campy

This is my latest work in progress. I started it at camp and it is mainly crocheted out of scraps from all the dishcloths i have made. i think it is turning out nicely.

toothless jacob and thunder cats go!

Jacob has lost 2 teeth this week. The first one lost was on his bottom right.  The new tooth was already making it's apperance behind the baby one.  The baby one just had to go.  Some wiggiling and dental floss later, crack, it was out. He wasn't to thrilled about that tooth pulling. The tooth fairy did leave $1 for the tooth. The next tooth pulled was about 5 minutes ago (9:15pm) and it was his upper left. It was so loose, it was dangling. He pulled it himself. Awesome! Hopefully the tooth fairy will make a visit tonight.

We have been on pins and needles this week hoping that Maylee and Jared's new little guy would make his apperance. (This picture was taken on Miss Z's first birthday. Happy Birthday Baby Z!!) Maylee just called and said she was feeling some contractions. Let's hope this is a 'Thunder Cat's Go!'  moment!

camp skit

This years camp theme was based off of the 13th Article of Faith, which is...

We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.


Each ward was asked to choose a word from the article of faith and base their camp skit around it. Our ward chose lovely. My thought was to use the song, "Loverly" from My Fair Lady and have the YW change the words around to make it camp skit worthy. Here's what they came up with and in my opinion, it was so lovely.

summer with the wardlings

I love summer time...mainly because of the pool. We have some very kind friends who allow us to swim in their neighborhood pool. We use it as much as we can. I have a secret motive to using the pool.  Summers can be dull if not constantly on the go. We have found that if our children are worn out then they go to bed easier in the evenings. Swimming wears them out. I love that...and of course getting a nice summer tan.

 Jacob's goal has been to learn to swim better and learn to dive. He's getting better at both.

 Josh is a very good swimmer. He was goofin off with belly flops. This one was a beauty leaving him with a nice pink chest and belly.

girls camp

I have been meaning to blog aboout camp, but needed a week to get over camp to do so. To be honest, my expectations for camp were pretty low this year. We have a new Stake YW's President who wanted to do camp her way this year. It made this difficult for a few of us who are old pro's at this girls camp deal. I should've seen the silver lining in camp being; getting to spend time with my girls and some gal pals and making new friends myself.  Alas, it is hard to see that silver lining whilst in the thick of idiocy.

Libby and I were cabin mates this year. I really enjoyed getting to spend time with these young gals. I did feel bad thought that as a camp 'specialist' that I wasn't able to spend as much time as I have in camp years past. I also learned how princessy, diva-ish our Libby can be.  I also didn't take as many photos as I wanted to take and am trusting on my memory to last and last.. 

The blow slideshows are a few of the highlights to girls camp this year.

I am debating on my decision to go to camp again next year. Good thing I have some time to think on it.

dutch oven cooking

I like being prepared for girls camp. I was asked to be the 1st and 2nd year certification specialist again this year. Last year we attempted to make a spit to roast our chicken on, but failed. I have cooked in a dutch oven outside before, but it isn't a weekly thing. I wanted to refresh myself.  The chicken meal @ camp had to feed about 70 people.  I wanted to make sure I gave the correct amount of ingredients for the amount of people it needed to feed. Clyde prepared a spot while I assembled the ingredients.

 We lit the chimney with charcoal and once ready, placed those hot coals below and on top of our dutch oven.

 Forty minutes and a half turn later, the chicken pot pie was finished.

The wardlings ate every scrap of it. Ready for the camp meal now.

summer knitting

My friend Linda is having a baby girl in August. She found out when she was something like 20 weeks along that she was pregnant.  The baby sweater turned out nicely. I started it when I was waiting in the jury selection room earlier this month. It was a fairly quick knit, only taking about 2 days and only being a few rows at a time.  I wanted it to be simple in the front...

 with some detailing in the back. I have a cool calender with knitting stitches on it and this pattern was one of them. I think it adds such a delicate feminine detail.  I decided to crochet the hat instead of knitting it to save a bit of time. Overall, I'm thrilled with the result.