I'm A Survivor!

We are home from YW Girls Camp.  We really had a great time.  Our theme was "STARS".  We had the girls write compliments about each other on these gold stars and strung them around camp on fishing line.  

Here is Taylor in her tent.  She was one of the oldest girls in our group and an excellent leader....especially when it came to thinking up camp cheers for flag each morning and night.

One of the days we played capture the flag.  The stake had made a bunch of little nylon bags filled with baking flour to throw as ammunition.  As you can see below, I think I won.

We brought up Superman to stand guard over camp.  He was feeling tropical this particular day.

Wow.....they could be twins!

Taylor showed us this cool trick to go along with the whole "STAR" theme...

Then Friday afternoon we were hit with a big thunderstorm.  It was enough to flood camps and tents and end up with soggy sleeping bags, etc.  The stake called down to Cedar City and we made arrangements to leave the mountain.  We grabbed a few personal belongings and drove to a stake center in Cedar.  The members had brought over extra sleeping bags, blankets and had made us hot chocolate.

We had to leave all our muddy shoes outside the building.

We finished our camp inside they gym.  Then each ward was assigned a room.  We went to the Relief Society room and had a ward testimony meeting by lantern light.  Then we had a giant slumber party.  Here are our girls Saturday morning on the church stairs, ready to jump into the cars to head home.  

Now some of you may be wondering how we got all the leftover stuff down from the mountain.  Steve and the kids had spent the night a little higher up Cedar Mountain in Duck Creek.  Steve's mom and dad have a cabin there.  They were planning on coming to camp Saturday morning to help us take down everything.  Well, they ended up with the whole mucky mess all on their own.  Steve and Chase had to pack up all our tents, supplies, coolers, etc.  Hailey and Morgan spent their time picking up trash.   They had to have the site checked by the "Camp Nazi" (a stake leader) to get the OK to leave.  It was a lot of work and we were so lucky they were there to help us out!   We all met at our church in St. George and spread out the remains.  The girls had to come dig through to claim their things.  We still have a pile of lost and found items, but mostly small things.  It made for a memorable ending to a very fun-filled week.  And guess what?  The YW president asked if I would be camp director again next year!