Trek

In June, our stake had a pioneer trek. We left on Monday, and met our families. My Ma and Pa were the Halls. My siblings were Tyler, Sierra, Haley, Will, Aiden, Hunter, Charlie, and Chris/Freddy/Janessa. We had a lot of fun. Our Ma and Pa were really fun and had great senses of humor. On the second day, we walked for about half the day, then climbed a huge hill, and we had to use ropes to pull the handcarts up. On the third day, we had to cross a river, and the girls got carried across the river by some of the boys. On the third day we had the women's pull. It was difficult, but overall, a great experience. We made it back to Zion later that day. We got to sleep on the soft green grass that night, but my family had a little party before that. We ran around in the dark, scaring people who were going to and from the bathroom. We also played star games, and chased each other around. It was a really fun, really late night. The next day we all went home.

Putting on my shoes

Being carried across the "river"

This is the women's pull

My family!

During a nighttime fireside

My family, again

This was in the early morning

My family pulling our cart up a hill

Shannon, Abby, and I

My family and our handcart, one last time

A few weeks ago, In August, My trek family had our reunion. We had a grill, but we accidentally set the house on fire. Or, Ma did anyway. She was grilling a little too close to the wall. It's okay, though, It only burned the paint. Hunter pointed it out. "Hey you guys know your house is on fire, right?" After our exciting dinner, (Ma cooked the burgers inside after that) we talked, and I kind of started a big water fight, too. I hit Pa with a water balloon, and I think that after that, everyone hit me at least once. Hunter and Pa both poured icey water on me, but I got Hunter back. (I may have thrown ice at him.) I got soaked, and I soaked Charlie, too. It was a lot of fun.

Girl's Camp

On Monday, we left for Girl's Camp. I'm a second year, and our YCLs were Anna, Hailey, Julia and Rebecca. The devotional speaker was really good that night. I had a very fitful sleep, though. Tuesday, Shannon (a first year from my ward) and I made a bunch of cool crafts and went to archery. It was fun. That night, we had a pageant, and since my unit was South Africa, we dressed some people in African clothing, and chose some people for the other categories like talent and language. We all got Tiaras, and then we went on hayrides and ate cookies. On Wednesday, we had skit night. Before that, we were preparing for the skits. I was a missionary.  Thursday we had the solo hike and testimony meeting. Afterwards, we had root beer floats. We left on Friday, but it was a really fun week!

My camp

Flag of South Africa

Setting up my tent

Robert playing with a pinecone

Me in my tent

My unit was South Africa

Dance Recital

So, this actually happened the same day as the 5k, but I felt they should be different posts. I was in a tap dance to the song "Mr. Pinstripe Suit".

Me, before

 

This is the beginning of the dance

 

Wings

 Turns

 

Shuffle-Steps

 

Relief Society 5k

On Saturday the 29th, our stake's Relief Society put on a 5k. We got there at 8:00. Then Mom made me go to the bathroom with her. When we got back, the people who where walking had already left, so she made me run with her to catch up. As soon as my Aunt Tricia came by with the run/walkers, I went to run with her. I stayed with her most of the way, but she finished a bit before me. I did beat my Aunt Kim and my sister, though. They had bananas for us afterward. Hot, sweaty, and hard, but fun!

Day 30

We got up early in the morning, and had hot chocolate for breakfast. (Along with other things.) We left quickly. (Without taking pictures, because Uncle Dick and Aunt Evelyn were in their robes.) I watched a lot of movies. (Including Annie and Prince of Persia.) We stopped for gas a few times. I took a break from watching movies because of a curvy stretch of road. We stopped at a Dairy Queen to get blizzards, then later at a Burger King to eat dinner. We stopped at the Costco near home to get gas. Then we went home and began to unpack. I went to my house to see my family. Elisabeth jumped on me when I walked in, Ben said he missed me because he had to do my jobs, Robert looked like he thought I was crazy, Mom said hi, and Leilani said she was hoping I wouldn't come home. Then they came over to Grandma's, and Ben jumped o Grandpa. Then Elisabeth tried to jump on him, but he braced himself and she bounced off him, landing on her back on the pavement. Luckily, the only thing she hurt was her elbows. We all talked, then we went home. We watched Father of the Bride and went to bed.

Day 29

When I woke up in the morning, everyone else was already awake. They were upstairs eating. I got up, made my bed, got dressed, brushed my teeth, and got on the computer to do homework. Soon I heard someone upstairs say that Uncle Mike would be arriving in a few minutes, so I began to shut down the computer. Then Grandpa came down to wake me up, but of course I was already awake. We visited with Uncle Mike's family for a while, but I was mostly playing with Alexa and/or Kailyn. Uncle Mike was evidently throwing up the night before, and had bursted a vein or something in his eye. It looked like his eye was bleeding! Then Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Dick started to fix up lunch, so I helped them. I was the bean girl. When we were all ready to eat lunch, (which was taco salad) Uncle Mike sat Alexa down across the table from me because, as he said, he wanted to get "a good blog review." Alexa ended up sitting by me anyway. After lunch they left. Grandma, Grandpa, and I went to see Grandpa's cousin, Lee after deciding to stay another night. They talked for a really long time. Then Grandma and I went inside a fabric store while Grandpa read a book he got from Lee. Grandma got a lot of fabric. After coming back, we all played Five Crowns and I Buy while eating chicken pot pie. It was good. We played until ten-thirty, then went to bed.

Day 28

We woke up, ate breakfast, and headed out by seven. The first place we stopped was Chimney Rock. That was really neat. Then we went to Register Cliff and some ruts that were taller than me! Then we drove for a really long time. We stopped at Little America to get ice cream. When the guy handed a cone to Grandma, she grabbed and totally crushed the cone, getting ice cream on her and the man's hands. It was pretty funny. After that we drove for a while longer. We got to Uncle Mark's house and visited with them and ate pizza. Then we left for Uncle Dick and Aunt Evelyn's. We chatted for a long while before going to bed.