Opening Day

Opening day for the soccer season. The girls were ready and looked great.
GO TORIE!!!!!!!
Trying to control the ball.
She had a shot on goal, so close.
Keep that foot down, good job!
And then Tara hit the field a little defense and then.....
Get her girl, good job.
It was time for Goalie, she is so good here!

A long shot from a distance and the Bear caught it, the end result was a loss though, better luck next time.

Labor Day Weekend

The girls had a blast tubing.....

A swim in the rain
What a group
Torie did awesome on the wakeboard
And then she was done.......
My tribe
Tracy and Sam trying doubles
I had to switch to the wakeboard the speeds didn't work for the ski
It was so much fun, Loren and I went too
Thanks to Sam the evening swim was equipped with light sticks
The gang's all here

Tad just as smooth as 13 years ago
Right back at cha Big Daddy
Tad was the private wakeboard instructor he got into the water with Adam,
Sarah
and Liz
And everyone had fun learning
Go Grandma Marshall

By the afternoon Tanner passed out
When we returned to Sarah's one by one everyone went to bed, it was just Tanner and I left and it got quiet, I went looking for him...... 20 minutes later I was about to wake Tad up to tell him I had lost the little guy, and to my surprise I found him on my way to Tad's ear....Look in between the couches
He found the basket of blankets and put himself to bed.

"All the nieces and nephews that attended the boating weekend"

First Day of School

The sixth grader and fourth grader were off this morning at 8:15, we had some butterflies in the stomach, I think it hit Torie that she is now the big girl on campus at school.
Hair done and hobo bags, no more backpacks for these girls
Here she is the newest 6th grader, go Torie you'll be awesome!
Tara was so excited to hear her teacher was Mrs. Hastings, here's to a great year, Bear!
All smiles before we left this morning and they came home with even bigger ones, we love you girls!

The Girls camp Experience

It was a great week for me, I have never been to girls camp as a youth, so I was a first year. I wasn't sure if I would know the ins and outs of camp, the girls were very helpful to me. These are our girls from our branch.
These are the girls from my unit, they were amazing. They have the sweetest testimonies and I appreciate them for the hard fight they fight everyday to choose the right.
We were practicing for the skit night we had coming up, we won, funniest skit!
She wouldn't talk.... so they made her..
Jessie got her skit attire on, go girl you're hot, call me
Being a first year I had to be initiated , it was scary, but I trusted them.....step one
step 2
First aid class.
Ropes course activities, I taught these.
Then it was time to return to our homes.......

Girls camp was a great experience for me and I love these young women more and more each day.