Last Day with Arlee...moved with her parents

My little Arlee moved to Washington. My sister, Chelsey and her husband, Hans, had to move to Washington, because he graduated from Pharmacy school on June 4th and couldn't find a job in Utah. They finally found one in Washington, so they are going to be starting a new adventure there. The night before they left, Matt and I took Arlee for the evening for one last time. We decided to go to the park to have dinner and be able to feed the ducks. We also played on the toys and ended up at Leatherby's for icecream.

It was funny because after every bit Arlee would through her pizza back down in the box.

Matt and Arlee threw a big stick in the creek to see how fast it was going....really fast!



For some reason my pictures taken landscape won't rotate properly when I add
them to the blog (?), but this is a cute one of Matt and Arlee anyway!



Feeding the "duckies" per Arlee -

 

Arlee thought the ducks ate sticks too.
 

After the ducks, we went and played on the toys.

Picture Time - Arlee in a Tree and us Together

 Finally icecream, we went to Leatherby's. Arlee wanted a bowl of cherries, so I got them for her. It was kinda funny because all she wanted to do was eat cherries and I told her a couple of times to eat her icecream first. Matt said that was a little backwards. But what can I say, being backwards sometimes is so much fun!!

Rookie Camp...12 Year olds and Leaders

In my stake, they have a special camp for the 12 year olds in the ward called Rookie Camp. I was able to be one of the leaders for one of the groups this year. We had a lot of fun...Hikes, crafts, food, skits, and many spiritual experiences. I was with 3 girls from my ward, a set of twins, Brindee and Kamryn, and we also had Kiera in our group too.

As a group, we got together before camp and came up with a name "Wands of Faith", decorated a flag and cups, and the girls made up a skit based on Harry Potter. I was Ms. McGonagall in the skit.

Also on the way home we had a snowball fight at the top of the mountain range we drove through.

First Meal Together

 

At night, the leaders got together and went to each tent to sign hymns to the girls

After the girls went to bed, the leaders got together to talk and act crazy as you can tell by the picture



Dance Concert...Gracie in action

I went to my "adopted" niece's, Gracie, dnace concert on Monday, June 13th.

She was so cute. We had fun watching her and then going to eat afterwards. Matt wasn't able to come because he had clinicals, so I took some pictures and video to show him as Gracie is his favorite and he was pretty bummed that he was going to miss the concert.

Gracie on stage about to start her first dance

Me and Parker (Gracie's brother) waiting for the concert to start

Gracie at the end of the concert smiling at us...I have to kinda agree with Matt that she is one of the cutest girls we know.

Me and Katie (Gracie's little sister) waiting for the dance concert to start. I usually agrue that Katie is the cutest girl when Matt says Gracie is. It is fun to tease him :-)

Me and the girls.

It was quite funny because during the concert and after a couple of ladies that were sitting behind us kept saying that "that is the cutest little girl", which was Gracie. I got to claim her as my daughter for a little bit, but had to fess up and say she was only my niece. Too Bad.

Young Women and Young Men Fundraiser

We hold an annual fundraiser every year for the Youth in our ward to help raise funds to pay for camp. We had a breakfast, car wash, and auction on Saturday, June 11. Luckily the weather was perfect....and alot of people showed up too. We were able to raise about $2000.00.

The young women prepared an item for the auction. We all learned to crochet a square. The squares were then all put into a blanket of values for the auction...we were able to make 2 of them. In the end, Matt and my 1st counselor, Leslie were bidding against each other for the first one and we ended up at $51.00 for each blanket. (never give the husband your check book).

Matt was agreat sport and helped with the food for the breakfast.

This is one of the orange square that I crochetted for Young Women Value blanket!
Took me quite awhile to learn how to crochet, but after I learned it was fun.

The $51.00 blanket...It will be great to remember what I learned in Young Women's year from now.