Ranch Creek Youth

This week we had a fun activity, we split the group into two teams and had a competition. We began with putting up a tent and preparing it for sleeping by unrolling sleeping bags. Then they had to re-roll the bags perfectly and put the tent up correctly.



1st group who completed the setting up

2nd group (only two groups)

Then we had the boys (since they are all in Scouting) teach the girls how to tie knots. Some of the things girls had to do to pass off for Girls Camp Certification. Then they had to start a fire using flint. The boys had to walk the girls through how to do it. Then we had Smores.

Garden Update

Here are our Peas in the ground and our Crookneck Squash.



Here are some more peas


Our tomato plants with peas, banana pepper, and zucchini plants on top.

See our 3 green tomatoes growing in the center of the picture?


We have a banana pepper too.

Thank You Nu Skin

Well I think I have now unpacked all of my free product from Nu Skin and the 11 years I worked there. Grant said well we won't have to worry about getting our 2 year supply of product for quite a few years. We don't have much of a food storage although we are working on it. However, we will smell and look good. HA HA

I could only imagine

While we were at the zoo a couple of weeks ago Grant's Mom came with us and pointed out these trees. Look at the thorns on them....I imagine it was something similar that our dear Savior had pounded into his head as a crown. Made me appreciate all the more all the sacrifices He paid for me.

Saturday's Adventure

For Saturdays adventure Grant and I woke up at the crack of dawn 4 am to take our Youth Group to OK City to attend our Temple. Here is a view of Tulsa's Skyline coming home from OKC. Thanks to Grandma G from coming and babysitting Sam. We returned home around noon after taking 1/2 hour to find a fast food restaurant open at 10 am. Thank you Wendy's. Then we decided to head to downtown Tulsa...Sam & My first experience being in the center of Tulsa for the annual Mayfest festivities. The have local artists and musicians play while vendors, both food and trinket, line the streets. It was fun, but definitely reminded me I wasn't in Utah County anymore...A lot of alcohol and smoking, but still a great time had by all...(more pictures on Sam's blog.)


And here it is from the opposite view as we headed into Mayfest.



Heading home from Mayfest we passed the Fair Grounds and in front of their conference center they have the GOLD DRILLER. See below.


Here are pictures of Scenery of this beautiful green country we now live in. I miss my Mountains, but it is so beautiful and green here. I have seen an email going around about God spilling paint, some of the pictures below will dipict some of the similar thoughts I had when I saw that email. The colors of wild flowers along the road. The red dirt, maybe even darker than Moab, UT. The green for miles and miles. Oh and I had my first experience of seeing fog. This is just a little fog compared to some of OK fogs storms. Hope you enjoy!

Red Dirt


Temple it is beautiful


Flowers

Oh I don't know how this got in here, but it is Grant mowing our lawn and some of our garden in the pots.

Forrest everytime we pass this sign we think of you. Yes, we do live close to Kellyville. It is about 20 miles west of Tulsa. We pass through it on the way to OKC.

Aren't they just beautiful?


Look at the fog or mist...remind you of Lord of the Rings?


Green as far as the eye can see. Many of these trees have limbs that were broken off in the ice storm but still attached enough to produce green on the broken limbs.

Ranch Creek Young Women

Here are pictures of our Sleep Over at my house last Friday May 9th. We had a 4 P's party (Personal Progress Pajama Party). We didn't allow anything in that didn't start with a P....so pretzels, popcorn, pumpkin pie, pink-purple-periwinkle-etc colored blankets, pillows, pringles, etc. We had a blast. We started off making homemade Pizza's and then the Bishop joined us and answered questions that the girls had written earlier in the week. They had some spiritual ones as well as ones like if you could be an animal which one would you be.

Here are pictures of him eating Pizza with the girls.


Then we had a daughter of one of the other leaders who had just returned home from her mission come and talk to the girls and answer any questions they had for her.




Then we did make overs and talked about personal hygiene. Here are the girls after there glamorous makeovers. Thank you to Nu Skin who taught me all this kind of knowledge that I could share with these amazing young women.


Smiley picture.... Aren't they beautiful little princesses? I love that they all did their hair and makeup for the pictures, but we are all in our PJ's (another P).


This one we were having fun making Sexy Face Poses.


Here is our Crazy Pictures. Hope you can tell how much fun we had!



Mother and Daughter. Beauty Queens!

SOLOS' of our Princesses

Shelby

Megan

Kia

Desiree

Mattie

Kayla

Maddie

Aubrey

Megan

Here are 3 of the girls from above.

It is now about midnight and we had the girls get their scriptures and personal progress books out and we worked on Personal progress until 2 am then we watched Princess Bride and went to bed at 4:15 am. I then woke them up at 8 am and we had Parfaits and wrote in our Journals. Their parents picked them up around 10. Grant and Sam came home at 11 and I took a nap at 2. It was a busy weekend but very fun! We bonded, were uplifted spiritual, physically, and emotionally. What a great opportunity for us and the girls.