Sunday School Retreat

Our Sunday School class had our very first retreat this weekend! Not everyone was able to make it and we did miss them but it was a lot of fun and I think we all are really looking forward to the next one.


The first night it was just our family and Jeremy, Jyl, and Hope Ewy. Hope and Luke are close in age and they lost no time getting the fun started. They had races, played all sorts of immaginary games, and played so well together that half the time we didn't even need to watch them closely, just keep an ear on them!

Racing! .... Hope getting some baby time.

We grilled pork chops and threw supper together while the kids played and then we went for a tour of the camp and got to see all the things Jeremy has built and is working on. They have a really cool stage out there and Hope and Luke gave us a sweet little preformance, see the video at the end of the post!

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The kids and dads made s'mores and eventually it was time for bed. Greg had forgotten to bring something in from the car and started to walk out to get it when he saw a really long skinny snake in the grass close to the cabin. He came back in and told me about it and of course my response was, "Hey, I want to see it!" I took a flash light and got to see it pretty well but I don't know for sure what kind it was. I don't think it was poisonous but I didn't test it or anything. I went back in to grab the camera because I wanted to look it up later but by the time I went back out the snake was gone and there was just this huge spider on the cement so I took a pic of that instead...

The next day Joey, Amanda, and Sam showed up followed by Ben and Andrea. We had a great brunch together, very yummy food!

Then we had a divotional time and a couple of hours of out doors time during which Aaron and I napped. We got up and played some games and talked a while using a faith based card game and while we did that the kids fell asleep watching Dora and stayed asleep until supper was ready. After supper we went back outside. Andrea had filled some water baloons for the kids...

Then they got out the bubbles Greg had brought.....

Then Jeremy got out 2 kites he had brought! It was perfect kite flying weather, and I think some of us adults enjoyed it as much or more than the kids.

The panda kite was really easy to fly, even Luke and hope could keep it up just by holding on. But the butterfly kite was quite a bit harder and of course that was the one both kids really liked. It kept wanting to do loops and then crashing to the gound or the roof of the cabin!

After the kites we sat around and talked while the kids did some more bubbles.

We sang some music together, though I would have loved to sing so much more.

Then it was getting late and people had to go home. This is the view from their back deck!

It was a really great retreat, hopefully the next one won't be far off and everyone will come.