Summer Fun At The Pool

 I promised the girls that we would go to the pool.....and we did!

One of my previous girls was able to join us, it was wonderful to have her.

What was to be an hour swim turned into 3, we were having too much fun.

Who can swim for only an hour anyway?

New Girls

 We have two new girls and I am so excited to get to know them.

I love this calling, these girls are so sweet and fun.

Spa Day

 What girl doesn't like to be pampered?!!!!

and these girls are no exception.

They could have kept their feet in the foot spa forever.

As they sat there you could see them relax and "awwwww"

After I cleaned the old polish off their fingers and toes

I would give their hands a sugar scrub and then apply some soothing oils.

Then I painted their fingers and toes.

What happened to picking ONE color?

"How do I paint your nails with 5 colors?"

"This one for this finger, this one for this finger, this one for this finger, this one

for this finger and this one for this finger"

"SERIOUS!"

 Before long they starting taking over and helping each other paint their nails.

Stephi and I played a mean game of Parchezee while waiting for her ride.

She won, of course.

Malad Cemetery For Memorial Day

 All of the Achievement Girls met at the Malad City Cemetery with their garden 

gloves and hand shovels to plant flowers for Memorial Day.

The girls "dug" right in to plant pretty pink flowers.

The caretaker of the grounds had sprinklers going on the area we were to plant,

so it was too muddy to plant the bushes.

 Rhonda Neal told us how her mother was asked to be in charge of beautifying
the cemetery many years ago.

Her organization had raised money to plant 1000 trees.

Rhonda now carries on that responsibility of beautifying the cemetery.

Her mother loved the color pink and that is why Rhonda plants pink flowers.

 Rhonda shared so much history of the cemetery,
I think the girls really enjoyed it, I know I did.

The girls were intrigued with many different headstones, specially the ones for little 

babies. They wanted to know why that child had died.

They would get down to read and touch the headstones.

 While there a women asked for help in finding her ancestors, so Rhonda showed

the girls where the map of the cemetery was and how to read it.

The girls were quick to find the women's family headstones.

They sat and listened to stories of her family and then she asked who each

of the girls families were. She then let the girls help her place her flowers.

Today was a wonderful opportunity to give service and learn the importance of

family history.