Family Camp 7: Climbing and Rocket launch

Cory and I went climbing one morning for our adventure activity.

Emily on the climbing wall.

Cory doing some bouldering.

Family photo right before launching our rockets.

Family Camp 6: Horses and a Juggler

Alex really liked riding on a horse.

Alex and Molly got to ride on horses together!

Molly on a horse

One of the evening events was a show by Tuey Wilson. He is an amazing juggler. Here he is standing on a free-standing ladder wearing a flaming beanie and juggling flaming torches. It was impressive!

Family Camp 5: Flying Squirrel

The Flying Squirrel is an adventure activity where 10 people hooked together run down a road away from a harnessed person (the squirrel). This causes the squirrel to fly up into the air. It is REALLY fun.

Cory the squirrel


Video of Emily doing the Flying Squirrel

Family Camp 4: Swimming and Rockets

Alex and Molly got kickboards as prizes in their class. They loved them!
The water was so cold. Alex only lasted about 4 minutes in the water before he started shivering and begging to go back to the cabin. Molly would have spent all day swimming, though.

Each family makes rockets for the rocket launch event out of 2L pop bottles. Molly had been really involved in cutting tape and decorating our rocket, but it was taking too long so she decided to make a bracelet instead.

Alex wanted to make his own rocket with Daddy.

Family Camp 3: Zip Line

From L to R: Cory, Emily, Sara, and Chris
Watch us go down the zip line!

Mini Golf and Tetherball

Molly and Alex loved playing mineature golf and tetherball at family camp.

Family Camp 1: Leap of Faith and Carpetball

We went to family camp in August for the 3rd time. It is such a fun week!

This year, Cory did the Leap of Faith.
In the Leap of Faith, a harnessed person climbs a 40-ft telephone pole, gets into a standing position on top of the pole, and then jumps, trying to catch a trapeze that is around 6-8 feet from the pole. Scary!


Cory climbing

Cory trying to get himself onto the top of the pole

Leap! Yes, he caught the trapeze. You can see it hanging in the upper right of this photo.

Here is Alex playing carpet ball. Carpet ball is a HUGE hit with the kids. Alex couldn't wait to finish his meals so he could go play carpet ball in the rec hall.

Daughtry!

In early August, Cory and I went to a Daughtry concert. Daughtry is one of my favorite bands, and the concert was amazing. It was at a very small venue, so we were close! I'm so glad we were able to get tickets! Yay! :)

It's been a L O N G time...

Wow, I haven't blogged for almost 3 months!
Why? Well, it's not that I haven't wanted to do it. Life has just been busy and other things have been more urgent. I do want to keep blogging, though, so I'm just going to do it. I'm going to try to catch up. Hang on! There are going to be a LOT of posts coming soon! Hopefully I haven't lost all of my readers. Are you still out there?

Building and Splashing

Cory sent me to FL for my birthday to spend a long weekend with my good friend Joanne, who lives there.
He did a lot of fun things with the kids while I was gone.
They met some friends at Home Depot for the kid's bulding clinic. The kids got to make message boards.

Aren't Alex and Molly adorable? I love the little aprons and safety glasses. They had a great time.

Leah, Isaac, Molly, and Alex with their finished projects.

Then they went to a fun park with fountains for kids to play in. Molly jumps in!

Alex, Molly, and Isaac enjoyed the water.

South Dakota Fun #5

What else do we do there? Wii, Ladderball, Carcassonne, and Settlers! We love competitive games!

My mom and I playing some Wii.

Alex, Cory, and Chuck playing Ladderball.

Alex and Cory

Sally, Alex, and I

South Dakota Fun #4

Here Grandpa and Alex were walking to go get the tractor for tractor rides. Alex loves being in the tractor.

Alex and Grandpa

Alex and Molly love the animals, too. They love going to the chicken barn and collecting eggs. They like watching the sheep and other animals too. Here are Gretchen and Heidi, the guard donkeys. The donkeys protect the sheep from coyotes and other predators.

Sheep

South Dakota Fun #3

Molly learned to make "dancing ladies" or "flower princesses" or whatever you want to call them from the flowers and buds of Grandma's hollyhocks. She LOVED this and wanted to go get more flowers and buds several times a day. I don't think there were any flowers left by the time we went home.

Molly loves picking mulberries. They are similar to blackberries, but usually sweeter.

Here Molly shows off some of the mulberries she picked.

She also got to ride in the tractor with Grandpa.

South Dakota Fun #2

Molly and Alex were both really excited to hold their new cousin Tyler.

Alex really wanted to feed him a bottle.... well, at least for 5 minutes. Then he was happy to pass Tyler to someone else.

Molly couldn't get enough. She was quite the little babysitter. She wanted to hold him and feed him bottles anytime she could.

When we got home, we asked Molly what she liked best of everything she had done in SD. Holding Tyler tied for first place. :)