Thursday, August 09, 2012

Checking Off My List

Last week ended up having 3 big things that had been weighing on my (I hadn't even realized how much until they were over with!), Sunday the 29th was my talk in church, Tuesday the 31st was the Scout Court of Honor and then Saturday the 4th Randy and I were in charge of lunch for 65 people at Youth Conference. I'm not really a worrier, but I am a mental reviewer so these things ended up occupying more of my brain than I would have liked, especially figuring out the food for so many people.


Luckily the menu had been chosen by the woman in charge of youth conference, so I had some pretty specific guidelines about what to get at Costco, but it still made for a lot of scrambling on Saturday morning since we couldn't wash the fruit or put the sandwiches together too early.


We drove up to Tibble Fork to meet up with everyone (they had stayed over night at Mutual Dell) and made it in plenty of time to set up before they arrived.


Landon looked like he was having a pretty good time. It's so great that there are so many boys in his age range to have fun with.


We ended up having a surplus of food! We had made more than enough sandwiches, had 5 huge bags of chips, tons of grapes, birthday cake and treats.


It was such a pretty place, though the water was pretty low.


It's fun to see Landon socializing.


We stayed for the beginning of their relay-canoeing game (they had to paddle out to marked buoys to retrieve puzzle pieces with scripture clues on them), but it was super hot outside so we fled home to watch the Olympics in air conditioned comfort.



9 comments:

Ashley said...

Ugh, food for a crowd stresses me out. You are good people.

Also, this makes me jealous of your ward/stake and what I assume all Utah wards to be. In our ward there are like 4 ym and 4 yw total.

Neighbor Jane Payne said...

Don't you love it when big things are over? I do.

Glad the youth activity was a success.

Melinda said...

Wow, you have had some really big stuff going on! I feel like I haven't gotten anything done I wanted this summer. I'm in panic mode also.

Barb said...

You could frame that canoe photograph. Beautiful.

michelle said...

That was a lot of big stuff in one week. I'm glad for you that it's all over!

I'm jealous of the number of young men in your ward. We probably have that many total.

Natasha said...

Beautiful water!

It looks like the meal was a success.

becca said...

Oh man! That is a lOT to stress over! I do not enjoy having to feed a lot of people. I am always so worried about not having enough, but of course go over board! Looks delicious

Unknown said...

Wow! What a week of accomplishments.

Breath and enjoy the success. It looks like all went splendidly.

*sigh*

Kim Sue said...

I always think it is fun to see Carly socializing too!