July 20, 2011

My beautiful sunset, girls arriving and girls working.

Bear's Oh My!

July 2011

Bears and more bears. We got pictures of two. They have both been teenagers or yearlings, kicked out of the den because new cubs came along. They are black bears. Yesterday , one came right by my front porch. I had church music playing on the speakers outside. He came slowly, stopped by the front step and I said “ Hi there, glad you came to visit” . He cocked his head and looked at me, then went on his way. Robert was on all sides of our trailer snapping pictures.

Last Saturday they caught a lighter colored one, looked like Winnie the Pooh. He was also in our camp. The forest service came and took him to another mountain range far away, so he couldn’t find his way back. We called him Yogi. Yesterday’s bear is Toby,

Toby went into a cabin where the girls had just gotten here, left the door open and went to orientation. They had their sack lunches in their gear. He had a feast.

We are in the middle of lots of girls, families and our children coming up here. Busy!!!!

Goodbye Snow!

JUNE 4, 2011

I AM SENDING A PICTURE TO PROVE THE SNOW IS LEAVING. It’s only on the high trails and the back country, except pieces here and there such as this. Today is beautiful. The kid of day you want to bottle and keep. We have had our first Girls and several families this week. The girls from St George decorated our trailer with windmill flowers!!!They were so sweet

There is also a picture of our oldest grandson Mason Marshall. He is pitcher for Bingham H.S. in So. Jordan. Bingham won the State 5A Championship. Mason was voted MVP of the tournament. By the way, he has a scholarship to BYU this fall to play baseball. We are so proud of him. Can you tell??? You feel just has proud of your grandchildren as you did with your children when they succeed.

We will be full of girls for the next 11 weeks and families on weekends. Wish us luck and strength. By the way I am doing awesome!

Our oldest daughter, Jaynee, is fighting breast cancer. She is in the middle of her radiation after having a mastectomy. We love her so much and wish her the best. Wish I could take it away, like any parent would.

MAY 20, 2011- Friday

Merry Christmas from Heber Valley Camp!!! We just can’t believe all the snow. I know you have been getting a lot of rain in the valleys, too. We got 9” of snow yesterday and about 12” more overnight. It’s 10:30am now and just coming straight down. We have campers coming this afternoon by 2pm????? Every available body is helping clear snow from the front of the cabins, the roads. A skidster was just here trying to clear the parking lot and a snow blower clearing trails to campsites. What a crazy year this is. What stumps me is nobody is canceling their reservations. We are going to be full of Fathers and Sons. We had all the fire pits found and dug out, but now they are really covered and the wood is soaked. Happy Trails!!

We have spent the last 2 weeks getting the cabins dusted and vacuumed from mouse dropping and spider webs. Windows touched up and snow removed……………..

I’ve been asked to be the activities chairman and I have an awesome committee. Our first event will be an ATV Progressive Dinner on May 28^th, after all the campers have gone at 5pm. If the weather is bad we’ll have to run from place to place in our trucks.

I’ve been having B-12 shots , in Heber, the last 3 weeks. They are supposed to help the nerves and nervous system. I’m always willing to give things a try. Still having headaches, this Dr says they are caused from my Celiac so am eating very, very carefully. It gets pretty boring!

We are coming home for Doctor appointments on May 31^st. No prescriptions if you don’t come and see him every 6 months……ahhhhh!

We got a letter from Breckin yesterday. It was addressed to Grandma and Pa Marshall, and she signed the end of the letter…..Love, Bob (her nickname has been Breckin Bob for years)

We loved it!!!!!!

May 2, 2011-Monday

It’s a beautiful, BRIGHT ( sun shining on snow), sunshiny day. It hasn’t snowed for 2 nights!!!!! Things are melting today, Yeh!!!! We are so anxious to get into the cabins and clean and ready them for campers. A Woodbadge group is coming this Wednesday at Smith Pavillion and the men are shoveling the trails to the cabins. We have families coming on the next week at a few of the camps. We keep praying for Heavenly Father to temper the elements, and I know he will!! This is His work and all will be well.

This year’s missionaries seem so accomplished and wonderful. Elder Denkers sang in the Tabernacle Choir. Yesterday he was put in as music and choir director. That’s just one example, there are many more to discover. Out of the 64 couples here, only 22 have returned from last year. All are not on the mountain yet. There’s about 20 more trailers to get up here. We’ve been in our Camp Snow for a week.

I got called yesterday to be the activites chairman ( but now it’s Mission Social Committee) with 3 helpers. We do have a lot of fun on some Saturday nights after all the campers are gone.

Well, enough for today. I will go post this to Marci and she blog’s it for me. Thanks, Marci

Snow!