Kambriella's 11th birthday party was such a happy time for this little sweetie!
Surrounded by good friends and family, Kambriella celebrated this special birthday in a BIG way!
We drove to the Provo CLAS Ropes Course early Tuesday morning and had so much fun with our group.
Anytime anyone fell into the hot lava they would have to go back to the beginning and start over!
There were 13 of us all together working on fun things like team building and communication games like these...
Balancing on the cable that was suspended a foot above the ground, and trying to help get every person in our group around the cables WITHOUT falling into the "hot lava!" :)
(Which quite a few people had to do quite a few times. ;)
It was a lot of fun, and eventually we all made it to the end! Which I think is a fun way to look at life. We all may fall down at times, but we continue to help each other until we ALL make it to the end!
We also used a large rope and learned more about the power of teamwork and good communication. In doing so, we learned to do a few things together that alone would have been impossible.
We all put on helmets and harnesses and worked our way through a 3 story high C clamp ropes course!
You could help each other, and hold onto the trees and use the ropes around you, but if you fell off, you started over.
Everyone had a chance to ride the zip line across the property...
...and I was SO impressed with Kambriella's excitement to try these new and hard things!
Kambriella took off and amazed me in everything she tried!
She whizzed through all of the obstacles on the lower levels and began trying the hardest ones before some of us (me) had even made it up the ladder!
I loved having the friends AND the family there because it made it fun for everyone and brought fun in lots of different ways.
I learned that Kambriella is NOT afraid of heights like her mother. ;)
...and I really couldn't help but admire these kids as they tried things that were new and "hard" for them. I think these kinds of experiences are not only fun for them, but also teach them a few things about life.
Seriously...
...just look at that girl go!!!
The weather was perfect and we actually had the entire place to ourselves that day! Our guide Joey was fun to have around and I really think everyone had a great time. Especially the birthday girl! :)
Here is a cute picture of all the cute friends...
Mya, Alexa, Emery, Kambriella, Jaydan, and Mia. :)
One of the FAVORITE activities of everyone was the GIANT SWING!
This swing required everyone from the group to pull the person up by a rope, and then after they reached the top of the 40 foot drop, the person on the swing would "let go" and enjoy the free fall going back and forth.
The kids even got so good at it that they began doing front flips and back flips on the swing too!
After the activities were done, we all sat down to our picnic lunches that everyone packed, and the food tasted so good! When you play hard outside, the food is always a nice reward!
After lunch we all decided that a ride in the canoes down the river was necessary, and so we headed out!
The girls were cute playing "down by the banks," a hand clapping game, to determine who would ride with who in the canoes! :)
Mia and Emery went together.
Kambriella and Alexa went together.
Mya and Jaydan went together.
And they all had a good time. :)
The boys headed off in pairs too...Gavin and Drake...
Carew and Blaze...
...and Dallin and Cohen.
Everyone took a ride about an hour down the river to Utah Lake and back, then slowly they all started showing up back at the dock.
Kambriella and Alexa were the first ones back...
...and some of the others took a bit longer to get back .;)
But lucky for those girls, Carew was there with a rope to connect their canoes and tow them back. :)
All in all this was probably the funnest day everyone has had in a long long time.
I also told the girls it was kind of like a day of girls camp since that still won't be happening this summer because of the pandemic.
And like I said before, having the boys there was a good thing too. They brought a different level of fun, and helped out so much with all of the different activities we did.
And of course by the end we had to take some fun pictures to remember such a fun day!
What a good bunch of kids and what a FUN birthday for Kambriella!
As soon as we got home the fun didn't stop! Our ward Primary Presidency came driving up in their "Ice~Cream Truck" handing out fun Popsicles to everyone!
They didn't even know it was Kambriella's birthday either! It was just a sweet bonus to our already amazing day. :)
We went in the house and had birthday cake and opened presents and Kambriella ended up getting spoiled by all of her friends!
Later that night after Clint got home from work, we took Kambriella out to dinner at Nielsen's Frozen Custard, opened up her family gifts, and she got to tell her dad all about her amazing birthday!
She received lots of fun gifts, and one very special one that I had been saving for her for about 5 years!
Her temple mirror that says, "See Yourself In the Temple."
I wanted to give this special present to Kambriella at this birthday on purpose because soon she will be able to go to the temple herself! I know she is excited and already can't wit for that day. I also gave her a temple passport book to record all of the different temples that she will visit, and a temple recommend holder. (Along with all of the other fun things she got.;)
Kambriella, I love you so much and am so grateful to have you in our family! You bring so much energy and spunk to the fun that we have here! I hope that you will forever remember your 11th birthday and look forward with excitement to the time when YOU will get to go to the temple!
Happy happy birthday Kambriella!
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