Scout Family Fishing Night

Every year our ward as a family fishing night. This year we went because Shawn is helping with the Wolves. We took our cousins Ethan, Ayva, and Ry with us since they were staying with Grandma. Ever since the Father and Son's Overnighter, Garret has wanted to fish more. He asks everytime he sees water, "Can we fish there?" Shawn had to go buy fishing poles since we are such avid fishers. We ended up going to Emerald Lake. Shawn spent the whole evening putting on worms and casting the line out. Each family member wanted to fish all night long. We caught fish, but all were too small to keep. Ethan and Garret caught the most fish. Ayva was the worm keeper. She played with the worms all night long. So being the good aunt I am I told her of course she could take them to Grandma's.(Grandma loved that!)Our family was the last family there. We fished until the sun was setting. We will have to fish again really soon. The only person caught by a hook amazingly enough was Blakely's friend Alysha.

Steadman's 2010

We love Steadman's. Which is a huge waterslides that a farmer has put in by his house in Raft River. I rented the place last year for some family fun. So I decided to do it again this year while my sister was in town visiting. I called that afternoon before we left to double check on things with Steadman's. She said that it was quite windy over there and I thought to myself we live in Idaho; the wind always is blowing here, no big deal. Well, she was not lying. We had 40 - 50 mph gusts of wind. It was very windy. The kids of course did not mind the wind and slide down the slides and went down the zip line. Blakely learned how to knee surf down the slides. Shawn went down once with his work clothes on. Everyone was pretty much blown out by 8pm. So,even though it didn't turn out like I wanted it to we enjoyed friends and family. Next year hopefully the wind will not blow and I will stop to take some pictures.

Girls Camp 2010

The end of June brought Girls Camp to our house. Blakely and Mom got to go to camp this year again. We had girls camp up at the Oakley Stake Ranch. Early Tues. morning we headed out on a hike. Since there was still snow up in the mountains we decided to hike across the base of the mountains and hike into the camp. It was a good hike as it was not too steep(until the end). We hike through farmer's fields, cow pastures,creeks and barb wire fences. We visited the old Willow Creek cemetery(which interesting enough was fenced off in the middle of a cow pasture.) As we made it to the gate that told us we were almost there, we had to cross a much bigger creek(some of us did fall in.) The leaders wanted to hike the last mile and half up to the cabin which was straight up. We pushed the girls until we did have to call in the truck to pick some of them up.
We set up camp and then taught the some camp requirements. We practiced our skits and songs. We had a wonderful dinner of bagel pizzas. We had fun that night even if some of the skits and songs were a little unusual. The girls stayed up until 3 or so in the morning. They were above us in the cabin so you could hear everything. The next morning we had Ziploc omelets and started our next set of camp requirements. After lunch we had down time which I followed the younger girls around and took pictures of them playing in the creek. We then had a camp competition. Which our team did not fair very good at the knot tying, but very good at the fire starting. That night we enjoyed a night hike followed by testimony meeting. Then it was onto a snipe hunt. Scary! There were snipes everywhere.
The next morning was clean up and birthday pinata and heading home. Another great girls camp. Hoo Haa! My another children stayed the days with Grandma Peterson and were spoiled. They will have to keep working for Grandma all summer to paid back her generosity.