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08/14/11 Katie joins student council, GS camp, & consecration & sacrifice

Cookie queen's -- Holly & Katie
8/14/11

Just got through with our early morning meetings and had some breakfast and getting ready to go to church.  All the girls are prettied up and the boys look handsome!

Last week before school is now over and school officially starts tomorrow morning.  Yikes!  I don't know if I'm ready to jump back into busy busy busy again!  Ready or not, here it comes!

Katie is on student council this year and starts off at 7:50 with her first meeting tomorrow before school.  I'm not sure what Holly will do since I prefer to take them up together.  I'll have to try to find some acceptable activity for her to do.  Katie says she can go to the library but I'm not sure if she would...and behave.  She needs something busier like being a teacher's helper or breakfast helper or something.  I don't really want to leave her to the play ground.  Kids can be too mean out there w/o supervision!

We went to GS camp this week and the girls had a great time.  The camp was supposed to be 3 days, 2 nights and kept getting shortened until it was 22 hours.  But I think they still crammed most of the activity into the 1 day that was going to take place over 3 days because they kept them really busy.  They did watercolor painting, made dolls, made bracelets, necklaces with flashlights, blew bubbles, played games, sang campfire songs, ate s'mores (lot of them...think Holly was up 1/2 the night from sugar overload), did orienteering, archery, made puppets, tye-dyed a hanky, told stories...seriously...it was just really action packed!  The kids were great and had a great time.  We had 10 girl scouts and I was a little nervous (about 3 of them can be a handful usually) but they were all just really well behaved.  At night they put all the kids out on the floor of the lodge and by 11ish things were pretty quiet.  The adults got to sleep upstairs in beds (there were 7 beds in the room I slept in and it looked like the 7 dwarf's bedroom).  I was dopey!  At least I wasn't sneezy...my new meds are really doing the trick!  No asthma/allergy problems for quite some time now!!! Yippee!

I think the boys were supposed to go to school this week and get "stuff" like their lockers...but we all forgot and so they didn't go.  Ooops.  They totally could have with Dallas driving now...but nope.

Took Bryce out again driving yesterday.  He's still pretty apprehensive and better off without traffic.  So we went up on the hill and drove around for awhile.  He'll get it eventually!
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Went to church and had a nap and it's dinner time already!  Getting ready to head up to grandparent's for dinner.  Aunt Wendy and family will be there.  She is about ready to pop...next month I think.  Brittney will be closer to Thanksgiving time.



















I am going to try to send you some pix from gs camp.  I selected a couple but they were huge so I'll try to send separately.

My lesson today was on consecration and sacrifice and how often when we think we sacrifice we are actually blessed many times more than the sacrifice we made.  For example you with your mission are "sacrificing" these two years but you will come away with so many blessings and things learned that you will treasure for a life time that your sacrifice won't seem a sacrifice when you look back.

So I hope you enjoy your sacrifice now because you will be blessed many times over for the things you are giving up right now.  I wish I had thought to say that in class today.  Oh well.  We talked about giving up tithing money and receiving blessings or giving up time to serve others and receiving blessings.

Well it's been a good week here.  I hope it has been there also.  Thank you for your example and sacrifice.  

You are blessing our family in countless ways.  Love you. Mom.

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