I love reading all of the blogs. I get through reading and then I don't have time to write on my own so it's been a while again. Calvins sister (Sherrie) has been in the St. marks hospital since the first part of April. She has been soooooooo sick, they put a shunt in her head to help drain some brain fluid and she had some complications, but we just got word that she is home today so we will get to go and see her and visit for a while. I am so relieved that she is doing well.

I also have been working on gettin ready for girls camp. I am the Asst. Stake camp director so my job this year was supposed to be easy and then next year I will be the Camp director and then it should be more work. Well the camp director moved. So needless to say my job this year just got a lot harder. I just finished painting a young woman Warrior that we are going to add armor to as the girls pass off thier certification. I'm glad that she is done so I can start with every thing else. I have a ton to learn because we are going to Heber Valley this year and we have never gone there before. They have soooooooo many different places that they want groups of 30 to 60 girls at a time and we have to make sure that the rest of the 250 girls are busy , Oh it is just wayyyyyyy confusing. I hope Heavenly Father is planning on camping at my house for the next few months because I am really going to need His help with this one. O.k. I'm done complaining now. I hope you are all having a super spring. I am loving all the flowers and green grass and trees. I can see why mothers favorite color was green. It is a very welcome sight.

The first camping trip of the year

Well, we finally got some decent weather and we dicided to go camping. We left on April 4th for Escalante. None of our kids were able to get the time off except for Tammy and Darin so the 4 of us headed out. On our first day we followed Becky and Mike to Beaver and then turned off and went to Escalante. We camped on the road to Hole in the Rock. On Sunday we decided we probably shouldn't be out riding the bikes so we went for a ride over to Calf Creek and hiked the 3 miles in to the waterfall. BEAUTIFUL!!! it was well worth the hike. on Monday we decided to ride the 4-wheelers to Hole in the Rock because the road was too washboardy to take Tammy's little explorer thing. Any way it was quite a long ride but it was a lot of fun. When we got to the last 2 1/2 miles we met some older women that were walking because they had a van that just couldn't get over the boulders to go to the end. They had to park about five or six miles away and they were just trying to walk in. We felt sorry for them so when we got to the Hole in the Rock. Calvin and Darin got off the bikes and Tammy and I went back for the ladies. They were from Seattle and they were sooooooo greatful for the ride in. And when we got there, there was one S.U.V. there that offered them a ride back to their van so they were set and it felt good to do something nice for someone. We at lunch and got some great pictures then headed back to camp. The round trip was about 120 miles. That's a long way on a 4-wheeler. The next day we found out that we weren't supposed to even have the bikes on that road at all so we were lucky that the sherrif that passed us didn't stop and give us a ticket. We went to capital Reef and Hiked to Hickman Bridge and we also went over to Bryce Canyon. We found out that Darin is an awesome cook. And he even survived a whole Week with the in-laws. (he's a way good sport too)

We played a lot of games and watched alot of Jeff Foxworthy when we weren't exploring. It was a really good week and we all hated to have to come home. I hope everyone else had a great Easter this year!!!!! I am really enjoying reading all the blogs.