summer camp.

Last week i went to jr high summer camp at thousand pines.

i had a blast. i learned so much. and my team won the recreation competition. (go stealth strikers!)

i had 11 crazy girls in my yurt. (a yurt is dome shaped tent thing. think parent trap.)

please enjoy this video of my girls beating each other up.

jr high camping trip.

just got back from the jr high spring break beach camping trip. with a grand total of 51 7th and 8th graders. 

they are an energetic, wild, and crazy bunch. seriously the weirdest age group out there. well, i guess the 80 and up crowd can be entertaining at times. (side note, my grandmother sent me a text message yesterday.)

we played a lot of ninja, which is a bunch of fun.

and the weather was beautiful. i guess it rained a little but in the night, but i slept right through it. 

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overwhelmed.

i had a great spring break. 

really, it was a good one. 

i got to hang out with some friends i rarely see, relax, watch lots of tv, sleep in my bed at home, play with my dog, you know, good stuff.

and then i got to go camping with this great group of people (plus paul, who is taking the picture):
we went camping at silverwood lake from thursday till sunday. and honestly i was a little worried. i just felt like four days was a little much. 

but it was not. i had so much fun. we just hang out by the lake, played games, napped, hiked around, made movies, and other fun things. 

i got sun burnt, but i also got some new friends and a million inside jokes. 

but my week has been so busy. 

i have been spending so much time in the gdm lab just working on different projects and stuff. im actually here right now. just taking a break from class and squeezing in a quick blog.

im peeling and my lips hurt because they are super chapped. 

back from camp

summer camp was awesome.

i was with kristin in cabin 15. we had 11 crazy sweet 7th grade girls.
i am so excited to watch them grow and mature these next two years.

chuck bomar was the speaker. my girls learned so much from his teachings. this might sound negative, but they truly amazed me with how much they were able to grasp. when i first looked at the topic for the week i thought that it would b over the heads of my 11 and 12 year old girls. i thought they needed something more practical about how to live, what to do, they needed more life application. man was i wrong. so wrong. i also learned a lot through chuck's chapel messages.

parachute passing lead worship all week. they did an awesome job. seriously the seminar they did on worship was my girl's favorite. and maybe all of the girls counselors have crushes.

i found it!

tomorrow im heading off to jr high summer camp up at thousand pines.
im pretty excited.

especially because i was originally not going to camp, but then i got a phone call wednesday asking if i could because we are taking up wayyy more kids than originally intended. (86 or something crazy like that).

but i am still not fully unpacked from louisiana.
i started cleaning my room. i filled two trash bags with old clothes for the goos will.

and i found my ipod!!!!! i havent had it since april. i thought i lost it at the beach, turns out it was in a bag in my room all along.
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i have no idea what to bring to camp. jackie said, "just bring everything you own." and i kinda want to listen to her. because you never know when you will need something.