Wow, we are in the final week of summer camp. Looking back it has kind of flown by, but I think we are both ready for it to be over for a little while!
We had a pretty good weekend. The Lutherwood alumni Reunion was on Saturday, so we both worked at that some, then Nichol, who used to be the program director at Lutherwood, came to visit. We babysat her lab, Everest, all last summer so it was fun for he and Smokey to play again. They have really been wearing each other out!
Brandon did some wakeboarding and Nichol and I did a little tubing. My arm-pit muscles now hurt, and believe me, Yes, there is such a thing as arm-pit muscles!

It's been a while...

Hello! OK, so I guess it has been a while so I figured I would just do a posting for the heck of it and so you don't stop coming to look!
Things were pretty quiet at camp this week, it was family camp which is always a little more mellow because, hey, the parents worry about what the kids are doing!
Next week is a HUGE camp, so we will go out with a bang. And that is that for summer '06.
Brandon and I will regroup here in Washington for a few days and then we are off to Montana, via a friend's wedding in Idaho. We will have 10 days off!!! Unheard of, and we'll be hoarding vacation time for the rest of the year so we have some time off at Christmas, but this is definitely going to be a needed break for us.
When we get back things will be rolling for me at my job, and for both of us the Middle School youth group at my work will get going. We'll be sure and put up some pictures of our vacation!

Our Baby: Smokey

Brandon's newest past-time is wakeboarding, a good one since we have job "perks" of lakefront property, boats, and gear! Consequently Carole has learned to drive the boats, which, by the way, she is awesome at!!

OK, so here is a typical night of a program director. 5 hours in the ER with a counselor who stepped on a kick ball and then threw himself on the ground...we did get some good reading in, though, and an ER at midnight makes for some great, if disturbing, people-watching. The best part of the night was a kid that came in with his parents and sat by us, and you could see where his arm was broken because it was pushing the skin way out, not through the skin, but definitely gross. He had gone last week to our "rival" Bellingham camp so we picked their brains while trying to keep his mind off the fact that his bones were no longer connected!

Greetings from Washington State!
We decided to give this blog thing a try to keep some folks updated on what we are up to, what is going on in our lives, and all that stuff that is REALLY exciting to all of you. Ok, maybe it will be super boring, but I bet once there are baby postings at least our parents and Mel will check it out! No, Carole is not pregnant, just planning ahead!!!