Monday, July 7, 2008

Church Camp Out

Once again, the time of year rolled around for camp out. It was a lot of work to get everything ready, but as always, it is worth all of the work. The kids had a blast! They played all day doing various activities from the playground to catching bugs to collecting paint balls (there was a new paint ball course added down by the lower campsite) to poking the campfire to climbing trees and all of that other fun camping stuff. On July 4th, some of us went in to Mollala for the Mollala Buckeroo. The kids had a great time watching the horses, the bulls, the cowboy monkeys, that's right cowboy monkeys, buffalo, and fireworks. Except for Evan, he did not like the fireworks even though he said he did, he hid the whole time! Back to the cowboy monkeys, one of the entertainment bits was that some border collie dogs came into the ring to heard some big horn sheep and on the dogs were little monkeys dressed up in cowboy outfits. It was pretty funny to see the dogs running around with monkeys on them. I did not get any pictures as the light was not very good at that point and they were moving around too fast. The other cool thing was the One Armed Bandit who came in and rode around and cracked his whip and he only had one arm, hence the name. Then they let two large male buffalo in the ring and he herded them on top of the horse trailer, and THEN he got on with them on his horse and stood up on the saddle! Pretty impressive. Naturally the boys slept very well at camp this year with all of this kind of excitement! We had a great time, but mom and dad were happy to be home in our comfy bed!

Waiting for the rodeo to start

The One Armed Bandit and his buffaloes on the trailer
Can't go camping without roastintg marshmallows
Bedtime stories
The kids kept messing and poking the fire, so I suggested that they take some of the firewood and make their own camp site, and this is what they came up with. They played here for hours, and we brought the camping gear that the boys got for their birthdays from Grandma, so they were set!
And now for your enjoyment.....Blake, Eli, and Evan performing "Hitting a Baseball" for the church camp out talent show!

1 comment:

The Hamzinger said...

"Monkey cowboys"? They had actual, real-life, monkeys as cowboys? WHY WASN'T I NOTIFIED?!?

That might be the single greatest invention of the last 30 years. I'm completely serious.

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