Oliver pics!!

Summer 2012

I am so far behind in my blog that I have been avoiding updating but there is no time like the present!!  I don't want the stories of our family and this time to slip by!!  I will start at the present and work backwards!!  It has been a busy summer and I can't believe that it is already August, how is that possible.  I truly feel like school just got over.  I feel like the summer so far has been me getting girls ready to leave, cleaning up, packing them up again, cleaning up again and starting over!!  So many great experiences for them!!  Amy, Jenn and my baby Abby all went to Girls camp this year and had such a fabulous time.  I will add a ton of pictures soon from camp.  Amy was a YCL and worked SO hard!!  Amy is just amazing.  I was SO worried about Abby being so young and having a hard time at night but she did a great job and I was so proud of her.  Amy was her YCL which really helped.  Jenn went on high adventure (caving and zipling and horse back riding, caving really!!)  Jenn just chilled the rest of camp with her group of friends which is now called "the quad"  They are a very tight knit group of girls.  We left the very next morning for the beach after the girls coming home in the middle of one of the worst storms we have seen in years, winds over 80 miles an hour knocking power out all over the area.  It was horrible trying to get packed at midnight in the pitch dark with all the girls camp stuff dumped on the floor.  We still left at 6 in the morning, still no light or power (the power did not come back for 4 more days, we lost all food in our fridge and freezer!!)  What a mess!!  So glad we were at the beach!!  We had a wonderful week and pictures to follow.  We got back and then it was time to get ready for Youth Conference in Palmyra (I was SO sad to miss going to that, I was in charge of the food 4 years ago and this was the first youth conference I have not gone to in years!!)  My girls had SO much fun, truly life changing!!  They made so many friends and their testimonies were strengthened so much, exactly what you want to have happen!!  Abby has been involved all month with a production of Oliver at the high school and just finished the performances.  She had so much fun, did a great job and made so many great friends.  Jenn is off this week to EFY with Jenson and Jonathan in Kansas (she flew there last Sunday with Grandma and Grandpa) and from all reports is having a blast!!  We leave 2 weeks from tomorrow to drive Sarah back to BYU.  She has had a great summer working at sweet frog and it has been so much fun having her around.  She looks so good, has worked so hard this summer on healthy eating and is such a good example to all of us!!  Tom and I leave in the morning for 3 days to New York for our 20th anniversary, how is that possible??  We are really excited!!