Camp officially starts on Sunday evening with dinner, but there is an unofficial church service in the morning. We went to that and then made sandwiches back at the cabin. Then we went for a walk to the Indian mounds. It was only a mile away, but the girls struggled. Haha :) It was hot, but it didn’t take us along to get there.
The umbrellas worked really well for shade!
This is one of the spots where the Indians (Native Americans? I had a native guy tell me once, “Just say Indians!”) used to set up camp.
There are holes all over this big slab of rock where they would grind their corn, and over time they turned into an inverted bowl.
It rained every day but one that we were at camp. It would be cool in the mornings and then heat up all day until the afternoon when it would give us some rain and thundershowers. The rain left a little stream where we got to see lots of tadpoles. The cool part was we found some teeny tiny ones, some big ones, and even a couple that already had their legs and were just about ready to come out.
Umbrella floating! :)
My mom’s cousin and his wife came along with their two daughters and all their grandkids. There were 9, 6 and 2 year old girls (and also a 16 month and 4 month old boys) so our girls were thrilled to have some playmates!
First dinner!
Noni and I did a superb job in switching the girls over to the Texas time zone…and not only that but the early camp schedule. Too well in fact as Peanut started waking up at 6:30 (our 4:30!) when we didn’t have to be up till 6:50. She would snuggle in bed with one of us for a few more minutes. Love this picture of me trying to get her back to sleep, but Noni caught her peeking around. :)
The first day we headed to drop everyone off at their designated locations. Boo was in the 4-5 classroom. I didn’t know how she would feel about being left there, but she ran in and happily started playing.
Bug got to experience daycamp! I always LOVED daycamp. It was awesome. Silly songs, nature walks, fun teenage counselors, and snocones all combine for a really fun three and half hours every day! 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders are Indians and 4th, 5th, and 6th are Cowboys.
K’s group was the Purple Piranhas.
The adults have the option of a couple different classes. From 8:45-9:30 you can either go to the Missionary hour or Family Emphasis hour. I usually choose the Missionary hour, but this time I did the family class. I think it was titled “Raising a Healthy Family in a Toxic World”. It was really interesting and had some great information.
Noni stayed with Peanut during that class so Aunt Karen and I could go and then I stayed with Peanut during the next session which was a bible study on Hosea so they could go. Then we all went to the church service from 11-12.
The first day I dropped Peanut off at the 2-3 nursery just before church and picked her up an hour later. She was standing there crying. I think it was overwhelming because there were probably 15-20 kids and several were out-and-out bawling. She clung to me the whole time we waited in the lunch line, and later that afternoon I looked over at her and she was looking down with her shoulders slumped. I said, “I love you!” and she looked at me and said quietly, “I love you too, but I still sad ‘bout that nursery.” Poor thing. We didn’t make her go back. For the rest of the week she came to church with us and played in the dirt at the side or read books.
Funny girl.
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