The One at Girls' Camp

Camp was such a busy week!  More accurately, a busy couple of months for us leaders.  I debated whether or not to actually go as I was released from YW two weeks before.  I'm glad I did go though.  It was my last chance to be with the girls and other leaders I'd become good friends with over just a few months.

I could list a ton of details but I'll try to limit the text here and just explain the pictures.

Our campsite was awesome!  Two of the stake leaders were from our ward and they assigned us the best site.  With the firepit and water spigot start we had and the luxuries the girls brought we really lived it up all week.

Girls around the firepit: (left to right) Camilla, Shelyse, Josilyn, Gabi, Ryann, Anne Marie, Melissa, Gabby, Bonnie, Danielle, Sophia.

Gabi could almost always be found in this "pharoah chair" (remember that awning for later!).

The theme for camp was "Oh the Places You'll Go" so most activities, crafts, etc. were pretty "Seuss-y."  We decorated our camp with flags from the places we'd like to go.

Shelyse and Melissa using some heavy machinery to put up our "flagpoles."

Closeups: Shelyse is actually from Canada so we made sure to have a Canadian flag.  Also proud of the girls for including college in their future plans :)

Not all flags were actually from countries.  Recognize the Deathly Hallows?

Peru!

Go America!!

After decorating our campsite the whole camp got together and played wiffle ball and water balloon volleyball.  It was pretty hot so everyone preferred that second game.  Maybe they preferred it because this is what the ball field looked like:

Gabby vs. Camilla.

Just missed it!

Go 1st Ward!!

The first night at camp was also skit night.  The 10th and 31st wards were combined and they made up a cheer that they would yell at 10:31 AM and PM.  We were not huge fans but the girl in the middle here is a former 1st warder.  She is super sweet and it was fun to see her again.

We were told to introduce ourselves before starting our skit and I thought it would be hilarious to parody the Sound of Music.  Melissa had an emergency whistle and I made up different calls for the girls.  My favorite was for Anne Marie.  I just blew the whistle for as long as I could and she tried to step out 3 times before I finished!

Our ward banner.  I don't remember why we painted a can of Spam.  Maybe it was inspired by our Green Eggs and Ham skit.  Definite possibility.

For our skit Shelyse found a Seuss-ified retelling of 1st Nephi and the girls acted it out.  They did so well!!  As you can see by Gabi's name tag, she was our "stage hand" and got to be Vanna White with the props.

Camilla attempting to tempt.

Bonnie and I were the "unrighteous people" in the great and spacious building that looks like a camp shower.  Ok, it was our camp shower.  See, deluxe accommodations at our site.  Bonnie had brought some of those Pop-Its firecrackers and we scared the girls when we ran out and threw explosives at them."  It was awesome!  Apparently, I was really into it.  I look a little psycho here!

This is getting long.  And picture heavy.
To be continued....

The One at the Library

Just recently I was telling Justin that I have talked to many of my married friends who agree that men revert to childhood after marriage.  I wouldn't say babies because they can walk and talk and are thankfully potty trained, but I swear they lose 87% of their self-sufficiency.  It's good practice for future children I guess and good material for the next installment of Crappy Pictures.  (I honestly didn't think I would make another one of these posts but this was too good not to.)

I was unable to find the book I need for my next Book Club meeting at the school library so I had the brilliant idea to try the city library.  It's a really cool building as you can see and has won awards for being the best library in the country.

 

So after dinner Justin was kind enough to join me on my first visit to this awesome library.  I don't know why it took me so long to visit, I love books!  Anyway, I figured I could get a card, find the book and check it out in less than 10 minutes so I didn't need to bring my cell phone right?  Wrong!!  It's always those times that I think I can just leave it at home that I really, really need my phone.  And every time I do bring it, it never rings.  But back to the story.  Here we are, skipping in the beautiful spring air to the library.

Note that Justin actually has an F on his shirt so you know that this story is completely, 100% accurate.  The information desk is right inside the door so naturally, being a woman, I walk right up and tell them what I need.  Note that Justin is RIGHT BEHIND ME.

They were very helpful and told me what to do.  I decided to try to look up the location of the book I needed first but ironically you need a library card to log on to the library computers.  Go figure.  At this point Justin is still RIGHT BESIDE ME.  So I decide I will just get the card first and ask the librarian to look up the book for me.  Genius!

You may notice that acquiring the library card took all of 2 minutes.  You may also notice that Justin is now NOWHERE TO BE FOUND!  Good grief.  I have no idea when I lost him.  This is what it's like to have a 3 year old huh?  So now I have my card in hand, the librarian has informed me that both copies of the book have been checked out and I have lost Justin.  I waited around for a few minutes then asked the nice info desk people if they'd seen where he went.  No dice.  But they inform me that there is only one exit so within the next 15 minutes they will be closing and Justin will have no choice but to exit through the door I am currently staking out.  Meanwhile, this is what Justin was doing.

I am the pink X- not moving.  Justin is the blue X that has now wandered up to the second floor.  When he finally came back down I have to admit I was a tad frustrated.  And by tad I mean slightly ticked.  Until Justin explained that he had gone upstairs looking for my book only to be trapped by the second floor librarian who gave him a lot of information that did not include the fact that both copies had already been checked out.  How can you stay mad at someone who's just trying to help you out?  That is a type of childlike-ness I can handle!

The One with Crappy Pictures

Thanks to Wendy I have read a few posts (ok, all of them now.  Hi, my name is Cindy and I'm a blog stalker.) from the hilarious blog Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures.  Even though I'm not a parent (yet, we'll throw that in for Mom), I love how she can take an everyday event and make it real and stinkin' funny at the same time.  It made me think of the things Justin and I do that drive each other crazy but I'm sure happen to every single other married couple; Marriage: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures.  For example, sleeping (and cleaning, there's a fair amount of that in this story too).

When Justin and I got married he had a twin(!) bed and I (thankfully) had a queen.  Guess whose bed we sleep in?  I warned him from the start that since I'd been sleeping in a queen all by myself for so long I was used to taking up a lot of space but I'd try my best to stick to my half.  I'll be honest, most of the time that does not happen.  This is what it looks like on the surface when we go to bed:

 And this is what it really looks like:

No, my right leg isn't really that long but I'm sure this is how Justin feels most of the time.  That's ok though because that's just how the night starts.  This is how it ends:

Yep, I'm the one not smiling in my sleep anymore because I'm not asleep.  I've woken up at 4:30 in the morning because it's winter in Utah and I'm cold.  I could be warm, but somehow 98% of the blankets are now covering Justin.  I steal enough back to tuck around my body but there is still a huge pile draped off Justin's side of the bed.  I don't care though because it's 4:30.  AM.

Before we got married I would wake up in the morning and immediately make my bed.  It didn't take long.  I don't really move in my sleep so all I had to do was flip up the corner of the sheets and rearrange my pillows.  It looked like this every day:

You could bounce a quarter off those sheets.

I usually wake up about half an hour before Justin because girls take longer to get ready (stupid makeup).  But mostly because I hate hitting the snooze button over and over.  I set my alarm for the latest time possible to begin with.  Justin does not subscribe to this method.  Which means he gets up last.  Which means the bed now looks like this every day:

I miss bouncing quarters.

Update:  I showed Justin this post and he almost peed his pants laughing so hard- must mean it's true.  He also mentioned that the drawings are not only crappy but slightly inaccurate, we do wear pajamas to bed!