Seventeen.

Today is Shilo's birthday,

but she's not here to celebrate.

She's at her last Girls Camp (as a youth). Ever.

Bill and I are going to Camp tomorrow (through the thick smoke of the CoSprings fire),
so we will celebrate with the Dancing Queen then.

(All week I've told her to "hold on to sixteen as long as you can...." Time to move on to another line of a song, and the only 17 song I can think of is by my longtime favorite group, ABBA. Shilo tells me she's not so great at dancing and jiving, but she CAN have the time of her life...)

Because she's such a camper, I figured I would share a couple of my favorite Shilo camping pics.

Yes, I took a one-month-old camping. See? It's in her blood ;-)

We even potty train while we camp.

Shi celebrated her 12th birthday at a YW Overnighter. She entered YWs while camping on her birthday, and will celebrate her last birthday as a YW at camp. 

A Mary Poppins moment: practically perfect in every way.

I snapped this pic as they loaded up to head off to camp on Tuesday.

Happy 17th Birthday to my Happy Camper!!

I love you, Shi :-*