Aspen Grove

This past week we went to the Berensen family reunion at Aspen Grove. Because I haven't gotten the handle on posting pictures and words where I want them to be I'm just going to write about it then post pictures.

Aspen Grove is a family camp that BYU runs over the summertime we went for the entire week! Saturday afternoon to Friday morning. We were lucky enough to be able to fly to utah this time and the boys loved taking two planes in one day. Well except when Will chucked a huge tantrum at the end of one plane ride, when we lost Zacs dum in Phoenix (turned out to be a blessing since now zacs is dummy free! yeah!) I forgot to check to see if the dvd player had any juice left and didn't bring nearly enough snacks but other than that we had a lovely time travelling with the boys.

The camp is just past sundance ski resort and we had a very exciting drive getting there. The camp looks exactly like the Parent Trap camp (Hayley Mills version) complete with a sweet cafeteria with dead animals on the wall, outdoor taps for teeth brushing and nearly all the families there had uniforms on with their family name. All we needed was a lake and for everyone to whistle while they walked.

On sunday we had a wonderful church service outside, of course we ended up sitting on a rock off to the side because who wants to sit on seats when you can sit on a dirty rock and stain your new church pants. On sunday afternoon the boys got to go to day care and I went to a parenting lecture by Ross Baron (who teaches at BYUI and if you happen to go there you should take a class from him even if it is old testament) he is a fabulous teacher and it made me sad that I've already graduated from school. Sunday night we were able to check out board games from the 'store' so we played some battleship, i know so appropriate for the sabbath you'd think they would have jots and tittles or something.

Each weekday the boys got to go to there separate classes (day care) from 9:15 to noon then from 1:30 to 4:30. I thought they would be difficult but both boys loved the classes and came home with crowns, Indian headbands, fish, lion face paints and big smiles.

So while the boys were there Sean and I got to go on a high ropes course, it was terrifying.... the climbing and repelling part not the actual high ropes part. We had the chance to hike to stewart falls, sit around, attend some of the guest lectures, sit around and I got to paint.

As a family we went to frontier night where Will and Zac got to shoot things, make indian necklaces, eat candy, ride horses and climb into stagecoaches. We got to go swimming, play shuffle board, basketball and played on the awesome playgrounds they had there. Will loved the game room and played his own version of pool anytime he could convince us to take him there, and his ping pong career ended with a blackeye of his own infliction.

the weather was fabulous and the boys loved being outside all the time and I loved camping with showers, toilets, hot water, electricity, dressers, heaters and mattresses. Can you actually call that camping?


One of Zacs conversations made the kids say the darnest things wall in his group it went like this

Leader: hey isaac is your name billy?
Zac: no its eyes kick
Leader: hey isaac is your name bob?
Zac: no its isaac
Leader: hey isaac is your name billy bob?
Zac: no its victor!

The best Will conversation went like this...

Mum: no, I'm not swimming
Will: are you sure mum?
Mum: yes
Will: well if you don't get in now then that's it.
Mum: I know
Will: Okay....that's the rules.
two minutes later...
Will: swimmings really fun mum. are you sure? get in.
Mum: thats ok Will I just want to watch (and i don't want to swim in the baby pool and its freaking freezing)

Will is constantly asking if we can go back to the mountain and would really like to be a cougar. Hopefully he means the animal not the byu poo mascot. They loose all the time. I like to think thats the reason they cut the sports at byu i do.