July 30

Me and Corrie the craft lady at camp

Me and Lauren at Ignite Chicago.

Wow! Our summer is almost over! What a fun and busy summer it has been. :) Last week I was at camp again! It was a good week-not to hot or humid and lots of kids. On Saturday Samantha and I drove home. On the way we picked up Lauren. It was good to come home again! Then Sunday morning Samantha, Lauren, Emily and I went to Shaumberg, IL. for Ignite Chicago. It is a gianormous concert with about 10 or so artists! We were especially excited to see Tobymac and Stellar Kart. That was a loooong and fun day! It started at 11:30am and ended at 10:30pm. We kinda sorta took a few wrong turns on the way down there, but made it ok. Then on the way home we took a bad wrong turn and really went the wrong direction! It ended up taking us at least a hour and half longer to get home! But oh well! We made it safe and sound! Monday morning Samantha headed back to camp bright and early. Monday the rest of us went out shopping for a while. Tuesday night I went to piano and Daddy worked on my teacher's computer. Wednesday the boys and Daddy went to Alert Cadets. Thursday evening Emily, Pete, Daniel, and I went horseback riding! That was fun!!! But now my back is quite sore! I guess I don't use those muscles very often. :/ Today we aren't doing much of anything. I'm getting all my stuff together to head back to camp! Tomorrow morning I'll be leaving again for a week! Then Samantha and I will be back for the everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. (well not forever, but for a while!)

Hmmm, as I think about what they did while I was gone last week.......ummm, oh. Saturday (the 17th) was the CNH Picnic. Each year my dad's company has a picnic with food, snow cones, cotton candy, blow-up jumpy things, carnival games, tractors, and bingo. So they all went to that. Oh, and we all get a free t-shirt! I'm not sure what else they did.....I know everybody's been working on fair projects a lot. A good few have been finished and a lot more have been started!

Well, I'm quite excited to be going back to camp for a week! But I'm also looking forward to the fair and being home. It's a complicated feeling, that's for sure!

Paige

July 13

Kayla, Kiley, and me with our camp shirts on.

Samantha and Christine by the capitol entrance.

Hey everybody! Yesterday I got home from 2 weeks of working at camp! It was a very fun two weeks. I worked in the kitchen, mostly and some in the dishroom. I also did snack shop a few times. This last week was Junior I (3rd-4th graders) it was fun listening to all their conversations and the speaker for Chapel was excellent! This week I'm going to work on fair projects, fixing up the fish tanks some, and helping get the house a little cleaner. Today I painted our walls in our bedroom. We had hung some posters on them with Duck brand packing tape, but it made the purple color turn pink. So I got a little paint out of the basement and touched up the pink spots. Yesterday we went to 4-H.

A few things of note happened here at home while I was gone. One, Pete got 2 stitches in his hand. He was trying to cut a target out of cardboard with his pocket knife and it slipped. The dishwasher broke (actually that was while I was still here) and they finally fixed it. The microwave broke and they bought a new one. And, ummmm, other stuff I'm sure!!! Oh, Emily's bunny Rain, had 4 babies!

Next Saturday I'm leaving bright and early for camp again! This time I'll only be there for one week! But I'm still excited!!! =)

Thursday:

Since I haven't posted this yet, I'll add to it! Tuesday Pete went to the doctors to get his stitches out. Most of us stayed here. The after supper Emily and I went to youth group.

Wednesday we went to piano in the morning and in the afternoon Emily went to Children's to see a Rhumatologist. I stayed home and watched all the rest of the kids. (except Laurel who went with) Then the boys and daddy went to Alert cadets.

Today, I tried to get the house clean......it went ok. The house is cleaner now, but not as clean as I was hoping. Oh, well. Tonight Daddy and Mommy went out for their 19th anniversary. Their anniversary was actually the 6th, but since me and Samantha were gone they didn't go out.

Tomorrow I'm going to attempt cleaning the basement. It could use a good vacuuming!!! Then on Saturday I go back to camp!!!!