I got to spend the funnest day with my sisters yesterday.  When we were together for Teina's birthday, we decided we should go see a play.  We got on the internet and saw that Mary Poppins was playing later in the summer so I got some tickets for all of us.

I made a little brunch for us to eat before the show because it started at 12:30.  Then we headed over to the Hale Theater. 

I haven't been there for about ten years so they had totally remodeled it and made it so nice!  We had good seats, but I think all the seats in that theater are good.  They sit all around the sides of a circle stage.  It seems small and like you are very close to the stage.  But then when they start the show and things are coming down from the rafters and coming up from the ground and there are little side stages too.  The scenery was really incredible, and the dancers, and the singers and the cast was just excellent. The gal that played Mary Poppins was just perfect (well practicly perfect in every way) and Burt was so so good!  He had all the mannerisms of Dick Van Dyke and even looked like him a bit.

I love all the songs from Mary Poppins and they were all so well done, I just wanted to stand up and cheer after each one!  The message is so great too...Family is the most important thing!

I just really can't say enough good about it!

After we came back to the house and had a little birthday party for Brenda.  It was really good to get a chance to visit and get caught up on each others' lives.

I got to teach the lesson today in YW about the importance of families and my heart was full as I thought of the wonderful family I have been blessed with.  My own family is just the absolute best, and don't even get me started on the grandkids and to be born to such wonderful parents and to 

have three amazing sisters that I love so much...well I feel very grateful and very blessed.

A few other things going on around here...

The garden is doing really well!  When I went out to pull weeds yesterday, the vegies had grown so much!  I was able to pick a little bowl of strawberries, (I was thinking how neat it was that when I looked at the strawberries, I couldn't see any fruit at all...but when I lefted the leaves, there they were!  God is sure smart hiding the strawberries behind the leaves so the birds don't get them!...Well, He's God, so that makes sense, but it just struck me how He thought of everything.  And don't even get me started on the bees...they are such a testiment to me that God created this world and every amazing thing in it.) some yellow squash and three heads of broccoli!   Kelley has already done a batch of salsa with the peppers.  They are coming on like crazy.  No ripe tomatoes yet, but lots of beautiful peppers.  I really think the difference in the yield is due to the bees.  They are very happy back there in the garden buzzing around pollinating everything.

 It's funny how these peppers grow "up"

 Caught one in action right here...

 We ate broccoli and yellow squash (dipped in eggs and fried like mum used to do...that's my favorite!) for dinner and it was so good!  It sure gives you a feeling of satisfaction knowing that you grew it yourself!  No weird pesticides or preservatives!

 Kelley and Katie have been working hard out in the garage on their wood projects...many hours of sanding to get the wood into shape!  They wanted to do some hairpin legs for one of the tables and have been trying to figure out how to bend them evenly.  They went and talked with Lynn Johnson who is a master at this and he gave them some good advice...but then said there was no magic trick to bending them evenly...it just takes a lot of experience.  So they are still working on that...

 KC and Taylor tried to help them figure it out all mathematically, but there is no perfect science to it because the steel actually stretches as it bends

 Lizzy supervising

Wednesday night was our big camp kick off night. Becky has been pretty incredible as camp director. She has really gone the extra mile to make it special.

 

She had us all over to her back yard and we cooked hotdogs and roasted marshmallows first, then got busy learning our skit.  She had it all choragraphed to a song and it was a cute  how she got it to go along with our "Choice and Accountability" theme. 

 

 They memorized our little chant that we will do each time we meet with the stake.

 Then we made our camp flag.  Sherry ( our wonderful stand-in camp director because Becky has to go to an organ conference all week) had made a nice orange flag and we all put our hand prints on it in the shape of a heart.  It turned out pretty cute.

 Then the girls started having fun withe paint and we pretty much lost control.

it was all good though...love these girls!

 One of my projects was to decorate a wagon that they are going to race in at camp.  Turned out kinda cute!