- lazy afternoons letting Allie take a nap, reading in the room or on the upstairs porch, letting the boys play at the creek (just the two of them…love having brothers ☺)
- quiet times reading by the lake with Andy
- enjoying a few too many milkshakes together
- watching my boys in church see all the staff worshipping and praising Jesus. They had watched these kids (college ages) all week work in various areas of the camp and then to recognize them in church and see them praising the Lord was so neat and such an example to my little ones. There was one guy they had seen lifeguarding the pond and doing the Blob. They had also seen him the night before in a staff event wearing a bright green unitard. This morning in church he was on stage playing the bass guitar and he was worshipping with his whole spirit. The boys were excited to recognize him and I appreciated the example he set for my boys. This place is filled with so many good people that are great to have your kids around. I loved the atmosphere it set for Andrew, Luke, and Allie.
- Riding bikes through camp with no place specific to go…just exploring
- Some great “mountain” runs with Andy
- My boys running into our room one afternoon telling me they found a bunch of worms so they put them in a cup and they were going to make compost. Andrew was digging through the trash to find things to feed the worms in the cup. They were on cloud 9 about their “compost”
- Going to the general store to buy a treat….just because it was fun
- Writing out the Lord’s Prayer together and hanging it on our wall to memorize
- Watching the annual Hume Hoe Down games
- Listening to Allie sing one of her songs from Huckleberry house over and over again…”I’m bringing home a baby bumble bee…won’t my mommy be so proud of me” and “We are the berries, the mighty mighty berries, the huckle, huckle berries.”
- -the boys discovering their love for Frisbee golf, Luke even spent his souvenir money from grandpa and grandma on his first disc
- July 4th – finishing a difficult run with Andy…1 mile warm up, interval run/walk up a one mile hill that climbs over 1000 feet in elevation (reached 6500 feet), sitting on the top of the mountain (Inspiration Point), praying together, enjoying the amazing view, running down, taking a side trail to see “the Little Brown Church” tucked up in the mountains, finishing strong together….a 4 mile day that was challenging but great to accomplish together!
- Family PJ Party the night of July 3 – the kids wanted to have a PJ party so we planned the day before what we wanted to do. Sunday we took a trip to the General Store to find a treat for our party. Donut holes were the treat of choice. At night we all got in our jammies, spread out a sheet, ate donut holes, and played Skip-Bo Junior. We ended our night with some books and then it was off to sleep.
- 4th of July Parade – At 3 pm on July 4th some of the cabin owners and full time staff do a parade. My boys didn’t want to participate so we just watched. The HUME fire trucks lead the parade and then most people decorate their golf carts or quads (A little fancier than our Magnolia parade). My favorite part was Andy. Before it started he jokingly said maybe this will be like a parade in the old days and they will throw out candy. Well….sure enough the first golf cart started throwing out candy. Andy was so excited and of course the kids were too. They got quite the candy collection from the parade.
- 4th of July thunder storms
- coloring with all my kiddos in our room on a rainy afternoon
- watching the kids feed a gopher down by the water. Luke was the “gopher whisper” He would tap his knees so the mole would come. He would say, “here buddy, buddy.” As he would stick a long piece of grass in the gopher’s hole, the mole would nibble away at it.
- Talking in our room at night. One night Andrew was full of questions about random things in life (homeless people, Andy and my first cars, the people who lived in our house before us…) I loved just sitting and talking together!
- Allie having a Justin Beiber sighting during the high school opener. She was so excited to tell TT that Justin Beiber was here singing “Baby Baby”
- Our friends the Urke’s live at Hume and they had us over for a yummy dinner one night. Allie loved playing with their daughter and we all enjoyed a break from the café food.
- Enduring a huge rain storm one afternoon. For about an hour it poured causing major flooding and mud all over the place. We would have gone puddle jumping if we hadn’t juts got all showered
- A very fun visit with TT and Uncle Jesse. The kids were so excited to show them around camp. They also told the kids about their new baby! We are so excited for them to become a daddy and mommy.
- More fun visiting with grandpa and grandma…..relaxing, playing games, having milk shakes, and hiking around the lake
- Enjoying our last night at camp….the boys were in the Day Camp parade, Allie got to go on a hike at Huckleberry House, Andy and I went on a bike ride around the lake, and we ended with a family talk about the rest of our trip around a fire pit by the lake!
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