Our kids performing in the camp talent show. It was recored with an iPhone so it’s quite a bit overexposed but the sound is good and we’re grateful to have it at all. Be sure to listen to the very end (the best part in our opinion:))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgiBUuGCe8
There was lots that we did that I didn’t get pictures of, I tried to just put it away sometimes and enjoy. Ez, Mari & I went on a giant dune hike and I didn’t want to lug my camera with me or risk getting sand in it (this is when a want little point & shoot). Ez climbed all the way back up this time, you can see pix from last year. And, at the bottom of the dune on the big lake, the kids tried body surfing for the first time.
There are not a ton of pictures of Ezra because he was off doing stuff all the time, he was really only in the water once. One day, he played a game of wiffle ball with me, a bunch of kids and their dads. He scored the game winning run and afterwards said “Mommy, that was a sweet game”, later that day he played “free ball” (think free for all dodge ball) in the gym for 2 hours! It was probably the best day of his life!
Tobin followed Grandma everywhere, wanted to jump on the water trampoline endlessly and just played.
Marian got to go horse back ride with another family and loved it, did A LOT of swimming, some kayaking, and running around with Mikayla.
We ate ice cream everyday, played hard, and enjoyed God’s amazing creation. We had a great speaker for the week, aka speaker guy Tim who among other things challenged us to “jump in” to our faith, really live it out without hesitation!
And, some closing shots which sort of sum up camp . . .
Our last ice cream at the canteen
Kelly’s last sail
Ezra playing with Grace, they played all week together (mostly in their garden “fort” they created)
Marian’s last day with camp friend Mikayla
and a picture of Tobin with his “hair twin”!
This is the day camp culmination where they talked about what they learned during the week, their verse was Colassions 3:2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Camp always seems to go really slowly (or relaxingly or casually) for 2 or 3 days and then all of a sudden it’s Thursday and you can’t believe the week is almost over. I’ve decided I would like to go for 10 days, 2 weeks is probably too much and 1 week isn’t quite enough.
This was a weird weather day, there was a big foggy haze over the lake to the north but for most of the day we were nice & sunny.
We heard the climbing wall was open so Mari & I made a quick dash and both were able to climb.
Getting to love & hug Jessica & Shelby was a big hit!
And, I don’t have a single picture (because he was always disappearing) but Tobin kept wanting “to see Grandma’s cabin” all week, she had a little shadow after her all the time. At first we decided it was because their room had air conditioning and Tobin isn’t much on the heat, then we found out she had trail mix in their room! I think the main reason was to get Grandma all to himself:)
We went to the big lake with Todd & Nancy & kids to have a camp fire and make smores and eat cheese dip. Before we all had kids we would do this several nights during the week, having 5 kids between us in 5 years put a damper on that. Since our youngest is almost 4 we decided to give it a try again. We expected it to be a nice sunset but as we drove around the lake we discovered it was only sunny at camp! It didn’t matter, the kids had a blast getting dirty in the sand, hunting for fire wood and eating s’mores which may have been Ezra & Tobin’s first ones.
and, this might be one of my favorite pictures from camp!
Asher has been wearing his rain boots to church every week (he’s 2), and he brought them to camp as well. He wore them everywhere-and according to Erin (his mom), they stunk REALLY bad!
Here he is at the carnival with them. These guys are the “whack-a-mole” game!
they must have been hindering his ability to slide so he cast them off at the playground!
