Girl's Night Out!

Thank you Ashley, Ruth, Kim, Laurie, and Kimberly for a fun-filled night out to dinner and a movie! I love our girls nites and I love these girls. We have kids the same ages and have been married about the same amount of time and all have fun sharing our life experiences--the highs and lows--together. Thank you for a much needed night out, let's do it again SOON! :)

Thanks Ashley for the pic I stole off your blog :)

Okay, so how cute is this little guy?!

I took these pics a couple of weeks ago of baby Ben and I am in love with them. I took 85 pics so fortunately some of them turned out! So yeah, I took these and then my camera crapped out a week later and I'm having to deal with the manufacturer/company over getting it repaired. Aarrgghh. I hate that. Oh well, that's not what this post is about.
It's about how cute Ben and Kim's baby is and how looking at these pictures makes me wanna cry seeing how different he already looks and how quickly my baby girls are growing up and aren't babies anymore.

Girl's Camp 2008

Me and my crazy funny cousin Samantha. Reason for the costume? None at all, it's Girl's Camp! Me and a coupld of my achievement day girls turned young women. I just love these girls! The lei and the coconut bra went along with our camp theme by the way.
We were "Go Fish" since the overall camp theme was "The Game of Life" and each group chose a different game as their theme. So we took the fish to a tropical level because, well, that's more fun! (hence, the coconut bra)
This is Grandma D with Mikayla at Fresh Choice, Mikayla's favorite restaurant! We are so glad and thankful Grandma and Grandpa (who Mikayla has now decided to affectionately call Gram and Pop) were able to come out and stay with the girls for the week while Trent went to school and work. They all had a great time without me and we look forward to seeing them again at Christmas!!

So, I haven't been to Girl's Camp in 8 years, but got to go this year as a leader for our stake. It was tons of fun and lemme just say the job is cake. :) I was over the 3rd year girls so 14 yr olds that have already been to camp and know the drill and where to be and what to do. Basically I went away for a week and someone else cooked for me, I didn't have to clean anything (okay, we had a few chores, but no big deal), no laundry, no kids to chase and we basically got to eat as much candy as we wanted. Any time of day.

I really had a great time on the overnight hike, tubing on the lake with the girls, making s'mores, lip syncing in a skit, singing crazy loud songs and getting to know the people in our stake better. It's funny, I've always been in Primary at Church so this was my first time with the youth and on the hike I was talking and probably acting like a loud, 17 year old girl when a girl said, "Wow, I never knew you were cool! I know your husband is but we just never knew you were." Might sound kinda offensive, I took it as a major compliment from a 17 year old with a personality I myself admire.

Oh yeah, and I spent my 26th birthday there too, complete with 100 people singing to me and I got great gifts too! Almond MnM's, Almond Joys, and a CASE of Diet Pepsi (perfect present huh?! I loved it!) oh yeah, the best gift--I got to sleep in a tent that night instead of under the bug-infested trees dropping ticks down all night long. thank you Dawn for the gifts!