Champion's 105th, Baling and Young Women's Camp

The start of July has been busy for us!!  It started with Champion's 105th Anniversary!! It was lots of fun.  Emry and I convinced Avi, Owen and Maryssa to do the Fun Run Saturday morning.  Emry and I ended up only doing about half of it but we still had fun!  My dad did it with us too and I had a nice visit with him as we walked!  The day was full of many fun things to see and do, the committee who put it together did an exceptional job!  There was a pancake breakfast, a parade, trick dogs, a petting zoo, lawn mower races, and ice cream truck, kids highland games, a movie, fireworks, beef on a bun, a softball tournament and a history display!! The fireworks were spectacular, our poor boys though, so terrified.  Jared ended up behind a big school bus with Calum watching them.  A ton of sand was dumped at the school for the kids to play in and boy did my boys have fun with that! 

We also started baling just before the kick off to the 105th celebration, luckily the tractor broke down so Jared was able to take in the festivities with us!

Baling started a little earlier than we have in the past only because it has been so dry.  Unfortunately though, we broke down soon after starting.  First a bearing on the cutter, then the PTO sensor on the tractor, then a shaft came off of the baler!! Not a great start!  Now we are waiting for rain to clear, but I won't complain about that because we desperately need the rain!  I was able to help Jared rake for a little bit until Dave was able to take over.  I sure love being in the tractor, so peaceful...no radio, just bumping along surrounded by nature!!

 

After all the wind up from the weekend Emry left for Young Women's camp and Calum left for a couple nights with Grandpa Glen.  It was a quiet week with just Armin and I!!

 

Girls camp was so much fun for Emry, it was her first one and she had a blast!  The theme was Christmas in July and it was a Stake Camp so there were just about 70 girls there from each of the Wards.  Emry met some new girls and enjoyed spending so much time with her two favourite cousins!! 

 

 

 

Each girl had to bring an ugly Christmas sweater to wear for one of the activities.  Well, we couldn't find one anywhere this time of year so we made one!! Arren had sent the pin to me from Pinterest and the t-shirt turned out so cute, not ugly at all, but it worked!!!

 

The whole Stake together on their hike.  They did get rained and hailed on a little but still had a great time! 

 

 

Calum got to spend a night in Grandpa Glen's big truck!! He loved every minute of it and wants to do it again!!  They went to Finding Dory together and Calum said it was a really nice show?!! They were up early in the truck, Dad found Calum on the floor and asked him what was up, Calum told grandpa he snores too much!!  Calum also took up the entire bunk leaving my dad with very little room!  When he pushed into him hoping he'd move over a little, Calum just pushed back!!!  They did a lot of walking which wore Calum out but he didn't ever complain!  He got a new Minecraft Lego set!  Saw the new Tesla car and just loved spending some one on one time with Grandpa!  The day Calum was due to come home he said to Grandpa, "Not to be rude, but I'd like to go and see my mom now!"

 

 





So the start of July has been busy, but it has slowed down now.  Back to baling and general house work I guess!!!!