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Off to Camp

Jun 29, 2009
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Today I am off to camp with Brendan. I've never been a counselor at this camp and I'm very excited. We leave this morning and arrive home on Friday afternoon. Cole, Kaelin, and Collin are staying home and they have a fun week planned as well.

I am going to be a counselor for nine 4th grade girls. It's amazing to me that I can look at 9 names on a list (I knew about half of the girls) and love them before I even spend any time with them. I'm so glad God gave me a passion for children and doing things that enrich their lives. Otherwise I would not be able to look at a list of names of girls that I will be spending 5 days with and love them sight unseen. This is going to be a wonderful week.

Since I won't have the time or energy to squeeze in any exercise, I went to the gym last night and did a really good upper body workout and this morning I was up at 5:00 and did a good lower body workout. The rest of the week I will be walking several miles a day in the hot sun and sweating like a pig. Should burn quite a few calories that way!

Coffee's ready - time to get myself showered and dressed and to the church. Pray for us to have a safe and wonderful week!

Camp Wilderness Ridge

Jun 13, 2009
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Brendan was tired when we got there Friday night

Brendan returned home after spending 5 days at Camp Wilderness Ridge. Surprisingly, my city boy had the time of his life. It is a Christian based camp for boys, and they get to do things that city boys don't normally get to do. They went canoeing, fishing, learned archery, shot pellet guns, slept in open cabins, ate outside, and went without a/c for 5 whole days! They had devotionals after breakfast and then had a Bible study with his cabin mates. Their verse for the week was Mark 12:30, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength."

Brendan earned an award for learning 10 Bible verses during his stay at camp. He is telling me he actually learned 11, but he only had time to say 10. Each cabin had a junior counselor and a senior counselor. Brendan really liked his junior counselor, Joel.

He says his favorite thing at camp was archery. There was a deer decoy and he hit the kill zone on it twice! He has really good hand/eye coordination.

As of right now, Brendan says he wants to go back next year. It looks like a really great place for boys to hang out and be boys, and learn a little more about God. If, in a year, he still wants to go back, I'll be happy to let him go back. I'm glad he had the opportunity to spend a few days with male leaders who love God and are interested in sharing that with younger boys. And I'm grateful for those wonderful leaders.

Jason and Brendan were in the same cabin

The Three Amigos - Camp Wilderness Ridge

Newsflash

Jul 22, 2008
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I am Queen of the Mermaids.

I was crowned as such this afternoon at camp. This is what happens when you swim with 25 kindergarten through second grade girls. You get to be the Queen. They fixed my hair, which was somewhat painful, they did flips and jumped in the pool to entertain me, and they brought me food. While in the pool, this queen of the mermaids had a banana split, a Diet Coke, a glass of water, and some chocolate and vanilla ice cream. It's good to be the queen.

Children's Choir Camp = Tons of Fun

Aug 13, 2007
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Last week, Brendan and Kaelin spent their mornings at our church's Children's Choir Camp. They had a race theme...Darryl Waltrip even made appearances via DVD. Brendan came home on Monday talking about Stomp. He explained that Stomp is a percussion part during one of the songs. They didn't play drums and such...they played what Brendan called "trash." Brendan played a "drum set" that was made of a metal hubcap and some other things that I couldn't quite identify. One of his friends played a plastic trash can like a bongo, and another of his friends played a big plastic water jug. It was awesome!! I filmed them during the song, and the video is the next thing you will see.

So onto Kaelin. Those of you that know Kaelin and know how quiet she tends to be would not have recognized the child. She sang, she did the movements, she stood front and center like she was the star. It was amazing! You can find video of her in the "Videos" section.

Both kids loved it and I loved that they got to experience music in a way that they had never experienced before. I especially loved that Brendan got to play an "instrument" of some sort. I feel certain that they will be attending Choir Camp again next year.

Many of their friends were also at choir camp, and you can find some of those pictures after this post. Last night's program showed us once again how incredibly blessed we are to be a part of our church. We have loved it for 10 years now and it continues to grow and it gets better and better.