We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Our Stake went back and forth between deciding if we should have girls camp or not. They finally decided to let the leaders plan one around March, but that didn't give them much time to plan so it was a shortened version, two nights and three days. I was lucky enough to go with about 7 girls and 6 more youth camp leaders that drove up a day early. I had a blast getting to know Jamie Rogers better and we had some good times together. I convinced her that wearing a muu muu is the way to go at girls camp! They made literacy kits for local elementary schools for their service project.  The bishop came up and he gave a little devotional and he gave us all these hair wraps that HE made from embroidery thread.  He tied it to how all the different colors represent all of us and how together we can make something beautiful. I thought it was so sweet and thoughtful. He started all of them and we finished each of them to the length of our hair. When we arrived the first day the stake lea...

We had planned a trip to Utah/Idaho in the summer of 2020, but Covid made us cancel. We were able to reschedule our flights for the summer of 2021. There were still restrictions in place but we took the risk and were so happy to see family. We flew into Salt Lake City and rented a car and stayed with the Andersons. We took the kids to temple square even though everything was closed down, we were still able to see the construction that they were doing to fix up the Salt Lake Temple. But we still had fun walking around the outside and explaining what each building was. The conference center is so massive and seeing what they are doing under the temple, they have dug under so much, and we saw a tunnel. Scott and Rylan went off on their own to shop at the missionary mall. We had the kids stand next to the statue of their great, great, great, great uncle Brigham Young! Margie and Jeff took us on a hike above Salt Lake City called Desolation Trail, it was 2.5 miles up but mostly shaded. ...