1st FamLea Grandkids Camp!

Famlea Grand Kids Camp 2008

Eric came to the Springs Preserve along with Jamie, Grandpa, me (Grandma!) and all 8 kids! Bath time was a riot!
Learning to share and play together was good for cousins.
Evening break (for Grandparents) as the kids eat pop corn and watch Enchanted!
Everyone had to serve themselves...especially since they helped make the food, too!
Cousins helped one another a grew closer as friends!

Grandpa loved reading and the kids loved listening!
The hot slide was mastered with a towel!

Calico Basin was a fun hike...Madison rode around on Grandma's bike! Grandpa rode his bike back to town!! (He's training for the Triathlon for real!)
The buddy system worked great for hiking...turned out we used the same buddy system all week! We matched the kids by cousins with older ones in charge of younger ones (but not in their immediate family.) Great bonding and eliminated any "issues" of who was in charge! :)
Swiming cousin time!
The library time waited until we ate treats provided by Aunt J before we went in to find books, read books, and even took books back to Grandma's house!

The season for Grand Kids! What a great FamLea Grand Kids Camp we had the last week in June! (I'm just now showing signs of recovering.) We had all of our 8 grandchildren---5 of which are 4 or under! Jimmy's Madison (10), Cassidy (6) & JD (2); Eric's Afton (6), Eliot (4), & Simon (1); and Jamie's Gracie (2) & Ainsley (1) were the five. Robert's two that were a twinkling here on earth must have been looking down from heaven. Jamie helped each day, Troy stopped in one evening and saved the day swimming and playing with everyone...Grandpa was always a great "save!" just when I was about to drop. In between changing diapers we hiked to Red Springs at Calico Basin, swam a couple of times a day in the pool, visited Springs Preserve Museums, cooked green, blue, & pink pancakes, made and ate frozen grapes on a stick, played games, dress-ups and cars, and occasionally took a nap. We threaded beads and drew pictures, read books and told stories, and bonded in ways you just can't do without taking the time. (Quanity coupled with quality is the BEST!) See...there is a time and a seson for everything. I'm just happy that at the end of camp parents were delighted to take their little ones home to sleep in their own beds!