Thankful for a Fridge!

Thanking God for a new, working fridge!!! Eating only things we could keep in the freezer wasn't so bad... ice cream, lasagna, taquitos, frozen chicken... but fresh food is such a blessing!

Camp 2016!

HBC Family Camp was September 17-19, and we drove up and back home each night for Friday and Saturday! Enjoy the adventure! ;) 

Thursday:

Getting ready!

Aimee made Cookies of the Century for a road snack! Kate made delicious pie too, but somehow we didn't get a picture of that. ;) 

Since we weren't official campers we brought our own meals. This is the makings for taco salad, which we picnicked with outside for Friday dinner. 

Friday:

Jerry went to work, and the rest of us had a quick breakfast and continued camp preparations.

Around 12:30 everyone loaded up

We stopped to pick up the girls' new reading glasses!

  Look! Its green!!! 

Emma made a scavenger hunt game for the trip, and we listened to lots of classical music!

 Front seat

The whole, goofy van load. :) 

 Getting close to Prescott!

Paul helped string up lights at the Quiet Place for the night time sermons, and after dinner everyone headed there for a message.

 

The Quiet Place 

It was so 'cold' even in sweatshirts that Anna had to steal an adorable kid to squeeze. ;)

Pastor Huddleson spoke on loving one another. 

Then back to the cafeteria for games and music! This is a crazy, loud game called "Pit"... 

Aaaand the crazy, loud players. ;)

Matching girls!

Around 1:00 (you can chose if it was AM or PM ;P) we finally drove home, exhausted, happy, and talking 5mph. :D

Saturday:

We arrived just in time to jump in on the last couple of tug-of-war games, and then walk to the cafeteria for lunch! 

Then it was free time until dinner. Some played volleyball the whole time or sat by the sidelines and cheered the teams on, others played some frisbee, the little girls worked on a fort out by the 'L Tree' (it's a tree jutting out from the hill in the shape of an L) with their friends, and still others had a blast with little ones by the swing set.

A message by Mr. Hubler, and off to the fire-pit for s'mores!

To the cafeteria for games, singing, and burning our tongues on hot chocolate once more before saying goodbye and heading home!

Chess! 

 Two players and lots of advisers. ;)

 The music was great!

Singing praise to the Lord Almighty! 

Thanks so much for reading about our adventures! 

Celebration at the Park

Pearl had her first day of dog training class Saturday, and to celebrate that and her birthday we met some friends and relatives at a park for some ice cream and frisbee!!! Make sure to go read about the class at Pearl's blog mydoggyfriend.wordpress.com!

FSDS Service Dog Training class

The celebratory group!

Adorable nephew makes an adorable selfie!<3

Frisbee!

Ice Cream!

 Super grateful for friends, family, ice cream, and God's love. What are you thankful for this week?

Chap and Chum Cook

Good Auntie Kate made two batches of shortbread the other day for the express purpose of getting to cook with Chap and Chum. 

Cheesy grins ;)

Happy man!

 It was extra fun because shortbread takes kneading, and he loved squeezing the butter and flour together. He's so precise and good at baking! (And thankfully good about not snitching.)

Oh, Chum wants to "dook" too? They ended up making another batch of what they adorably dubbed "cookies" just so he could have a turn stirring and kneading.

 I can assure you they both enjoyed eating the shortbread as much as baking it. :)

Water Day and Food Packing

Saturday was our church’s water day. It was super fun!

There was a big inflatable water slide, a little kid slide and bouncy thing, and a small dunk tank.

Paul, Tyler, and some of their friends brought their cool, gigantic, homemade water guns and ice water to get people with, and others mercilessly dumped buckets of water on each other. Imagine standing there and suddenly you are chilled to the bone, soaking, and blinded by some guy who had snuck up without your notice. Lol! It was great!

There was always a long line for the water slide. Some would try a new, creative way of going down, and the gigantic splash that would soak everyone waiting in line was hilarious!

Pearl and a girly friend freezing, happy, and about to go down together.

Throwing a buddy in the pool...

Splash! They got him. :) 

Aimee, Kate, and Paul left half way through to go help pack food at "Feed My Starving Children" with some friends. They had a blast! 

Soon after they left the water fight was put on hold for a rather wet pot-luck dinner. ;) 

And then more splashing was in store.

The End! Be thankful for hot summers, and have a happy day!