Boulder Mountain and Girls Camp

 The past 3 weeks have been BUSY!  Busy in a good way.  I like to keep my mind busy and going these days.  Back in June we were able to go to the much anticipated Boulder mountain get together with Kade's family.  We were so excited because it  has been 5 years since we have been there with everyone.  It was a lot of fun and it was just as we remembered it being.  We got to take our new old camper down and use it too.  It worked great! 

 Daisy and Elsa loved their lives for that week!  They got to eat everyone's scraps and do whatever they wanted!  We often found them sitting outside our camper door begging with their big brown eyes to come in :)

 We fished upper bowns reservoir and Daisy had to keep checking on me when I got too far away from the others! 

 There was a bit of a contest going on at upper bowns between Kade and his dad to see who could catch the most fish, and this contest started as we were packing up to leave!...... that's what happens when the fishing gets good right when its time to go!

 Kade did end up winning the contest with the most fish :) 

 I even caught 3 with my new pole!

 Took a little drive with Dennis and Rhonda and liked this spot to take their pic. One thing I loved this year about the boulder was the testimonies that were shared on Sunday as we all presented our scriptures that we came up with to combat Satan. I love that the family does a theme each year.  I feel like when we all share our feelings of the gospel together that we grow close. I loved everyone's scriptures and presentations!

 Elsa loves Kade.  She sat by him most of the time while he fished!  What a sweet dog!......it may have been because she was about to have puppies and didn't want to move! ;)

 Dennis, Dallas and Kade fishing lower bowns

 Kade was teaching Dallas and Lacey how to fly fish. 

 One of my most favorite things to do at lower bowns is walk around the lake and try to capture scenic shots, which is not hard to do.  This lake is so pretty, and very diverse.  There are red rocks on one side, a sandy beach on another and a meadow on another along with cedar trees on the hillside. 

 I really enjoyed girls camp this year.  To be honest, I've never been a fan of girls camp....but this year, I feel like that all changed! I loved the theme (Boot Camp) and I loved that it was very patriotic!  I learned some new fun things about our country that I didn't know before.  I learned that the 21 gun salute came from the sum of the numbers of 1776.  I thought that was so cool!  It was so awesome to see the girls folding the flag and learning things that they don't teach in schools anymore.  It was fun singing patriotic songs and saying the pledge of allegiance. And it was fun having DOWN TIME! We got to just hang out at our camp a lot more this year which was so nice!.....Victoria taught Alexis how to play nertz.

 The girls were constantly doing each others hair and my hair, which just puts me right to sleep! I love it.  One of the nights we got toilet papered by another ward, which was kinda funny.  One of the girls from the ward that did it to us, dropped a flashlight, so we made a plan to find our who it was!  We decided to gather up all the toilet paper and put it in a big garbabe bag(because it filled one up-there was a ton) and take it to our next devotional at the amphitheater along with the flashlight.  We made up a cheer where the girls echoed what the leaders yelled out, it went like this:

"We got TP'd in the night, It was quite a frightful sight! We're too nice to get you back, but we'll give you back your stack!"  And we went and dumped the toilet paper in the middle of the cement:)  We also set the flashlight by it, pretty soon they came to clean it up, which told us who did it! What a perfect way to get them back :)  fun times!

 We painted nails forever! It was relaxing.

 These pictures are kinda random, but I had to throw this one in here.  Brynlee has this frog that they caught up at the cabin, and she named it Freckles.  She LOVES it so much! 

 We went fishing up at the Cleavland Res and the Schlappis came up separate but brought their dogs too.  So there is Daisy on the left and her dad Bronco in the middle and her half brother Jimmer on the right.  Pretty dogs!

 Elsa had her puppies while we were on trek! 9 of them!  They are so cute.  We did lose one last night which was sad.  I actually had revived it with some goat milk and it was doing awesome so I thought it would make it, but then it just kept getting weak after that :(  But the others are SO fat and keep eating like crazy! They are going to be so chubby!  We have 6 females and 2 males.  I love their color! I wanted that pretty creamy color with the dark faces.  We do have one pure white one too. 

 About a month ago, me, my bro, and my dad went on a long horse ride up the mountain from milburn.  We went up the Dry Creek trail where my dad used to heard sheep on.  It was so fun seeing my dad ride again, since he doesn't very often. He carved our names in a tree, and left our mark! 

 A little 4th of July fishing!  We decided to get out of the heat after the parade and head up on the mountain, which was a perfect idea.

 We took Trent and Cass with us and made them :) use our float tubes since they hadn't ever done it before.  They loved it.

Horrible picture of me, beautiful picture of Daisy!  This was the day after trek and I was TIRED!  I will have to do a post all about the trek since there will be a ton of pics.  But I love this dog.  She is such a nut!  She makes me so happy and the best is, she just loves to hang out with me, which makes life so much better.  So thankful for her!