Girls Camp (7/16-7/20)

AWWWWW Girls camp-Girls camp how I love you and am So glad you are done. That was a stressful time in my life..Worth it in the end. As most of you know I was called as the camp director. Luckily it was a stake camp so I didn't have as much on my plate as I would have if it was ward, but still I had a lot!

We went up to Heber Valley Campground, the one President Hinckley organized. Our stake has been on the waiting list for 4 years to come up to this camp ground, The camp ground is run basically by elderly missionaries-who are all so cute and nice. Anyways I guess whoever is in charge of this camp sees all the stakes and then they pray about who should come up-this was our year. The campground is like the Taj Mahal of "camps". I always think how lucky I am that I come into this new ward and am called to the young womens essentially, and that is the year that they go up to this awesome place--I never would have probably known about it otherwise possibly ever.

Anyways Our camp theme was about "seek his light and shine" Our ward theme was "Be all that you can be" We had to make a banner, so one night before camp I went over to another girls house and we made this banner with spray paint and masking tape.

Alright, camp was so much fun and I loved it, I built a really strong relationship with a lot of the girls, and everyone called me Ducky! I love this. I mean my last name is Duckworth, and I know a lot of people are a little iffy about their last names, but this is not something I'm too fond of. After camp though every Sunday and Wednesday I'm reminded why my last name is so great. I get called DUCKY By the cutest funniest sweetest girls and I love it. I mean, I'm pretty proud of my husband and Love being married to him, but this is just something that makes me not as"shy" about it I guess.
Anyway so I guess I’ll start from my first day. So we had three cabins for our ward. We had our own site, it was pretty sweet . I was in one cabin with 9 other girls. There was one girl in particular, a Beehive. Her first time away from mom lik ever. Which is fine because you’re twelve.

I don’t know if you are all aware-you should be, I’m one big ball of anxiety. Don’t get it wrong, I’m a big ball of fun too- but man am I a scaredy cat. Anyway so we’re all in the cabin on our first night and we turn the lights off, I’m already having a hard time sleeping because I’m scared of bears or crazies in the woods . Yup poor me in the big old log cabin with deadbolts on both doors and I’m scared. The girls are sound asleep –and I was having trouble. I’m laying facing the window of my bunk for about 10 minutes when I turn over to get more comfy when BAM there is a figure of a person right next to my bed, my heart jumps..I fumble for my flashlight frantically turn it on (I’m not even being dramatic) It’s a girl-a Beehive standing above my bed crying-she misses her mom. (( Oh by the I was the only one of the leaders out of 4 of us that had service, so I was doing all the corresponding with the Bishopric and leaders who have not come up yet when it was necessary..Go Verizon! Woohoo! Anyway so the girls all knew I had the phone.)) So it’s close to midnight and she asks if she can call home just to hear her moms voice. I’m like uhhh ..I read somewhere in a manual you were suppose to talk them through their fears and homesickness. I’m tired and you just about gave me a heart attack- YES you can use my phone. So we go outside, I’m barefoot and it’s cold so I step inside the door and wait for her. Three minutes later she comes back in and hands me the phone, glad that’s over now we can go to bed and be rested for all of our activities tomorrow. “My moms coming to get me, with my grandpa” WHAT???? “Oh no I didn’t know that’s what you were using my phone for, it’s midnight, call her back and let her know not to come up”

Now for some obvious reasons her mom shouldn’t be coming to get her.
1> It’s midnight
2> The drive is far and the road is windy once she gets up here, it’s not safe.
3> Not only will I not be able to sleep all the lights would go on in the cabin so she can pack up
4> It’s a big deal the stake would be involved, even though it’s midnight there are strict guidelines she wouldn’t even be able to get in to Heber Valley
5> We have no idea where the stake is sleeping and would be wandering around .

Get it? I mean really>! So she calls her mom back and walks away from me. After a couple of minutes hands me the phone and says “she already left” OH MY I’m in panic mode- I run to the cabin where the President is sleeping “Bre…” I then go and whisper the situation she comes out, and has the girl call her mom then the President talks to her and explains most of the reasons above why it would be a really bad idea to come up tonight. The YW President then hands the phone to this little Beehive and says “okay tell your mom bye” Beehive grabs the phone and walks far away from us, we can still hear her though – she was making plans with her mom to come and get her at 7AM the following morning. So we talk this girl out of going for the night. Me and this girl go back to our cabin, when she turns to me and says in a stern voice “I told my mom you would text her the address of where tonight!” Okay the address is 2659 W Heber valley Drive..NOT HOW IT WORKS> haha I wasn’t rude to her, I was very supportive in talking her down, and making her feel welcome, all the girls were. Her mind was made up.

That night and the following day I got multiple text messages from a worried mother, and when I didn’t reply because my phone wasn’t really with me most of the time I would get repeat texts and even more worried texts. This was an ordeal, Needless to say the next day this little girl went home. I wish she would have stayed, we all do—but she would just cry throughout the day and then make the other girls feel bad and then we had to take time away from the other girls to help console her, it just wasn’t fun for anyone—her mind was made up and she left.

So between that, and me waking up one of the girls up in the middle of the night to “please shut her window because I’m really freaked out right now” ha! Cabin 2B was the best cabin ever! But hey really I kept hearing noises in the bushes that woke me up, it happened three times and I just couldn’t handle it anymore—my heart was racing, I just sang ‘A childs prayer’ over and over in my head , which did help, but she had to shut her window for the sake of me. LISTEN I’m not a horrible leader and actually the girls really like me, it was just a rocky start. The following night another leader came into my cabin and I slept like a baby. Ya know as well as a baby can sleep with their hip bones digging into a wood board. Anyways nothing else real exciting happened, I mean HILARIOUS stuff happened and it was such a good time but my post is already really long. There are a couple more things I want to blog about for camp- maybe I’ll continue that next time. Finally after two hours of reading you all know how my…first day at camp went.

Wahoo!

I lost my iPod

Or so I thought.. About two Wednesdays ago.For Young women we went to the Temple and learned about Virtue, passed one of our personal project things off. I had my iPod with me and was using it for my scriptures. The next day I went to use my iPod and it was gone. Not in my purse not at work. After work I searched frantically with no luck:( My love was gone. Now I know we aren't suppose to put that much importance into wordly things but this was my second iPod touch. My second generation I lost as well. It's like I can't have anything nice. but this...this is my new present from Eli 5th generation white he got it for me when it first came out > Now this isn't to be all "braggy" just giving you a bit of a back story to help you understand the importance.

Okay so my iPod is lost and it's the end of nice presents as I know it. I searched Thursday to the following Wednesday for my iPod. I had prayed and prayed and looked and looked, called the Temple lost and found - I even woke up in the middle of the night with a bright idea on where it may be hiding once or twice. I was actually on my way to YW on Wendesday the 8th (exactly one week from when i lost my precious)I was preparing a speech in my head actually, just a speech about how I lost something oh so special and if any of the girls had found an iPod and just weren't sure who's it was or what to do with it to let me know because it may be mine. Cheesy and lame and I was nervous about it because I have built an amazing relationship with a lot of the girls and didn't want them to think I was accusing anyone of being a thief.

I was driving to YW nervous and needed to calm my nerves. I wanted to listen to a certain song, lucky I do have some music on my phone - not a lot and not as good quality but some. I Whip out my phone while on the road and yank on the cord that I need to plug in my phone. The cord was on the side of my seat right next to the middle console. I start to pull it out and it's kinda hard-Okay why is this so hard?? I finally get it up (really it was hard) MY iPOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOO HOOOO My poor pod has been sitting lonely for one week stuck under the seat on the cord. So Of course I start crying and then remembering all the times throughout the week that I had felt like connecting my phone to this cord-not for the music, but to have my phone on speaker while I was talking to my RC WIlley, my mom and Eli. Everytime I thought to connect my phone I pushed that out of my mind and just kept the phone on my ear.

It's just funny. If I would have listened to that thought I had the first or second time- I wouldn't have been stressing for a week. We were driving one time somewhere and a song came on the radio that I had just downloaded on my iPod before it disappeared..I was literally in tears>>pathetic I know. I was stressed and sad to the max but Now I'm happy to the max.

Just had to share. Camp stories still to come:)

8/06/12

I think it's about time for a Blog post. Not only am I behind..I'm real behind. Since my last blog--we adopted a baby-got an ant farm- Dallin got a tat-moved to Ohio to join the 'Glee' team because as you know Eli and I were in Show choir before it was cool to be in show choir.

Now None of the above is true..except for the part about Show Choir-not the Glee part :)

But really since last time I blogged--Eli got a mohawk, I went to girls camp, Eli went to scout camp. Eli's car broke, my car broke, my parents car broke WHILE I was driving it. I ate some watermelon. See basically the same stuff as above.

So I feel like this post is going to be overwhelmingly long just to get caught up-so this is my introduction page and then as the days go by or hours I'll add more and more about the last few weeks. For now I'm going to post just a couple pics that don't have a lot to do with what I'll be posting about in the near future--ones I like and for your enjoyment.

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Management

Yesterday we got home from work and there was a letter on our door, not just our door--everyones. The letter stated today the apartment managers would be entering into our house on 6/27/2012 checking on the status basically. They wanted us to write down anything that needed to be fixed. The letter told us it was mandatory and they were getting ready for corporate visits next month. Basically the letter said clean your house and patio we're gonna come check it. It feels we were just bombarded uhhhhhghhh:/

I know I said last week I cleaned that one room and folded laundry all day, and I did. What I didn't say was all of the new laundry I did nothing with because by the time I got done hanging up "old" stuff I was wiped out and Eli was home, so this had to be done.Luckily for us though I made my family dinner on Sunday, so in preparation for that we did some cleaning..vaccum, sweep and just basic straightening, if we hadn't done that this would have been a nightmare especially.

We were invited to our friends BBQ yesterday so it's not like we had all night to clean, we went but we did have to leave early unfortunately. Afterward we went home and cleaned, and cleaned. Eli did the bathroom without me asking or even hinting at it..amazing I know? The toilet was spotless, you could eat off of that thing, and we did just to test it out...I went and got my ice cream cake and put it on the toilet seat and just ate it. SIKE!!!! haha you were all grossed out!! That last part definitely didn't happen. Anyway the house didn't turn out emmaculate and our bedroom and second bedroom weren't incredible, it still looked like people lived there but we weren't embarrassed for random people to come over.

On a piece of paper we now had to write anything that needed to be worked on. one set of our blinds were not working. ELi got the paper on the counter and started writing at the top I labeled it 'Things that need to be fixed' and he wrote the rest...yes I know

Cool right?! I was laughing so hard when I read that. Some of you may know who we're talking about-- :) SO dramatic!

So this morning I brought my pup pup to mommas so he wouldn't have a barking fit when some strangers came into our house and just stayed for however long they stay. I was also worried if they got too annoyed they might be rude to him and I couldn't have that happen to my lil babay. Dallin thanks for taking care of him btw.

OH one more thing Shout out to my lil Boookey Brea --she started a dog sitting business, she has a business card and everything so it's legit. I'm so proud of my little entrepreneur.

I'm baaaack!

MY OLD layout is back. WORRY NO MORE those of you who were concerned about not being on the right blog. hehehe. I figured our blog has had the same background and look and feel to it, since I first started , and then I went up and changed it. If it's not broken why fix it? Especially if you're not making it better, so it's baaaack.

wooot wooot. I'm oddly overly excited about this.

Thursday Good day II

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So, This picture is right after Sam's ceremony. Obviously Eli has some issues with letting him go, and then Royce in the background is a bit jealous maybe?

ELi looked so good yesterday I just loved it.
OH NO WORk is over, I will have to continue on later about more Thursday Good Day!



I'm back and it's been a whole weekend, so you may have already seen the above but all this below is brand new and also not that interesting. :) Just two pics from the wedding

This one I like, it just makes me laugh because my jaw line looks intense, for those of you who know me, my jaw line is pretty much non existent, it's weak sauce, and in this picture Eli has no chin--at all the only reason you know where his neck ends and face starts is because of that handsome chin strap.





After the wedding Eli wanted to celebrate with Chuck-a-Rama. Well this is really not a celebration to me, it's all you can eat but I only get two plates and ones full of salad okay maybe three two salad plates and one with maybe disgusting potatoes. Eli though he takes advantage and eats it ALL! So basically I'm sitting at the table waiting and watching him eat, then being a loser and looking around while he goes up and get's more food. I mean I guess I sip my drink, so I may have complained. It's not just that I don't really eat a ton, it's also about the skirt I was wearing with the 4 inch heels. It didn't sound so fun to me to get up and down and UP and down and walk around hunting and gathering for my own food in that ensemble. Eli understood then surprised me and took us to The Cheesecake Factory. OH YUCK! I would have rather gone to Chuck-A-Rama. I think they call people like me ingrates or something. We've been a few times, we've gone a few times because Eli really enjoys it (ENJOYED) and evertime I go the food is less then yummy. ESPECIALLY for what your paying. bleck! (My opinion obviously) Anyway we went there and it was a bad experience, bad bread bad service gross food. Okay the food I got wasn't disgusting, but I told the guy what I was thinking about getting, then just to make sure I asked "theres no cheese in that right?" NO MA'M NO CHEESE. "Is it suuper spicy?" NO MA'M IT'S NOT BAD AT ALL. "Okay great I want that." Now it's Eli's turn "Can I get the blahh blahh blahh and Please no mushrooms" OKAY PERFECT.. now we wait, while we were waiting though we got salads and an appetizer basically avacado tacos or something. The salad was eww the ranch was nasty. Usually I ask if I can taste the ranch before I order but I actually have never gotten a salad there before and I forgot to ask, right after we asked for the salad the guy was gone.

So Server brings out our food and well there is cheese in mine, not just like sprinkled in it, but the sauce is basically made of cheese and had melted cheese you could see the melted strings from noodle to noodle. I looked grossed out, but I thought I'd give it a try. Really though? So i took a bite and the food was soo dang spicy it burned my tonsils and throat. I guess you can't blame the waiter a ton for that because his tolerance for spice may be a lot higher then mine, but yeah the food definitely had a BIG kick to it. Eli started eating his food and BAM mushroom, the waiter comes by and Eli tells him that he just found a mushroom>> the waiter replies "oh I'm sorry man" he then walks away. >>>I'm like okay? WHy does he think we told him that, just because?? hahaa UHHHH?? Anyway Eli picks it out and takes another bite, and BAM mushroom again. I start looking at his food and BAM mushroom. They're good sized chunks too but small enough to have a lot mixed in there. Eli is deathly allergic to mushrooms. And when I say deathly allergic I mean deathly grossed out and disgusted by them. I don't mind this though, because I don't think they're the tastiest thing in the world, so I don't need to cook with them, or cream of mushroom. So then I'm like WHAT?? we're not gonna pay for this food that you're not going to eat, so the waiter comes back around and Eli tells him "excuse me , there's mushrooms in this and I'm scared to eat anymore or it" haha that made me laugh but then the waiter goes "I'm sorry man, do you need us to make you a new one?" HELLO!!!!! We requested it in the first place, if it wasn't a big deal we wouldn't even be telling you about it. I know this rant may be annoying but I was way bugged. Secretly and well not so secretly I was happy that this happened because this meant no more going to The Gross Cheesecake Factory anymore. Okay I really am sounding like a spoiled brat so I'm done.

Oh wait I'm not done! Eli brought his food home with him and ate it for lunch the next day, and MR mushroom was there, haha he said he only found one or two though.

Okay Now I'm done. almost. You have to endure one more picture. It's E yawning, he looks like scream huh?! haha

Thursday good day

Reasons Thursday June 21st were celebratory worthy..

I had no work (because I was sick, but that's beside the point)
I hung up and washed loads and loads..and LOADS of laundry )
I ate some ice cream cake that Eli bought for me. wooooo
Me and that one guy went on a date
I'm caught up on Teen Mom 2 (finished the finale yesterday)

Let me start from umm Wednesday, I felt like crap! Went into work looking and feeling like a piece of turd..is that how you spell turd? I walked in and the girl next to me asks "oh is it come into work day in your PJ's?" I then shot her the look of --ooooh you did NOT just say that-- She then quickly responded "ohh no, what's wrong?" I gave her a little insight on my morning and how I was basically the walking dead today. I then quickly finished emails and told her I was taking an early lunch and was going to be gone for about two hours, she was perfectly okay with that. I then went to my moms and slept, awww this felt great. Unfortunately my alarm went off and it was time to go back to work. I really could have slept until the cows came home. I've actually never understood that saying, and really I'm not sure if I used it correctly. POINT being, I was really tired. I went back to work thankful for my nap, irritated at how short it was. My boss came over to me a bit later asking if I needed to go home, YES pleeeease! I took the following day off, which was a day of Celebration.

Thursday morning I woke up too early for not feeling super great, but as the day moved on I felt better. At 11Am I started my first load of laundry. I separated the laundry into piles. It was time for the first load, I stuffed as many clothes as I could into that poor washer, it was time for my next task. Walk into the second bedroom, it's filled with clothes! I really think only my mom and siblings who have seen it can tell you there was a lot! Clothes from before that got washed but never hung up, clothes we've tried on all over the floor, along with the clothes from the baskets of clean that are scattered all over from us trying to find what we wanted to wear certain mornings. We sound disgusting, but all of the clothes were clean, so that's good right? I can't even understand 7 loads of laundry a room filled with clothes all over the floor and in baskets, plus 7 loads of laundry (6 of which were apparal. This is nuts, too. many. clothes!!! Anyway I sat down and wathed my guilty pleasure (which I actually have a lot of) Keeping up with the Kardashians and folded laundry, yeah I was folding laundry and hanging up clothes for literally 4 1/2 hours, I obviously took breaks in between like to put in more laundry and take Titan out. But really:( I was exhausted but the room looks great. Eli's still missing some socks, not as many as before. Eli is to socks, as I am with bobby pins. Ya feel me ladies? Where do they always go?? Oh I also took a break to eat some Ice Cream cake.

Yeah that's another thing, I've been craving ice cream cake from Baskin Robins, and I got some . Yikes. the cake was more money then it's really worth but what are you gonna do, cravings. Anyway so I did take a break to eat that.

So I'm watching Kardashians, and putting away laundry when Eli get's home. Eli's BFF was getting married, so he's the best man, he comes home and get's his tux out to put it on, and then out of nowhere he says "Hello I'm Eli Dutchworm" I started laughing so hard, random? Nope this was the name on the tux Eli picked up. hahaha first laughing matter.

We then went to the ceremony which was beautiful- I know ceremonies in the Temple are always beautiful but the spirit was so strong, and I loved it...


Here is Sam and Deb on their amazing day:) they obviously weren't aware I was taking their picture..



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