Monday's Memories!:)

 

My Uncle John and I took a group of juniors from our church to

Camp Joy to spend the week.. they as campers, and I to stay

with Stephen and Tina, my sister and her husband who live

and work at the camp, to visit and help for the week!

Kristen, Hannah, and Naomi were already showing their 

team spirit early on in the trip by getting BLUE slushies!:)

I laughed when I saw what T2 was reading.. :)  

Shows you that he must have sisters!;)

Can you guess where we are now?!:) 

After finally getting to camp, registering, and settling in

the kids enjoyed a little activity in the soccer field!:)

 

It looks like Levi enjoyed it, too!:)

(now isn't he worth the trip alone?!;))

Forrest Chapmann was the speaker this week.

He's probably one of my favorite junior speaker's!

We also enjoyed hearing music by a man from 

Bethel Baptist Church in Schaumburg, Illinois! 

A great start to a fun week... :)

Tuesday on the Town!:)

 

Now how could you be grumpy waking up to this happy face?!:)

 

Levi enjoys his food.. as you can tell by his size!;)

 

Tina and I went out shopping with Leah Rains, Stephen's sister.

We also just happened to go to Culver's for dinner!;) 

We'd just gotten our food and were about to pray when

Leah just died laughing!  I looked up from my busy pursuit

and she said about my neatly organized "tray" as she referred to it,

"Did you learn that while you were traveling?"

I just laughed, and she happily organized her tray like mine, too!:)

Here's the picture we snapped of our nicely organized trays!:)

 

Levi was pretty tired after the long, full day of fun at the Rains' 

house playing with his Grandma, Grandpa, and uncles!:)

Tina, Steve, Uncle John, and I chatting.. the perfect way to end the day!:)

Wacky Wednesday!:)

 

I stayed in Levi's room ("my room"), and when I got Levi out

of bed that morning it kept him pretty entertained to play with my phone,

so I let him for a bit.. well, he absolutely loves playing with phones now! 

Who knows the "monster" I've helped to create!;) 

Then I took Levi down to camp for a while..

he enjoyed watching the campers play and playing with dad!:)

 

That afternoon for lunch we enjoyed an outside picnic.

It was such a beautiful day!:)

Maggie Chapmann enjoyed playing with her "friend", Levi!;)

 

Steve & Joel Chapmann

The girls loved playing with Levi!:)

 

Levi didn't quite know what to think of the "clown"!:p

  

Levi absolutely LOVES Rebekah Fruin!!!  It was so cute.. 

when he saw her, no matter who he was with, he'd get so excited to see her!

 

Nature Talk for Mary's campers.. they look thrilled, don't they?!;)

 

I guess Levi didn't really like all the noise at supper?!:)

 

I had so much fun taking LOTS of pictures that evening of the

service (as you'll soon be able to tell!;)).  The counselor choir sings,

Mr. Forrest does his "fabulous feats of finger flicking", the quartet

sings, Stephen leads songs.. It was a whole bunch of fun, as you'll see!:)

 

Every night, after the evening service, they do a competition 

to see which team will fly their flag the following day..

 

Sisters.. Hannah, Suzy, and Naomi

 

FUN TIME!!!

Every Wednesday night during the summer, the counselors and 

staff put on a "fun time" night in which they LOTS of fun stuff..

which you'll see!:)  The kids LOVE it, and enjoyed cheering for 

their team along the way!:)

 

Mr. Ream and I were enjoying the beautiful evening chatting 

and swinging, and weren't in any big hurry..  Finally, some of

the counselors had to come and get him to play the piano!:)

(In the next picture you can see Stephen trying to stall..:))

   

I love this one of Mary!  She plays a great part in her skit!

Fits the part perfectly and looks like she has a little too much fun

while doing it!;)  Josh said something about how Mary must've been

on the BLUE team, and here's her response, "Well, what can I say!"

  

After Fun Time, the Fireside Room is open for 

"Sundaes for a Buck".  It gets pretty busy in there!:)

Here's Josh with his little friend, Gizelle:)

 

Josh's brother, Philip, even showed up for the occasion!:)

 

Forrest Chapmann with two of his four children, Joel and Maggie:)

 

The campers then went back to their cabin for 

devotions and lights out after a long, fun day!:)

 

Summyrrh and Kristen Ray saying "Good night" to their Mom!:)