We're Home!!!!

What a great week we have had. Our entire family left for JAM (Jesus and Me) Camp on Monday. This is our children's camp for kids who are going into 1st grade through kids going into 6th grade. My sons went as campers, my daughters as teen counselors and Phillip and I as adult counselors. It is a tremendous joy for the whole family to go. It was a busy, exhausting, exhilerating, happy, joyful, fun-filled week spent teaching children about the love of Christ. Our children's minister calls it "A little taste of Heaven". He is so right. There is no greater joy than to focus wholly on children and the Lord for a week. We are told it is our job during this week to be "Jesus with skin on" to these kids.
We returned home yesterday afternoon and real life started up again. But we are ever so grateful that this "real life" is temporary and that our hope is in our home in heaven where we can "JAM" forever.
Phillip and I have hit the ground running so I will try to get pictures and more information up sometime this weekend, if not then maybe Monday.
Off to do more laundry and help the kids to settle back in to being home.

They are Home!

My heart is whole again! My dh and dc's got home around 3 today. We have spent the evening laughing and snuggling. I have heard many camp stories with many more to come. We just finished seeing all the camp pictures. There were 4 cameras at camp and so there were close to 1500 pictures. It was a great slide show. I will try to upload some highlights when I can sort through them. Phillip will be putting a slide show together for worship on Sunday so he will condense it and I will pull pictures from there.
I have been grinning from ear to ear since they came home. I know one day I will not have them all here but for now, it is right for them all to be with me.
They are tired campers. Time to get them all in bed.

Jam Camp Pics

At camp they usually have a movie night. Snacks are handed out and they all relax to a good movie. The theme for camp this year is a "Sports" theme. I know some of the movie choices were, "The Rookie", "Facing the Giants", "Everyone's Hero"...

Here is R flying off the pool slide! He looks like he is having great fun. I so wish I could be there to see all this. But, the advantage of being married to the Tech guy at our church is that I get pictures from camp daily.


Of course, this picture stole my heart. Isn't this what it is all about. C is really concentrating as he searches for something in his bible.
One more day and I get to see my family again. I miss them so much but am so grateful that they have this opportunity to get this small taste of heaven.

Love you all, Can't wait to see you! Love Mom!

Jam Camp Kick Off

Well, Friday night we began our Camp Kickoff. We had hotdogs, nachos, peanuts and all kinds of sporting event kinds of food. The kids got to meet their leaders and get their group colors and start to make up their group names and cheers. It is a great way to get the visitor kids to feel like a part of the group before traveling away from home camp.


On the far left with the pink hat pulled down in my oldest dd A. She is a teen counselor this year for the...yep, you guessed it....PINK Team!
C, is on the orange team. He is with the older boys! He asked where the older boys were this year for camp and we told him He WAS the older boys this year! LOLR is on the blue team. His "coach" made special t-shirts for their boys this year. What great leaders our kids have!

Here are 2 pictures of all the fun "jamming" down they did. They were really moving to the songs. This years theme is a Sports Camp theme on how preparing for the big game is like preparing for the real "Big Game" of living for Christ.

They leave in the morning. We are all packed and ready to go. I just need to get lunches made. I will miss them terribly and sister J is really going to miss a house full of siblings. But, we are both looking forward to our mother/daughter time.