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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

I LOVE to see the temple!

Not only did we get to see Downtown Disney, Sea World, and Sea World's new water park while were in Orlando, but most importantly we went to the temple!!! On July 31, 2008 Kent and I were both able to receive our endowments AND be sealed for time and all eternity in the Orlando temple. Our Bishop and his wife got up insanely early in the morning to be there with us, which Kent and I are so grateful for. It was a beautiful, unique, overwhelming, and wonderful experience for both of us! We were sorry that we couldn't have any of our family and friends there with us, but we knew this needed to be happen as soon as possible. We can't WAIT to go again and again and continue to learn and grow!


Here we are right after we were all done! Our faces were pink from a mild sunburn, but our spirits definitely burned the most of all.


I am SO GLAD and GRATEFUL that we were finally able to go to the temple!


This was anything BUT a gloomy day, even though it looks that way! (I love rhyme!)


Our first time through the temple was a beautiful experience that neither of us will ever forget.


Isn't this temple exquisite? Even in the rain....




Isn't that a lovely sight?


The Orlando Florida temple as you are approaching it.

Sea World is even better than I remember it being when I was a kid.....


It is cute watching the dolphins interact with us mere humans. :)


Duh nuh. Duh nuh. Duh nuh. Duh nuh......



That wee lil' baby sea lion is one of the cutest things I have EVER seen!


The finale of the Clyde and Seemore pirate show! Hooray!


Come on Captain! Breathe! Breathe! (Yum yum!)


Do you see what I see Seemore?!


This one of the best moments of the show! Seemore the sea lion roared in his Captain's ear! Arrrr!


This pirate mime was VERY funny! He poked fun at all the people that walked by him to find seats for the sea lion show.





I HAD to post this picture because it is Kent's favorite! Isn't that bird both disgusting AND hilarious?

Downtown Disney in Orlando


A Transformer made ENTIRELY of Legos! I KNOW our nephews would've loved this!


Watch for this giant Stitch! He is out to SOAK you! Yikes!



I dressed up my very own My Little Pony! Isn't she a cutie? Too bad she was expensive....


Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo!!


Yo Ho Yo Ho- a pirate's life for Kent!


Both of these princesses have found their prince charmings!



This picture is for all of my brothers, who LOVE legos and Star Wars both!


They had an awesome Lego store in Downtown Disney! It made Kent and I miss being kids.


Our Cone-headed beastie, prim and proper Hermione, Coney taking a nap with me, and a hilarious video of Merlin being his looney self!

Merlin has this horrible habit of nibbling on himself, so this last time he did we bought him an Elizabethean collar/cone to prevent him from doing further damage while his leg healed. It was SO FUNNY and pathetic to watch him with the cone on for about a week. He was SO mopey, depressed, and attention hungry, so we gave him LOTS of love! He gave it back to, as you can see from his nap pictures with me! Now that his leg is healed and he doesn't have his cone on anymore he is back to his mischievious self and only gives love when he wants to! I kind of miss that cone....














One night Merlin played for about 30 minutes straight with one of his toys, dragging it around, chewing on it, attacking it, and I am sorry to say, perhaps mounting it! Yikes! It was one of the funniest things he has ever done! (note: the video is kind of long, so you don't have to watch the last third of it unless you want to!)

Monday, June 30, 2008

Albany Georgia Stake's Girl's Camp: June 23-28, 2008!!!!

Since I am the Beehive teacher in our ward, the Young Women's President asked me if I would go to our stake girl's camp as the leader from our ward. Not knowing how to say no, especially since no one else from our ward could really go, I said yes! I ended up driving four of the six girls from my ward 3 hours north to Jackson, Georgia, which is about an hour away from Atlanta. We spent a week at Indian Springs State Park, which was humid and beautiful! I was placed as leader over the first-year Beehives and got to sleep in a bed nicer than theirs in their cabin! I had the opportunity each day to help around the camp with crafts, certification, cleaning, teaching devotionals, and getting to know the girls. I loved it! Everything but the weather between noon and 7 pm was wonderful. It was a great experience for me because I feel like my leadership skills grew, as did my testimony of the importance of service. Girls Camp Rockz!! (as the young women would say!)

Look at this porch! Now THAT is a Southern look: the long, big porch with a railing and a row of chairs to lounge in. Almost every home here has a porch with some kind of lounge chair or bench on it. Georgians LOVE to sit on their porches and just relax. It was nice to relax on this porch at camp too!

This is the awesome craft cabin where I spent most of my free time quilting. The young women also made bracelets, necklaces, candles, and wooden wall hangings here!

The open grassy area under the trees was shady and the perfect place to meet for our various meetings, activities, and devotionals!

Georgia may be STINKING hot and humid, but the vegetation is BEAUTIFUL.

At camp the girls had MANY opportunities to make crafts. This is just one of many that I helped with and got to make myself! If you can't tell what it is, it is a garden stepping stone with an "S" for Shirley!

The building is the Cafeteria Cabin where we ate and would meet for various activites. Here are some of the girls playing a game!

The pathway to our dormitories! At nighttime we could see fireflies!

Beyond the swimming area in the lake, the girls could go canoeing. It was really funny to hear about their experiences afterwards, because a couple of the Beehives swear they saw an Aligator and they were SO SCARED! hahaha, I shouldn't laugh but their reaction was so funny!

The swimming hole where the young women splashed and played!

This is quilt #8 almost done! It was really special to be able to spend so much time serving others while at Girl's Camp. Service truly does uplift you and makes you feel great!

We had the opportunity to make EIGHT quilts while at camp! I never knew it, but quilting can really be fun! I became a quilting fiend and worked on 7 of the 8 quilts! It was fun to get to know the girls and other leaders while we quilted and ate candy!