Focht Family Blog

I have watched too many episodes of cake challenges on Food Network. Samantha wanted a Hannah Montana birthday. Since we had so many kids coming to her party (kids from Girl Scouts and from the camp) I made two cakes. The first one was a strawberry cake (her favorite) with cream cheese frosting that I designed into a guitar with the help of rice krispie treats for the neck, M & Ms for the knobs, and Twizzlers for the strings…

Here is her second birthday cake, yellow with chocolate frosting. This one isn’t anything special. I bought a cake kit from the Walmart bakery for it…

Here is a picture of the cakes together…

We saw this restaurant while driving around and decided we needed to try it out. It started out when someone bought an old auto service station and turned it into a restaurant. Everything is decorated with cars including the building…

They are known for their wings (we didn’t try them). Here is a picture of Samantha and Josh posing as chickens (Timmy was at another camp)…

Also… a picture of Samantha and Josh with their cool straws and a picture of the Corvette that was hanging off the wall next to our table…

Samantha also attended Day Camp for a week. The theme for the week was Camelot. Here is a picture of Samantha with her group at the beginning of camp… (Samantha is on the back row, all the way on the left)

Here is Samantha and her group at their group meeting area… (Samantha is in the front on the right)

At one of the end of the day performances Samantha’s group did a skit spelling out Camelot with what the letters meant to them from the week…

Here is Samantha visiting one of the neighboring groups…

Samantha with Nathan (her counselor took this picture when Nathan picked her up one of the days)…

Samantha with one of her new buddies, Savannah…

And lastly… one of the days they had a late day with an evening performance. Here is Samantha and Savannah singing for part of their group’s performance….

This was the weekend Samantha was most looking forward to because it was supposed to be all about horses. Unfortunately it was a bit misrepresented. They had horse crafts but the only time they had on the horse was ONE trail ride that lasted for about 40 minutes. Here are a couple of pictures of Samantha on her horse….

They also took hikes and canoed during the weekend. Here are a couple of pictures from the hike…

In between Samantha’s camping weekends, Timmy had another Day Camp right down the road from our camp. Here is a picture of Timmy with the troops that we were paired with for the week.

The theme for the week was Creatures Big and Small so we did lots of crafts…

And of course we had the Boy Scout camp regulars of BB Guns and Archery…