The Davis County Fair

We started this tradition when I worked at Michael's. My co-worker Nicole would take a week off for the Davis County Fair, because she had pigs and goats and her kids did 4-H. So we started going to support and see her. The kids loved it and now even though I don't work at Michael's (yeah) we still go to the fair to see her and the animals. This is the petting zoo... here we are petting a turtle McKinley was a little nervous about touching it Here we are petting an emu

petting the pig

The kids were allowed to milk a goat. Pretty interesting....it's something I've never done. So here's Carter milking a goat.

Now Madison's turn This year was very exciting and packed they had an animal show with tigers and snakes and such. Well you could pay to go in and be with the tigers. So as a family we went in and sat with a 3 week old tiger cub. In the cage with us was a baby kangaroo....isn't she cute?! Here's Kinney petting the tiger....still not too sure about these animals Carter wasn't too fond of being in the tigers cage or petting her for that matter. This was about as close as he would get. Kinney on her own petting the tiger...I think she's getting the hang of it. Oh wait, now we're wanting to pick up the "baby" How about a kiss. (The trainer said it was okay) Bye baby tiger! It was worth it, how many kids are able to say that they pet a baby tiger? And she was so small, it was really cool!

And of course at the end of the fair we have to get a picture in their sign. That we had a wild time at the Davis County Fair Kinney's turn! I would encourage you to go. It's free other than the parking...and whatever else you'd like to buy or eat...I'm a sucker for funnel cakes...especially at the fair!

Until the next funnel cake or post....

Girls Camp

This is my fourth year in a row as camp director. I won't lie, it is one of my favorite callings. I enjoy being with the youth and being in the outdoors away from the world, and having the opportunity to teach. This year girls camp was on a ward level. We decided to go to a church owned camp in American Fork Canyon, called Mutual Dell. It's a short ways up the canyon from Timpinogas. Mutual Dell is a fabulous camp. We had flush toilets, showers, options for canoeing, zip line, confidence course, hiking, a baseball diamond, and tons of room in the great out doors. I would recommend Mutual Dell to anyone in charge of running a Girls Camp. Here's the group of girls...before we started the hike A view from the hike. You have to love the Mountains! Some of the activities we did were provided by the camp. They said they had a low level confidence course and so we scheduled time to participate on the four courses. It was amazing the growth the girls made in a matter of a few hours. Given a choice I would go back to this camp again and again. First up we had the Cable Walk. A cable was connected to trees about 18 inches off the ground. And you had to get your entire team to the end with out touching the ground. It was very tricky.

The next part of the course was the climbing wall. I'm not going to lie, there were some girls that you might call athletically challenged. I didn't know if they would make it. But with a lot of teamwork, leader support EVERY girl made it up the climbing wall. We also had people come to talk to us, Daniel was one of them. It was a great talk

We also learned a lot of this....

The next course was the Spider's Web. Where you had to get every person in your group through a different hole while not talking.

The last course was the Giant's Thumb. You had to take the tire off the giant pole without you or the tire touching the pole. Here are our priesthood leaders helping with the zip line....this is where you crash at the end. It was a blast! Everyone had so much fun on the zip line. Everyone got to ride it 3 times. This is how much crazy fun we had. This is the name of our campsite. Our Last day....sad....wait...WAHOO! It was a lot of hard work poured into 4 days but it was worth it. I hope the girls felt the spirit and had fun, I know I did. The only thing I didn't like was missing Madison's first day of First Grade. Hopefully Mom took pictures. Maybe Daniel will post about the spiritual part of girls camp, I'm too close to it right now to be objective. Anyways... Until the next post....

Carter's new job?

I am the one who usually mows the lawn. Why? I enjoy it, I put in my headphones and it shows results quickly unlike gardening! Well Carter is at this stage where he wants to help with everything. He wants to help cook, clean, work, build, whatever. Sometimes it's great, other times not so much. Well he wanted to mow the lawn all by himself, so I let him. He mows the lawn while I load the dishwasher. He comes in about 10 minutes later and says he's done. I go out to see his work and this is what I see... It's kind of like racing stripes...

Needless to say, I'll be the one mowing the lawn and he can help somewhere else until he's a little taller and stronger to handle the lawn mower!

Until the next post...