Thursday, March 7, 2024

Soccer/Swimming/Summer in Full Swing at Last

First a couple of random pictures from Eric's phone. The awesome place we ate on Whitney's birthday, and the bridge on the hot springs hike.
Owen decided to do one more year of swimming lessons. yay!  Here he is doing the breaststroke, and the backstroke.  But the butterfly is his favorite. 
Here's Maris doing the breaststroke, (she did great in a high level! started to learn side breathing) and the kids on a park during Whitney's soccer tournament.
Emma did swimming lessons in the big pool for the first time!  Here she is holding onto the lane lines, and "diving" in haha. 
Whitney and some teammates did a 5v5 in Saratoga Springs; it was super fun and they won! Chad, Whit, Layla, Brooklyn, Olivia, Megan, Ashelyn, Amara, and Eric.
2 pictures of Whitney out there getting it- who do you think won the ball?? 
so silly Emma and Maris!
I promised the girls a night of camping, since they weren't doing the Narrows with us.  So we went up to Whiting for a night!  Eric K and W came up for dinner and campfire, then went home and the 3 kids and I spent the night alone!  It was my first time setting up camp, making a fire and cooking dinner, and taking down camp all by myself. :)

Yay for camping!
My favorite snowcone- 4th of july with pop rocks! and Emma jumping off the diving board
Also Emma lost her first tooth!! Adorable.


 

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Day Camp Round 2

I was in charge of Stake Boys Activity Days, Day Camp again this year.  I admit I was less into it with Girls Camp right before!  But it turned out good.  We did the Covenant Path of Life and it turned out fun!!  Less of a turnout than last year, but any weekend in the summer is hard.
Here is the singing class- "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go"
The Dad Class- Owen changing a diaper!
The Marriage Class- how to have good communication- blindfolded pudding cup making! and Tools class/the Holy Ghost

Careers class- careers quiz and headbands game, and Man class- shaving and hygiene!
Knot tying- covenants class!  

Owen at the marriage class (wearing mustaches from the man class!) and at the tools class
Dance class!!  I put so much effort into getting girls to come help with this, and it was kind of a flop. The teacher took way too much time teaching the steps, and the boys and girls only got to dance together for like 1 minute at the end of each rotation.  Plus we had way more girls than we needed!  But oh well, they tried to still have fun.


Owen spent an HOUR making these awesome paths all over before the activity- to make it like a game board!  And here are some boys doing pushups after spinning the "Trials and Blessings Wheel"- they got to spin several times throughout their path.

My favorite part of the activity was the cards they got to draw at several stations- Career, what temple they got married in, how many kids, where they went on a mission (well, those were flags actually, that they picked after hearing from our full-time missionaries in the chapel at the beginning).  I thought it was super fun. :)
And lastly we have this from a family home evening lesson that went well. :)

Summer Shakespeare

 Shakespeare this summer was Henry the 8th!  Not the most exciting but Katelyn still did great in it!  She played Henry's first (and longest) wife, Catherine of Aragon? Here is a picture of all of the wives in order: Kate, Camille, Andrea, Annica, Catherine, and Lizzie.

Here's the whole cast.  They had fun of course!
Katelyn and Sean (Henry!) and Katelyn being angry with Jacob (Cardinal)

More angry speeches- look at Jacob's evil face!

Katelyn and handmaiden Sulice. And Kate and Sean at Court.

Bows
Henry with all his wives
Henry facing the memory of all his wives at the end!
katelyn having a dream, and then dying!

Facing off with the cardinal, and being a woeful unloved wife.
pleading for her marriage.
With her biggest fans! So glad she got a big part and got to look beautiful and have fun doing summer Shakespeare again.

Also- that one day Kate and Owen accidentally wore their matching shirts haha.