Camp Honey Creek Carnival

Hi All from the beautiful and HOT Hill Country.
Things are rocking along and closing in on the end of camp and the beginning of school. Katie
comes home on August 9th and I start to work on August 11th! UGH!

Just thought I would post a new picture from Carnival that the girls had at camp on Sunday night.
They have booths, food, jumping castle, music and lots of fun. Oh and I forgot the best part, the dressing up!!! The girls come up with their own costumes and some of them are pretty crazy.
Lisa gave Katie a "Thing 2" t-shirt (You know, from Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss) and she found some others at camp and may have made a couple. I supplied the blue hairspray. We are just hoping it really does what the can says - Washes out!

Next weekend is Horse Show and Cabin picnic. We share the hosting with several other families and it is lots of fun sitting by the creek and having lunch with the girls. These girls are all Katie's cabin mates.
That's all for today. Bye from the Hill Country!

More Camp and Construction

Well, Tribe Show was last weekend and I thought I would include a couple of pictures of Katie in her part as Larry. The Pawnee's won the show with a take off of Grease. It is amazing that the girls get the theme on Tuesday night and have to be ready to perform the skit on Saturday night. That is also the first visit evening with parents so they have a full house for the first and only performance. They
have just Wed, Thurs., Fri. and Sat. a.m. to get the skit written, props, costumes, songs and backdrop painted. This has to be done between classes, meals and other activities. We are always amazed at how creative and well performed the skits are every year. Guess there is no limit to what young minds can do!

Progress is being made on the house that Paul is working on outside of Kerrville. Since this picture was taken, they have added a porch off of the left end of the new addition. Rain slowed them down on Thursday but they had sun on Friday and were able to complete the porch.

My summer project has been Katie's room. It is going from a sunny yellow to a really pretty aqua with new bedspread, window treatments (that I am sewing) and repainted and rearranged furniture. We are shedding the little girl look for a more sophisticated young teen look. The painting on the walls is completed and I have half of the window treatments sewn. Still have a couple of pieces of furniture to do as well as get some of Katie's art work framed to hang. The new rule is no nails or scotch tape on the walls!!! I always wondered what happened to all of my scotch tape....after cleaning up Katie's room, I now know it was all over her walls! Got to run - Work today at the hospital and I want to get some more sewing completed. Bye from the Hill Country!

Summer Catch Up

Well, summer is almost over for me and it seems like it has just begun. Katie is at camp in Hunt and we saw her for the first time in 10 days this past Saturday (the 19th). She looks good, is happy and having fun. She had a part in the Tribe Show on Saturday night (which is a big deal) and her tribe, the Pawnees, won the Tribe Show competition. We went back on Sunday morning for the flag ceremony and devotional service that they have every Sunday and had a picnic afterward in the shade by the creek. Katie is on the right in the grey t-shirt for some of you who haven't seen her in awhile. The other girls are two of her cabinmates, Britany and Mary. Camy surprised us this weekend with a visit. She was home for her 20th high school reunion and ended up going to the camp functions with us. Katie was thrilled to have her "big stister" at camp since she wasn't really expecting to see her until camp closing on August 8th.

Paul is busy completing a large addition on a house outside of Kerrville, high on a hill. This is an earlier picture of the addition. They now have the walls up and are setting trusses today. It is really hot here but they start early and are drinking lots of water.


Paul also received his official 1st Dan Black Belt from the World Tukong Moosul Federation from Grand Master Wonik Yi. He has been going to Austin a couple of times a month for classes as well as working out in the local dojang. The plan was for him to have the black belt before Katie started dating and he made it. We expect no dating for several more years! Katie is just going into 7th grade but the pressure is on. Paul is also turning 65 this summer! We plan on having a
"Happy 65th Birthday; Happy 17th Anniversary and Happy Camp Homecoming Party" on August 9th after camp closing. All of the kids are coming home for camp closing so it seemed like a great time to have a family party with a few friends thrown into the mix.

I'm still working at the hospital two days a week and am working on my principals certificate. (Why I don't know!!!!) School starts for me in three weeks and so far we have no office and 7 new staff members and two new classrooms coming to campus. We will hit the ground running on August 11th. Katie starts on August 25th which is a little later this year but still cuts into the summer we used to have! Not much else to share. . .we are blessed to have each other, our wonderful friends and family; our health; and our jobs in this time of economic upheaval. So long from the Hill Country!!!