-Word around the church was: “Abby brought her boyfriend Nolan to the campout, and Dale had to go on a 10 mile run.”
-Gabe declared the mornings of the campout “the worst!”
“It used to be me and Mr. Talley and Mr. McKinney and hot chocolate. Now it’s me and my mom and work!” He complained.
-Elijah had a blast playing the “throw the rocks in the trash can game,” and was very sulky when he was informed that it wasn’t allowed. He also took great joy in grabbing the cornhole bags off the board and sticking them in the hole during game play. When he was told he could not do that either and needed to play with the truck, he performed a perfect slo mo fit reenactment. He stomped over to the truck, grabbed the truck, threw the truck, grabbed some rocks, threw the rocks, yelled, and threw himself down. Then, on the final morning, while we were packing the van, Elijah snuck in the open side door, climbed into the driver’s seat, and laid on the horn to get us to hurry up.
Susie was mortified by all these actions. I wouldn’t stop laughing. (I find great joy in no longer being a mother of a two year old.) On a positive note, for the first time in a while, Elijah didn’t do anything that required a trip to the emergency room.
-Abby, Lauren, and Linzi decided to camouflage themselves by color coordinating their wardrobe in hopes of fooling the black snake lounging near the women’s restroom. I, however, took the “carry a large shovel” approach.
-Dale got Sophie Grace and Elijah so hyper before bedtime that I recommended Susie use my Aunt Kim’s tactic of giving up on trying to calm her kids down, and yelling “Dale! Knock it off!” instead.
-Amanda, Mac, Maria, and Zack were good sports in their willingness to read Numbers chapter 33 for Dale’s sermon.
-Shelby’s phone kept going off causing Bob to try to silence it and forcing him occasionally to lock it up in the trailer.
-Zeke was tired and confused with all the late nights, early mornings, grey-green clothing colors and accidentally called Blue “Daddy.” Blue then climbed to the top of an old pine tree to escape early fatherhood.