We had church girls camp this week!  It was the first time in seven years that Savannah didn't go!  She's all growed up!  She stayed home and worked and helped Kevin with the younger kids.  She was greatly missed!

Sarah, Megan, Mariah, and myself (I get to go because I'm one of the leaders in the Young Women program right now.  Yay!) all packed up Sunday night and left early Monday morning.  We rode school buses up to Heber Valley Camp (the church owned camp about an hour from here in the mountains).  We stayed in cabins with wooden bunk beds.  It was stake camp so the stake fed us lunch and dinner everyday and we took turns helping out with cooking and cleaning. We had flag raising in the morning and evening and devotionals every night.  We each had a turn at the ropes course as well as hiking down to the lake to splash each other in the canoes.  We helped in a massive service project, as well, and even spent some time working on certification.  During down time, the girls played games, worked on their skit, and also went on extra hikes with yours truly.  It was a beautiful place, we had beautiful weather, and there were beautiful friendships made and strengthened -- especially with our Heavenly Father.  It was a great week.

Hiking thru the pines . . .

... and hiking through the Aspens!

Sisters just off from the canoes!

A bunch of us next to the lake!

The brave 4th years who went on the overnight hike!  Go Megan!

On our way up to eat.

Singing camp songs while we wait for flag ceremony.

Our YCLs (youth camp leaders) leading the camp songs while waiting for flag ceremony.  Go Sarah!  It was so fun watching Sarah lead!  She did a great job!

Skinners in our different-colored camp shirts!

All the girls from our ward at camp.  The different colored shirts represent their different years at camp.

The girls who went with me on an extra hike.

Mariah on top of the mountain on that hike!

This was the overlook we hiked to.  Our camp lies below us.

We were surrounded by these butterflies all week.  They were so pretty!

We got back Friday morning before lunch.  Mariah and I had woken up at 5:00 to go on the sunrise hike, but we were all pretty exhausted!  Still we got great mob hugs from Ben and Beth and Cali and Cheyenne and I even managed to fight my way through to get a hug from Kevin, too! 

They had a fun week, too!  Kevin took them to McDonald's and to the splash pad and Cali and Cheyenne got to do a couple of days of basketball camp even!

Friday night, we woke Sarah and Megan up to go play some tennis with their dad.  Megan played lots more games Saturday morning with some friends, too.  Sarah managed to get some time in at Funfinity Saturday afternoon.  It was great to be back with our family, but normal life . . . well that's taking some getting used to!