Saturday, September 27, 2008

Spiders, and Kids, and Dirt..Oh My!

This is what you can find when you take the Castlegate Ward families to Airplane Flats for our ward campout! We found not only spiders, kids and dirt, we found tents, trailers, toys, games, food and FUN!!! We enjoyed sprinkles of rain, cool breezes, and the best entertainment found on the whole trip-a rope swing! Enjoy some photos of the families and activities:

a favorite hangout spot for each campsite-the campfire!

Another hot spot-the hammacks!

The famous rope swing!


The best breakfast ever! Pancakes, bacon, eggs (they even had fried eggs!)


Here are some fun random shots of cute kids, silly kids and kids listening to Bro. Allen tell scary stories!


Families that we spotted on the campgrounds include:

Criswell, Hatches, Rays, Flakes, Lawes, Burrells, Perkins, Howells, Neus', Johnsons, Stradlings, Paynes, Tuckers, Driggs, Hermansons, McLaws, Orams, Jones, Badgers, Cammacks, and more Cammacks, Oakes, Hellers, Pearsons, Gonzales', Yosts, Millers, Palmers, Cauthens, Michaels, and the Allens. It was a blast! We can't wait til next year!

I hope they call me on a mission!

This is what the primary kids of Castlegate Ward were hoping for! The Primary activity for July consisted of lots of well dressed and well mannered kids looking forward to serving missions. They came to the church on a Sat. morning in their Sunday best while the Primary leaders gave them their own personal name tags labeling them as missionaries! They had lots of fun rotating to different stations while they learned great skills and had fun while doing it! Here are some photos that show that fun they had:

They made sack lunches with the old standby-PB&J.


They learned some new phrases in Spanish from a missionary serving right now!


They made banks to save money for their own missions


They wrote letters to Sis. Badger from our ward who is serving a mission right now in California at the History Center.


They even had fun relays that taught them how to make their beds and eat breakfast really fast!


It was a fun filled event that will hopefully have all the kids in Castlegate Ward looking forward to serving a mission of their own someday!