So last week we had spring break and our family went camping in an area called Bellows. It’s a military accessible beach and there are some different places you can camp (and even cabins/hotel rooms) and the bathrooms have warm showers. There’s even a little like convenience store that you can buy slushy‘s and drinks and snacks and things so it’s pretty fun. So the young man and the young women in our ward camped out there for a couple of nights as well and since Brecon, Connor and brother Platt are in young men’s I didn’t wanna just stay home. I wanted to go have some fun too. The young men went on a pretty big hike about a seven or 8 mile hike round-trip to get to a really fun swimming hole waterfall and on this day it was so beautiful. Sadly, I’m worried about some of the young men leaders that started to cramp up or hurt their legs on that hike and brother platt was the one that stayed with the whole group that completed the entire hike and he was fine until when they got back to camp he standing up from a bathroom break and his knee just popped and started hurting really bad that’s what happens when you get old!! He was limping the rest of the week 😳 and I felt so bad!!
Anyways… back to the beach—It was so beautiful the water over there just the prettiest blue blue green. and normally it’s quite windy and there’s some waves that you can catch and kind of boogie board up to the shore but this time that we were there I’ve never seen the water so flat, and the wind was hardly blowing at all. But bad news— and you guessed it rookie mistake on the first day. I thought I was putting enough sunscreen on my children but it turns out you could never put on enough sunscreen when the kids are playing in the water and playing in the sand so Cannon was burned so bad all over his body, front back and face especially. Brielle will wear a long sleeve swim shirt, so she was mostly protected, but her face looked quite red at the end of the day. And that was just Wednesday and we were going to stay till Saturday so the kids stayed in the shade for the rest of the week or we just kind of played around, but it was good to just change things up and get away from the house easy Wi-Fi, internet and electronics. But one thing I almost messed up was my Duolingo streak but thankfully I had a couple of freezes to save me. 😂😂
So all the youth left on Thursday and our family was sitting there at the beach and in that moment like we were already to leave but there were some families that were coming out to go camping with us and so we felt obligated to stay and so we stayed and I’m really glad we did because it was just nice and chill and have fun and the kids had a great time playing in the water But it was also very tempting for us to go home and sleep in our nice comfortable beds. And plus Ben’s knee hurt and Brecon and Connor were sad because all their friends left. Oh well.
But school is going good and so are the kids. I am trying to figure out how to be a good primary president but it is tough when we don’t have enough teachers or we’re scrambling to find somebody to teach a class on Sunday and we have 830 church so there’s not a lot of time for people to get a warning and prepare! I know I’ve mentioned that before but it’s just some thing that I’m constantly thinking about how to improve how things work in primary and also encourage people to spend 20 minutes to teach a cute little primary class. I don’t know why more people aren’t volunteering … weird?
So all the youth left on Thursday and our family was sitting there at the beach and in that moment like we were already to leave but there were some families that were coming out to go camping with us and so we felt obligated to stay and so we stayed and I’m really glad we did because it was just nice and chill and have fun and the kids had a great time playing in the water But it was also very tempting for us to go home and sleep in our nice comfortable beds. And plus Ben’s knee hurt and Brecon and Connor were sad because all their friends left. Oh well.
But school is going good and so are the kids. I am trying to figure out how to be a good primary president but it is tough when we don’t have enough teachers or we’re scrambling to find somebody to teach a class on Sunday and we have 830 church so there’s not a lot of time for people to get a warning and prepare! I know I’ve mentioned that before but it’s just some thing that I’m constantly thinking about how to improve how things work in primary and also encourage people to spend 20 minutes to teach a cute little primary class. I don’t know why more people aren’t volunteering … weird?
But today there was a family that I’ve just been thinking about ever since I got called into primary and they were there today! I had sent the mom a text with a picture of our family and a little introduction and so when I met her today it was so nice— They have 4 kids and I was so happy to see them at church!
Brecon and Connor went to a tri-stake youth dance on Friday night and they said it was super fun. They had a kind of photo booth and so you could get pictures printed off with three different poses and I was super jealous. Ive always wanted a Photo Booth at functions like that! Connor came home with two pictures and Brecon took six with friends. It looked like a lot of fun! They also had some oversize games like connect four and Jenga and I guess Connor was that connect 4 champion at the dance. Brecon didn’t tell me this, but one of the friends said that a girl from the another stake asked for Brecon’s number…. He is a handsome blonde haole (white boy) 😉😉😆
We’re heading into our last quarter of school and soon summer will be here. We’re excited about couple of campouts that we’re doing and FSY for Brecon and Connor they’re going to get to go up to BYUH for a week!! Lucky ducks!! Our young men are also going to fly over to Maui and do a 20 mile hike out from the tallest mountain there called Haleakala. That should be a fun memory for them all. I just hope the adult leaders can make it… I’m worried about Ben… hopefully his knee feels better (he did get an x-ray and will probably get an MRI on it to see if there’s any serious damage going on in there) I’m hoping he gets better soon!!
Brecon and Connor went to a tri-stake youth dance on Friday night and they said it was super fun. They had a kind of photo booth and so you could get pictures printed off with three different poses and I was super jealous. Ive always wanted a Photo Booth at functions like that! Connor came home with two pictures and Brecon took six with friends. It looked like a lot of fun! They also had some oversize games like connect four and Jenga and I guess Connor was that connect 4 champion at the dance. Brecon didn’t tell me this, but one of the friends said that a girl from the another stake asked for Brecon’s number…. He is a handsome blonde haole (white boy) 😉😉😆
We’re heading into our last quarter of school and soon summer will be here. We’re excited about couple of campouts that we’re doing and FSY for Brecon and Connor they’re going to get to go up to BYUH for a week!! Lucky ducks!! Our young men are also going to fly over to Maui and do a 20 mile hike out from the tallest mountain there called Haleakala. That should be a fun memory for them all. I just hope the adult leaders can make it… I’m worried about Ben… hopefully his knee feels better (he did get an x-ray and will probably get an MRI on it to see if there’s any serious damage going on in there) I’m hoping he gets better soon!!
