So, last night was the big "reveal" for girls camp. We had all the young women and leaders over to our house last night to reveal our "M&M" character/theme. Well, let's just say when we first announced, showed them, it was COMPLETE SILENCE...okay a few not so kind words were spoken, but the silence was pretty BAD!!!!! I thought our YW president was going to cry....seriously. Well, luck had it we had them sitting at the table with TONS of card supplies and had them get going on those. Us leaders had a few words with one another and we finally decided to let it "simmer" and we would address it in a little while. If they wanted to dicuss other ideas, we would....okay, the idea of BumbleBee from transformers and SpongeBob were brought up with a resounding "NO" from the adults. Soon giggles and laughter and good girl fun came from the tables and all was well...for a moment. One of the girls moved over to the couch and I went to sit by her. She basically told me that she didn't like making cards and so she was just not going to do it....Okay! She then asked me what other ideas I had for camp (she was one of the verbally disappointed girls). We chatted for a little while and then the other verbally disappointed girl joined us. Hmmmmm, well I just told them how it was and a few ideas and reasons why I decided to choose what I did. They started to get more excited....I guess I should back up for a second. The old YW pres was in for 4 yes I said FOUR camps. They always had a Disney/Princess theme. Well, I for one wasn't into the whole Belle thing and neither were the new leaders, BUT we would do it if the girls really wanted to. We thought it would be fun to switch things up a bit this year......what were we thinking?!?!?! Okay, so the rest of the girls finally gathered around for the "BIG TALK" okay not THAT big talk, just the camp character. I had plugged Davis laptop into the TV, so we had a big old version of what I wanted to do. In the end we got much more excitement and joy for camp. The nay-sayers were much kinds and actually excited. So we spent about 30 minutes making our ward "M" Inroducing you to CANDIE yes, that's what we named her and I LOVE IT!!!!!
So, she is our MAIN girl and each of the girls will get on the M&M site (with me) and make their own M character. We have LOADS of ideas, but can always use more. We are still in need of craft ideas and a service project. The STAKE theme is virtue. We were learn more about that next Thursday.
So here's to another 136 days until camp is over and hopefully more sleep filled nights. Last night suce wasn't one of them.
3 comments:
When Sam told me the M&M idea I instantly LOVED it! I think it's so creative. It's good to switch things up from one presidency to another, props to you guys!!!
I LOVE IT! I am glad you didn't cave. I will keep my thinking cap on for you. One fun thing we always do when we go camping is m&m smores. You buy a bag of the mini m&m's, toast the marshmallow for a 10-15 seconds enough to loosen the "outside of the marshmallow" Pull off the outer casing of the marshmallow and roll the sticky part left on the stick in the mini m&m's to cover it in m&m's. Yummy. Good luck
I am sorry that they weren't so excited with the theme. I am sure that they will grow to love it. I think that switching it up was the right idea. One thing that we did at girls camp was decopoge (sp?) an wood frame, it was pretty fun. I am trying to think of other things we did but my mind is blank. Good luck with it!
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