Faith, Trust, PIXIE DUST!

Sorry this post is so late from when this event happened. I haven't had a lot of time lately. Nope, summer didn't make my schedule any less busy. Well, anyway, I got back from Girl's Camp up in Heber Valley. The theme was Tinker Bell, and I have to admit that the movie is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
We did a lot of fun things while we were up there, but once again, being the lazy person I am, I'm going to use pictures...














Ugh! I'm too lazy to write captions for all of these, but you can get the idea can't you? I'll just say a few things. Dad got to go up to be priesthood on the first day. And yes, that is a glitter star on his cheek! We painted our toes with glitter, which had to do with being "clean, but not all," when Jesus washed the apostles' feet. It was Monday the first day we went up, so we had Family Home Evening with the relief society president, aka Queen Clarion (for those who haven't seen the movie, she's the queen of Pixie Hollow) about "crowns".
Tuesday, Zipline and Challenge Course Day. I was forced to be the guinea pig for the zipline, but I LOVED it! Our lesson that day was "Fly to your Heart" (the same name as the song Selena Gomez sings for the movie), and we got wings (may I add, that we made tutus before camp to go with all of our stuff we would get).
Wednesday, Hiking, Certification (we actually did it up at Camp this year), and skits. I'm not even going to put a picture of me in my outfit because I was the weirdo. No more needs to be said. Oh, and we got wands that matched our wings!
Thursday, We prepared a dance in our seperate cabins, like we did for the skits, but we all did it to the same song, which was of course, "Fly to Your Heart!" It's not that bad of a song...After dances, we had a crowning ceremony. We got white hats with flower clips on them (we each had one by our name for our secret sister box, {well, they called it Pixie Pals this year :)} but we didn't know they were clips until they put them on our hat/crowns. This is always the day at camp where we have a really fancy dinner and read letters from a certain relative. We had a turkey dinner with a fruity thing, I forgot what it was called. Then, of course, Testimony Meeting...the spirit is always so strong.
Friday, We got a REALLY cute necklace with a jar of green pixie dust on it and some pink and white beads (it's hard to describe, but it's really cute), and we got pixie sticks, and all sorts of stuff...And at the end we took a picture with our tutus, wings, wands, crowns, and necklaces before heading home.

I absolutely love the young women in my ward and I am grateful for the leaders and camp directors. I had such a great time! Though I could go on for ages about all those wonderful things, I won't get mushy. It was just great and fun and spiritual, I'll put it at that.

A couple of other updates: On Thursday, the beehives went to the Manti Pageant while the others were at EFY. And, I gave my first talk in church today.

I've started reading The Scarlet Pimpernel (BEST EVER, yeah I've already seen the movie) because I've been trying to get into classics more (and Mom and Dad say it'll help my writing). Well, because of all those cool words, I read with a dictionary and a piece of paper beside me. And it has really helped. And I would like to comment anent my jovial enjoyment I have of discombobulating every possible person I can, because I am being such an inciter by flattering you with chicanery. I can't help it, my lexicon is simply expanding as new words enter my pate. Well, this was fun, and I hope you assent. I now bid you farewell. Now, don't just stand there all stolid in confusion at my clever witticism! I'm sure you've got other things to do!


Anyway, love you guys lots!

The Trip to Maryland

So for the last week that dad was gone, we got to go visit him in Maryland. His hotel was really nice. Here's a recap of what we did in picture form (FINALLY! A post with pictures!)

Saturday: We went to the Baltimore Aquarium...






When we got back, I went swimming in the pool. There was a little boy there that kept throwing his ball in the water, though he wouldn't go in there himself, and so I'd keep getting it for him, and I started to make him laugh. Ah, don't you just love the little ones? A little later, a couple other kids came, a boy and a girl, and the girl was a couple years younger than me. I had to admit, it was pretty fun.





Sunday: We went to the Olney Ward that all my siblings (and, okay, me for the first five months of my life) went to church at. After that, we went to the temple Visitor's Center, and just kind of drove around our old neighborhood that I can't remember except for when we went four years ago and stayed with the Cobbs. Hehe...the famous shed...three cheers for Daniel!



Monday: Mom and I had gone to the Patterson's (friends from Georgia) house in York, Pennsylvania. Dad didn't come with us because he had to work. Catherine used to be my best friend when we were little before they moved, though I can't really remember it. But she's come to my house recently, and so we went and stayed at theirs. Monday, we went to...HERSHEY! Wherein, we went to...CHOCOLATE WORLD! Ideal place for the sweet-tooth Standages, right?







Oh, these I just HAVE to show!!! Only my friends would get this though, so just bear with me a sec...




Isn't it such a coincidence that they have hearts on the wrappers? Hehehe...STRAWBERRIES!

Tuesday: We went to Gettysburg! At this one area, there were a lot of rocks, and honeysuckles, so that's why all of us are climbing around on all those rocks. Man, Sister Patterson's youngest son, Joseph is so cute! He had this little camera, and it was digital and downloadable and everything! But he just walked around taking pictures! He called me Yoda, after I told him some of my nicknames. And at Gettysburg, he wanted to sit by me at the movie! John is WAY interested in History, and really liked this trip, even though he couldn't read the stuff. They keep the boys entertained in the car by listening to John Bytheway, which is TOTALLY AWESOME! I LOVE John Bytheway!












Wednesday: Mom and I were back in the hotel with Dad. We went and had lunch with one of my mom's old friends, Tamela and her daughter Katie.




Thursday: Annapolis, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch Amish Market. For lunch, we ate lunch at T.G.I. Fridays and I got this thing called the Endless lunch. AHHHH! SO GOOD! First, it was breadsticks, then soup, then salad! SO GOOD! I'm like, on a salad craze!!!!!!!!!!



Friday: Headed home. No pictures for this.

Sorry about the overload of pictures, but hey! I'm making up for all those pictureless, very long boring posts where I babbled on about books or roleplays or something.
While I was there, I read the first four (five are published) books in this series Alien's been raving about. They're awesome! They're called Maximum Ride. Sweetness!
Anyway, last night, with my friend Jessica, I watched Nacho Libre for the first time. Interesting experience...
Well, tomorrow I'm off for Girl's Camp, so I'll have something else interesting to put on the blog. Seeya then! Love ya!