Small Group Camping Weekend

Our young adults group at church has been planning a camping trip for a while now, and we went this past weekend. There were 34 of us - 17 being kids that were 5 and under, other than 3 of them. Crazy. As one person said when some of the kids were crying, throwing fits, and such, with so many kids you kind of expect at least one of them to be crying at all times. :) It wasn't quite that bad, but there were definitely a lot of those moments. Overall, the kids did great, we all had a great time, and we loved the time together.

This was like our own private beach right behind our campsites...but found out that no swimming was allowed. Oops!


So several went canoeing and fishing instead :)


Even Stephen who doesn't know how to swim and is terrified of going under braved the lake in a canoe - with a life jacket just in case, of course.

On Saturday it was supposed to rain, but it ended up only raining at night, and it was gorgeous the whole day! We were VERY thankful for that, because that could have been ugly if it had rained all day. So we went to their REALLY nice lake that we COULD swim in across the street. I even would swim in it - and I am definitely not one to even step foot in a lake like that. It was clean and not slimy at all. No seaweed or other nastiness to step into. And it was small enough that the water was warm. Plus they had a nice area sectioned off for kids that was only like two feet deep all the way across. It was great.

Watching for now...


Playing in the sand and water


Titus starting to get brave...


Damaris finally went in and let me take her to where she couldn't touch

The guys started diving for the football - all to see who could get a cool picture...I thought it was funny...

And they did get some pretty good ones!


How can you go to the beach without trying to bury at least one person...


...Or without building a sandcastle...


Damaris LOVES babies...toys or real ones :)


The guys played football in the water, too...which they said was super tiring on their legs.


That night we had cake and ice cream for Gina's birthday - Happy Birthday, Gina!!


It was raining a lot Sunday, so some of the boys came in our camper to watch a movie. I thought this was a cute picture :)

Overall we had an awesome time, and we are planning to go camping again before the end of the summer!