Teen Week II

I just completed my second week of teen camp! I had 12 campers in my cabin, and boy were they rowdy! At the beginning of the week, 6 of my campers indicated that they were unsaved, but by the end of the week I was able to see 5 of them saved, and one deal with assurance! Overall it was a physically straining, but great week! My team, the Sodbusters, won the competition again making us 4-0 over the Cowpokes! Go BLUE!

During the week I got challenged by a girls cabin to the toilet paper bride competition. This is usually a competition that takes place between two girls cabins, but for some reason they challenged my cabin. There were actually three guys cabins that got challenged by three girls cabins in the same night, so we decided to head to the fireside room and make it a public event. Out of the three separate competitions, here are the winners...

I won!

I also won the cheesy bride smile competition : P

Mary won!

Ben won! (he was the only Cowpoke to win the competition)

Frogs in the shower!

It all started with the discovery of mice in my cabin, then I walked into the bathroom the other day and found these little guys crawling all over the showers! There must have been about 10 of them! It made me think about the plague of frogs that God brought upon Egypt.

It was hard to get pictures of them because they were in constant motion!

One was perched up near the ventilation fan.

He was camouflaged pretty well against the ventilation cover.

I walked back into my cabin and turned on the light when I saw this little guy fall off the ceiling. He immediately jumped on the back of the door and stayed there for a while. He was by far the most cooperative while I took his picture. : P

He was about as big as your thumbnail...I wonder how many frogs made it into my bed that night...

Weekend Trip

This past weekend Suzy, Mary, Sarah, and myself went to Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was a quick trip, but we had a lot of fun. We attended the 4th of July picnic at Suzy and Mary's church. We played some volleyball as well as many other sports. Here I am trying to set Mary up for a spike, but I guess she had other plans. : P

I tried to jump serve a little bit during the game. My motto is, "If at first you don't succeed, STOP!". That was the end of the jump serving...

I love this picture because it looks like I am mad at Mary, and am telling her what to do. (The last part was probably true!)

Tizzy and Suzy not paying attention to the volleyball game, and using up the battery on my camera! : P

Teen Week I

I just finished my first teen week at Camp Joy! It was a blast being a team leader and counselor! I was able to lead one boy to the Lord, and had the opportunity to disciple another! I had seven campers in my cabin this week, and like before, we got perfect scores on cabin cleanup! My cabin must be lucky : P

Leading my team in the fence building competition at the rodeo. (we won!)

Lydia and Me

Mary, Lydia, Suzy, and Me

At the end of the week the Sodbusters (my team!) won and we got to fly our team flag! GO BLUE!

They're hitched!

Well they are finally married! This is their second kiss! I got their first kiss on video, but I still need to work on getting it formatted so I can post it.

What would a wedding be without a little craziness? This wasn't the half of it! More pictures will come of all the crazy things we did!

I was assigned to drive the newlyweds to the airport...lucky me.

And they're off! Have fun kids!

Mowing the lawn

I decided to take my turn mowing the lawn while I was away from camp.

Like the red shades?

You can usually catch me doing something weird whenever there is a camera around.

Week off from camp

I took a week off for Katie's wedding, so I thought I would have some fun while I was at home. Some of us went into the yard to hit the volleyball around. We ended up trying to keep it out of the pond more than we actually hit it around.

Rachel serving.

They were on the ground more than they were on their feet!

I have such cruel sisters!

2012 Olympians...HA!

I was gonna flip off the trampoline, but my sisters reminded me that I am supposed to be in a wedding on Friday. What a way to kill fun!

My camera is amazing! It not only takes a picture of you, but your guardian angels as well! One of Rach's guardian angels kinda looks like me! Well, at least he likes Michigan!

Leadership, Music, and Speech Camp

My first week of camp came and went very fast! Here is a picture of the guys in my cabin. I knew most of the guys already, so it was easy to adjust with them. We were the cleanest bunch on the campground! We scored five 100%'s in a row for cabin cleanup! (three of those were 101%!) We set a new record for Camp Joy!

Me with Matthew and Philip (like the red shades?).

Me and Evangelist Mike Shrock. What a nut! (takes one to know one I guess) He definitely goes on my list of favorite preachers!

Moving In

Here are some pictures of my cabin. This is "home" for the summer.

I was rearranging some furniture, and look what I found under the dresser...MICE! Yep, there was a big mouse nest underneath my dresser!

One mouse nest wasn't enough for me, so I was blessed with TWO! I found a mouse nest under BOTH dressers in the room. I set up some mouse traps around the cabin, so I will keep you posted on my mouse situation.

CPR

As counselors we were all required to take a CPR class. Believe it or not, we passed the class! We got to keep these cool masks for performing CPR if the need should arise.

Camp Joy

This summer I am a counselor at Camp Joy in Whitewater, WI.

During training week we hiked to the bog and lookout point. Stephen, Mary, and Suzy decided to lead the hike (what they didn't realize was that by being the first ones to walk up the trail meant that they cleared all the spider webs for the rest of us!)

Climbing wall at the bog.

Underneath the climbing tower at the bog, there is a tunnel. Stephen told all the counselors that if we crawled through it that we could get one free item from the snack shack. All the girls were doing it, so I had to prove I was man enough to do it to. Everyone went through it! I don't think Stephen expected everyone to go through. Needless to say, the snack shack lost money on us that afternoon.

Coming through the tunnel.

Mary coming through the tunnel.

Suzy coming through the tunnel.

Guy counselors and program staff at lookout point.

Girl counselors at lookout point.