june 13-16

Kids are so lucky these days. When I was a kid for summer vacation we stayed home, went swimming in the lake and played with our friends. I don't remember traveling anywhere...except maybe to Green Bay to visit my grandparents and to camp for a week. My kids summer is so busy that they will hardly get to stay home and play. After they spent a week at camp we went straight to Knoxville so they could spend 3 days with Greg's dad and stepmom. During those 3 days they went to Dollywood twice and splash country once. They had so much fun. Jordan and Peyton each got a necklace with their name written on a grain of rice, and Jordan got a hand painted shirt with a horse on it and her name. On Thursday Jordan went to Ohio to her dads house and Peyton and Brandon went to their moms...which they are leaving to go to Arkansas for a family vacation with their mom and Jordan to Indiana, Michigan, and Canada for vacations with her dad. When they all return home to us in 1 week it will be our turn to take them to Myrtle Beach. Looking forward to that!!

June 6-13

Cohutta Springs Youth Camp

This week Greg is the camp pastor at Cohutta Springs. Jordan is doing gymnastics camp and is in cabin 9a with Hannah Zachrison as her counselor. Brandon is doing wakeboarding and is in cabin 3b with Castwell ? and his counselor. Peyton was too cool to go to camp this year so on Thursday she came down and is staying in our chalet. Each morning after breakfast Greg and I went on a jog then he had worship for the kids. His talks were very interesting and kept the kids attention. After he did his 15 minutes of work we had the rest of the day free....so we rode our bikes...our longest ride was 12 miles..in the heat...one day it started pouring down rain on us and we had to take shelter in someones shed. Greg and I got to do the zipline, blob, slide, went skiing...and I actually got up for about 2 seconds on a wake board. Jordan had so much fun her first year here at camp that she asked to stay another week..but she has to go to her dads so she can't...maybe next year.