What a day today was! Initially I was going to leave early and take Carmen down to spend the day and overnight at Camp with Brittany and Sarah, but Carmen was not feeling 100% and with heavy rain and thunderstorms, she decided to stay home in a nice dry house. That said, I worked from home half day instead of taking the whole day off. Benjamin was absolutely hilarious this morning. As Angela was doing her daily exercise (this morning aerobics), Benjamin came into the room and decided to do them with her. We were laughing so hard watching him try and mimic the TV and his mom! 🙂 This is just one of a couple that were very funny!
After exercise and laughter, we had breakfast. We finally had the “sticky buns” that Zachary had wanted last Sunday for his birthday breakfast. He was nice enough yesterday to wait one more day so I could have them with him. Sticky buns are his absolute favorite breakfast food!
The rest of the morning was spent with Kirk working, and Carmen, Kirstyn, and Zach playing hide and seek, other games, and Carmen reading books to Zachary. Angela went to the library yesterday and got some easy reader books in Spanish (i.e. an alphabet book) that Zach wanted Carmen to read to him. He was very excited! They also played in Kirstyn’s old princess tent. It was quite funny to see them all in there playing with Carmen. She has been wonderful with Kirstyn, Zach, and Ben this week. She loves to play with them and do the things that they want to do. At first, we thought she would be bored to death without Brittany and Sarah there all week, but she did awesome!
After I finished up my work, we all went out for Pizza for lunch. When we mentioned this to Carmen her eyes lit up and she was very excited! Pizza is one of her very favorite foods. The place we went was an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet and everyone really enjoyed it! Zachary was more interested in the video game room in the back and Sponge Bob Square Pants on the TV there, so it was a little more difficult keeping his attention on the food! 🙂
After we got back from lunch, Angela went off to an appointment she had scheduled and I got packed and left for Girl’s Camp. When I got there, Sarah and Brittany were excited to see me, but were sad that Carmen wasn’t there to be with them. They had really been looking forward to it, but totally understood why she didn’t come. It was great to see Sarah and Brittany having fun. I (and Angela too, obviously) have really missed them. It was wonderful to have them run up to me and give me great big hugs. I really enjoy spending time with my girls.
While I was at camp, Angela took Carmen shopping at the outlet mall. Carmen was very gracious about this, and enjoyed the experience very much. She bought a few things there (not sure yet what becuase I haven’t been home), but she wanted to shop for her family first before getting anything for herself. Angela was very impressed by this. After shopping, they came back home, got the little ones in bed, and then relaxed and watched a movie (with Spanish subtitles to assist with understanding). 🙂
Back at camp, we experienced a small miracle. There were supposed to be severe thunderstorms with a strong likelihood of tornadoes all evening and through the night. The leaders had a campwide prayer with the girls to ask for good weather so they wouldn’t have to come home tonight. Within an hour, the weather cleared up by early evening, there was not a cloud in the sky nor anything showing up on radar coming our way!
We had a wonderful evening tonight. Sarah got hear yellow feather (an honor that 4th year girls get), and received the Indian name of “Spotted Deer” to go with her honor. I’m not exactly sure where the tradition for that came from, but it was very nice. After that, we had a camp-wide testimony meeting and then broke up into Wards to have a message from the Bishops, a Ward testimony meeting, and then treats from the Bishop. It was a very nice night and everyone was greatly uplifted.
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