On Monday of this week, we packed up the van again and took off for Pallisades!  This is our fourth summer camping there so you should remember that it has a lake and a sandy beach and it's beautiful.  I love it.  Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik didn't come this year and we missed them but we did have the adventure with them in Yellowstone so we felt appeased.  We did invite some friends from our ward, though.  Two of Megan's friends, Hannah and Rebekah, came and my friend, Jen, Rebekah's mom, came as well.  It was really fun!  We did have some thunder storms every day . . . but we had some sunshine, too, and that was all we needed.

Hannah, Rebekah, Megan, Sarah, and Savannah.

I mean, really, why NOT bike in the lake?

Yes, this is me doing what I do best at Pallisade!

We did some minnow catching, too!

Savannah made some progress on her summer reading book!

And THIS is our lake house -- I mean, tent.  :)  We were right on the beach!

This tree is where Mariah finished her book!

We stayed Monday through Thursday.  Kevin had to stay in Springville to work, but he did come down Wednesday evening for a little while.  It was great fun to see him.  We had great neighbors, too.  On Tuesday night we got invited for an outdoor showing of The Incredibles on a screen outside someone's trailer.  It was tons of fun.  We went swimming one more time on Thursday after we were packed up.  Jen and I decided to swim across the lake since "It wasn't that far . . ."  You'll be happy to know that we did wear life jackets.  We were happy to know that our daughters loved us enough to take pity on us and came out to drag us the rest of the way back in the canoe.  Haha!  It was so fun.

Savannah worked Friday and Saturday.  Sarah played tennis.  Megan bought herself an ipod touch with her money from umping and she is super excited about that!  Mariah got to go to a party with her softball team.  Chey and Cali and Beth played with all their friends that they hadn't seen for four whole days!

Saturday morning we had a ward breakfast and outdoor building clean-up.  All of the girls helped and there were a ton of people there and we got a lot done.  I was proud of my girls for working hard.

Saturday afternoon we bought Beth and Ben a new bed.  Bethany is five and still sleeping in a toddler bed.  Ben was still in the crib.  We bought a daybed with a trundle bed for Ben.  It's really nice B&B love it and the rest of the kids are all crazy jealous.  Of course.

I got a new calling this Sunday.  I'm now the second counselor in the Young Women's Presidency over the Beehive 12-13 year old girls.  I'm happy about it.  I think it's going to be tons of fun!  We'll see if we can do some good, too.