In June I went to Girl’s camp as an Adult leader of all things!  I guess that means I’m officially an adult! :-)  I got to work with the 1st years and we had a ton of fun!  7 of the 9 were from our ward but since I’m relatively new to the YW program in our ward I didn’t really know the girls too much going in.  I had a blast getting to know them and girl’s camp was great!  I did miss my family a lot though and was super happy to see my girls when I got back!

First years have to go on a 3 year hike for their certification!  Here we are on our way back to camp!

The high adventure this year was rock climbing because the camp theme was “Rise Above”.  Bonnie Cardon gave a great presentation to the girls about how rock climbing goes along with the YW values.  I didn’t get a copy of her bookmark so I can’t include it all here but I will have to track one down because it was a really good thing for the girls to hear.  Anyway, here is one of the Junior leaders on her way up the mountain!

Here’s on of the entire cliff! I wish I could say that is me!  But I didn’t get a chance to go this time!  The Cardons said they would have another night so that the leaders could go!  I should probably start lifting weights now because I’m not as strong as those 12 year olds (not to mention I’m dragging a lot more weight up the mountain! haha).

So the stake leaders set up a water activity for the girls.  They told them to play a game where they passed the water balloon back and forth using these towels.  Then the priesthood leaders that were there got out a balloon launcher and launched balloons at the girls from a far.  It was funny to see how long it took for the girls to realize where the balloons were coming from and then all out war started!!

Here is a picture with the Los Alamos ward girls and leaders!

And here is the 1st year camp and leaders!  So much fun!!

In the last post I mentioned that Kaylee loves to climb on things!  Well about a week after those other pictures were taken my sister Christina was visiting.  We had both run in to the kitchen for a minute when suddenly we heard Emmy start laughing and some kind of growling/grunting coming from the other room.  So we went in to find what all the fuss was about and this is the scene we saw….

“Oh, hey mom!  I was just doing some light reading…”

“Okay, really, put the camera down and get me out of here!!”

Emmy to the rescue!!  Emmy finally came and told Kaylee how to get herself unstuck.  This picture cracks me up because it looks like Kaylee is really deep in thought about what Emmy is saying!

And finally she makes it!!  I don’t have a picture where she is totally out but she did make it and even lived to tell the tale!!

There are some really cute pictures of Christina and the girls to follow these up!! But you will have to check back tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion…

Okay!  Kaylee is already trying to stand and walk and it is crazy!  These pictures were taken on a day where Kaylee was being particularly crazy!  She has the energy of like 10 babies I swear (which is probably equal to the energy of about 100 moms)!  So of course I got out the camera to document her mad climbing skills!

I started with a picture of her attacking a bear!  But unfortunately she sees the camera before I can get the pic…

Quickly she is up on all fours and ready to pounce…

“HEY LADY,  I SAID NO PICTURES!!”   She gets so annoyed with the paparazzi!

Once she realizes that I’m not going to hand over the camera she decides to do a little climbing! Here she goes…

And we are up!  This was immediately followed by her falling and then attempting to get on top of the coffee table (this was much encouraged by Emmy I might add)… and crashing…which was followed by…

mom plopping her down in her bouncer!!  Not that I’m not super excited that Kaylee was already standing at 5 months old…but sometimes “Stationary” is a beautiful word!

Alex’s Aunt Julie made these super cute dresses for the girls and they got a ton of compliments at church!  They were both really happy that day so we decided to do a a photo shoot!  Emmy decided on the stairs for our location!

“Cheese, Fuzzy pickles, Cheese”

I just thought they both looked cute here with their crinkled nose smiles!

And finally one of them looks at the camera! ;-)  Success!

So I don’t know if this is really blog worthy but I thought these were funny pictures (taken by Alex) and I wanted to include them in our blog!  Emmy doesn’t really take naps anymore, which means earlier bedtime, but the days can get pretty long!  So on Sundays our new tradition is to get Kaylee down for a nap and then put on Wall-E (YAWN) and fall asleep on the couch together.  Alex usually does home teaching after church so the first time we did this he came home to find Emmy and I asleep on the couch and Kaylee asleep in her swing.  He thought is was hilarious so he took a picture…and he has taken a picture of us every time we do it!  Here are two of the best ones.  He had a picture with Kaylee in it too but the window was too bright so it didn’t turn out!  But she is there too in her swing!

Enjoying our big afghan made by Grandma Kath!

Okay, I think Emmy’s arm looks like I have a giant double chin!  Hopefully not a vision of things to come!  :-)  Good thing I’ve been sticking with my elliptical!