Just me, rockin it at GIRLS CAMP

We had a stickhorse rodeo and I secretly signed up all the leaders in my ward for a relay race... which we won. I have some good action shots to show our athleticism. It's ok to be jealous.

I'm pretty sure we were the only leaders to participate.

Here I am, dutifully assigning breakfast chores and Hanna wanting to get a picture with me... most people do... want to get pictures with me.

Kickin' it after breakfast. Girls getting advice from there oh so smart leader. Cute... I know, I am.

I have so many pictures from camp, but since it was almost a month ago, I think this will be all I post.
Cool.

Canon's First Boat Ride

Canon is such a cute baby and he loved his first boat ride... as you can see.

I am awesome.

This beauty is just a little preview of my week at girls camp. It was rather interesting. This picture is pretty creepy... but weird too.

More girls camp pictures to come.

Landscaping

The landscaping is really coming along. It makes the house look so different. Ben has done a fabulous job.

I know I haven't posted for a while... but I am more than making up for it today. Ben and I are doing well. The next big project we want to work on is a huge water slide down the hill in the back yard with a giant mud pit at the end of it. We are always excited to have visitors so feel free to visit if you're in the area.
Enjoy this massive amounts of posts.

FUn fun fun

This is what the girls do while the boys work.

This is such a cute picture of me... I just hadd to add it.

Yard Work

Here we have our side of the house... it is looking pretty good. The sod really added to the yard.

Here is another shot of the main house. There are some branches on the ground because Ben was trimming some of the trees.

Russell is staying with us for the summer and we are having so much fun.

Nice eyebrow Russ

MInute to Win It

We recently had a 'Minute to Win It' party and it was so much fun. We played some of the games that are on the tv show... I still have not seen the tv show but we looked up the games online. I've done these posts so oddly and out of order. The pictures below are of the last game. We taped a pedometer to the forehead and then had to nod 'yes' a bunch of times. I think the highest number we got was in the 170's. It was hilarious. Since it was the last event of the night we added up the count on the girls team and the boys team and determined who won. Every other event had an objective that had to be completed in under a minute. We had the party out on the porch and it was a beautiful day.

This is probably my favorite picture from the night.

Ben looks so happy.

Justin looks happy too.

Talented....

This event is called the candy elevator... 2 pencils with 3 skittles resting on them had to be carefully pulled up to the mouth and eaten. Ben was a champ.

In this charming game the objective is to get three cookies from the forehead to the mouth with no hands in under a minute. Brilliant.

My parents gave the cookie one a try.

Party

This event was hilarious. I forget what it is called, but you put a baseball in one end of panyhose and then put it over your whole face and try to knock down 8 waterbottles in under a minute.

THis is the inch worm game. We had a little obtacle course we had to maneuver around using a bathroom rug.

THis is our friend, Ashley, and she is trying to bounce ping pong balls off the wall and into the bucket on her head. She had to get 3 in under a minute.

... more of the candy elevator

Landscaping

This week we have been working on the landscaping in my parents yard. We live in their guest house wich is the section to the left of the garage. We have planted about 20 trees so far and still have quite a few to plant. We have planted somewhere around 300 shrubs. It looks amazing in person... the pictures hardly do it justice. I will post more pictures once the grass is in in a few weeks.

more pictures

More pictures

These are the trees we still have to plant... the above picture.

Shrubs line the concrete all around the house.

Landscaping Madness

Earlier this week we had a semi truck load of trees and shrubs come in and since then we have been planting, planting, and planting. It has been a lot of fun to see the yard transform. It will look even better once we get the grass in. Here is the progress so far.