Stub Stewart

We love to go camping. Especially when it includes the Woodwards and the Knaupps. Usually we only go camping if they are coming. :) One of our favorite places to camp is Stub Stewart. It has really nice cabins and is only 25 minutes away. Close enough that Dad can join us for dinner and then go home (he's not the biggest fan of camping). And this time was extra fun because our neighbors were there too.

Sitting around the campfire and roasting marshmallows and starbursts are always super fun. Due to lack of chairs we sometime share. And Brother Knaupp's stories are the best.

Stub Stewart has an amazing place called Hill top. Just enough grass to play soccer. And beat Emilee and Adam's team. :) And enough room to drop kick the ball without having to worry as much about hitting some stranger.

BTW those cookies that are like the girl scout samoa's. Super good in a smore.

{Me, Jacob, Lilly, Bronte, Luke, Alexa, Chloe, Adam, Hannah, Emilee, Autumn, Elise, Jenna}

Hikes are a lot more fun when you only have the older kids. 

 {Me and Emilee}

 {Elise, Bronte, Micah, Luke, Chloe, Hannah, Ammon, Me, 

Emilee, Alexa, Autumn, Jacob, Lilly, Adam, Jenna}

I had to put up this picture. Just love my face in it. :)

Trek Prep

{Emma, Emilee, Hannah, Me, Makayla, Claire}

This summer I'm going on trek. Basically you dress up in pioneer clothes, walk 5 miles a day, no showers for a week. While you're pushing a hand cart. Sounds super fun, right! Anyways, we've had to do tons of preparation for it and I decided not to blog about it until we got most of it done. My excuse for not blogging for a while. :) We went on a hike at Gales Creek (the picture above). It was pretty fun. Except that it was the first time I was wearing my hiking boots and I wore short socks. Bad idea. 

The next activity was the stake square dance night. Everyone dressed up in their trek clothes and we square danced. For 2 hours. I went over to Hannah's house with Emilee before to "get ready". I got to dance with a whole bunch of guys and it was super fun.

After the dance we went to Yogurt Munch. The faces we got were amazing. This little boy was staring at us. :) Oh, and the one guy who asked us is we wore our outfits everyday.

Then, more recently we had an activity where we just had fun doing trekky stuff. Not really preppy stuff. Just trekky stuff. It was a blast. We had it at the Woodwards' house. I spent the whole afternoon there before the activity helping get ready. We had egg races, 3 legged races, relays, hand cart safety, and peach cobbler.

{Sam :)}

My favorite part was the relay. To make the boys appreciate the fact that they only have to wear pants, a shirt and suspenders we had them have to go in our clothes: apron, bloomers, skirt, bonnet... the list goes on and on. It was super awesome.

 {Daisy}

 Us with the handcart (I'm in the green)

{Annica, Jenna, Alyssa, Autumn, Hannah, Emile, Me, and Bro McLaughlin)

Yesterday we had our mini trek. It was basically there to make sure we weren't going to die on trek. Again in pioneer clothes, we hiked 8 miles with around 250 teenagers at Stub Stewart. It was amazing.

{Jacob, Me, Michaela}

I wore my hiking boots for the second time. This time with my dad's socks, which are longer on me. You do not want to see my lovely, huge blister. 3 of them. They hurt. The walking wasn't that bad. I didn't really feel super tired or anything. Just restrained in my skirt. That's not that bad though since Hannah and I learned that if you hold your skirt up you have bloomers underneath and you can run. :)

{Michaela, Jacob in Michaela's awesome bonnet)

{Alyssa, Annica, Alyssa, Beth, Emma, Rebecca, Me, Jenna, Emilee, Hannah, Autumn}

When we stopped for lunch we tried to take a picture of all the YW in our ward. It was a little hard since in EVERY picture Emilee was looking at this "justin bieber kid" play football. In case you didn't know, Emilee loves JB. That's why her outfit is purple. And why she sewed a picture of Justin Bieber inside of her apron pocket. Love you Emilee! :)

After we were all done, had gone to DQ and were back at the church Hannah and I took of our skirts. I think my bloomers are cooler, personally. 

Trek is in 1 1/2 months. July. Middle of summer. In Eastern WA. Can't wait!

A bit of sun

We've been lacking some sunshine down here in Oregon. Sometimes we'll have those fun 80 degree days which are immediately followed by pouring rain. Today we finally got some sun that looks like it will stay  for more than a day. I seriously am super excited. Today we went to the beach with the Woodwards. We started off at Tillamook to get ice cream. It was super beautiful and once you were in the water for a couple minutes you couldn't feel the cold. :) We had loads of fun. There was Lilly and Elise throwing sand everywhere (even on me, their pie maker). And then everyone else doing their own thing. We walked around and I learned that shoes are a very important thing when you are walking on rocks that have a tendency for being sharp. :) Then I totally ran into a rock. It was a cave like thing and I totally ran into a rock. It was right in front of my face. I have no idea how I did it. I must be skilled. :) Anyways, my head started bleeding a little and I have a terrible headache that doesn't want to go away. Oh, and a big bruise and a lump on my head. Lovely. Big thanks to the Woodwards for making sure I didn't go to sleep and die from a concussion. Love you guys. :)
And another thing that added some sunshine into the week. We and our exchange student got all approved and what not. We're getting an exchange student this upcoming school year!!! Can you tell I'm excited? Now to clean out the craft room and do some crafty room projects... pictures to come. :)