Night Games

They played a bunch of night games with glow sticks.  They had a lot of fun playing kickball, frisbee golf, and singing with rocks.

Youth Conference

I dropped Courtney off at the Church this morning so she could head out to Youth Conference!  It is ward level this year, which she loves a lot better than Stake, and they are going to a member's ranch in Logandale, NV.  There are 2 boats going with them and they will spend Thursday at Lake Mead playing with the boats and on the shore.  The boys are sleeping in tents and the girls are sleeping in the horse stalls that have been power washed and will have tarps on the ground.  It should be a great time!

Here they are loading up.  Courtney is in the back, in the middle, behind the kid with the yellow hat on.

This is the first wave of kids to go to Logandale.  It's the last day of school and some parents were concerned that their kids were going to miss school, so there is another group going down this afternoon.  (They don't do anything on the last day of school, just sit around and drive the teachers nuts as they sign yearbooks, so I had no problem sending Courtney this morning.)

Courtney is in the back, 3rd from the left, with her head tipped as usual. ;) 

Youth Conference is a "Cell Phone Free Zone."  The couple in charge always take pictures and post them online so I have been getting pictures of their activities all day long.

Here are the girl's sleeping arrangements.  Courtney is on the right.

Suns out, guns out! 😂

They are obviously engaged in playing Ultimate Frisbee. haha!

I'm not sure why our Bishop looks so confused, but the girls seem to be having fun.

Sleeping arrangements (Courtney is on the right):

The young women:


Cute girlies! Courtney, Maddie, Hayley, Tonya, McKaye, and Lacy. 


These cute girls are the ones that shared a horse stall.  They had a cricket who took up residence with them but they didn't want him there.

This is a room tour of where they stayed:

Trying to get rid of the cricket:

They are hilarious!

Ethan Calls!

We got to talk to Ethan again on Friday when they had their rescheduled p-day.  It was fun to talk to him on Tuesday, Friday, and then again on Tuesday.  We are seriously spoiled.

He called us from the gym in their apartment building.  He was in the kid's room so you can see butterflies on the wall behind him.

This is from Tuesday morning.  He was in his apartment because they went to the gym at 5:30 am to work out so they could be back in time to call home.  Isn't that a cute face?!  And if you look closely, you can see all three of us in the upper left corner.

Vaccines

Courtney got her first Covid vaccination on Saturday.  I made her an appointment at the old hospital (where she was born) but we really didn't need an appointment.  It wasn't crowded at all and didn't have a line.  They had the system down and we were in and out really quickly (minus the 15 minutes we had to wait for observation after the vaccination).  Courtney didn't flinch and it was so quick that I didn't even get time to take a picture.  I had her pause outside so I could get a picture and she wasn't amused with me.

7 Elite Tryouts

It's that time of the year again...when all the club teams have their tryouts.  Courtney was staying on the same team but had to still go through the tryout process.  It was held on Tuesday and Thursday then they were told the results on Friday.  She had a couple of friends who were also trying out so she was excited.

Courtney made it and so did Sammie.  They will be on the same team again, which they are pretty excited about.  I didn't get to go to tryouts because Sammie can drive and having your mom drop you off is just too uncool.

Courtney was sweating it on Friday though.  Her friends had gotten their acceptance emails to the team but she hadn't.  We waited and then I asked the coach when they were coming.  He said that there had been a glitch in the system but that they were sending the emails again in about 30 minutes so to check then.  After an hour, we still hadn't heard and Courtney was pretty upset.  I told her we would wait a couple more hours and then text the coach again.

Three hours later we still hadn't heard anything so I asked the coach if they were still having a glitch with their system.  He said they were but that Courtney had made the team.  I thanked him and let her know so she would relax.  That night, we finally got the acceptance email and everything was fine.

They start practices with the new team next week and it will be fun!

Yearbook

Courtney was on the yearbook for Success Academy.  I took pictures of all the times she was in the yearbook, except for the class photo which she hates and told me not to take a picture of.  haha!

You'll see a theme: Hayley, Kooper and Courtney.  ;) 

Chemistry lab with Courtney and Kooper:

The girls always study in the same room in the Holland Building.  They use the whiteboard to try and figure out how to do their math.  If you can see on the board, it says "Math" but is backward with a circle and a line through it.  They were really happy to finish the class!

Their English teacher told them to go to the library, get the librarian to check their paper, take a picture with her, and they would get extra credit.  They submitted the photo and the teacher wrote back that it was the wrong librarian and they hadn't gotten her to check their paper.  So no extra credit but they still got a cute picture!

These are of the yearbook staff:

These are from the first day of orientation in August.  Courtney is on the right.

Mole Day!  They have matching shirts.

Flooring

We are getting ready to finish our basement.  Courtney and I went out and spent the morning trying to figure out what we want as far as paint color, flooring, etc.  It was fun and we had a blast.  We decided that Home Depot is the place to go because we found everything we liked there and it was easy.

While we were looking at flooring at Home Depot, an old guy who works there walked by and said "Come with me."  We looked at each other and then followed him to the back of the store.  There was clearance flooring and they had 23 boxes of the flooring we were looking at but super CHEAP!  He gave us a sample to "show the hubby" and we went home.  After talking to Bryan about it, Courtney and I went back that night to get it.  It loaded down the van and I was so grateful we made it home, but we now have the flooring.