Camp 2013

Camp this summer was amazing as always. I mean, how many people get to spend their entire summer outside and working with scouts? I love it!
Here are some treasured moments...

Here are my hombres...my homie-g's...my fellow commies. This year, we decided to pay tribute to life and so yellow shirts were obtained, the word "life" was printed on the front and then on the back each of us had a specialized phrase which indicated what we would do if life were to give us lemons. Oh, and the mannequin is a representation for Curtis who was at a training that day.  

Sometimes it got really cold and so you just had to go with what you could find to stay warm. 

It was a favorite thing for the commies this summer, to jump into the lake in our full class B's and swim out to the dock. We called it "Conquering the Dock".

The short lived debut of the "Green-Shirt Bluegrass Band". We pretty much rocked...or banjo-ed.

These are the amazing folks I worked with all summer standing in front of the garrison flag that we put up every Friday night. 

We actually start getting ready for camp months in advance. We go to a variety of trainings. 

Converse are a very popular shoe amongst the staff. 

Our CPR instructor had a lot of experience. 

The breathing is the hardest thing to get down. 

Ketchup blood

There's lots of sitting and listening at the training meetings

But then we get to go outside and play games

And then Camp Starts

We had to build our tents this year

Had a lot of training during staff week

Some of us were really excited during it

We did our best to stay clean

Washed our faces everyday

Some awesome jr. staffers

We took our job quite serious

Although some days were harder than others

I found myself with a second shadow

Lucy followed me around everywhere

We became quite close

We celebrated Halloween...

Was visited by Perry...

And Sauron

Santa came too! He had a harder time adjusting to camp life

We had an epic snowball fight in July

5 o'clock Charlies as often as possible

Always ready to sing a song

Performed our hearts out at the Friday Night Campfire

"Do you hear that? The SQUIRRELS ARE UPON US!" 

and of course, the ever popular Battle of Maple Dell

There were those days...

But we were always there to support each other

Slothsquatch roamed the camp

We became a close group

The Tree of Life and Death

One of the more interesting things we witnessed on the way to camp

Part of our quote wall...

This year, we recreated the Mormon Battalion. I was Pheobe Draper Palmer Brown...I did laundry

The whole posse of actors

We tried to make it as realistic as possible

Family camp was, as always, full of fun and mischief

Our favorite game, Ultimate Spoons off the Dock

A time honored tradition of cramming as many people as we could on the lifeguard tower

"FREE US!"

Always an amazing sight

Set up and take down was a big job

For our end of year party, we entered Middle Earth. I went as an Ent-wife

When we mopped Commie-lot, we insisted no one step on the floors until they were dry

As I said, we insisted...

This is Newbie. One day we gave him a bath and 20 minutes later he tried to kill me and another commie when the brakes failed. We never bathed him again. 

All in all, I worked with an amazing group of people and I am grateful for the memories I have. Here's to another great summer!