Some thoughts on the passing month

This month has just sped by.  I have been neck deep in the Mia Maid Personal Progress Retreat, Girls' Camp, and Youth Conference, not to mention regular life, so that the month has just disappeared.

This is L at her most recent swim meet.  Most of the time, my pictures of her capture just splashing water so I was pleased to get a photo that actually showed her in action.  Go L!

My nephew (pictured here with his parents and a local scout official NS) recently received his Eagle Scout award.  Go T!

Here are T's little brother W and his two BFFs posting a flag at the Eagle Court of Honor and doing a great job!  Yea little guys!

Here are the Bickersons, in their scouting glory, and you can see they are really happy that I'm taking their picture.  Go my sons!

For Father's Day, we invited B's parents to come to dinner.  We had a nice visit.  B cooked a good share of the dinner and not without pointing out the irony of that--his cooking 1/2 of his own Father's Day dinner.  Go Dads!

Here's my one and only picture from Youth Conference this weekend.  I am sorry that we did not get a picture the day before when everyone was wearing the "Be Strong" T-shirt we gave them.  You can still see it on a few of the people here, though.  It was a great group and I thought things went well.  We went to Manti for the pageant.  Yea LV1 youth and leaders!

Last night after coming home from youth conference, I had just heaved a huge sigh of relief that I was finished with big events for the summer when I was reminded that I have somehow agreed to do my in-laws' 60th wedding anniversary party at the end of summer.  Go PGB!

As the school year has wrapped up and summer has begun, I have been on the go.  In fact, I feel I have been in nearly constant motion for several weeks now.  Here are just a few things that have been happening.  On May 25th, I was responsible for a recognition evening which has already been discussed in a previous post.

The next day, there was a court of honor where J (young man with the sash) received some merit badges.

Around that same time, L received an award at the end of school.

I organized a personal progress retreat for the Mia Maids--you see them above hard at work on personal progress.  Their leader challenged them to finish their personal progress with her or before her.  So these young ladies were trying to close the gap.  They accomplished a lot on their personal progress and I hope they will all finish by August when their leader finishes.

This past week has been girls' camp and the stake really organized a great camp.  There was so much to do.  I particularly enjoyed the two speakers.  The weather was perfect.  I do not think we could have asked for better.

It just occurred to me that of the twenty people pictured here, twelve are descendants or married to descendants of the two Gubler brothers who settled this Tri-city.

L had her first swim meet on Saturday morning.  It was a very blustery morning and cold for everyone, particularly people in wet swim suits.

Now that I am home from camp, I need to turn my attention to many other things, one of which is youth conference in two weeks.  I have a feeling that summer will be over before I know it.