Family Flashback- Bible Camp 1999

This was the first time we went to Family Bible Camp at Warm Beach in 1999. The boys and I went by ourselves until Friday night when Chris joined us. We camped out at RV Land with all our friends from Rose of Sharon (aka Greater Grace).

Our circle of tents in the woods

My biggest memories of that year: the rain, Zoe’s tent leaking, helping in the kindergarten class, and having to do laundry thanks to all the rain and a certain four-year-old! But it was nice to have the company of Kate McMurry and Janet Olsoe while waiting for our clothes to get done! :o)

Despite the weather, the boys all had tons of fun!

Playing at the playground

 

 riding on the firetruck

playing mini golf

Andy was even brave enough to try the rope swing!

eating ice cream

horse-drawn wagon rides

Now we all have trailers and most of our kids are all off in cabins. My husband is now camp director. How times have changed!

Kung Fu Tourney

Today was the boys’ first tournament for kung fu. Unfortunately Andy wasn’t feeling well and didn’t get to go. :o(  But Zack got to compete in the adult division now that he’s 18!

His group was pretty small so the forms and sparring went quickly!

First was forms:

These guys had tough judges!

Then point sparring:

Won the first round!

Was winning the second round before he took a pretty good blow to the head! :o(

Won the third round!

And got the third place trophy!!!

I can’t believe I forgot to take a pic with Zack and his prize!!! :o( Arrr!

But we are so proud of how he did and it was more fun than I thought it would be! :o)    

Wood Cutting at the Woods’

Today we went to help Walt and Dena cut up and move out the last of the big trees that fell on their property. It was a pretty big bugger and it took a whole lotta chainsawin’, maul swinging, lifting and rollin’… But we finally did it!!!

We all worked real hard but I have to say that I am fairly certain that Will has never worked so hard in all his life and he has the blisters and sore arms to prove it!!! Chris and I were so proud we took everyone out to ice cream to celebrate!

Even Maximus did a good job… (he didn’t actually do any work but he was a very well behaved lumber jack puppy)

 Going through the woodpile while the dogs play a game…

 

Max was in the trailer and Knuckles tried to find him!

(look at that sweet face…)

He found him!!!

Look at these guys just talkin’ while Chris is already hard at work… LOL

Chris didn’t waste any time!

All kinds of critters live under rotting logs, but this guy was the cutest one we saw. Great pics, Will!

Wet, green maple is REALLY heavy!!!

Cutting these bad boys was often a team effort

People are still standing around while Chris is hard at work… LOL

   Loading up the trailer behind the quad

 

Still working on that pesky end piece

We were blessed with PERFECT weather!

I just couldn’t let all that gorgeous wood chip go to waste! So I brought it home to dry and use for the chicken coop…

Still lots of log yet to go…

Will took Max out for a run in the trees after lunch…

Then it was time for a nap in his favorite spot…

Under the quad

What a sleepy puppy!!!

After lunch we made quick work of what remained

Job well done guys!!!

I think everyone is going to sleep well tonight… :o)

Mountain Man Retreat

Each year the guys at the south end churches host a Mountain Man Retreat up at Sore Acres. The theme is always: God, Guys, Grub & Guns (I’m not positive about the order?) and all four are really good!!! They always have so much fun, it makes me wish I could go…

This year, our church brought a whole bunch of guys! Lots of them were under the age of 20! And God gave them really nice weather (well, nice for this year…)!

God: Stan Olsen was this year’s speaker and he had two sessions, one Friday night and one Saturday morning. He spoke about the story of David and Saul.

   Guys: There were also about 28 guys.

 

 Grub: Bob Unfried is in charge of the food, so you know it’s amazing! All I heard about when they got back (other than the guns) was the ribs, deep-fried turkeys, and jello (yes, the jello)!

GUNS: Yup, there are a whole lotta guns up there! And that’s just the way they like it! The boys all came back to our place after the retreat. I assumed they were all playing some kind of first-person shooter game… Nope, they were watching video footage from the retreat! :o)

 At the range…

Here’s what they were shooting at…

   A fire extinguisher… Now that doesn’t seem like a good idea. Hmmm???

I like this one!

Hey! That’s a really cute bear! Why are you taking his picture???

  

Ahhh!!! He must be Pastor Steve’s bear! That’s so sweet!

WAIT!!! What are you going to do to Teddy???

To see what happened to Teddy and watch other footage of the shooting range, click HERE. (pay special attention at about 3:15)

Poor, poor teddy!!! Why does Keegan look so happy???

 

Then it was off to the field for skeet shooting. You can watch footage of that HERE.

May God continue to work on the lives of these men and shape them into the godly leaders that He wants them to be!