OK to get caught up on June.

June is one of our Birthday months. My younger brother Seth's birthday is the 10nth (he is now 27), Brock's is the 17nth(he is now 14), Harli's is the 26th(she is now 7), and my Dad's is/was the 30th(he would've been 54). We got together and celebrated thier B-days with cake and ice cream at our monthly Family Home Evening with my family.

So on the 17nth Kayla and I left for girls camp. Brocks B-day, how not fun for him. He babysat his younger sisters almost the whole time. He did an awsome job.(as usual) I've been the Y/W Secretary for 2 and 1/2 years and love it. It is fun being in young womens and now with Kayla being 12 it's even better. It takes me back when I was a youth and my mom was always in young womens doing various callings.(She has really done it all and I hope I am doing even half as good as she did. It was really fun having her in there with me and have come to realize all the DRAMA! WOW! anyway Love ya mom and Thanks for being a good example and always being so willing to help me out. Ok, ok back to Girls camp this year was on stake level so us leaders really didn't have to do to much. We only had 5 girls and 2-3-4 leaders depending on the day and time. Well I won't go into too much detail but it was really amazing. We all went on a hike for certification and wow what a butt kicker that was. I really thought I would die on the hike and be like a pioneer and have to be barried along side the trail and I really would not have cared if there was any flowers. It was hot, steep, and very long. There was several times when I really, really wanted to quit but I was suposed to be a leader and set an example not only for the girls but for my own daughter. The scripture keep going thru my head "ENDURE TO THE END" I couldn't even think of what came after that but with Kayla there encouraging me along the way and the many, many thoughts of a reward at the end, like a truck at the top to take us back down or a zip line right to my tent would have been really nice but there wasn't anything like that, just the overwhelming feeling of endurance and the reality of the plan of Salvation. We are here on earth to go thru our trials and it seems like up hill most of the way with people along side us to encourage us and help us along the way and some times its really rocky and sometimes its a breeze but knowing and believing that the reward is so worth it and its bigger and better than we can even imagine. Well ok, If you can't already tell I do have a strong belief of the Plan of Salvation and look forward to seeing my Dad again. Alright I'm done. To sum it all up, we had a great time- minus the infestation of all the silk worms falling from the trees all around us and getting into everything and a big THANK YOU to my mom for bringing up the pop up netted tent to put our tables and chairs in so we could sit and eat with out our friends dropping in our food or climbing all over us.

Fun Cousin Tuesday the kids fixed up their bikes and ran through the sprinkler and ate popcicles to cool off. We had a great day!

June 27, was bring your child to work day at Brans work so he took Harli. (She was just the right age) Boy oh boy did she have fun. She came home with a whole bag of goodies and stories.