Interesting day at camp

Well, this has been a wonderful day! The kids all went to vacation bible school, and then we headed to my mom and Ray's camp for the afternoon. Adam, Nick, Taylor, Sarah, and Laura swam all afternoon, while Tim, Mom, and I visited.... actually, mom and I sat and watched my brother bust his butt working on the new fireplace! LOL! Anyway, Ray showed up with Bobbi Jo, Sonja, and Monique around 5pm, and we had a wonderful time visiting and having a barbeque. Here's a pic of my sweet Bobbi and her beautiful girls!

We had a kind of freaky incident this afternoon at the camp that upset the kids pretty good. There is always a family of ducks swimming around on the lake and visiting the camp in the afternoon/evening. Mamma Duck and her seven babies made their appearance as usual, and they came up on the lawn like they usually do. Here is a picture of them swimming in front of the camp (picture is weird because my kids were playing with the phone and messed up the settings.... grrrr).

Well... they came waddling up onto the lawn, and they were so cute! Ray walked over to them (wasn't chasing them, just walked over toward them) and they began to scatter. One duck headed over the bank onto the rocks to hop back in the lake, but to make a long story short, something happened on the rocks and he slipped and broke his neck. He was dead within 5 minutes. The kids were so upset. They held the duck tenderly patting it until it died. Then they held it some more for about 20 minutes AFTER it died. Monique and Taylor were praying for the duck, that God would bring it back to life, because nothing is too hard for God!! But when Taylor suggested CPR, Ray knew it was time to be done. He took the duck and gave it a proper "burial". Here's a picture of the kids holding him after he died.

Anyway, the kiddos are sleeping WELL tonight! They swam for hours! They sure got their exercise today!!

Tomorrow is our last day of vacation bible school, then the next day we head off to church camp! YAY!!! I'm so excited! The kids can't wait to get there! I will definitely fill you in on all the happenings when we get back! Love to you all!!!!