Grandparent Camp!

Sam and I got to go to Grandparent Camp this past weekend. Normally it would just be Grandma & Grandpa taking us, but we were worried about Sam being able to stay without Mom or Dad so Mommy came with us.

Here we are Friday night in our room. We definitely weren't roughing it! It was great, we had an adjoining room with G&G Hyland.

We spent quite a bit of time on this playset. Pine Lake is such a great place!

Where we had worship twice on Saturday and once on Sunday.

Sam getting to work on the beach. Saturday was a BEAUTIFUL day! Sam spent a lot of his free time on the beach. I was on the beach too, but I also did archery.

Mommy took me, Sam and Grandma out in the paddle boat. There was about a foot of water in each side and I decided not to help pedal, so we didn't go very far or very fast! Mom took just Sam out in the afternoon (after the water had been dumped out), and they made it much farther out!

I participated in the beach carnival in the afternoon. This was the life jacket relay.

We had to fill up a canoe with water while 3 people were sitting in it!

Sam and Mommy went to meet some animals at the Nature Center. This is Moshi the salamander. Sam got to touch it, and then the salamander promptly jumped in his lap. Sam informed everyone afterward that the salamander bit him. Sam can be a bit of a tall tale teller!

I showed up partway through from doing archery and got to hold the box turtle.

I liked playing tetherball. I kind of made up my own rules, but Grandma seemed ok with following them!

I got to help play the bells at one of the worships. I did a great job!

Sam got to help also. It started out well, and then kind of went downhill.

He didn't really like all the attention.

Grandpa played with several other grandpas.

Yummy, smores!!

We played card bingo Saturday night. Sam didn't have a lot of interest so he and Mommy left to go to the playset. I LOVED card bingo. It got me all excited for everyone at the table, and I was just SOOO excited the rest of the night.

Sam had fun playing with Ethan.

I went on the night walk with Grandma and Grandpa. (Mom put Sam to bed while we were gone.)

We walked quite a ways and played bat and moth. I was the moth for awhile and escaped the bat and didn't get eaten!

Sunday was a little rainy, but we still got in some baseball.

I played the triangle at worship.

Sam and I got to pick a companion to be with us for the weekend. Here I am with the bear I chose, Kicks!

Sam chose a bear with a little red heart. He called him Sam bear or Joey bear depending on when you asked him!

We both had a wonderful time, and want to go back! I said on Friday after we had been at camp for about 2 hours that I want to go again next year. Sam did great on Friday/Saturday but Sunday he was really tired and spent most of the morning whining/crying. He had a nap on the way back home in the car and was much better Sunday night. Mommy was the only Mom at camp, but she was so glad she got to go and experience camp again. It had been over 20 years since she had last been to camp :)

Thanks so much G&G Hyland for taking us!