Week 3

So this week really made me think. We went from little kids to high schoolers and it was quite a leap. Although we got to sleep later, there was a lot more attitude and kids actually picked up on the more mature jokes we would occasionally make (That's what she said, Office fans?). We also didn't have a lot of responsibility as compared to the last two weeks. Kids weren't dependent on us, we didn't sing silly songs or lead worship or anything.

But through it all, we prevailed, and made heroic poses. This week was Greenlawn (Paul Hodnett) and Stephenville (Tanner Fain). It was pretty conservative, at least compared to the session I attended growing up aka the "liberal troublemaking session". We had a dance party in canteen two nights, and the second night we had an old man giving us withering glares. If he could have beat us into being conservative with a 2x4, I fully believe he would have. It's not like we were committing sacrilege...like Trey's cabin....

Trey's cabin MAY have killed a bat with an AirSoft gun...and then crucified it for the sins of all bats. Funny, yet terrible in a fantastic duet of walking the line. Oh well, the high school week was nothing if not creative. I fully knew what to expect on the last night of the session (havoc), and havoc was wrought. Pranks going around and coming around, but nothing real special. This week was fun though, even if it was a big change. So for the silly camper face of the week I'll leave you with this.

We got Stationed

Hey everyone, so we got stationed in Norfolk, Va and will be there 2 years unless the USMC tells us otherwise. My mom and I went to Va and we found us a rent house, well God showed and gave us this rent house. Tyrel and I are excited and will be moving in around July 11th. From our front porch we look straight onto a golf course and if we walk .3 miles we have a beach and ocean. Lexie (our dog) will be going with us. Its a 3 bed room, 2 bath, with a little office room. It has blue carpet in living room and wood floors in bed rooms. It about 1700 sq ft. Its in nice neighborhood so when Tyrel is gone I will be safe. I am sending an open invitation to anyone who wants to come and visit will be welcome. I am wanting to work so please pray about the job that God has waiting for me. Tyrel is still doing great. He is still the guide of his platoon. He has passed all his tests. He graduates on June 25th and hopefully will be coming hime for a couple of days over July 4th. All is good in our world. Just busy now with finding a washer and dryer, yard stuff, and just stuff for a house. Im not complaining....its a lot of fun but a lot of hard work to get started. God is good.

Connor's broken arm

Connor and Camdyn came to stay with us for a week and we really had a great time. But Connor fell off the horse and broke his arm. He was so tough though and got back on the horse the next day. Grandpa really felt bad about it but Connor didn't want Grandpa to be sad.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Happy Father's Day to Mike, Tom, Don, John, Eric, Jason and Matt.

Week 2!

So, last week was Terry Looney's session. This was weird to us because he was Don and Tom's (our fathers) youth minister back in like 1976. He's way cool though and it was a fun week. It was very small, with like 36~ campers total. So, we got to know all the kids individually and know them a lot better than we will with the bigger sessions soon.

This is a picture of Trey and I with one of the kids who we saw wearing this sweatshirt, a Sub T-16 one in particular. Turns out his dad was in the ACU Sub T, and he was teaching up at camp this week too so we got to know them pretty well.

This is a picture of all the counselors (for this week, since we sent a lot to Encounter) with Mrs. Rachel, who crocheted or knitted (I don't know which) each of us our own hat throughout the week. The staff was really fun this week, and Mrs. Rachel was a sweetie. I'll leave you with this last photo. The Sub T guy, Mr. Newton had his whole family up there and his youngest son Jack was a cute little ball of energy. He would always make faces at us counselors which would just crack us up. A great example of this would be...

Ahahaha....well, looks like I did better in formatting this post too. We're still having a great time up here, and aren't too exhausted or burned out yet, which is good since we have a ways to go. So, I hope you all feel old now since we've got pictures with your old youth minister!

PS Week 1 photos!

So week 1 was Travis Thornton and Peter Dalstrom at the helm. It was a week of 4th-7th graders, and overall a real blast. I had a few homesickers, and all but one of those got over it pretty quick though except for.....well, let's talk about him real fast. I had an autistic barely 9 year old kid who cried at just about everything and one of the only methods of stopping the crying was piggyback rides. Here's the kicker. He was a fat kid. All of the guy counselors shoulders are awful sore today, especially Trey's.

The week overall went well, with a few staff mishaps that ranged from funny to downright frustrating. For instance, a funny one was Mrs. Dalstrom talking to Josh GALINDO about the "wetbacks" they were going to visit on their next mission trip. The frustrating one starts here. There was an ape suit at camp, some people thought it would be funny to scare the kids by making it seem like a bear/bigfoot in the woods. I was among these as were some counselors. It backfired, and we had half a crying camp. That's fine, and we had to deal with lots of crying kids. What WASN'T fine was that the staff went back to playing 42 (dominoes) instead of helping with the crying kids. So I got the privilege of staying up most of the night consoling kids that had nightmares or were homesick, or both. I loved my cabin though, and Trey liked most of his. I'm sad most of them are gone, and ecstatic a few of the others are gone, but I guess that's just how it goes. I'd upload more pictures but it was going incredibly slow, so for the full album, check my Facebook or Myspace! Also, the format on this blog is annoying me. All the pictures are formatted to the LEFT, yet one is floating in the middle. And I can't separate these paragraphs to save my life....gah...

It's Meemee time again!

This past weekend Jason, Kristy and Laney came to see us. We went over to New Mexico to see John's mom and to introduce her to Laney. John's mom is 93 years old and a little fragile lady but she is full of life. She and Laney really got along great. I just wanted to share this with all of you because I thought it was a very special time.