For the last day of Timmy’s overnight camp this summer he had a special award that he was receiving so we all went to see it. Camp Stambaugh has a triangle of trees and the only way you can enter the triangle is if you have spent 10 nights in a tent at the camp and have volunteered 10 hours working at the camp. Timmy is one of the younger campers to receive this award since most kids his age haven’t had a chance to spend enough nights at camp. Timmy has spent two weekends at Camp Stambaugh this year and two weekends last year.

Here is Josh standing with Timmy waiting for the ceremony to begin…

Here is Nathan and Timmy after they received their awards standing in the triangle…

Here is a closeup of Timmy with his new patch…

These are pictures of the creek that you pass over to get to the big fire where they had the end of camp skits…

And lastly…. here is Joshua showing off one of the treasures that Timmy shared with him…

Since I have always thought it was sad that Josh has to wait all year to get gifts since he has Christmas and then his birthday on January 14, this year we decided to have a half birthday celebration. For his real birthday we will just go out to dinner and he won’t have gifts. Here is Joshua opening his gifts….

Samantha was scheduled to go to two day camps and two weekend camps for Girl Scouts this year. However, she only attended one of the day camps and they didn’t send home pictures like the last day camp. She missed all of her other camps because she somehow managed to come down with pneumonia.

Timmy started out his camping this year with a day camp that he went to with my mom. He wanted to do something with grandma this year. Here is a picture of my mom with Timmy on the last day of camp…

Nathan then took Timmy to two weekend camps. Here is Timmy at the ship’s wheel (it was pirate themed)…

Here is Timmy at the archery range. This year he was able to shoot much better because he was a little older and a little stronger….

Nathan got into the camp atmosphere and played along at one of their gatherings…

Here is another picture of Timmy that Nathan took while at camp…

I had to take a picture of two of our fellow campers during the July 4th golf cart parade….

One of the new events for this year at the campground was a RC boat race at the pool. Nathan helped set the course up and the kids had to steer their boats around balloon fishes in the pool. Here is Timmy getting ready for his race…

Here is Timmy driving his boat…

Here is Josh and Timmy while Josh was driving. I wish my camera skills were quicker because Josh had actually drove his boat through one of the fishes while he was driving…

Nathan knows that I like to take pictures of beautiful creeks and waterfalls so during the week he would stop when he would see something on the side of the road so I could take pictures. Here are a few of my favorites…

At the Newark airport we stopped to have dinner at the food court and the kids had McDonald happy meals. They were advertising “How to Train Your Dragon.” The boxes turned into viking hats. Here is my mom modeling one of the hats…

And Timmy….

And now I am caught up with Vermont!