Crazy Week

Tuesday morning at about 5:45 AM this motley crew showed up on our driveway:  

After some tense hours  of driving through tropical storm Debby, they arrived safely in Islamorada, Florida for their awesome high adventure.  

 Once they got down there, it  didn't take long to start diving.

 Not exactly roughing it!

They are having a blast!  

Meanwhile, MK started off her week on Monday by heading off to girls' camp in nearby Haymarket, VA.  The girls combined with 4 stakes this year at Camp Snyder which is a Boy Scout camp.  Kind of gross if you ask me.  

 Roughing it in disgusting platform tents with a good attitude:)

 With her youth camp leader partner, Meg:)

Spiders?  Heat?  Drama with crazy girls?  I got this.
PS:  This is how I spent my week:

Back home, Jeff spent Thursday amid the circus also known as the supreme court's decision on Obamacare.  His job was to run a copy of the decisions down to Senator Lee.  My friend, Ellen, couldn't resist taking this picture "of Jeff":

It pretty much sums up the insanity of the day. 

The weekend came with a bang: 

 It was a crazy strong storm that raced through the area on Friday night.  MK and 599 other young women and their leaders safely huddled up in the mess hall for shelter.  It knocked out our power and did this:  

 It took Jeff and me a good 15 minutes of searching to see where, what we thought was an entire tree, came from.

 Then we looked up and discovered the top of an extremely tall tree had  been sheared off.

It landed on our neighbors brand new fence but managed to not do too much damage--lots of other trees are sort of  holding it up.  

Time to invest in a chain saw?  I think so.

On Saturday morning I went to retrieve MK a few hours before camp officially ended so we could get her packed and out the door to the airport.  With lots of dirty clothes and dead cell phones we were grateful for our friends --the Moffitts and the James, who saved us with their washing machines and power outlets.  Since they both had girls at camp we had fun listening to MK tell us all the crazy stories from their week.  We were so happy to find the power on when we got home with our clean laundry:)

Then it was off to BWI.  Olivia's mom drove us so that we could see our "babies" off on their adventures.  It was the first time either of them have flown alone but since they had each other we knew they would be fine.

Off they go with boarding passes in hand.

Tom and Leslie picked them up in Salt Lake and now they are with Jordan and Laura.  They start BYU basketball camp tomorrow!  Good times:)