Camp!

I still can't believe my Millie is twelve.
In June she went to her very first YW {Young Womens} Camp.  This year it was at Mutual Dell up in beautiful American Fork Canyon.  Every four years the whole Stake goes together and this was one of those years.  The group of YW in our ward is small so we were glad that there would be a lot of girls at camp.  I was so excited for her to have her first camp experience because I have great memories of camp when I was her age.  But I was a little nervous about sending her away for 4 days.  It was the beginning of June and the weather was really cold at night.  There is zero cell service up there but luckily it is only 25 minutes away and some of her leaders are my good friends so I knew they would take good care of her.

I was stoked when the Camp Leaders asked me if I would spend a day at camp doing crafts with the girls.  Of course I said yes, mostly because I knew I would be anxious to see Millie after she had been gone for a couple of days.  After browsing Pinterest she and I came up with some crafts that would be fun, cute, easy, and cheap.  That can be hard to find!

The girls left early on a Tuesday and I went up on Friday {they camped until Saturday}.  BS had volunteered to be the Priesthood leader for Friday so we got to go together and spend the day at camp.  I was eager to see how Millie was doing because she doesn't have a good track record when it comes to sleeping at other places without her Mom.  She is quite a home body late at night.  But when I entered their campsite this is what I saw:

Tatum {silly}, Mills, & Morann waiting to Zip Line

Wouldn't be camp without braiding and hair wraps

Team building activity. She's the smallest :)

 It was great to see her and the other girls having so much fun together!  Smelling smoky with braided hair, dirty hands and feet, dirty clothes, and happy faces.  I quickly knew that indeed my little girl is growing up.  She could handle this.  She had a great experience and came home with a stronger testimony.  Gotta love girl's camp!  I am so grateful for her awesome YW and Camp leaders!  They did a fantastic job!  And she said the food was delicious :)

Reina - Camp Leader.  We didn't plan the shirts {from Goldilocks Bike Event}

For the crafts we made Sharpie Tie-Dye shirts and jar lanterns.  Their theme was "Arise and Shine Forth" so the lanterns were perfect.  They both turned out really cute.