Girl's Camp 2016

Girl's Camp! (Be United)

Well the beginning of Summer consisted of preparation to get ready for girl's camp and High Adventure which took place the end of June and July.





It started out with the laurels going up the day before to their Laurel Light camp with the following day with the Beehives and Miamaids starting out at willard Bay and then going home cleaning up and heading to Sister Harrison's house for dutch oven dinner and song singing, and decorating the May Pole and writing little messages to each other and giving the sweats,  pillowcases, and secret sister gift bags out. Then going to bed for a early rise time by the bugle call playing revelry.

  
Jessie giving the thumbs up for some cockeyed reason.

No idea what I was saying.

Learning camp songs.

I got put in charge of the dutch oven cooking for some reason. It was already so hot outside and then to be working over all the hot coals most of the night I was seriously dripping with sweat. I got so hot i ended up with a bad bloody nose. But the fixins were sure tasty!! Dutch oven chicken, Potatoes, Salad, Rolls and Dutch oven cobblers for dessert.

The Maypole. We ended up running out of time so we didn't get to finish it all the way but what we did ended up pretty good.  We had to restart a couple times because we had issues following the pattern and some people getting confused on which way to go. It took us a while.

I dont think the girls thought we were serious when we said they would be wakened by the bugle blowing!! It was awesome. Reminded me of the good ol days when Jess would wake me up in the mornings singing revelry when I was a teenager.

So the day we were to go to the actual stake camp was also Logan's 12th birthday. Im not to sure she was very thrilled to have it on camp but we tried to make the most of it by getting her a cupcake with a candle and had a birthday banner and had everyone sing to her. Don't think she was thrilled. She hates attention.


The sweats and pillowcases and secret sister gift bags we gave all the girls.

Love these gals.  This was on our hike.

 

So each morning we had a theme to go and wake the girls up. And this day was our super hero day. We even got the bishop to dress up. It was awesome. Not to sure the girls were to thrilled though. LOL

 

The next day was pirate day.

  

So apparently there is this tradition called the Finnies. There is about 8-10 of them and you try to sneak them on a girl throughout the day without them noticing and at the end of the day whoever has the finnies on them has to do something embarrassing in front of everyone.

 

The night the bishopric came up of course they ended up with all the finnies so the bishor had to dance and bust some moves, Brother Griffin had to sing I'm a little tea pot in opera and Brother Dewberry had to sing the abc's as high as he can. Pretty funny.

This was one of our stations at camp where there was a web made of ropes and the goal was to get everyone either over or through it on the otherside without touching the ropes or you had to start over. You could go over as many times as you wanted, but you could only go through the same square twice. It was hard and took alot of strength. Oh also the young women was not able to talk so it was challenging.And they really had to work as a team.

The 1 1/2 mile hike. Once up top we were told to split up and go off by ourselves and sit down and write in our journals and just think and ponder and enjoy God's beautiful creations.

Another one of our stations was the rope swing where you would run and jump and swing over to a platform where you would have to land on it with your feet ir you would have to go back. I think this was one of the girl's favorites. However  was harder then it looked. Alot of the girls did not make it on the platform.

All the girls kept McKenna and Jacie busy braiding all their hair. Even us leaders got them to do our hair too!

Another station was where you partnered up again and you had to walk across these ropes that were 1-2 feet off the ground. You had to use each other and a long stick pole for balance and the further you get the farther the ropes get across.

Our last station was to sand blocks and tie a quilt for children in other countries who are homeless, or dont have anything.

This station was at the camp Chapel where we got to choose our favorite songs and tell why they are our favorite and then sing them.

This station was one of my most spiritual moments. We had all the girls blind folded and put into lines where they would have to hold on to the shoulders of the girl in front of them then us leaders would lead them all around this area and as we did one by one they would be taken by one of the Stake presidency members and taken to what was called the iron rod which was a rope strung all around some trees and that weaved throughout the area and some went off in weird directions. And as they followed it one of the Stake members would come pull one off and tell them to come with them and promised them an easier way or an icecream and when they left the rope and went with them they would take them to an area away from everyone and just leave them there for a while and then one of us leaders would go and get them and tell them to come with us that we would help them get back onto the right path the rod.. And as they got to the end there was Carrie Hansen our young womens president grabbing them and hugging them and telling them they had made it and how proud she was of them to stay on the right path and welcome home.  

I couldn't help but feel that that was what it might look like when we return home to our father in heaven and how he will be greeting us and telling us yay you made it. I am so proud of you. Welcome home.

these are the bracelets the girls made up at camp. They had a faith walk the night before where they had to go to the different stations and learn about their value and have a story or experience that tied into the value and then we would give them a charm to go along with the value. It was pretty cool.

Clare bear and Logan working on their bracelet.

Another station was where they paired off again one would be blind folded and they were across from each other and inbetween them was a field of rocks and mousetraps. They would have to walk across the field and get to their partner without stepping on a rock and they got 3 touches of a rock then they would have to go start all over. Meanwhile us leaders would keep moving the rocks around in their path so their partner would try and tell them where and how to step to avoid stepping on a rock. They really had to work together and listen to their partner.

Another station was pairing up again and having one blind folded  while the other one led them around through this heavily tree'd area then to a tree and the one blind folded would have to feel and smell and get familiar with their tree and then be lead back to the home base where their blind fold was removed and then they would have to go find there tree. All but a couple was able to find their tree. It was pretty impressive and surprised us.

The secret sister bags.

I just love these girls. They were so good with each other and Sara was so good at making sure Malorie was enjoying her first year of camp. she really took good care of her up there.

 

Of course us leaders all had to try the rope swing and every single one of us made it onto the platform with the help of the first that went there to catch us and make sure we stayed on the platform. Probably wasn't the best thing for me to do with me being in my brace, but I'm not one to stand back and watch the others do it without me.

Love these girls.

Girls camp was definitely interesting. Fot the most part I think we all had a good time. There was a bit of drama throughout the days there but that's what you get when your with a bunch of girls. The last night we had a couple girls get sick and throw up in the tent which made for a long night.