Cousin Camp 2023!

A week after our family reunion we had a cousin camp so that our granddaughter who lives out of state could participate before she went back home. We could only do two days this summer--next summer I hope to be more organized and hold it for three days. Personally I loved cousin camp! Katie was a super helpful older cousin and I know the other cousins look up to her. All the children were well-behaved actually.

Monday morning I picked up my grandchildren who live in SLC. We had a little powwow where we talked about what cousins are, assigned buddies, discussed our theme, and prepared some snacks, then we drove down to Big Springs in the big van. My grandchildren seem to be big fans of that van. We hiked around a little and played in the water and ate our snacks.

We came home from Big Springs and had some lunch, then played a little while and then we did a craft. We made stick people. It was a fun craft. Milo had to miss that.

After the craft we headed for the Fitness Center where we did some swimming. Thankfully we had puddle jumpers to help the youngest two stay afloat. I didn't get a picture in the pool. Fortunately I planned ahead and brought snacks.

Milo came back while Addy had to leave for pictures. We made grilled pizza for dinner and then had s'mores over the campfire for dessert. When I said we should sing some campfire songs, Max immediately started improvising a song about a campfire--very cute. After the campfire Milo went home and everyone else went to bed.

The next day, after breakfast, we had another powwow and then got on our bikes for a bike ride. We rode up to the cemetery and visited Drew's grave, then rode over to the park where we played for a little. Jan met us on the way with his fast electric bike. It was great to have Opa's help on this day. Opa does great underdogs. All the kids were on the swings at one point.

We came home from the park and had a short snack, then got in the van to visit the Bean Museum at BYU.

After the museum, we walked down to the BYU Creamery on 9th and got ice cream cones. They were delicious!

Next we drove to the Provo Temple and walked around it discussing what the temple looks like (the cloud in the wilderness by day and the pillar of light at night) and how Opa and Oma got married there some 34 years ago.

We came home, played, had some lunch, and then did the last craft--putting salt on glue designs and painting with watercolors. That was another great craft.