Church Camp Labor Day 2011

This past September Elizabeth planned a camping trip for our church family.
It was such a great weekend! The weather was ideal for camping! 

We arrived and immediately began cleaning up and unpacking
Felicity and Chariti helping us sweep up all the pine needles on our site

Chariti posing with Hannah and Lilya by their tic-tac-toe game

Setting up our tent...
Stephanie looked up the eagle's scouts video's on youtube so she knew just the right way to set everything up! 

and helping the Barton's with theirs :)

Breakfast on Friday morning
We had some visitors! 

" Copper, you're my best friend. "
" And you're mine too, Tod. "
 " And we'll always be friends forever. Won't we? "
" Yeah, forever."
~Fox and the Hound~ 

Playing with Matthew's soldiers
Bringing those soldiers were such a great idea! 

Ready for some singing for worship! It was great to do family worship all together! 

Tabitha, Stephanie and Amanda

Amanda and Tyler swam across the lake so I when they reached the other shore I took some pictures of the victorious swimmer! 

Amanda's goldenrod

Sand angels!

More sand angels!
I love this pictures of these girlies! 

♥ My beautiful sister! ♥

Conversations around the picnic table

Felicity and Chariti making sandcastles with Zoe

Precision...

She's so cute!

Friday and Saturday

Matthew
On Friday some of the little people were riding their bikes 

Chariti (AKA: Annie Oakley)
She's so photogenic! 

Thoughtful 

Sisters and best friends

Ben,
he taught the girls and Matthew to do some tricks 

Like this one....

Love this picture of Hannah

Handsome little man 

 Judah
Aw, look at that pouty face, he's still adorable! 

Zoe and Amanda!

Some of the us decided to walk down to the equestrian campground to see the horses and talk to some of the  horse owners. It was an educational experience! 

back at camp...Felicity and Chariti really wanted to start a fire, but they had to wait until later 

The moms watching an ultimate frisbee game

Mrs. Stearns and Quinton

Quinton has such nice blue eyes!
He's really cute 

Boy, oh boy...He's ALL BOY!

Dinner Saturday night at the Barton's

Transferring the fire from the Fournier's fire pit to ours...

Mr. Fournier, you are one brave man!

Singing together around the fire

Can't forget the S'more's!

Firelite art

Mrs. Tavares, Mom and Aunt Beth

enjoying the warmth of the fire

As the night gets later eyes begin to droop, shoes begin to smoke, and the firewood begins to run low, it's was almost 2:00am before everyone was gone from the fire, it was time to go to sleep! 

Sunday

Service on Sunday morning out under the pavilion, it was awesome to have church outside! 

Rattlesnake pictures...

I have only three words to say about this picture...

What a dork... lol

Celebrating Seth's 5th birthday
Mr. Rudd gives Seth a happy birthday high five. 

Psalm and Zoe listening to Mom's ipod

The three musketeers ready for some ultimate frisbee!

Ben and Seth

The teams;
Pinecone Warriors vs...can't remember:)

HAhaha...GO TEAM!!!

Jared teasing Elizabeth...

Hmmm...Mr. Fournier's hat, wallet, phone, keys, AND Samuel's camera!

I was all set! I should have just said"See ya!" and taken off lol (JK)

After playing frisbee, everyone was rather hot and some joked about jumping into the lake.

Well, Amanda took it literally, and was followed by the few other brave souls!

Come on everyone! the water's great!

So much fun!

If you look closely, there are some teeny dots on the water...some of the group decided to swim across the lake!

Beautiful skies

Shootin' sista's :)

Yes, it's a real unloaded 9mm.

Jared making fun of Tabitha's gun skills! lol
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What a great weekend that was! Thank you so much Elizabeth for the work you put into planning it! We look forward to next years!