Camp Agape

Camp Agape was a smashing success!! Many long days and late nights go into the planning of camp, and it is always well-worth it! This year's theme was "I AM" and we told the story of Moses, the egyptian slaves, the burning bush, the plagues, the passover, and the exodus. Here is a pic of the kids around the cool pyramid that Clint built... the kids (slaves) made bricks out of clay, dirt, and hay and they laid them on the pyramid. By the end if the week, it looked really cool. I need to post an "after" picture.

(Quick disclaimer: I was in charge of the preschool department again this year, so I have zero pictures of my older 2 boys... I have a friend who is making me a CD of several that she took and I will post those when I get them. They had a blast, too!)

Lil' Bry stomping in the mud to make bricks with his cute little friend, Bree.

Cason helping make bricks... he didnt want to get his feet yukky!

The "line" of 2-year olds! Cuteness!

Daddy came to visit at slip n slide time!! What a treat!

Cason "focusing" during crafts.

My little dare-devil.... he was the only 2-year old to try it by himself!

Case-O on the big slip-n-slide

What a week!!

For Micah

Last week when I posted about Camp Agape, my sensitive little guy had his feelings kinda hurt that I had no pictures of him from camp. I felt bad for him, but at the same time, I knew he had tons of fun without me there to capture each moment with my camera. Sometimes I think we get so wrapped up in trying to catch all the fun times on film or video and we forget to just enjoy the good times..... but that said, a sweet friend of mine emailed me this great pic of micah on the climbing wall at camp, and I decided to post it just for him.

This one's for you, Micah!

June (so far) in Review

This month has been non-stop busy-ness for the Best gang. We began on June 1st with Uncle Jordan and Aunt Jen's rehearsal dinner, which actually was prefaced with 2 very late nights trying to get together and scan pictures for a super sweet slideshow for them. It was a surprise and it was great! Then June 2nd was their big day! It just so happened that my 10-year BCS high school reunion was that day, too, so we just did it all.... whew! Here are a few sweet pics from the reunion:

Here are the boys with my BFF from high school, "aunt" Brooke. Yes, Bry is cutting like 4 molars!

Here we are!!!! We had 10 out of the 15 graduates of 1997 here at the family picnic. They had 3 others at the dinner on friday that I missed, so we had a total of 13 out of 15 come... not bad! It was so neat to see everyone and catch up on them and their lives 10 years later! Because our class was so small, we were more like a family. We even had our sweet friend, Ami, come all the way from Japan!

And because things werent crazy enough, Micah lost his 3rd tooth on Saturday, too... Thank goodness Mimi likes to pull these things because just the thought of it gives me the heebie-jeebies! Look at this precious snaggle-smile!

Quick disclaimer: all of my pics from the wedding were before bc it was just too crazy to try to take any afterwards.... so there are none of Jordan and Jen since I got ready with the girls!! So I promise to post one of Jordan and Jen as soon as I can get a copy from them!
Here is the family.... you cant tell, but all the boys are wearing these sweet blue/white pinstriped pants that went with the theme colors of the wedding (blue/brown). I found them on clearance at the Childrens Place for $3 (regularly $24.50)!!!!! CRAZY! I clothed my boys for the wedding for 12 bucks! I love a good bargain!

Here is my sweet little neice, Samantha, who made the perfect flower girl!

Then it was on to Camp Agape. I was the coordinator for the preschool department, so I was at church all day sunday as well. This week is such a blast for all the kids. But I have to admit that I am glad it is friday and we will get to slow things down a bit! The theme this year was "Jesus is my Superhero," and it was so fun! We had a different superhero each day, and Mimi made an appearance as Miss Comapssion... She was all dressed up and in her mask and I was wondering if the boys would recognize her. One of the kids whispered "Ms. Summer, who is that?" I responded, "That is Miss Compassion." And Coby leaned over and whispered, "And her name is MiMi!" too funny!

I have to confess that I dont have any pics of Micah since he wasnt a preschooler this year! I got to see him several times throughout the day, but I never had my camera because I was too busy toting around 15 little preschoolers around! I did capture a few of the fun times with the others.

Here are 2 of my favorite little heroes after our closing assembly. The all got masks and decorated capes. With the preschool kids, we tie-died our capes... they were so cute!

Here is Bry at swim time... which he loved. They actually sent him down the big slip n slide, too, but I missed it... they said he loved it and he pitched a big ol fit when they put him back in the baby pool!

Here is Coby on the slip-n-slide.

And Cason...

And Coby on the rock-climbing wall. He was so brave and he made it about half way up which was really pretty high. He even got to repel down.

Random picture, but here is what Bryson does any time he sees a camera!

My plan for tomorrow: Sleep, Laundry, Sleep some more, Lots more laundry, and then eat out for dinner!