Sunday, August 25

Summer Camp

This year the kids went to two different camps, one at the beginning of summer and one at the end of summer.  It was strange to have both kids gone for two seperate weeks. 
First up was Camp Gray. This camp is a catholic kids camp, but they have so much stuff going on that you wouldn't know it was a church camp.  Max had a great time, though he didn't shower the whole week (they went in the pool so it's all good, right ;-) ) and he had to go out of his cabin to find the bathrooms. Bella had a blast and got to do 4 one hour horse lessons. She even found someone that had been at camp last year too. She went with a classmate, too. 
 The kids the chance to try three different activities every day.  The groups of kids change up based on who wants to do what activity.
 Bella did some arts and crafts
 Meal time.. Bella always loves the yummy food!
 It makes a mom feel good to see this smiling face throughout the week


 They do something called Cassidy games which is blue vs red. Bella was red and Max was blue.. Blue Won :)




 There is so much fun activities and i love seeing the photos every day. 










 Bella on her horse..she was so excited about this. She actually is looking forward to working on the ranch next year. 





Just a couple weeks ago the kids went to Camp Kesem again. This is Bella's 4th year and Max's 2nd year.  Bella as normal had a blast. She is such an outgoing girl and manages to make friends anywhere she goes. She loves all the fun stuff they get to do at camp and getting messy too! Max on the other hand struggles a little bit. Everyone goes by their camp name instead of thier given name also they get messy there. HAHA Max is not a messy kid. Thankfully this year i talk to his camp counselor. I think this helped a lot. He did loose his shoes until pick up so that made it bittersweet picking him up. Next year thier camp will change locations, so excited to see what's to come. 
 Color Wars... Max was Orange and Bella was Pink... Orange won! Max was excited about that.


 They had dogs come visit.. Bella was in heaven




 The theme was cereals...so bella's cabin was in lucky charmes. IT also made it for fun themes, such as Pirate day (capt crunch) or PJ Day or Life (career day)
 Nerf gun wars!!
 Kind of sad this didn't make it home, but glad i have a picture of it.

 Click on the picture to see it larger and find Bella..Max did something else..less messy
 A magician came to visit camp..max got a 1000 dollar bill ;-)
She found a frog..should you be surprised? 

Monday, August 19

Just a photo dump of the last 6 months.

Bella had a great cheering squad at her basketball games. Here is just a couple photos.... But many more people came to the games.  Thank you for all those that did, especially Auntie Tori and Reed 



Clearly these two were done with the tournament

Catholic schools week was squeezed into two days..but we made it roller skating :)

Made it back out to ice hendge. It was really windy and hard to make it out there, but glad we did.
We celebrated Easter at my house this year. So thankful it wasn't muddy :)


Aunt Diane came to celebrate Easter with us. We love sharing the holidays with her.
Grandparents day at school this year...excited Great grandma could come and sad we missed Grandpa and Grandma Judy.


happy spring!


Got Mom and me photos done. I haven't been in the photos for while so it was nice to get some smiles in.. but nasty weather moved in so we didn't get to stay long in town. :(



Bella was in the fourth of July parade



I've been trying to use my camera more and taking some good pictures.. The pets are the best subjects 







We spent the end of Feb at Great Wolf Lodge... surprised.. HAHA

Aunt Livy and Uncle Jordan came to visit
Spring Break took us to Dallas...Great Wolf and friends





Catholic Kids for a Cause . Bellas team played against the boys team. Max has fun with gams and raffles. 


Easter Egg hunt on Easter Morning

Grandma and Tim came because I had to head to Chicago for three days, so they split the babysitting duties.
Happy Mother's day. We did a buffett with Nana and hung out at Nana's hosue
Smores on the grill..until we ran out of propane. HAHa