The day after we returned from Yellowstone - Charlie headed off to his first sleep away camp!! He went with Brendan his best buddy from school and went to Camp Spaulding. Phoebe, our beloved babysitter, is a counselor there this year so it made it really easy for me have him go. So easy I didn't even drive him up for the drop off - ha! He rode up with Brendan's mom and she sent me pictures.
Charlie and Brendan with their 2 cabin counselors.
ready to go!
Camp Spaulding is GORGEOUS!! I had no idea until pickup on Saturday.
Meanwhile life was pretty easy in Spokane - me and these two went to the pool every afternoon and spent time doing normal life stuff. I will say - just having E&C for a few days there was less fighting!
Enjoying another summer at the Spokane Racquet Club pool!
Bill was in charge of teaching sunday school on Sunday so he prepped his craft for his lesson. Normal people would have done a print out of a grape vine and had kids color it. Bill had them create vines with fruit that attached to a "vine" (a huge branch we brought back from Schweitzer) and then create an empty vine that would be thrown away at home. Very applicable but not the normal sunday school craft.
At Camp Spaulding Saturday mid-morning to pick up Charlie.
I spy him! He hadn't seen us yet. When he did - he had to stay in his group so he gave us a wave. It was pretty cute - how cool he remained.
the closing ceremony had some singing, a quick message overview, prayer and then ended with a highlight reel.
the campus was beautiful.
the boys explaining a game, which when boiled down was basically catch up and over the net.
Thankful that Charlie was able to have this opportunity to have his own experiences and start being mentored in his walk with the Lord through older counselors.
