I love our church tradition of Girls Camp. I've been involved many years as an adult. This year I took on the role of camp cook. No big deal, I thought. How hard can it be? I thought? Haha. It's hard.
Of course I did the Trish and made it harder than it maybe could have been---with lots of variety on the menu. I worked hard all week and was very tired. But it was so fun to be there (I love camping!) and to use my new tent again. I also got to paddle board and use the floating island again too!
I included a menu with the schedule (it was Sarah's job to put the schedule together for everyone--but I did a fair amount of helping with that so it could fit in a cute little lanyard). Salad bar wasn't enough calories. Hot dog kabobs weren't a big hit with the kids, but they loved spaghetti leftovers. I should have used all my pots to boil the omelets. But basically everything else was a hit! I also had a make your own trail mix bar that I brought out each morning. (For next year, more coconut, craisins, chocolate covered pretzels, and peanut mnms.). My variety for smores made it fun too.
I didn't know most of the girls, but was so happy I felt inspired to throw in a bottle of jalapeños. I had a girl ask for them at basically every meal. I felt like that happened with several things where the Lord had me thinking for the one. I am happy I got the literally feed his sheep.
I am also happy I got to be there with my girls. Libby had a cold starting on day 1 and wanted to go home. But she hung in there (with just one really late sleep one day) and played a powerful leadership role. Sarah did awesome too. I'm sad I missed her group's skit--since I was checking on the cobbler.
It was a whole Norton family affair! Geneva came and helped to the first day. Derek was there for Thursday and Friday and helped us come home Saturday.
I didn't get a ton of pictures, but I got a few from our "lake day" which was actually the Puget Sound at Tolmie State Park, and a few around camp.
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| Using the handcart to refill the wood--Libby was the firemaster for most of the time. |
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| Doing trust exercises on the ropes course. This was a good one. I did it with Sarah. You have to lean in really hard to make it work. (And use some core strength.) |
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| Water balloon launching! |
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| Love Sarah's face on this! |
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| Craft time! |
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| Song time! |
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| Libby's skit. Kinda dark! haha. |
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| My quilling. |
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The whole crew--3 of the girls were only there for the afternoon we took the picture. 2 more left the next day and one left on Friday night. So we were a small bunch. I made the shirts based on a design by Libby and with the help of the circut images. It was cute.
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| Libby got a huge crab. |
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| Sarah and crew playing on the floating island--Queen of the Island. |
I am already brainstorming for next year!
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| The shirt graphic |
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