It’s been a summer of camps. Even my computer was away at the Apple Genius ‘camp’ last week getting all fixed up. They offered to replace and fix anything that was malfunctioning for a flat $280 fee. Well, I practically have a brand new computer because of all the parts they replaced!

Two days after our July 4th celebration, Derek, Peter and Jeremy left for Lake Geneva Youth Camp. We were so grateful to a friend of ours for generously paying for their registration. This was the first time they had been away from home for an entire week, so we were all a little nervy with anxious anticipation.

I put together care packages for them.

Included in each package were goodies such as candy

and daily letters.

We arrived at the camp, and the boys were immediately offered snow cones.

This would end up being the tip of the iceberg for a certain young boy who spent all his spending money on candy and Mountain Dew.

Derek was put in a cabin with a couple boys from the Austin neighborhood. They got to be good buds.

When we returned at the end of the week to pick up the boys, everyone was pretty emotional. We were awfully happy to be back together as a complete family unit.