Family Camp

It has been over a week since I last wrote! We have enjoyed a wonderful week at Family Camp. The East Central Conference of the Evangelical Church (where we are members) meets each year at Taylor University for a week of Camp. It was a great week. We enjoyed catching up with old friends, as well as being challenged spiritually.

This year the boys were each in a different class. They did great! Eli cried every day when I dropped him off, he ran to me with a huge hug when I picked him up, and he was all grins while he said, "momma, I cried in class today". He was a tropper though and had his teachers read to him a lot! Nathaniel began his week with the K-6th class, but after the first day decided he would prefer the 3-5 yr class. He loved it and did great with 7 other boys and one girl in his class. Ronnie was the biggest suprise. He spent the week in the k-6th grade class and he was without a brother. He did good. He talked about his adventures and it sounds like he even made some friends, maybe even a girl.

I'm so excited for my kids to be involved in church camp. I'm so excited that they want to return and that they have fond memories year after year. Nathaniel told me tonight that he wants to go back again next year! Me too!

Even Maddie had a great time at camp. She rewarded lots of people with little grins, as long as momma or daddy was within sight too.

One of the best parts for me, aside from spending time with some great ladies who love the Lord, was the prayer meeting each morning. Jesus really met us in those times. Another great highlight was Maddie's dedication. It was the first dedication that had ever been done at camp. (more info and pictures on the dedication in an upcoming post)

One thing this year that was different is that we stayed with my parents. So the boys would go home from camp in the afternoon to Grandma's cookies

or a project with Pap. Additionally, my mom was keeping my brothers kids, so the house was hopping all week.

We ended the week by going to my Grandma Donna's 85 birthday party. The boys said they didn't know anyone else that was that old. (I don't think she was offended!)

So all in all it was a great week. A long one, but a good one. We are exhausted now as we try to get back into the swing of things at home, but as Nathaniel said, "we can't wait until next year".