Youth Conference and Fire Station Open House

We were home for 2 crazy days from Yellowstone in which I worked on projects and shopped for a meal and a snack for 280 people and Alyse taught her music lessons and then Alyse and I were off to Youth Conference, a mini trek in Chesterfield, Idaho. (Shopping for that many was quite a feat!  It included 20 watermelons, which was 2 carts full, and a lady at Win Co actually came up to our carts to get out a watermelon and couldn't believe they were actually ours :)  Fitting 20 watermelons, 14 cases of Powerades and all the rest of the groceries for taco salad into my van was fun too!)

It was a ton of prep, and I'll admit, crawling into bed the night before at midnight, I told Scott that I didn't think it would all be worth it, knowing all that I put into it and a glimpse of what so many other leaders put into it to make it happen.  I was dead wrong though!  It was awesome!  It was worth it!

Our ward off on the 3.5 mile mini trek

(we only had 2 young men from our ward attend, but they faithfully pulled that hand cart the whole way, never slowing a step, pulling in to camp still full of energy!)

One of our Young Women has knee problems and was hurting, so we finally convince her to ride!

After lunch, the youth were divided into groups and rotated through different stations which included kick ball, line dancing, a water relay, a listening obstacle course, waffle ball, and team building activities.  Our ward was over snack time in the middle of that.  We cut up a lot of watermelon!

After dinner, we had an awesome fireside and then ward quiet time where we made yummy scones and then told pioneer stories around the fireside.

The next day, after taking down camp and breakfast, we trekked the 3.5 miles back to Chesterfield.  This time we had our Bishop with us to help us pull the cart and our 2 faithful young men who still full of energy!  IT was definitely modern day trekking with a Popsicle stop!

 After arriving in Chesterfield, all the youth got to work on a service project and our ward served a taco salad lunch then we headed for home.  It was a wonderful youth conference!

Lexi babysat for me all day Friday and got to take the rest of them to a primary activity and stay and help at the fishing booth.  They had a good day and then Scott came home and BBQ'd with them and rented the Good Dinosaur for a movie night :) and Saturday took them to the fire station open house then came home and practiced fire drills.  They are awesome!