A Dozen (or so) of My Favorite Camp Pictures

Something that people always seem to start doing as the countdown to camp gets into days instead of months is look through old camp albums on Facebook. I know I enjoy doing that every year as camp rolls around again. And with the team color assignments arriving in mailboxes today, I think the excitement about camp just escalated. At least it would seem so given the number of excited texts I received today.

I've started using this blog as a way to preserve memories instead of trying to keep up with scrapbooking. Someday I'm going to have thousands of pictures in hundreds of albums and instead of trying to dig through those, I'll have these blog entries. And since I only ever seem to have my camera around for Awana events, that's mostly what I'll have to look back on. =P

I had some time tonight, and I decided to look through my albums all the way back to my first year as a counselor and pick some of my favorite memories.

So without further ado...

(These really aren't in any particular order, but I numbered them anyway)

12) Fun team color day pictures

2008

2009

2011

 11) Waking up in the mornings to find out that a mouse (or something) had been chewing on my flip flops

I loved the teepees. One of the saddest things about not being at Prescott Pines and camp being smaller is that the 6th graders don't get to experience Teepee Village.

2006

 

10) My all Palmcroft cabin
I wouldn't want to have an all Palmcroft cabin every year, but it was a fun experience to have for one year.

2011

9) Counselors having fun after putting the campers to bed
We could stand on opposite sides of the chapel and toss Skittles into each others' mouths. Multiple times in a row.

2009

8) Brianna and the trash can
You had to be there.

2010

7) Getting the opportunity to soak the campers during Friday water events
It really is a bummer that we don't do those anymore.

2007

6) The Lake
Definitely an adventure.

2011

5) The counselors playing floor hockey
Floor hockey was quite possibly my favorite game as a camper. And getting to play it while eating ice cream as other people babysit our campers? Perfection.

2008

4) Amazing fellow counselors
'Nuff said.

2011

3) How long these guys have been around
Don't they look so young?

2007

2) Getting to be a counselor with girls that I grew up going to camp with
Natalie and I met our 6th grade year in Teepee Village and went all the way through camp together. Sadly, the only year we were counselors together was in Teepee Village. Danielle was also in our grade.

2006

2010

1) My first year having some of "my" girls in my cabin

Little did they know what lie ahead.

2009

There are many more memories than I could ever hope to condense into a dozen points, but these are the pictures that stuck out to me as I looked through my albums tonight. And it's crazy to think that after this year I'll have been a counselor for longer than I was a camper!

Pinterest Challenge

As most of you already know, I love Pinterest. I stumbled across it one day because of two of my favorite blogs, Young House Love and Bower Power. I now check Pinterest almost as often as I check Facebook, and I definitely spend more time on it than on Facebook.

Problem is, I rarely find time to actually work on any of the projects that I get inspired to do. And that's exactly why the author of Bower Power does a Pinterest challenge every season. To get people to actually do a project that they pinned on Pinterest. So this summer, I'm finally going to make it happen. The last challenge started off with me trying to get something done and only halfway doing it. This time I'm actually going to finish a whole project. I am!

I'd prefer to do a home decor project, so I started looking at my board for inspiration:

Everyone is supposed to post about their project by next Tuesday, so I'll be back in less than a week with what I've done. Hopefully this time I'm more successful!

PS: I used PicMonkey to make the above collage, if anyone is wondering.