Chili Cook-off/Trunk-or-Treat

Church has a Chili Cook-off every year.
We serve the chili in little cups to keep the samples
separate and have a multitude of cornbread.
The missionaries act as judges and at the end
of the evening we asked them if they wanted
to take some of the leftover chili home. 
They declined!



Peanut goes in, candy comes out!
Little kids liked this game even tho' I neglected to
have the girls paint on a mouth; oops!

Kimo's first year in a long time where he wasn't
glow man.  This year he's a fork in the road.

Thought this was funny seeing the poster
lighting the trash on fire during the clean up.
Funny how everyone disappears when it's time to
clean up.

 

I didn't get a great shot of Emi's Star Trek costume,
but here we are together!

Cooling Off in Mission Bay

YW On the Water

Youth Doings

Just a few things the kids have been doing this summer...

 

 

YW took an intro to scuba class with my neighbor, Steve.

Kimo and scouts in the San Diego area attended
Zion's Camp, geared toward LDS campers.

On another camp, Kimo helps some of the younger
campers hiking.

Kimo packed in a steak and asparagus dinner.

At the scout fair, Kimo's troop made ice cream using
liquid nitrogen (I think).

Emi and the youth made a temple trip

Emi at the temple with wet hair after doing
baptisms for the dead.

Finally Downloaded My Miscellaneous Phone Pictures

Emi grew these pretty flowers from seeds!

Sorry, if you don't have an
In-N-Out burger joint near you!

So good!

Said goodbye to our turtle, Ollie (female).
No one paid much attention to Ollie anymore  
at our house, so we gave her away on Craig's List.
Her new family says that the kids love her!

Got season passes to Aquatica, the former
Soak City water park bought by Sea World.
 

Tom painted the troop's new fire cans.
He did a nice job and made the stencil himself!
Each tent is supposed to have a can of water
or sand right outside the door, so Tom painted
up nine cans.

Begging pelicans hoping for some leftovers
from fishermen cleaning their fish.

Taught the girls at church how to make
(and eat!) Texas Sheet Cake-it's
so gooooooood!

Girls' Camp Pictoral

Girls' Camp was held in a new-to-us camp which

turned out to be a very nice! The church purchased

the camp and is in the process of improving it and

the girls had a good time with the activities offered there. 

 

Emi walking the wire being spotted by the other girls

Teamwork to cross on the wires

Helping to make the kabob dinner

A wet version of Duck, Duck, Goose

Roughing it in our air conditioned cabin

Archery was a favorite of a lot of girls

Girls made their own headbands

Pool time felt good in the 100 degree temperature!

Our ward's skit involved CSI and a mugging.

Dessert Auction 2013

Dessert auction had a western theme,
this year, hence Tom being on
the "Wanted" poster!

I had fun making western silhouettes

Emi bid on and won these key lime cupcakes

Kimo is showing the bidders this
volcano dessert

Red gingham table decorations with
bright yellow sunflowers looked just
right with the blue ribbons!