"At All Times" Girl's Camp 2010

I'm barely coming down from an amazing week at Girl's Camp. {2009 Girl's Camp iBelieve here} Let me tell you, it's exhausting to camp with 120 young women for even a few days!

Highlights were:

• getting attacked by wild turkeys {aka quail}
• great food made by our excellent chef Fabio
• singing "the Princess Pat" like 20 times
• watching the coolio skits
• growing full mustaches and speaking with Italian accents
• crafts! {I was in charge of crafts again this year and it went really well.}
• listening to wonderful, inspiring messages and testimonies. My arms get goosebumps just thinking about it.

Le craft cabin. Please come in...

Nice and organized...it didn't look like this at the end of camp.

Camarillo 5th Ward

Day two: Tie-Dye! A girl's camp staple.

Rock wall & zip line

Some of the crafts: friendship bracelets and cute fabric flower hair clips!

Sadly, I don't think I'll be around for next year's round of Girl's Camp. 

But I enjoyed it immensely the two years I was able to attend!!

Mustaches!

Photos taken at Girl's Camp last week & made vintage by this picture generator.

{It's in Japanese. Click on English on the top right corner.}

Don't we look dashing in our newly-grown mustaches?

Especially our Bishop Barlow. Nice.

Fire & S'mores

I realize I post a lot about our Tuesday night Young Women activities, but we just do a lot of fun things I can't resist. I have no life, sorry.

Last week we had a camp prep night where we learned {including myself} how to build a fire, knot-tying, and how to cook with fire--s'mores!

Can't wait for girl's camp in August.
Hope it stops raining by then.

Franco Takes The Boys Camping.

A couple weekends ago, {I'm a bit behind on my posting} Franco took the Boy Scouts on a quick camping trip to Leo Carrillo, a campground by the beach close to Malibu.

It was a windy weekend, but it looks like they survived it well by playing a grueling game of Risk...

...and stoking up a nice bonfire for warmth...

...and cooking a wonderfully-fattening breakfast...

...and taking a little field trip to the beach and taking a cruel picture by a dying seal {only boys, right?}...

...and they still had smiles on their faces as they were taking down the tents! Franco did his job well.

No camping trip is complete without a cameo of our friend the squirrel.

Looks like a lot of fun!
I'm glad I got to stay home and spend some girl time with my mom & sis {another post for laters.}

"At All Times" Girls Camp Logo 2010

I'm happy to share this year's YW Camp 2010 Theme & Logo:

"At All Times: Strong* Fearless* Courageous"!

It has to do with the youth theme for the year, Joshua 1:9, which can be seen here.

I was able to do last year's theme & logo, iBelieve, and thought it couldn't be topped,

but I'm really liking this year's a lot.

Our stake camp won't be until August, but we unveiled the theme & logo at Saturday's YW dinner & broadcast. I can't wait until camp this year! I'm in charge of crafts again and I have so many ideas, I'm about to pop.

Friends. Family. Weddings. Babies. Movies. Weekend.

Saturday was a long, but fantastical, day.

On our way to Oxnard for training for girl's camp

we got a flat tire.

Woo hoo.

YCL YW's camp training 9 am to 1 pm:

Why do we women insist on decorating everything like its a wedding reception??

It was pretty, but man, it took a lot of time!

4 pm: Sherry & Andy's wedding reception.

Vintage, classic, elegant, just like Sherry.

Look at her dress!

She looked like she had just stepped out of a good Jane Austen movie...

{More pics when Brenda gets them up.
They're GORGEOUS. Go-r-geous.}

Speaking of Brenda,

she was visiting from Oregon for the weekend to shoot the wedding;

I was so glad to see her!

She was my wedding photographer and she's just a little amazing.

My Mami & Papi were there, too, enjoying the delicious food.

Then I babysat these two beauties:

There is nothing cuter than twin girls.
{Right, Debbie? =}

Got home from that and found New Moon waiting for me by the TV.

Watched it with my own personal wolf pack,

Franco, Pepe, and Mosiah.

Long...but great day.

iBelieve Camp 2009

June 16-20

Young Women's Camp 2009

Camp Whittier, Santa Barbara, California

Isn't this cool? They're miming the logo as part of their skit. I love these girls!

The arts-&-crafters:

My sister Ruth {bottom left}, Alisa {bottom right}, Airin {top right}, and Kimmey {top left} watching the skits on Tuesday night

On my way to the mess hall, or "iEat" as we dubbed it

Friday morning we took a "Virtue Walk" {at 6 am!} and the girls signed a gold flag promising to be women of virtue.

120 girls!

Me & Ruth. It doesn't look like I'm 10 years older than her, huh??

The leaders

Friday was "iClimb" and "iSwing"~ the rock wall & zip line

Wahoooo!

The YW from Camarillo 5th Ward

The mastermind behind it all~ Sister Corrine Barlow.

My bunk bed.

iSurvived!

The theme was a success, the girls were amazing, and the whole week was a blast. I can't believe it's over. The cool part was that it was my little sister's {okay, she's taller than me, but I'm still older} first year! I'm so happy I was able to be there with her. Franco was even able to come up one night. That's a whole other story, which I will tell when I receive pictures from other people. I was in charge of all the arts and crafts. Each day we'd do a different craft, but the most popular were the pin-back buttons & tie-dye. I love these girls! I loved camp! I want to go again!