July 2011

Family - Spent 4 wonderful days in McCall Idaho with Lauri's family for the Sorenson Family Reunion. We walked to a fish hatchery, went to a park for a virtual geo-cache and a picnic, played Minute-to-win-it games, Bingo and the Lizzie McGuire game we found in a closet. We made S'mores over a camp fire and relaxed in the hot tub. We even had a bear visit our rental house!

On our way home on July 4th we stopped to see Shoshone Falls in Twin Falls.

We also enjoyed good food a friends this month at several bbq's/picnics - our neighborhood barbecue, Shawn's work picnic and the annual Ward Chicken Dinner (byo-chicken and a potluck side dish with root beer and scones provided by the ward.)

Went to the Zoo with the Bone boys.

Lauri - Gave a talk in sacrament meeting, which terrifies me, but it went okay. The basis for my talk was Russell M. Nelson's talk Face the Future with Faith from the April 2011 General Conference.

All the girls - Started a round of swimming lessons. We went to a couple of Shakespeare "reader's theater" performances at the library for the summer reading program. One day the girls and I decided to take a walk down by the river and find as many "art benches" as we could. We had fun taking pictures at each one - except the one occupied by a couple of "love birds" we didn't want to disturb.

Felicity - Enjoyed her first experience at Girls Camp, even with her mom being one of the leaders! The theme was "Round Up Your Beliefs" and we stayed in an old ranch house in Island Park. We had firesides, a sunrise testimony meeting, good food, a hike through Lewis and Clark caverns (in Montana), sang camp songs and worked on certification.
Lydia - Went to Day Camp at Krupp Hollow with the Activity Day girls where she got to shoot a BB gun.

Evelyn - Funny story: I had noticed that Lydia's hair had some short hairs on top, but since she denied cutting it, I thought maybe they were just new hairs growing out. A few days later, Felicity found a lock of hair on the top shelf of the computer desk while she was dusting, so I knew the hair had been cut. Felicity bagged the lock of hair as evidence and labelled it this way: Evidence suspect: Lydia, 7/22/11, Case: Cut Short, Found: Top Computer Desk Shelf (with scratch paper). Lydia still denied being the one who cut it or knowing anything about it, so the girls were all put on "probation" until someone confessed. Evelyn finally fessed up and said she did it. When asked why and how, she said she was just really mad at Lydia, so went in when Lydia was taking a nap and cut her hair. Really??!!