Wedding Bells....

Don't go getting all excited, no bells for me!

I am busy planning a trip. I just found out yesterday morning that my mother
is getting married in A MONTH, in

HAWAII!!!!!

Who wants to come?!

My new cah!

Well...in the end none of those cars won the race. Meet my new car, the Toyota Rav4. Its a 2006 with just under 33,000 miles on it and I love it!
Anyone want a ride?!

Car Shopping

I'm going car shopping Saturday afternoon, happy birthday to me! It is most likely down to these 3 cars. The Chevy Equinox, the Hyundai Tuscon and the Saturn Vue. All 2005 models.
Advice?!

Silly

Inspired by Craig's post showing a Mormon Message by President Hinkley I spent some time on You Tube tonight checking out the videos that have been put there by the church. Then I found this and I couldn't resist sharing! HA!

The Big Parade!

I spent the past week in Minnesota. They have a huge fair and parade every summer called The Giant Celebration (Green Giant was based there for years). I haven't gotten to go to Giant Days since 2000 so I was very excited! I took a ton of pictures of the parade to show y'all. Parades in MN are huge! This parade was just over an hour and a half long and had something like 7 bands and I think there were 5 sets of Shriners driving their fun little cars. I wanted you to all see how huge parades and fairs are in MN, this one is in a tiny town of just over 3500 people!

It was super hot in the sun that day. This is my friend's little girl, Bella. Her grandmother and my mother have been friends since kindergarten.

So most of the bands that were in the parade stopped playing just before they got to my spot. So annoying! This group in particular spotted my camera, one guy screamed CAMERA and they all came running. I was so excited!

I couldn't get a very good shot of the street and the crowds but I tried!

Ha ha ha...Corn!

Wanakee - Footnotes Week

So camp was super fun. One morning we woke up to Dylan dressed as Snow White...

I'm still not sure why!

Campfires were fun. We made banana boats, banana with chocolate and melty marshmallows.

I think they look sick and said they look like dismembered body parts. The kids thought it was hysterical to say they were eating one another's arms...so silly and fun.

We did the Giants Ladder which is part of the ropes course. Nate (seen below) is almost 6'4" and was able to do the ladder by himself in under 7 minutes. I've seen it take a pair of kids well over a half hour to do it together! We now call it Nate's Ladder.

My co-counselor Nathan was also a volunteer and we had a fun time together. We agreed about most everything and were both quite silly.

We had a few "indoor campfires" which were filled with ridiculousness. I liked snapping pictures and blinding everyone, aren't I sweet?! Ha ha.

The dessert for our first cookout didn't go so well...Can you tell it was supposed to be cobbler?! Guess our fire was too hot! The stuff between the burnt layers was good...

It was raining the last night so after we did the dishes and mopped up we played some board games. My table played The Game of Life and Nathan's table played Jenga/Monopoly...not sure how that worked out!

Well I'm off to summer camp at Wanakee in Meredith again. Should be a great week, I'm very hopeful that the rain will quit already so it can also be a dry week!

I'm so excited to get to camp do do the fun things like swimming at the waterfront...

Hanging out at campfires and cooking over them...

Of course our lovely roommates...


In our home for the week...

(Its called a Yurt)

And the little beasties that chase us around all day and night...

And the beautiful music we all get to create and enjoy.

If you're looking for something fun to do next Saturday pop by camp for a fun concert, singing, dancing, hand bells, guitars and a band! It will be at 11am at Wanakee United Methodist Center which is on Upper New Hampton Road, its off 104 in Meredith and there is a sign for the camp on 104. There is a chicken bbq after the concert if you're hungry, adults are $8 and kids are $5. Hope to see you there!