Once Upon A Time

 This post is dedicated to girl's camp 2011.

Our theme was "Once Upon a Time..." 

Each level of was represented by a "princess." We had Pocahontas, Belle, Rapuntzel, Mulan, and Cinderella. The YW had so much fun with this. Notice that all of the princesses chosen were not girlie and pink. These girls were warrior princesses!

 

Everyday at the flag raising, we had roll call. Here we are shouting,

Bibbidy, Bobiddy, Boo!

We were the fairy godmothers, of course. 

 

 

Here I am...one of the fearless leaders wearing my toole to protect myself from the awful gnats at our Camp. I had the toole to decorate the leaders cabin. Thank goodness I had some left over. The gnats nearly drove me, and everyone else, mad.

 The gnats didn't bring us down though. We seriously had the best camp I have ever been to.

We had the very best of the best leaders. This picture doesn't even include all the of the level leaders.(Another 20) Pictured here is our Stake YW Presidency, our fearless Camp Director, and our cooks. It is so amazing to me how everything came together.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work!

These are the YCL's trying to fit onto the slide. Very tricky! Check out Daniella's face at the front! She was trying to hold everybody up. Jessica is right in the middle. These YCL's worked very hard to keep our camp on the right track. They sang their hearts out and prepared devotionals for their campers every night.

The "flour war" is one of the favorite activities at camp. It is intended to help the campers learn first aid. If you get hit with a flour bomb, you have an injury that must be treated by the 3rd and 4th years. As you can see, Lauren and Jacie were very, very injured. Near death even. The leaders suprised them with a water balloon attack afterwards. Lots of fun with a doughy mess!

Ok...I had no idea this kind of face painting was going on. It happened late at night when the priesthood was in charge of insuring that the YW stayed in their cabins. Ha Ha.

From what I heard, the girls with painted faces took the 1st years "gawking."

It's like snipe hunting. Pure foolish fun! 

This is the 3rd year group. Lauren has on the yellow bandana.

Janelle pretended to be ME in a skit. These two sweet girls put on a good show for us. It's too bad that we couldn't understand a thing they were saying!

Here are all of the YW during our beautiful hike!

 This is everyone, minus the 4th years.

Those poor girls were pushed to their limit on their

own hike and overnighter the day before.

They hiked out of camp in scorching hot weather carrying their big packs and not enough water. Oops.

They will not make that mistake again. 

Some of them got heat exhaustion. On their hike back in,

 they were soaked to the bone.

It had been raining all morning.

It was a high adventure activity that they will not soon forget. Anyway, we did not require them to go on this group hike.  

I love serving in YW so that I can be with my daughters!

A sweet shot of me and Sandra in our hats! I can't say enough good about her! I love working with Sandra. She has become one of my best friends.

 

We laughed so hard preparing for our skit. I didn't know if we would make it through the whole thing! Fun times!

A special "thank you" to Lori for helping us come up with our skit.

It was very silly and called "Is it time yet?"

See what great camp leaders we had! They even gave Lauren and Jacie piggy-back-rides!