Wow, what a week we had. Brain attended Woodbadge training, and the rest of us went to the Family Camp that our Council does once a year with Woodbadge.
Brian was assigned to the Eagle patrol, and had a great time in his training and with the others that he associated with. He learned a lot, and is looking forward to earning his beads. His goal is to have them about the time Saundra & Lynn return from their mission next spring.
Brian was assigned to the Eagle patrol, and had a great time in his training and with the others that he associated with. He learned a lot, and is looking forward to earning his beads. His goal is to have them about the time Saundra & Lynn return from their mission next spring.
Family camp had some amazing things planned for the spouses to do while our kids were off to their activities. Horseback riding was probably my favorite thing that I did, and I hope that when the pictures are available, there is some from that trip. I also got to go repelling, river running, and kayaking and canoeing on the lake. The repelling scared me to death, but I was proud of myself for doing it. I have never done anything like that, and I wish we would have had time to do more! I made some great friends, that I hope to keep in contact with. We'll see how that goes, I'm not very good at that.
Amber had a lot of fun at the Archery range. She enjoyed trying those new things. She was in the 8-9 year old girls group. Along with archery, she got to shoot BB guns, swim, go on the lake in the row boats, canoes and sail boat. She also got to go to the nature lodge at camp, and participate in Indian Lore and arts and crafts. She had fun meeting new girls her age and socializing with them. I don't know how many e-mail addresses she got, but I know there were several.
Les enjoyed having a few boys his age around. I don't think that it would have taken anything more than that to keep him happy. But to add to his fun he also got to participate in all the fun things that Amber did. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of pictures, because I was off doing fun things while the kids were in their groups. But there were camp photographers whose job was to catch all the pictures we couldn't. So I am waiting on those pictures to be ready so that I can get some of them.
Zak was in the Small-Fry group it had a lot of 3-4 year olds in it. He had lots of fun doing pre-school type activities. He got to go to the Nature lodge, and participate in Indian Lore. Otherwise, that age group spent most of their time in their campsite playing on the playground that was brought in, watching movies, and exploring. Their favorite thing to do was play in the dirt...and there was plenty of that around. For their skit, they sang Five Little Monkeys..it was SO cute!
After we left Camp Bartlett, we went to Star Valley Wyoming so Brian could have some time to fish on the stream. We also took the kids fishing at the lake.
While Brain fished the stream, we stayed back at camp, and the kids played in a stream that went through the camp site.
While the kids fished at the lake in the evening, I got bored and took pictures.
Isn't it amazing the things that have been put on this earth by our Heavenly Father for us to Enjoy. I always love to go to the lake when we go with Brian on his fishing trips, and we are always grateful that he takes fishing seriously (family joke) enough to take us along. I know that we cut into his stream time, but I am glad that he wants us there.
It's no wonder the Simmons have been fishing here for so many years. It is a beautiful area, even if there are bears...hehehe.
