Family Camp

[Elliot]
We'll, we're safely back from a delightful four days at our church's family camp in Maine. It was so much fun! The weather was nice but very chilly during the nights--50 degrees or so, and we were in very rustic cabins. Fortunately our sleeping bags were nice and warm. Being a city kid, the outdoors totally fascinates me. There is so much to see and do! If you look closely, you can find all kinds of worms, ants, crickets, frogs, and other bugs on the ground, hawks and other birds in the air, loons on the pond, and fish in the lake! We actually went fishing again--this time in a canoe--but we weren't able to convince the little fishies to taste our worms. :O) Eden and I also really liked the frogs! A group of my sister's friends caught a bunch of frogs and shared some with us. They were so interesting--very smooth and slimy. What else did we do...played wiffle ball, roasted marshallows around the campfire, swam in the lake, sang songs, and generally spent lots of time with our friends. Daddy and mommy almost felt like I was their only child for a while since Eden spent so much time with her friends! Daddy and mommy had a good weekend too, just hanging out with their friends, sailing, playing tennis and soccer, and sitting on the beach. Tough life for them, I tell ya. Overall, I had a lot of fun. On the way home I told daddy "Go camping again?"

This week our kitchen will hopefully be completely finished! For the past two months the carpenters have been renovating the kitchen in our apartment, which means everything is dusty and we have even less space to run around! What else...oh yeah, mommy and daddy are celebrating their 10th anniversary on Sept. 7, so they are dropping us off at our grandparents' houses for a whole week while they go away! Lucky them. But I'm happy to stay with my grandparents, too--they are lots of fun! Talk to ya soon.