Monday, September 26, 2011

Family Camp August 2011

On Saturday, July 30 we drove up to northern Wisconsin to spend the week at our church's family camp at Fort Wilderness. It was a wonderful week getting to know other people from Autumn Ridge. The girls loved all the time that they were able to spend in the wonderful outdoors.
The guest speaker this year was George Kenworthy. He was a good speaker and gave some challenging talks.

This year we were able to spend the week in a camper. We were very grateful for the camper, especially one night when it poured down rain and everyone in tents were soaked. Andy and Hannah actually slept in a tent most of the week, even though there was plenty of room in the camper. Their tent and sleeping bags were even wet from the rain, but they still slept in it.



Hannah and Chloe both enjoyed playing in the sand and water on the lake. We spent every afternoon that we could on the water. Andy spent a lot of time diving from the platform.
Andy and Cassie also swam out to the rock one day, which is about a mile swim. It was a good challenge!

There are no pictures, but we did take the girls on a tube float one afternoon. It was pretty cold, but the girls did fairly well. Chloe slept on Cassie for half of the ride. It would have been a lot better if it had been a hot day.

Hannah also spent A LOT of time on the tire swing. Our camper was right next to the little park that they have so we were there all the time.

Hannah wanted to go higher and higher. The girl has little fear.



Chloe loved the little swing for her.



On Wednesday afternoon they had the lake baptisms. These are the four women who were baptized this year. They all give a little testimony and then are baptized. It is really neat to be a part of.

Marcy Wolfe

Julie Brown

Lisa Haffey

The four women after being baptized with John Steer.



Chloe hates the sun in her eyes, but she was enjoying her time in the sand.

On Thursday morning we went on the Wranglers breakfast.

Both of the girls really liked the horses.

The horses pulled us in a wagon to the breakfast.

This is the view that we had at the wrangler breakfast.

The week was another successful week for our family. We really enjoyed each day, but it was nice to go home after being gone for almost 2 weeks straight.

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