On Monday of this week, we dropped Savannah off at Helaman Halls at BYU for a week of EFY (Especially For Youth)!

Here she is in her dorm room, before her friend came, trying to convince
me that she would be miserable without me for a whole week!

It didn't work.  I knew she was excited.

We got a couple of text messages from her during the week.  On Thursday night she wrote, "This week has been amazing!  I can't wait to tell you guys about it when I get home!"  She had a super time, made lots of friends, and grew closer to the spirit.  What could be a better way to spend a week?

Don't they look like they had fun?

Here on the home front, Sarah and Megan held their 3rd annual Summer Day Camp for Girls!  This means that everyday from 1 to 3pm there were anywhere from 10 to 15 girls ages ranging between 4 and 7 years old filling the backyard and being marshalled and entertained by Sarah and her trustworthy assistant, Megan Rose.  They have gotten really good at this.  Seriously, I could take a nap (and did!) they had everything so under control.  Also, I should mention that Calianne and Cheyenne and Bethany were in heaven!

On Monday, all the little girls got their own water bottles to decorate.  They kept these here during the week so Sarah and Megan didn't have to keep getting new cups all week.  Smart, huh?  They also made dollhouses out of milk cartons and dolls out of clothespins on this day.  The girls had great fun.

Tuesday was dress-up day.  This day was complete with makeovers, dress-up clothes, bracelets to make, flower clips to make, and a fashion show which they recorded!

Wednesday was water day!  They came in their swimsuits and played water games and swam in the pool.

Thursday was zoo day.  Everyone brought their favorite stuffed animal which we added to our own humongous collection of stuffed animals, then they were each responsible for setting up a different section of the zoo.  A tour was then recorded.  Afterwards, they used the melty beads to make plastic animals to take home!

Here's a monkey up with the other monkeys in the
monkey section!

On Friday, they made pizzas and popcorn and watched the movie Sarah had made of their week -- complete with the recording of the fashion show and the zoo tour!  Yay!  Oh, those were some lucky girls.  They had a fun, fun week.  Sarah and Megan gave them a great camp.  The cool thing is that even with all the work, Sarah and Megan had fun, too.  They look forward to it every year.  Long live Summer Day Camp!

So, in addition to all of that, (and even with Megan's help, Sarah was the organizer and person in-charge), Sarah also started tryouts for the high school tennis team.  This entailed practices T,W,Th from 10:30 to 12 every morning AND from 6 to 7:30 every night.  They also had practice Friday from 10:30 to 12 and again Saturday from 8 to 10 am.  Wowza!  I don't know how she made it through the week.  She had the summer camp planned before she knew about the tennis thing so she went ahead and did both!  It was a lot to do, but she was way happier than last week when she was so bored!

As if that wasn't enough, on Tuesday night, the YW made dresses for their activity, so I have this other cute picture of my camp organizers in the dresses they made themselves this week!

Aren't these girls great?

Mariah also helped on and off with the camp.  She was especially helpful in taking the 300 pictures we have of the event!  She also played basketball twice this week -- yes, still with broken fingers.  She still plays really well.

Ben liked to hang out with the girls at summer camp before he got too grumpy and I would put him down for his afternoon nap about halfway through.  He has a new favorite activity, though, and even though it is not a dangerous one, I am not too thrilled about it anyway . . .

How can I get mad at such a face ???