LEGO Girls Camp!!

Preparing for girls camp was probably the most stressfull thing I have done in a really long time... I don't think it helped any that we sold our home 1 week before I left to go to camp.  Selling a house, trying to find a house, and trying to prepare for girls camp all at the same time proves to be rather crazy.  But we did it.

The mutual before camp we sewed PJ bottoms for all the girls!  They LOVED them.  It was so adorable!!

Lots and lots of preparations for a scripture study packet, pillow surprises, camp awards, devotional handout ect... 

and spray painting a licorice container to look like a lego head.  Loved this thing.  So easy. So cute!

Here was our schedule!!

Finally July 21st came and at 6:30AM we headed off to girls camp!

We arrived and set up our camp...and did a little decorating too!  :)  

The first thing we did was have the girls build something out of Lego's to describe themselves!   Then we had a LEGO skit, and talked about our first theme.  Love Everyone.  (LEGO stood for Love Everyone God and Ourselves.)

Then we had to go to a Heber Valley Orientation.

Also the 1st day we burned the young women torch onto their new wood camp song books!  They looked really cool! Then we headed off to the Challenge Course.

The Zipline was AMAZINGLY fun!

and all the other activities were so fun and so spiritual too!

The Young Women President and I.  All of us leader got a long so well and probably had more fun then the girls!

That night we had FHE with the bishopric!

I helped the girls make 2 dutch oven chocolate cakes, and 1 apple cobbler!  YUM!

The girls loved their PJ's and loved being all together in one cabin!

Each day we would write a question on the dry erase board.  Then every night we would read their answers.  It was neat.

The second day we did camp certification, hiked to the lake, enjoyed canoeing at the lake, and then hiked home!  Then we made amazingly cool journals that we could have spent hours longer on, but it was time for the R.S. to come for friendship night!

We had so much fun playing games with the R.S!!  We also had a friendship night where we each said something we loved about the person to our left and then lit their glowstick and connected it to our own.  It created an awesome glowing circle of unity!  "There is always room for S'MORE friends in our circle!"  Then of course we had s'mores!!

The next day we went on a BEAUTIFUL hike!  Oh my goodness it was so beautiful I could have hiked for miles and miles!  We also read our parent letters on the hike, which turned out to be perfect.

The strong and fearless leaders!

After the hike we had some special guests come up and talk about taking care of ourselves physically, spiritually, and emotionally.  They each did an amazing job  

Sometimes... strange and weird things happen.

That night we did our spiritual night.  We had them walk through the story of  "You are Special" when they individually went to meet the maker he gave them a picture frame with their picture in it, with "lego" bricks surrounding it.  The blue ones, the boys in our ward wrote something nice about each girl, the red was from the leaders, and the yellow was from each of the girls to each other.  They really loved these.  It was a lot of work, but totally worth it.  After that we did Testimony Meeting.  It was amazing.  Really amazing.  

The next morning we had our last devotional and handed out camp awards.  The girls got awesome LEGO rings, and LEGO necklaces that were heart shaped.  Super cute. Super fun!

An amazing camp I will never ever forget.

This last picture is a miracle.  Seriously.  We had to share our camp with one other ward.  We bent over backwards trying to make sure they were happy and that we were always respectful.  Well, they were quite the opposite.  Without going into to many details, they were down right rude.  Well our theme being "Love Everyone" we really tried to kill them with kindness.  Finally the last night it worked.  The girls got together with their girls and learned a few games/songs.  The next morning they couldn't wait to do it again.  It was a miracle.  We loved our "enemies" and they became our friends.