CAMP...but this time in a Cabin!

Now it's late June and time for our annual trip to Family Camp at Redwood Christian Park up by Santa Cruz (Boulder Creek to be exact). This year was as good as ever as the kids just enjoy it so much, we enjoy it so much, and it's just so enjoyable.

One night each year they show a movie out on the lawn. This year to go with the theme of Route 66 the movie was Cars. I love Cars and so do the boys so we stayed up late and watched it with our friends the Barnts.
Every morning Dennis & Carol, or Nani & Papa, come by and grab the kids for breakfast. Em and I get a little more time to wake up before we head down and the kids love the time they get with Nani & Papa by themselves.
Josh was able to play in the annual volleyball tournament and actually ended up on the winning team this year. Dennis and Josh are also the reigning Double's Horseshoes champs 3 years running.
Almost every day we were able to spend some time at the swimming pool. This year Joel & Seth thought they were the stuff and decided they were ready for the diving board. Joel, who can keep himself from drowning, and Seth, who would drown without the life vest, both gave it a good go with dad, and sometimes papa, right there to make sure they survived.
Each year during camp there is Beach Day in the middle of the week...and this year was the best one ever. Typically beach day is cool and overcast but this year it was sunny and warm and awesome. Here are the kids before they got all wet and sandy.
Here is our family with our sand castle that we built for the competition. Unfortunately we didn't win the free ice cream but we gave it a good go sticking with the theme and building the Route 66 Cafe.
This is what happens after beach day...too bad mom and dad couldn't do the same.
Here we have supermodel Abbey!
Last but not least, a classic shot of grumpy Abbey. This is one of those photos where you can't wait to stick it in her slide show when she gets married.

Even more CAMPING!!!

So 2 days after our first camping trip of the season (see post below), we decide to head out again to Hurkey Creek, but this time with our High School small group. We enjoyed good times around the fire, eating s'mores, playing games, and leading the kids through some team building activities. Overall it was a blast and below are some of the highlights.

This is John Leih jumping off a rock in to some really cool water after we hiked a couple miles to find it. It was a great hike, our kids loved it, the water was very chilly but oh so refreshing.
Here are the high schoolers, all blind-folded, with the exception of John, being lead through an obstacle course. They only had to start over once and the best was at the end when John lead them in to the sprinklers out on the lawn.
So apparently I thought we had taken more photos but they are on Mariah's camera, so we'll have to get those up later.

Starting the summer with CAMPING!

So a few families from church decided to do a camping trip together and travel all of 20 minutes to Hurkey Creek. It was a blast...we spent 2 nights, the kids got extremely, we did all the classic camping stuff like S'mores, instant coffee, and just sitting around the camp fire entertaining each other and enjoying some awesome fellowship.
The families that went were the Bayers, Campbells, Tates, and Whites.