Pride and JOY!!!

I'm home for 24 hours, as I have escorted our half season campers home today, and tomorrow I'm assisting in transporting 20 new campers up to camp. So aren't I lucky, I get to spend 24 hours with my Gregg...

Any-whooooo...it's been a very busy few days and a lot of wonderful things happened. On Sunday, we had our Visiting Day Art Show, this is a picture of my Arts and Crafts Room, as we were setting up. It's an exhausting day, but so much fun to meet the parents of our campers. (That's one of my staff members, Samantha, in the picture.) Plus, we got to see my parents, Wendi, Joe and of course, the lovely Annie visiting her dad from Australia!

On Monday, we had the camp theatre production of Seussical the Musical. Addie and Sydney both were part of the cast, and they really were terrific. My department was responsible for all costume and makeup, and we spent a good part of the first 3 weeks of camp sewing costumes for this one performance. I am truly proud of our hard work, and think the costumes look great. And Sydney, she was amazing!!!

On Tuesday, both Hayley and Sydney took part in a talent show for the Camp "Top Ten" Competition. Both of my oldest daughters, BOTH of them were chosen from the oldest division to represent the "Top Ten" All-Around Campers. Over the course of a week, they participated in events from Athletics, personality, intelligence and talent. Hayley played the piano and sang a song that she re-wrote the lyrics to. Sydney sang "Love" by Matt White. They were both awesome.

On Thursday, they announced the "Top Five" girls, the girls who accumulated the most points in all the competion, to compete for the title...kind of like our camp's version of Miss America. And my own Hayley actually made it to the top five! Anyhow, in the end, she was the First Runner UP!!! How about that???

Anyhow...I'm gloating a little, because I'm so proud of my girls and my work. I don't know what I did to deserve this...but my buttons are bursting with pride!!!