Cooking for Camp

Heather and Megan are going to church girls camp in June.  To help each girl raise money their youth group hosted a spaghetti dinner and dessert auction.  The money raised by the spaghetti dinner was divided evenly between all the girls; however, the money from the dessert auction was applied to whichever girl brought the item.

My girls spent the morning at Grandma's house baking.  Then we came home and did some more baking at our house.  It was SO MUCH FUN!  Their dad loves pecan pie but Grandma only makes it at Thanksgiving and Christmas.  The girls wanted to learn how to make it for dad and practiced by making two for the dessert auction.  Grandma was kind enough to have them make a third one for Dad.  He was appropriately excited!

We also made triple chocolate brownies, no bake cookies (Papa's favorite!), lemony lemon brownies (Heather wanted to try this new recipe), and Cookie Monster cupcakes.  Everyone was very generous and the girls earned all the money they needed for camp.  Megan was excited because the highest selling item was her Cookie Monster cupcakes.  She said next year she will make a whole bunch!

Megan made chocolate cupcakes.  The eyes are white chocolate melts and chocolate chips glued on with white frosting.  We bought a small bag of mini chocolate chip cookies and made blue frosting.  I piped the frosting onto the cupcakes and Megan added the cookies and eyes.  We used a special frosting tip -- Wilton 233.  The frosting took a while, but Megan was patient and SO excited about how cute they turned out. 

Shooting Practice

We recently went camping to celebrate my parents' 50th anniversary.  My brothers brought their guns and gave all the nieces and nephews a chance for some shooting practice.  This is my favorite picture. 

Uncle Devon and Emily

My sister actually took most of the photos from the trip.  I'll post more once I get them from her.

Girls Camp 2011

This year is the first year that all three girls were old enough to go to camp.  They had a great time together.

We have had some technical difficulties with downloading pictures on this computer.  I dowloaded six month's of pictures from my camera today.  The girls took their cameras to camp and I hope to have their camp pictures up on the blog soon.  Until then, this is our only picture, showing the girls unloading their camping gear at the church.

Very Important Princesses

The Young Women in our stake went to girls' camp over the Fourth of July weekend this year.  Their theme was VIP- Very Important Princesses.  Everyone received pink shirts and other princess attire, like tiaras and necklaces.  My tomboy Emily struggled with the theme and abundance of pink, but thoroughly enjoyed her camp experience and the things she learned.  Below are some photos of the fun they had.

Heather and Emily gathering their gear as I dropped them off

Sister Barnes giving Emily her first princess item:

a pearl necklace

What would camp be without crafts??

Heather and the other 2nd year girls from the stake receive their certificates

Emily and the other 4th year girls receive their certificates.

Emily's BFFs Clarcy and Kendra are also in the photo.

Each ward made a ward flag.  This was our flag.

Everyone from our ward who went to camp: 

back row, L-R, Ashlyn, Sister Barnes, Heather, Emily, Sister Miranda, Sister Fisk. 

Front row: Elizabeth, Cheyenne, Morgan, Karissa, Abby

It looks like they had a great time.  Megan gets to go next year and she can't wait!!

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It's off to camp we go...

Emily, Heather, and Heather's best friend Alanna all left for church Girls' Camp this morning. They'll be back Wednesday.

Megan is thrilled to have me to herself for almost a week. She already has the whole week planned out: pedicures, lunch, movies (yes, plural movies!), etc. She also gets to spend the night with her grandparents one night. Sometimes is pays to be the youngest!