Bug...

...can I be invited to read your blog? My email is jpackfam@gmail.com. Thanks!!!

Coach update

Just thought I'd share this picture of Coach and her FIANCE!!! Yep, she's engaged! And she won't get on here, so I'll share! She's getting married on March 4 and is happy as ever! We went and found her a dress yesterday and she's GORGEOUS!!! This is Rick Hansen by the way! So Congrats to Coach!

i am jumping on the train

so i am a blogger now kind of i have no idea how things work yet but i do have a blog. so how do i get it so that all my oakcrest friends are on the side and this blog is on the side too. do i have to add all of you     i don't know, well obviously i need some more time to figure out the blogging world. 

                      help me i am so lost. 

Yi-Yi's Halloween

It is so fun how holidays change with little ones around! We had a great time watching Tyson play with his candy. And he loved being a dog!

Cricket's Halloween

Here's my cute kiddos on Halloween! Cameron as Robin Hood and Katie as a Witch!

BUG

Can I be invited to your blog???

Vanilla's Baby

So Vanilla Bean had her baby last week! Go check out her blog to see what it is and what they named the baby! It's pretty exciting! CONGRATS VANILLA!!!

Where were you...

...on September 11, 2001 when you heard of the breaking news of the day?

Happy Birthday...

...SKIPPY! I just wanted to drop you a little line and let you know that I was thinking about you yesterday on your birthday. You're such a great friend and I really enjoyed talking to you the other day on the phone. You always brighten up my day and you just have a way of making me happy! Thanks for that! I hope you got to have a fun day! LOVE YER GUTS!!!

Cricket :)

Hey Princess!

Hello, your Highness! I'm not sure how often you get on the Oakcrest website anymore, but there are a few of us requested to be invited to your Blog. So I thought I'd post it here, hoping you will see it here too. The following would like to be invited:

Tutz Peterson: paigefrank922@hotmail.com
Pixy Glover: pixy_oak@hotmail.com
Chunky Monkey Westgate: rschristiansen@gmail.com
Daisy Griggs: sherrigriggs@gmail.com
Cloey Shaner: tawnyashaner@gmail.com

I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones from the website that would LOVE to see your blog!

Miss you!

More pictures!

Hey everyone! Thought I'd add my pictures I took from the reunion. It was so good to see everyone again! Miss seeing all of you everyday. XOXOX!!

Oakcrest pictures

I feel sort of silly because this is the 3rd blog I've posted pictures on about the Oakcrest reunion, but I didn't want to leave anyone out! :) So, for a more thorough story of the really fun reunion, you can visit my blog but here are a few pictures for this sight!





I love and miss you gals! It was so much fun to see those who were able to make it to the reunion. I sure do love that place and the memories that I have of it and of you!

Trout had a baby!

So everyone needs to check out Trout's blog because she had a baby this past weekend. She's a cutie and I just thought everyone should know! So go check her out!

Cricket's 24th of July fun!

I had quite an eventful 24th of July! It's a very long post, so you can just read my blog to see the details, but here's a picture to entice you to read my blog.

Hee, Hee, what fun!

Well girlies, it was such fun to see so many at the reunion!! What a special thing to be a part of! I loved being there again and especially being more hyper than usual and getting away with it! :)
Here are the pictures I promised of all the cute faces I saw. Sadly enough I didn't see everyone who was there which is a super bummer. Alas, we'll have to have another reunion! Oh and thanks for saying you love my mom! :) Good ol' times!

Daisy is here!!

Hello to all my lovely friends!! I just wanted to check in like everyone else did. I'm still learning how to do this blog thing... So be patient! It was so fan-freakin-tastic to see everyone at the reunion!! I sure do love all of you! As for me, life is going good! I'm just working, playing, and dancing my little heart out. I currently live in West Jordan. I bought a condo out there a few months ago. It's so great to have my own place and decorate it how I want to. I hope all is going well with you. This is fun to hear about all of your lives!

Note from random camper

At the reunion, they gave out notes for us to read from random campers and I loved the one I got!

Dear Oakcrest Staff,

I don't know who you are, or what you've done, all I know is you have done it. Because of you, Oakcrest has been going for 50 years. 50 years of laughs, 50 years of joys and 50 years of memories. Thanks to you I'm able to be here! It's my 2nd day, but I'm already having so much fun! All of this, the zipline to the testimonies, it's all full of cherishable memories! Not only that, but think of all the sotires we can tell to our kids and grandkids. My mom told me of her experience. Think of all the testimonies you've helped to be gained, and not to mention the spiritual lives you've saved. You are doing God's work, and I know he's proud of you. Thanks a bunch!

Love, an Oakcrest camper

Reunion Pictures

We had such a great time at the reunion last night! We missed all of you who weren't there, but we were glad to see some we hadn't for a while. Here's the pictures I got from the night and I'm sure everyone else will add theirs, but here you go!

Good old zipline!
Daisy and Bop
Vanilla and Buckwheat (and her boy Rigdon)
Roxy and her baby Lexi
Lashes and her baby Jaden
Overdue Warrior even made the trek!Cute pregnant girls (Vanilla, Tiki and Owie) who are due only a week apart!Roxy, Lashes, Vanilla, Tiki, Owie, Coach, Cricket, Speedy and Cloey Sisters!
This is me and Coach with our aunt "Bubbles." She worked up at Oakcrest in 1973. Isn't that pretty cool?This is now in the lodge above the stage where the clock used to be. Isn't is incredible?There's my cute dad and I bet you all didn't even know it was his birthday yesterday! He's only 2 years older than Oakcrest!This is my camper Brittany who was also a counselor, "Tetris" a couple years ago. Tiki, Cricket, Daisy, Coach, Cloey and Lashes (sorry it's blurry)
Cricket and SqueezeVanilla and CricketAren't Oakcrest sunsets the best? I probably could have gotten a better picture, but I was too busy talking!

Duzz and Cricket - By the way, Duzz deserves major props for that awesome video she did! THANKS DUZZ!!!

Skippy and Cricket

WE LOVE OAKCREST!!!

There were a few people there that I didn't get pictures of. Like Lyric, Chunky Monkey, Tinkles, Skittles, Sunkist and Yettie. Skippy got a group picture that some of them are in, but my camera battery died. Dumb me! Oh well, we love you all!!!

Who is coming?

Hey All! Who is coming to the reunion? Are you coming up and going back home Friday night or are you staying close by? What time are you going up? I hope I get to see a lot of you there! It will be so much fun! I get giddy when I think of Oakcrest! I am so excited to go back!
Love all your faces! ~Skip

Newcomer

Daisy is on board and she has a blog too, so welcome her and check out her own blog! WELCOME DAISY!

And if anyone else has joined but hasn't posted anything yet, get with it! We'd love to hear from you!

Star Checking In

I love the blog idea! Thanks, Cricket, for setting it all up! Just a little update on me and my family...My husband Jeff and I are living in Roosevelt (a small town in Eastern Utah). We have an 18 month old daughter McKinlee. Jeff works as a Diesel Mechanic at the family business and I get to stay home with McKinlee! She keeps me pretty busy...she's quite the little explorer and a little mischievous! I love it! We moved into our house last fall and I have been having so much fun planting flowers and doing yard work this year. Anyways, that's about it for us! I'm excited to keep in touch this way!

Skippy loves blogs!

Yay for this idea! I am all about free!

Well a super quick update...

I am happy. I have a husband named Zach. Two kiddos who are very busy. Ben, 3 and Sarah 10 months. They are super fun, busy fun!

I am gonna go to the reunion I think. I'm leaving my kids with my mom and thought about camping up there. Do you guys think they'd let anyone sleep on the softball field? Wouldn't that be a blast!? Wheels are turning...

Love it!

So I'm pretty sure everyone has seen this picture, but it's the only one I have of the 4 of us! Thanks for starting this, Cricket! I wish I could fork over the 30 bones to myfamily.com, but we're on a strict student budget here! :)

Life is great for the Goldie's! We live in State College, PA where Brad is doing his PhD in finance at Penn State University. He just finished his first year and we have three to four more left! Nuts! Good thing we love it here, even though it's hard to be away from friends and family, and even though I'm missing the Oakcrest reunion! :(

Nick will be 3 in October and Chase is 5 months. I get to be home with my kids and I love it! Brad is serving as the stake executive secretary and I am the Activity Days leader and the stake assistant camp director. I also teach piano and sell scentsy candles. We keep pretty busy but I wouldn't change a thing. Blogs are the greatest things ever! I'm excited to keep in touch this way. Love you all!

Duds

Lyric Has a House!

FRONT OF THE HOUSE

BACK OF THE HOUSE - the backyard isn't finished yet.

FRONT LIVING ROOM - this is the room you walk into from the entry way.

KITCHEN


We have a house! Well, technically not yet because we don't close until the 29th of July, but we are under contract with them! Here is a peek of what it looks like. This is the current owner's decorations of coarse, but it let's you know what it's like. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths finished upstairs with the laundry room on the main level (I like that part). The basement is unfinished with 2 future bedrooms, 1 bath, and a family room. We are super excited!

Warrior

So I saw Warrior last night. She is the cutest thing with her pregnant belly! She isn't very big. She definitely doesn't look like she only has 2 weeks left! But her poor feet were so swollen! She is due on July 7th, so she hopes the baby comes as early as possible so she can come to the reunion. It's a little girl and they don't know what they are going to name her yet. Can you see Warrior with a pink, frilly, little girl!? She's excited and said to tell everyone hi!

CRICKET!

Bug has a blog too. Here is the address:

http://willchelsey.blogspot.com/

Sasparilla: Check

So, yesterday I typed up this whole thing, and then it killed my post! AHH!! So, I'm not really sure if I spelled my camp name right in the title because I haven't written it out since, oh probably camp! Lol!

On to my life. It's pretty crazy. You can look at my blog you can see the crazy stuff that's been happening. I've been married for just over 4 years now. I have 3 kids. Will is 3, Kate is 15 months and Spencer is 5 weeks old. It's fun. It's really crazy, but I'm adjusting and figuring out things. My husband graduated from BYU in April in Information Technology. About 1 1/2 months before graduation he decided he wanted to get a Masters Degree in IT also. So, he'll be doing that this Fall at BYU. It'll take him 18 months to 2 years. It's crazy, but it'll be good. I get to stay home with my kids, which I (usually, lol) love. It's a fun life, but so crazy!
This was taken on Father's Day, and I'm so happy we got Will and Kate smiling. I'm kind of bummed that it was before I did Kate's hair though, lol.

So...

...how about this idea...

What if we disable the comment feature, so if you want to say something, you have to post it. That way, everyone can easily read everyone's comments, kinda like the website. What do you think? (You can comment here, since I haven't gotten rid of the feature yet! or leave a new post!)

Sunkist signing-in

Brenton, Emily, and Claire

Hey girlies! :) I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who didn't want to fork over 30 bucks to keep the website running . . . especially when we can do it this way for free. Here's hoping we keep this up! I'm so excited to see everyone at the reunion! Please come so I can see your face!

So Brenton (B), Claire and I live in Sandy and life is good! B is keeping busy working and going to pharmacy school at the U. He is the love of my life and is probably the funnest guy this side of the Mississippi (probably). I work with the 8-11 yr. old girls in our ward as the Activity Days leader. It is fun, the girls have so much energy and they're just stinkin' sweet. Claire is going to be 1 next month and I am in total shock about it. She is the sweetest little nut-nose and I am the luckiest girl in the world to get to be her mom. Also . . . this past March I fulfilled one of my life's goals. I wanted to be a matchmaker. You know, someone partly responsible for introducing two individuals to become eternal companions. Not only were we (my little brother and I) successful in setting up my best friend with her future husband, but she actually married my brother's brother-in-law making she and I related . . . how great is that?

Anywho, I hope you're all doing well! I'm excited for updates!

I LOVE this idea!

I love this idea! Well, for a quick update about me . . . my husband and I are currently living with my parents. Our offer on our house just went through yesterday! Yahoo! So we will be moving into our home the end of July. I am teaching 2nd grade and counting down the days until the end of the year (8 more). The students are beginning to be crazy. That's what is going on. Pretty boring and normal, but we LOVE being in love and sharing a life together!

Great Idea

This is a great idea since we have to pay for the MyFamily.com one. Plus blogs are cool because we can post photos with what we write. I support blogging!!! btw Cricket I read your laundry post from your blog to my husband jay and he loved it! now everytime we do our laundry we joke about it.

my updates: So I'm married now. Emmalee Greeni Powell. We live in Sandy. I'm pursuing a career as a high school art teacher. Just decided last week, so it may take a bit for me to get licensed and such. I'm hoping to secure at least a part-time teaching position and get my license while I work. I know some schools will do that. I believe there's some of you out there who are school teachers... how do you like it?