Focht Family Blog

Although Timmy had a lot of fun at camp this summer Samantha had her camping cut short. Right after the boat ride she started getting sick. I took her to the ER one night thinking she was having an asthma attack. The ER doctor said she was just having an anxiety attack and gave her a benadryl and sent us home. I probably should have questioned him on that one since she was only 10! But I didn’t.

I took her to the pediatrician on the following Monday (the ER was on Saturday). The pediatrician said she was wheezing and gave her a breathing treatment followed by a week of prednisone and breathing treatments at home. Still no better so I had my mom take her back to the pediatrician the next Monday (Nathan and I were in Ohio for two days). This time they sent her for an x-ray and they found out she had pneumonia!! Who gets pneumonia in the middle of the summer???

The boys ended up on antibiotics as well. Nathan ended up with pneumonia. Josh ended up getting sick again and getting pneumonia the second time. Timmy ended up just having asthma attacks. I got by with an infection in my throat but it didn’t go into my lungs thankfully. My mom didn’t get sick. Maybe she had better defenses because of having a pneumonia shot. I had one in college, maybe some of it is still working.

Because of the pneumonia, Samantha had to cancel all of her Girl Scout camping plans. I guess the silver lining is that we now have a pediatrician in Pennsylvania.

One of our neighbors at the campground has a boat and he offered to take us out one day. Here is a picture of my mom and Timmy sitting on the boat…

Here is Josh with his best friend Faith along with Faith’s mom and grandpa…

Even though Faith was afraid of going out on the float, our kids liked the idea of going for a ride. The first one to ride was Timmy….

He had a great time. We were worried about letting Josh go by himself so Timmy said he would go for another ride with Josh….

Then Samantha took a turn with Josh…

Then Samantha had the opportunity to go by herself…

We tried to convince Faith to go with Timmy or Samantha but she wasn’t going for it. After all of the fun the kids were tired out…

Nathan was just enjoying relaxing on the boat….

It was a great day shared with friends. Yet another reason I love my summer home so much!!

It feels  like I have gone back in time 2 years. We are on the road driving from DC back to our seasonal site in Pennsylvania. Since we only have the truck with us, Nathan is driving and I am relaxing. I definitely like traveling in the RV much better when I don’t have to drive long hours! :)

I did work on pictures while we were sitting in DC the last couple of days while Nathan was working in Baltimore but the connection at the campground was too slow for me to put the pictures up on the server, so now that they are up I will go back and try to do some catching up today.

If I don’t get all the way through my pictures this is what we have been up to…. Samantha turned 11 in August and Timmy turned 8 in September! We left last week and spent a week at Hershey where Nathan and I enjoyed our annual spa day. Then we made lots of chocolate for Timmy’s birthday and explored the RV show where I think we have decided what our next home will be. Nathan has designed a 45′ fifth wheel with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths! We just have to finalize our decision as to who will build it and then come up with the down payment.

Next we drove to DC and spent 3 days as tourists. We toured the White House, Washington Monument, the Museum of American History, the Museum of Natural History, the Air and Space Museum, the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam War Memorial, the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Capitol building, and the National Archives. All in all… in 3 days we walked 26.4 miles!! No wonder the kids kept saying their legs were tired!

Now we are headed back to Pennsylvania to finish off the season. We will head back to Georgia in November but we won’t make it back to Statesboro until November 30 so we can spend some time in Atlanta visiting my brother. Now to catch everyone up with pictures from this summer….

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….