Campmeeting 2010- Wednesday

Wednesday started off with the kids singing and learning about God.


(Caroline was teething really bad all week and constantly had her hands in her mouth!)



Then we played with sidewalk chalk...





Caroline found someone's beach ball and kicked it around for a little while.



Then she moved to the playground and had a blast sliding and swinging...





She got in a quick nap...


And then we rode on the hayride. On Wednesday the water activity is a hayride where the kids all pile in a big truck with hay and ride around the campground. While they ride around, everyone at their tents spray them with water. We weren't sure if Caroline would like getting sprayed with water but thought we would try it. Well, she didn't care too much for it. Maybe next year!




After the hayride, we were standing around eating watermelon and Caroline decided to climb up the ladder to go on the slide all by herself. Well she ended up taking a big fall. I ran over there to grab her up and she cried for a little while then she calmed down. So I put her back down to start walking to our tent and noticed that she would not put any weight on her legs. We checked them out and noticed that her knee was getting pretty swollen. So off to the immediate care we went. My mom went with us...thank goodness! When we got there she started to put more pressure on it so they determined that it was just a sprain. Praise the lord that nothing serious was wrong. Here we are waiting in the waiting room at the immediate care...


She was worn out after all of the drama with her knee..


That night, my mom was starting to get pretty worn out so she said she would take the kids home with her and give them baths and put them to bed early while Blake and I went to church. We were so thankful of her doing that b/c by Wednesday, it was getting pretty hard to get the kids to sit through church and this was the last night Doug would be preaching so I wanted to hear his message. Good thing we went to church b/c Doug ended up calling us out in his sermon! He was preaching about marriage and called on us to stand up in front of the crowd since he married us almost 4 years ago! Here we are before church...


(can you tell miss priss is WORN out????)

And here we are with my favorite preacher, Doug! We were all so hot. This had to have been one of the hottest campmeetings in a long time. Usually at night, it gets cooler...but not this time!


After church, Blake and I went to my parents house and we all stayed there for the night to take a break from the heat!

Campmeeting 2010- Tuesday

On Tuesday, the childrens program started. They do a children's program every morning at 9:00 and then a fun water activity at 1:00. Like I mentioned in my previous post, we ended up spending the night in our tent on Monday night. The tradition after church service at night is to play and hunt frogs. So that's just what we did. We played and played until after 11:00pm. Caroline usually goes to bed around 8:00 so you can see she was way past her bed time and then I had to wake her up in the morning in time to get her ready for the singing at 9:00am. It was busy like this all week long! Here's the kiddos trying to wake up and eating breakfast.




And here's some pics of them at the children's singing. Caroline loved it. She would dance her heart out and try so hard to keep up with the other kids. There are Christmas trees in the pics b/c they were learing about Christmas and Easter this year.




Every morning after singing, they would sit on the shavings and hear a bible story and do an activity. Here is Caroline with Kendall, Maddox, and Addi (the preacher's little girl). Let me stop here and say that Addi LOVED Caroline. She would play with her all day long. They had a blast together!








After singing and doing activites, we were so HOT. So, to help us cool off we ate popcicles and stripped Caroline down to her diaper and let her cool off in a pool.





That night we ate another delicious dinner that mom cooked and then got ready for church. Here's Caroline reading her bible that she had received in the children's program! She's starting early!






That pretty much wraps up our day! Blake arrived later that night and was able to be off for the rest of the week! We decided to stay at the tent that night too so it was another night that we didn't get to bed until midnight! Hunting frogs was fun and Maddox actually caught one that night!

Check back tomorrow for Wednesday photos!

Campmeeting 2010- Monday

Like I mentioned in my previous post, Blake and I worked on Monday so we didn't get to see Caroline much that day. I ended up getting off work early so that I could make it to the church service at campmeeting. Mom and dad kept Caroline all day for us. It seems as if she had a blast hanging out with her grandparents and her cousin Kendall. They played outside, went to the grocery store, took a nap, and went to a bakery for the best cupcakes I have ever eaten!

I got up there around 5:00 and we ate dinner and went to church. Suprisingly, all the kids sat through the entire service. I was especially excited about this service because the preacher that was preaching was the preacher that married Blake and I. He's a long time friend and I haven't seen him in 4 years. It was so nice to hear him preach and to see him and his family.

I had the rest of the week off so we decided to stay in our "tent" (aka cabin) that night. Almost all families stay up there all week long b/c they are from out of town but we have an advantage...my parents live 5 min away so we can chose if we want to stay in the non air conditioned tent or the air conditioned house!

Unfortunately, I have no pictures from Monday. Keeping up with Caroline that night was all I could do. I didn't even think of getting the camera out when I got up there. Our time went by so fast and before I knew it we were getting ready for bed. So, if you are looking for pictures (as I'm sure most of you are!) then you'll have to check back tomorrow. (I promise the rest of the posts will have a TON of pictures!)

We're back!

We had an AWESOME campmeeting this year! We all had a wonderful time hanging out with friends, family, and learning more about God! We got back home today and just crashed when we walked in we were so tired. Campmeeting is a lot of fun but it's also a non-stop week of going and going plus the awlful heat so we were ready for a nap!

I've been trying to decide all week how I wanted to post our pictures. Since we use this blog as a scrapbook of our memories, I thought that I would do a play by play everyday this week of what we did that day last week. Make sense? So, for instance, I'll start off this post on Sunday since that was our first day at the campground. Hopefully, I'll find time every night to post about what we did that day (last week).

So, here it goes. Last Sunday started off our campmeeting 2010. They had a gospel singing that night to start off the week. Caroline sat through about half of it...it's hard to keep her attention for a long period of time these days. Actually, the only pictures I have of that night are of her eating at her cool new picnic table that her grandma and grandaddy bought her. It's just her size and she loved it all week!





Since Blake and I had to work on Monday, we left late that night and came back home. Caroline stayed with my parents and had a spend the night party with her grandparents and her cousin Kendall.

Check back each night for a new update!

Fun Day!

Caroline and I had a fun day today hanging out together. We met up with some of my co-workers from my previous job at Relish in downtown Roswell. We had a lot of fun catching up since we haven't seen each other in awhile! Rich and Caroline loved meeting each other and running around together. They were so sweet when we left, they gave each other big hugs and Rich kissed Caroline's forehead! Too bad I didn't get any pictures of me and my friends...guess we were too busy chasing the kids!







After lunch, Caroline and I ran a few errands and then came home for naps. After napping, we started packing and getting ready for campmeeting. I'm such a heavy packer. I never know what I want to take so I just take it all! I usually only end up wearing half of what I bring but you never know what you might need!

Here's some funny pictures of Caroline after her bath tonight. She LOVES staring and talking to herself in front of the mirror. We have a little diva on our hands!




I probably won't be blogging much next week but will be sure to take plently of pictures from our trip to update when we get back!