Girls camp

I have a new calling.

I'm the girls camp director for our stake.

Ugh. I haven't been to girls camp since high school, I know nothing about girls camp and now I need to plan it for more than 100 girls? Oh my.

Thankfully, I was called before this years girls camp so I was able to attend as an observer and at least try to grasp the concept of what happens at girls camp.

Youth conference ended on Saturday evening and Monday I was unpacked and packed again or girls camp.

After the first day of being there I realized I needed a low maintenance hair style. I decided I wanted braids all over my hair and used this girl, Cameryn as my inspiration.

Jessica is a hair stylest and knows how to do hair well so when I asked her for "braids like corn rows" she gave me corn rows.
OH MY!
It took me hours (maybe even a day or two) before I wasn't in completely in SHOCK with my new look every time I looked in the mirror.

I embraced the look with my gold tooth and bandana. ;-)

Girls camp was good, overwhelming at times but as long as I have those amazing leaders by my side and the amazing youth leaders who pretty much ran camp then we should be ok.

 

 
I mentioned the amazing youth in the youth conference post, after another week with these youth I realized that they're even more amazing then I had realized before.

As for the hair,  I kept it in (I did give it a wash job when I got home) until Sunday and went with poofy hair for church. I kinda liked having crazy hair every once and awhile maybe I'll do corn rows more often!
Jessica does crazy hair all the time, yay for me I fit in the crazy hair day club!

Youth Conference

We were fortunate enough to go to Palmyra, NY this year with the youth in our stake for youth conference, this also included Ben and Luke. We were able to attend the Sacred Grove, Joseph Smith's home, the Palmyra temple, the Peter Whitmer home, the printing press that printed the first copies of the Book of Mormon and we were able to watch the Hill Cumorah Pageant. The youth in our stake are amazing we were so lucky to be able to spend this weekend with them.

 

 

 

 

4th of July

I always say the 4th of July is one of the best holidays in Boston but not always does the weather corporate with the holiday, last year there was a hurricane on the 4th but this year, everything was perfect.

The weather was 80 degrees with out humidity and a very faint breeze just enough to keep you comfortable. The group within our group that are die hards and go into Boston every year kept saying all day long "I just can't get over this weather it's amazing"

It did rain off and on for an hour but only pitter pattered and wasn't enough to stop anyone from what they were doing.

The skies cleared and the sun came out just before sunset, perfect timing for a perfect firework show.

 Not only was the weather perfect but the 4th was on a Saturday so a lot of people were available for the holiday! Our group broke a new record of 110ish people! We almost ran out of room for seats in the area that we had saved, it was such a fun group of people!

We had parachuters jump from a plane and land at Fenway and an F16 fly over

Great way to spend a holiday in the city.

On our way to the car we always cut through MIT, this time was extra fun because Mike took us on a tour of his lab. On the way out I noticed that I had Mike riding his bike through the hallways, Ben juggling the soccer ball and Luke riding his orbit wheels, I don't remember what Josh was doing but I'm pretty sure it wasn't, walking normally through the hallway, they all must come from the same mold.