I am actually getting homesick today. I can't wait to see Blake and the kids. I have been debating on going to surprise him at work or not. Today has been a wonderful day. We've had a lot ot ward time, which I've LOVED! We played the girls favorite game which involves a ball of candy, little toys, and tape about the size of a larger cantaloupe. You have to roll the dice and if you get doubles, you put on a pair of gloves and try to find the beginning of the tape to start unwrapping this ball of surprises. Whatever you unwrap you get. The girls really get into it and were VERY competive. It was fun to sit back and watch and not care if I got anything or not. A few of us decided to go on another hike (4 miles) and saw a couple of deer and quite a few watersnakes. We also had Sister Robinson from the General Relief Society board come and speak to us and lead us into testimony meeting. Afterwards we had ward testimony meeting in our cabin. The spirit was so strong and I've enjoyed feeling my Heavenly Father so near. I'm dreading going back to real life, but so excited to see my family. Since it was the last night here, the girls wanted to try to stay up the whole night. The girls moved Laci and I into their cabin so all of us could spend the last night there together. Sleepiness started to creep in around 1am and I know I was asleep shortly after that, thank heavens.
When I got home I was so excited to see my kids. Gerrit just looked at me like he recognized me, but wasn't sure if I was real. It took him about 10 minutes or less and then he wouldn't let go of me for about 2 weeks after. I think he was afraid I was going to leave him again. The other kids were bummed I was home. They knew their week of fun was coming to an end. They were spoiled by Grandparents and Blake. I am glad they had a great time while I was gone.
On June 22nd Kaymin went to "This is the Place Heritage Park" for Activity Day Camp. I haven't been since I was little and vaguely remember it. She was kind of bummed they weren't going to a scout camp again, but she had a lot of fun. I let her take the camera and she had fun taking a bunch of pictures. She got to do laundry like they did before washing machines and she got to beat a rug and loved it. 
She also made this cute little hand puppet. I will have to take the rest of the kids there someday. I have heard that it is a lot of fun.
Just the Young Women President, Rachell and I were the the only women leaders. I just love Rachell and found out that she put her house up for sale and will be moving...bummer! I already told the Primary president that if/when I am released, I want her to snag me up. I would rather be in Primary then Relief Society or Sunday School. Anyhoo, we drove right to Manti to eat some dinner. Someone was doing a fundraiser dinner and that is where we were eating. They held it at 2 different churches. We went to the first church and yes there was a line, but it was moving fairly quickly. We were almost ready to eat, when the leaders in charge told us that if we were on bus #1 we were going to go down the street to the other building and eat there. That way we could both be done at the same time. I was ticked because there was only like maybe 20 people in front of us. But we walked the block or so to the next building to walk into a line of several hundred people. An hour and a half later we were finally eating. Yes, bus #2 was done, cleaned up, and playing while we were still waiting in line. But the food was excellent. Next we found out that we were staying in a small little town 27 miles outside of Manti. So back on the buses we went to set up camp. We stayed on their baseball field that was more like the Milton Park where I grew up. There wasn't any bathrooms only those blue port-a-potties that are filled up with blue liquid to help mask the scent of crap. Oh, good times. When we arrived since we were WAY behind schedule because of dinner, we had 10 minutes to set up our tents. Everyone was running around, unloading the trailer with all of our gear, and setting up camp. We had to leave our sleeping bags rolled up because we just didn't have the time to roll them out. Back on the bus we went to see the pageant. 
I was really excited to see the pageant. I haven't seen it since I was in Young Women's YEARS ago. However, I have this problem of being SO tired and so I kept nodding off during the WHOLE thing. I was so mad at myself. But, what I saw of it, it was wonderful. We got back to our camp around 1am and lucky for us leaders, the kids were pretty much exhausted. Well, at least I was. I crashed so I guess our girls could have wandered off and I would have never even known. But, I know they didn't because they are great girls. I couldn't sleep past 6am so I laid there until 6:15am and got up and decided to go for a walk. No one else was awake out of their tents except for a few male leaders. I was really hoping to find another woman leader to go with me, so instead I decided to run. I ran across the whole small town and then by the camp up the road because I knew we had to leave by 8am. I ran for almost an hour straight and felt great....I was really surprised. 
We had breakfast at the same church we had dinner at and then pulled weeds as a service project at the temple. It was a really great trip. I had a great time, but was really ready to come home.
So it got me to thinking that bunnies can be caged, they don't make noise, and they are snuggly. So on Father's Day I made the mistake of looking up bunnies on KSL and trying to see Kameni would prefer them over a kitten. Well Kaymin read that a lady in West Haven (2 mins. away) was selling bunnies for $3. The next day the kids woke up and began cleaning the basement. I asked why they were cleaning the basement since it wasn't on their chore list for the day and they said that if they cleaned the basement they were hoping that I would get them their bunnies. Blake didn't care, it was all me. Blake had bunnies growing up and loved them. I think they are the only animals I didn't have growing up. I think because I had so many animals as I child, I really could care less if I ever have any more animals EVER! But, I caved...shocking I know. My kids were SO excited. The lady gave them to us for free and that made us even more excited. Fourteen neighbor kids came over that day to hold the bunnies. 
The poor bunnies were mauled to pieces and as a result, Kameni's bunny, Sparkles, died the next day and Kaymin's bunny, Alice, had either broken legs or a broken hip. Whatever it was, it had a horrible time moving. So I got online and read that I should take it into the vet where they would most likely do surgery and it would cost $1,500 plus. Since I don't have that kind of money to spend on a bunny, another post said they just took popsicle sticks and bandaged the legs. That was my kind of thinking so we did that. We had a funeral for Kameni's bunny and she cried the whole next day. So I called on some more bunnies and these ones are Mini Rexs. I had no idea that there were mini ones so that is my kind of bunny, nice and small. We went and picked up two thinking that Kaymin's bunny wouldn't make it. 
The new bunnies are Sparkles (Kameni's), Mad Hatter (Kaymin's) and Deilen's bunny is Bakugan. He pretends it is a boy. Kameni was so excited to get a new bunny. I took the kids to Layton Surf and Swim before we picked the new ones up. 
Kameni was so exhausted that when we got home she fell asleep snuggling to her bunny. I requested all females, and it is so hard to tell the sex since the bunnies are only 8 weeks old. I sure hope we don't have any surprises, but the kids are begging for baby bunnies. Keeping my fingers crossed that we don't. 
We have been keeping the bunnies in our pet porter hoping to find a cage on KSL. However, when I find one I can't get anyone to call me back. 
So my wonderful husband made one for us. It turned out so nice and I love it. Now the bunnies won't be able to escape like they could through the small hole in the pet porter. Now we just need the kids to paint the house, which will probably happen tomorrow. 
The kids have had so much fun with the bunnies. 
They have made this home for them to roam and play. They are so cute and so creative. I am so happy that they have really enjoyed these things. It has really made cleaning up the poop worth it. Kameni's new bunny was so sweet and so mellow, but it died on Sunday. We were super sad and Kameni just cried again. However, since Kaymin's bunny is doing great, Kaymin gave Kameni Mad Hatter. Now we are back to only 3 bunnies again. Hooray!
I had to put Vaseline on my nose and then dip it in a bowl full of cotton balls and then run down the table without the cotton ball falling off and put it in another bowl all without using my hands. Another game I played was putting a pair of pantyhose on my head with a baseball in one end and swinging it to knock down water bottles. Another one was tying a tissue box filled with ping pong balls around my waist so it was in the back and try to get out the ping pong balls by acting like a lunatic on drugs. But you know me, I have no problem making a fool of myself. I had to much fun. We were laughing so hard and having so much fun. I think that I why I love (yes I actually said love) being in Young Womens. I feel young again and have so much fun with these girls and our leaders. I laughed until I cried. It was a really fun day.
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