Anyway by the time we got to College Ward, I called Spencer and asked him to put a pot of water on the stove to boil so we could cook pasta to have dinner with them. We arrived at their house about 10 minutes later and Spencer and Katie were in the parking lot of their apartment complex, Katie with a towel on her head, holding Baby Karson. I made a comment about whether Katie always comes out to greet her guests with a towel on her head, and as we were parking we noticed smoke billowing out of a window in their apartment. We climbed out of the car and Spencer told us that there had been a fire in the kitchen and while he had gotten the fire out the smoke was too heavy for them to go back inside. Katie had been in the shower and Spencer had put the pot of water on the stove to boil. There was a pan of oil on the stove that they had used earlier and looking back later, Spencer concluded that he must have turned on the wrong burner and the oil had heated up to the point of catching itself on fire. When Spencer saw it he ran Karson into the bathroom where Katie was just getting out of the shower, so she put Karson on a towel on the floor and proceeded to quickly dress while Spencer ran to try to get the fire out. He searched for baking soda, but couldn't find it in the smoke, so he grabbed the pan off the stove, threw it in the sink and in a moment of sheer desperation turned the cold water on the pan. He knew that you're not supposed to put water on a grease fire, but he was desperate. The fire was out, but the house was full of smoke so he shouted to Katie to get the baby out of the apartment and Katie ran from the bathroom to the front door and out into the parking lot. Spencer followed her after opening a few windows, but had already inhaled quite a bit of smoke so he was coughing and wheezing when we pulled up. Katie took Karson and sat in Mom and Dad's car and I went to the front door to assess the damage. The house was filled with thick smoke and though several windows and the front door were open it wasn't doing much to get rid of it. I held my breath and went in to open some more windows. After a minute I came back outside and asked Spencer if they had a fan so we could blow it out. He said they only had ceiling fans so Dad and I went back in to turn on the ceiling fans in the living room and master bedroom. On my way back out, Spencer asked me to grab Karson's car seat which I did. The smoke was still heavy and Spencer wanted to get some stuff out so they could go home with us. Dad and I headed back in and went into Karson's room. The smoke was really bad there and as I went to the closet to try and find clothes for Karson, Dad opened the window. It was really bad and I couldn't tell which clothes were the right size before we couldn't breath anymore. We raced out of the house and I told Spencer they needed to call the fire department because it wasn't going away on its own. I called 911 and Dad talked to the dispatcher, telling her that the fire was out, but we needed someone to come and get rid of the smoke. Also there was a 3 day old baby and we didn't know if he was okay because Katie didn't know if he had inhaled the smoke or not. Within moments a policeman on a motorcycle pulled up and in his wake, 3 fire trucks, the fire chief, an ambulance and one more policeman in a car.
The 12 or so fire fighters went in to assess the situation and then pulled out some fans and within about 10 minutes the smoke was gone, and there was only an odor which dissapated pretty quickly. A paramedic checked Katie and Karson and said that they were doing well, the baby hadn't gotten any smoke in his lungs and that he'd be just fine. 
This picture is through the screen in their living room window. There are about 4 firefighters there trying to get the fans situated right.
As soon as the firefighters had left, Katie was trying to find a neighbor home so she could take Karson away from smell and at that moment their landlady came home. Katie went over to explain what had happened and Elaine let her in and she took Karson in and stayed there. The rest of us went in to assess the damage to the kitchen and to get their stuff. I walked over to Elaine's, where Katie was trying to feed Karson and after a few minutes, Katie left Karson with me so she could go over and get the stuff she needed to leave home for a few days. I put a towel over my shirt, since I smelled like the smoke and just rocked Karson for an hour or so while they packed up the cars with their clothes and bedding and stuff so they could bring it to Mom and Dad's to wash it all. Katie was pretty shaken up and tried to feed Karson before we left, but she was tense and Karson was screaming,
so Spencer gave him a blessing and I went in and told Katie that maybe we should just put him in the carseat and head out, and if he needed to eat on the way home, we could just pull off somewhere. 
She agreed and I don't know if it was the blessing or the fact that Karson belongs to Spencer,(Spencer always fell asleep in the car) but he slept all the way home. Katie asked me to sit in the back seat with her, because if he cried she wasn't sure she could handle it. I told her I would and she tried to sleep. Around Ogden she asked if he was still breathing and I told her he was and then asked if she was. She said she was almost back to normal again and went back to sleep. We stopped in Farmington where Mom and Dad had left Kaity and Malerie at Kris's and I got my car and headed home, and they headed home. I called Spencer on Monday and he said things were as normal as they could be and Katie got some time with her family so they were doing okay. They were supposed to go back to Logan Wednesday and I'll have to see what happened since Monday, but it wasn't exactly how we'd planned to spend the weekend. It was a good thing we were there to offer moral support though and I got a lot of face time with Karson so that was good. Katie told him I'd be his favorite aunt and I told her that was pretty cool, because Katie has a lot of sisters. Anyway it could have been much worse and I'm just glad everyone is okay.
Following the devotional we set off for the lodge for a lunch of taco salad in a bag and mingling with the other wards. Following lunch, we met together and made DOTS bracelets: 
then split into two groups. The first group stayed at the lodge and made camp journals, the second went to the pavilion and did a service project: Fleece blankets for the care center in our stake. After awhile, the groups switched places. Following that it was time for dinner which was hot dogs etc. Abby knowing that hot dogs would not be a good idea for her, mentioned that there was a Subway in Morgan, and I mentioned that I had a free footlong, so we snuck away from camp and headed to Morgan to get dinner. We came back and the girls were chowing down on dinner. We had 10 girls and 6 leaders at camp. The stake had given us 8 packages of hot dogs and buns, a giant bag of chips, a whole container of lemonade to add to water, and 3 watermelons. I think they expected the girls to be much hungrier than they actually were. We ate the watermelon for the rest of the week and I think one got thrown away. After dinner, there was the threat of rain, so with the help of some stake leaders, Abby and I got the rain cover on the tent, and we headed for the lodge to do skits. They decided to do skit in a bag and so each group was given a bag of props and they were required to do a skit that somehow showed how they would Depend on the Savior. Our girls decided to do a Confessions of a Shopoholic skit, where the main character, "Napoleanna Dynamyte" went in search of that one thing that would complete her life. She went from shop to shop encountering all different sales people, trying to get her to buy their product.
After a long and exhausting try, she left the last shop empty handed and went to sit down on a nearby bench to think about what it was she was looking for. On the bench sat a girl reading the Book of Mormon. Napoleanna asked what it was and was told it was the Book of Mormon. The skit ended with Napoleanna declaring that it was just the thing she had been looking for that would complete her life and thus it was given to her and she walked away joyfully Depending on the Savior. 
After the skits were completed we wandered back to camp to get our pajamas on and met back at the lodge for PJS. Prayer, Journals, and Scriptures. We sat on the floor in the lodge and sang a bunch of hymns and primary songs and then wrote in our journals, read our scriptures and then had camp prayer. Thursday we woke up and headed down for devotional. After devotional, we packed our lunches and got ready for the hike. Now those of you who are faithful blog readers will remember when I got this calling and I talked about how hiking is one of the things I really don't like. I wasn't going to go, then decided it would be fun to go so I could take pictures. This is all I got:
This is very near the top of the hike. As you can see I was still in the middle of the group at this point. Until we stopped for lunch, I was at the back, just in front of the two priesthood brethren whose instructions were to stay at the back and not let anyone be behind them. We hiked down Big Mountain which is part of the Mormon Trail, only the pioneers went up. I don't know if down was easier. There were so many rocks and I was so afraid I would roll an ankle and require the girls to have some real life practical first aid experience, so I walked pretty slowly. I tried really hard to have a good attitude about it but I was hot and tired and my feet hurt somewhere in the middle of the second mile. It was rough and my calves hurt for like a week after. Not my favorite part of camp. I was pretty sure I would never walk again. When we got back to camp they set up a slip and slide, and while I recovered from the hike on my air mattress, Bobbie (the young women's counselor in our ward) went over with my camera and got some good pictures for me. 
After the water slide it was time to get dinner going because the bishop and his wife and the YW presidency were coming up for testimony meeting and faith walk. Dinner was to be dutch oven lasagna and apple crisp, but it took forever to cook and we were fairly sure it would be leftover hot dogs. While we waited for dinner to cook we made magnet boards and magnets to go with them.
Dinner still wasn't done so we played a game called Ride that Pony. It's a fairly hilarious game that requires you to trot around the circle while everyone sings a song about riding a pony and then when the song gets near the end you stand in front of someone and you dance in front of them then turn and do it to each others backs, then to the side, and then you do si do and that person becomes the pony. It was hilarious to watch and then the Bishop got picked and I've not been able to look at him the same since. (Side note: I taught this game to my family and my niece Kaity now constantly wants to play it.) Finally just before it was time to leave for the faith walk, dinner was done and we snarfed it!
For the evening devotional before the faith walk we went down to the amphitheatre and they thanked the stake presidency for the support and gave the counselors who were there dot ties to remind them of our theme. 
Another funny thing was whenever something was lost at camp they made the girls (or leaders)win it back by doing a dance in front of everyone, while singing "Gray squirrel gray squirrel shake your bushy tail aha! repeated twice. Our girls thought it was so funny they were purposely putting each others stuff in so they'd get to do it. The woman on the right is part of the stake camp team, the girl on the far left is from another ward. The other three are our girls.
Tie your hair back gals, it's going to be a long ride!
Just getting into it!
Alex, Morgan, and Tara were pretty enthusiastic about this idea!
Mikayla and Rachel. Rachel hates whipped cream and would never actually put her face in the stuff. I asked her to put her head close to it so I could get a picture and Haley shoved her head in. She doesn't seem too mad at us. 
Makenzie and Carley. Doesn't Carley just look like she's dying to know why we're taking pictures of her in this state!
Amber and Megan get into the fun!
Emily is diabetic and so we got her sugar free ice cream and put the chocolate on her nose so she'd look like she got into it. She came out better than all the others. 
Megan (from the 22nd ward) laid on the grass and let us attack her with a can of whipping cream!After they all got cleaned up we headed down to the amphitheatre where we had closing ceremonies. Then we packed up the cars and headed home. Here's a few last pictures:
Leaders: L-R Brittany, Heidi, Bobbie, Julianne, Abby, and Haley. I told everyone I needed to be Juliannie because I didn't fit the e sounding theme we had going on. 
Girls: L-R top Emily and Amber
