For as long as I can remember I have been a part of the tradition of sleeping outside, following the parade of cars as they fire off the Anvil around town, playing in the Jennings Band, attending the Patriotic Program, eating Navajo Tacos, going to the night Rodeo, watching the fireworks, and if you're young and have any energy left there's always a dance!! 
Monday Alex, Denver, and others spent the better or worse (113*) part of the day and most of the evening loading handcarts, dutch ovens, tables, and etc. When Alex got home I was the bearer of bad news with "I think something is wrong with the AC.?!" Yes the fan had gone out due to the extreme heat of the day.
Tuesday Alex's Dad and I rode with him up to Forest Lakes to deliver the handcarts. When we got to "Base Camp" we found a few people, tons of food and a lot of equipment (canopys, huge generator, freezer, refrigerator, bread proofer, camp trailers, and ect.) These were all donated by the generosity of those in our two stakes. I was told that there were many miracles big and small that made this trek possible.
Wednesday after about 2 hours of sleep we took Shan to the church at 4 a.m.
Doesn't she just make the prettiest pioneer?
This is what she could take~pad, sleeping bag, coat, pillow, and a bag of clothes and other items.
Elissa, Ashley, Heather, Karly, Shan, and Amanda.
Our ward trekkers and their fearless leaders.
If you have a dad like mine
Tues, June 3rd...Shantae (YCL) and I (camp cook) went up to Strawberry with the 4th year girls. They went horseback riding and I took a long nap since I had stayed up until about 2 in the morning to finish getting ready!! Real smart~~I know. 
Cambria left Memorial Day, Monday, May 26th for Utah. She and 4 other EAC young adult women will be working for 10 weeks as camp counselors at Trefoil Ranch. It is in Provo Canyon and the girls that come are Girl Scouts. She will be working every other week with the girls on horseback riding and then she will be a regular counselor the other weeks. Also she will have kitchen duty for a couple of weeks out of the summer, FUN FUN. She's making new friends, doesn't call often enough and having a blast...but, missing Jason.
It has been almost three weeks since school got out and I'm going to do some catch up postings.
When we pulled into camp there was one tent set up. And then the fun began!! We got stuck on the culvert that crosses the road. Thank goodness, Jake had a four-wheel drive to get our trailer out (we had to unhook it to get the truck out). And as things go, the trailer got high centered on a stump that was covered with snow. Then Jake's truck got a little high centered on the same stump. Eventually, we started to "pop up" the trailer, but a bolt was stripped out so it wouldn't raise up. To no avail, Alex and Jason did all they could to get it to work. Paula and the kids, Uncle Paul and Aunt Thedie, Johnny and Teri's bunch were braving the storm.
The kids wanted to stay at 
Needless to say...we had our tinfoil dinners from the oven about 10:00 Friday night. 
As it was Memorial Day Weekend we spent a while Sat morning at the cemetary in honor of our Caremee and others. Then we were TRYING to get parts for the trailer and get back out to Vernon. We went back to camp thinking we would set up a couple of tents because the trailer part had to be ordered. But yeah, you guessed it, one of them didn't have any poles. So it was get the trailer popped up or go home. The snow was melting like crazy and we really wanted to stay. 
All the men helped lift up the trailer top until Alex could fix the cables to hold it in place. We camped smack dab in the middle of Uncle Pauls bunch. It was Great!
The Sanders family was the only other ones of Patsy & Veldon's kids to enjoy "snow camp". 
