The Three Casts

In the continuing saga of Enoch and his leg, he has had a total of three casts over a period of eight weeks. In a way, the eight weeks have gone by fast, but here it is, the middle of August, and school will start in less than two weeks.

His first cast was red in honor of his relatives who are UTE fans.

In honor of his Uncle Daryl -who didn't like the red cast - Enoch chose blue for BYU.

After six weeks of a long cast up to his hip, he was able to have a short walking cast in his favorite color....orange.

Finally, the big moment arrived! The final cast is getting cut off! He is very used to the noise of the cutter, and was excited to be able to wiggle his toes.

He doesn't look extremely happy, but this is just after the whole thing came off. For being in a cast for eight weeks, his leg doesn't look too bad. Now he is working on walking. We went swimming and he's had a bath.....so nice!

Woodbadge, Family Camp, NYLT

When Aaron was asked to be on another Woodbadge staff this year, we knew we would be in for a fun time! This special course combines Woodbadge training with NYLT training and then rolls the whole thing together with a family camp experience for all! Our council has been doing this for 5 years and we have had the opportunity to be there for 3 of those 5.

I took this chance to be a member of the family camp staff for the second time...this time over the 6-7 year old boy's group. It is a good thing that was my group. There is no way Enoch would have been able to be there if I couldn't have been with him. Having a broken leg in a cast is no way to spend a fun week of camping, but Enoch was a trooper and we found many activities that he could still do. He also had 11 new friends to be with. Our group was called "THE DIRTY DOZEN" and boy, were they ever! What a great group of kids. We were off from sunrise to sunset and exhausted by supper.

Enoch with some of his new friends in his wagon

Samuel during a skit with his group. They were called the Dragons and spent their time working on cub scout requirements intermingled with having loads of fun.

Shenna had a blast being in one of the older groups. Half the time they weren't even in camp. They spent their time swimming and water skiing at a nearby lake, hiking to and through a cave, river rafting (and moss fighting), rapelling and many other high-adventure activities. I was a bit jealous myself!

Does not this face just scream joy? Target shooting with six year olds!

After we are sufficiently dirty enough, they take our official family camp picture by the lake.


Kiera also had a grand time with her group of 11 year-old girls. She wants to be adopted by the leaders and spend her days doing crafts and relaxing on the lake shore. I haven't the heart to tell her that they really don't live there. We are now home and I'm sure the scout camp is VERY quiet now. Back to reality. Do we really have to?