Riley, Jenna, Connor, and Korean Sisters

Riding a tube behind the boat

Riding in the Boat

Boating Activity With Korean Sisters
Meeting a Real "cowgirl" at the County Fair.

Grooming a cow for the Fair.

Retreat for Girls

This past week I was down at Utah State University. No, I am not that smart. I was there with my friend from Nebraska for Retreat For Girls. It is a program similar to EFY, but only for girls 12-15. And boy did I have fun. My friend, Meghan and I shared a room. We also shared a dorm with 4 other girls and we were in a group, the seagull gals, with 6 other girls. My counselor's name was Spike (no that is not her real name but they all have fun names.) Anyway, I can't really go into detail how awesome it was, but it was so spiritual and fun. When I came home, I realized how hard it really is to be good and good examples for others. This is a program that you really should tell other people about because it really puts our standards into focus. I really already miss it, but I am looking forward to going next year! Tell all of your friends. It is worth investing in.

Heavens To Betsy's Good Gravy

I hope that you all enjoyed the title of this post. I just like saying that sometimes. So yesterday was the 4th of July and I had such a fun time. I woke up much to early and went to a breakfast at the stake center. Then I went home and put on my funky costume for the Rupert parade. ( I was helping for the Dance Festival, by the way that is the last week of July.) Anyway I had a good time doing that and it was pretty fun. After the parade, we went to my cousin's Grandma's house to eat lunch. It was so yummy. We had pulled pork sandwiches with two salads, fruit, chips, and a yummy drink. After that we kinda sat around waiting for our parents to take us boating. During that time, me and Connor and my cousin Ceci went to buy some tanning oil cuz we didn't want sunscreen. The oil smelt like,and ok if you can understand this, it smelt like how a tiger's blood flavor snow cone tastes. Confusing I know but that is like the only way I can describe it. Anyway we went boating and had a wonderful time. Oh a while back we went to the Regatta and I took some sweet pics so I will post those too.( See if you can find a hidden pic in one of them)

I Was Right!

I was right. Girls camp was sooooooo much fun. I can't tell you all of the gory details but I can tell you that it was sooo wet and rainy. On Wednesday we had a hike and a devotional in the mid-morning. Then we went to a fun project. We were decorating black flip-flops with water balloons. (and it was ironic because it was raining a little when we were doing this.) I didn't finish all the way, but neither did most people. We went swimming after we made our flip-flops. We all looked so cute in our pink camp shirts with our bandannas and our flip-flops! And most of us had crazy hair. I will put on a picture of my after camp hair as soon as I can. After we went swimming and had a fun time we came back to find that one of two tents, mine and eight other people's was leaking. We rolled everything out of the way and tried to cover everything while we ate dinner. Right after dinner was picked up, it started pouring and we were all trying to keep our belongings dry. We had a back-up plan. Since we were about ten minutes from Lava Hot Springs, and my Grandparent's own a house up there, we went to stay there. Our YCL's told us to pack everything we needed except our mats. So here I am trying to pack all of my crap into all the bags I can find. We were all so stressed out and tired and we just wanted a bed at that point. Anyway, we got to the cabin, (house) and UNLOADED everything we had packed before. Anyway, all was well that ended well and we had a great girls camp.

Girls Camp

I am so excited to finally go to girls camp. You know when I turned 12 it was bitter- sweet. I mean I was happy that I was finally involved with tons of fun stuff, but I was sad because I had missed the temple celebration by 10 days. I know it was a test of my faith and I wasn't going it alone. Connor missed the trek by a few days so I think he knows how it feels. I also missed Stake Girls Camp but there were two other girls from my ward that missed it too. And both these experiences taught me a lesson; the Lord works in ways that would not always be our own. Life goes on and I will have plenty of fun adventures. Oh, I forgot, I am going to apply for the traveling team in clogging. Next year they are taking a tour I think in Portugal (most likely) and I have a slight chance of making the team. You have to be 14, but by then I will be 13 and very nearly 14. Anyway I will just wait to see what happens.

One of the best things in the world is..........

NEW MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, thanks to the help of Jessica, I saw the preview of

New Moon the movie. My Jasper is still gorgeous! especially when he

almost kills Bella. And I will admit that Jacob is hot. From what I have seen, it looks like it will be

so much better than Twilight. They even got the phasing right. I think that with a new director,

the movie will be a thousand times better. I also heard that they tried

to put everything form the book into movie form. Anyway, I really want to see it

like so bad. Thanks Jessica, you saved me.

TEAM JASPER ALL THE WAY!