the Yurts.


Kayla and Dani Rose heading out on the 4th year hike. They are leaving hot showers and flushing toilets to spend 12 hours hiking and sleeping in the mountains up above us.

Some of the free time consisted of doing hair. Straighting hair is one thing I never did a girl's camp.

It was a ton of fun. Coming back to the hum drum of life was kinda sad but as soon as a walked back into work I almost started to cry. I love my Young Women and we really did have a fantastic week!

My resident photographer

This year Scott has really come along with his photography business. In the next couple of months he's hoping to get his own photo web site up and running for folks to view. Every weekend for the past 3-4 months he has had some kind of photo shoot going on. I'm so proud he's following one of his dreams. I just wanted to share just a few of the many, many wonderful pictures he has taken. He has also taken wildlife pics and outdoors pics but I thought I'd throw in people pics instead. Tell me what you think.

Just plain slow

Now for some reason, I don’t know if it’s just the nature of the way the Lord runs this great green earth and everything on it, but I’ve decided that there’s this cycle where your brain is either running on top notch, semi top notch, ok, or just plain slow! Today was one of those instances where my mind and body seemed to start out at “just plain slow”.
Of course there are many ways this slowness can happen. You can say something stupid, laugh at something that’s not really that funny, do something disgusting, or do other embarrassing or other character compromising things.

My "Just plain slow" moment started on my way into work. In the mornings I usually scramble out out of bed, get ready for the day and then dash outside to the car to make it into work around 7:00 am. So, I’m still fairly “new”, as my dad would say, when I arrived at work. I noticed after I had left my parked car that the CEO had arrived at the same time I had and was walking toward me to obviously start a conversation as we began to walk into the building together. Now since this is the CEO of the company you want to come across as smart and as charismatic as possible. This morning I did the complete opposite. I left my home late enough that I had brought my makeup in with me and so I looked pretty pasty and blah, I also wasn’t too happy with the outfit I had chosen to put on for the day so my self-esteem factor was riding pretty low at this point. So of course while I’m talking to Rob I’m very aware of what I must look like and how awful I feel about myself when BAM! there’s the concrete barrier that divides the building from the parking lot.

Rob: “Oh WOW, are you ok?” (A faint chuckle)

(uhm, no idiot, do you really think I’m going to be ok after what I just did)

“Yeah, Yeah, I’m ok."

Rob: “are you sure, you hit that pretty hard?”

(My knee and forehead are starting to throb)

“No, really, I’m ok" (Just get away and leave me alone!)

Rob: “do you want me to help you to your office?”

“No, I’m good,… really, I’m fine!"

(For the LOVE, MAN! Let the agony stop!)

He finally CLUES in and allows me to get to my office on my own and he finally goes on his merry way. I bet the first thing he did when he got to his office was grab one of the executives and say, “Dude (while starting to laugh) you’ll never believe what just happened on my way in from the parking lot!”

I, on the other hand, went straight to the bathroom to nurse not only my forehead and knee but my ego! What a great way to start off my week!