.: Beach House

Friday, April 11, 2008

Beach House

Ward Youth Conference started off Tuesday morning bright and early at 6:45 am. Around 60 youth plus the leaders drove to the LA temple and then journeyed to a beach house in Ventura for the remainder of the trip. Kelly closed her eyes for the FIRST time of the trip on WEDNESDAY evening for only a couple of hours, then stayed up again for most of the night, and only sleeping for a couple of hours on Thursday. She was beat when she got home. She fell asleep around 7 and slept until 11am on Friday!!!

They had a great time! Lots of food, friends, games, water, and even a testimony meeting. Our youth are great!

Highlights:

*Will and Nate Hjorth, Matt and Madison Bills came back for the trip.

*Kelly did baptisms for the first time.

*During testimony meeting, the girls were all hugging each other afterward......Wes found it funny to hug Collin after his, and Spencer and Taylor quickly joined in.

*Scott spoke of his noncompetitive nature, only to outdo the bishop on anniversary years.

*Spencer and Wes made a whole lot of french toast and bacon.

*Scott and Wes are masters of the game Mafia.

*Brother Gingrich saved the day, when the kids found out that no one brought video games, he stopped by our house and picked some up on his way Tuesday night!

*Scott and Kelly's team (green team) won the Olympics.

*Scott was playing dominos, and choose Megan to not penny because when he asked why he shouldn't to all other players, she was the first to yell, "I've been to your house!"

*George's BBQ!!!

Lowlights:

*Scott forgot to check his recommend, unfortunately it had expired the month before so he sat in his car for 5 hours while the kids were at the temple. :(

*Spencer stubbed his toe and lost his nail.

*Kelly lost her bag of toiletries only to find out Spencer had it the whole time! NO toothbrush for 3 days!!!

*20 minutes into the drive home, Allison realized she still had the bishop's keys, so Scott turned around and drove them back. :)

*Lots of bruises from climbing on the rocks.

*Tired, tired, tired.

1 comment:

Reeser5 said...: Yes, lots of bruises, excitement, and fun times!! Thank you for letting me use your pictures for the slide show!!; April 23, 2008 at 10:55 PM

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Quotable Quips and Laughable Life

I decided that I wanted to add a small section with little things that my kids have said or done over the years that I never want to forget and I think are worth sharing. Unfortunately I was much better at writing these things down a bit late in the game....Chelsie steals the show here a bit. If only I could remember all those things I thought I'd never forget. I hope you take my challenge to write down all those things you hope to pass on one day.

When Chelsie was about 2 she had been jumping on my brand new couch, so I promptly told her to stop jumping on the nice furniture. Her response was very logical. "Then where's the mean furniture?"

While camping in the Sequoias, the entrance sign read, "1 bear incident this week...." Kelly mispronounced it as 1 bear accident....later in the bathroom, Chelsie noticed wet spots on the floor, and announced, "This must be where the bear had the accident."

We had a family home evening on choosing the right, and we thought Chelsie understood but when we asked her she said, "Yes, don't choose the left!"

When Kelly was in the 5th grade, she needed to use the classroom phone to call me. She dialed 9 to get an outside line, then she had to dial 1 because I have a long distance cell phone number, but she accidently hit the 1 twice. When the 911 dispatcher answered she was scared and just hung up. 5 minutes later the front office called the classroom stating that 3 sheriffs had arrived ready to take action and were wanting to know who called and why. Now it was by sheer coincidence that this was a morning that there was a prison breakout, so officers were on high alert. Kelly was embarrassed then, but can laugh about it now!

When Wes was about 4, he used to tell everyone that he was going to marry his friend Elizabeth, and that they were going to have 16 kids, and maybe a car.

When Chelsie was 3 1/2 we told her she needed to learn to spell her name. She responded, "I already know....A L I Z A."
(That was her best friend who taught her)

I was talking with my girls about the weather, and Kelly said, that stupid beaver was wrong, spring is not around the corner. Chelsie then chimed in, it's not a beaver, it's a warthog. Clearly I have failed them.