The Avonlea Way: June 24- July 22, 2024

Trying to squeeze in some quick comments on these pictures before we head to the Fair tomorrow. :) It has been a very busy month.

Logan went to the Wilds camp at the end of June for 3 nights.

Jacob went to Camp Wyandot at the end of June for 3 nights.

We went to Outer Banks, North Caroline with the Martins over the 4th of July for the first week of July.

Then, we went to Gull Lake in Michigan from July 13-19. It is a family Christian camp and we all had a ball.

Logan and Wyatt outside of their yurt and the Wilds camp. They had a lot of fun!

At the Wilds camp. They were in the Rhino yurt so the bought Rhino necklaces at the gift shop. :)

Jacob's cabin at Camp Wyandot- no electricity, definitely barebones.

Jacob at Camp Wyandot. He was incredibly pumped to go to an overnight camp. I don't think it fully lived up to his expectations, but I think it almost did. He gave camp a 8/10.

Logan went to camp Sunday to Wednesday, and Jacob went Wednesday to Saturday.... they were home on Wednesday for about 2 hours at the same time, so this was them reunited!

Maggie saw a cat or a bunny out back, I forget, and she had to go check it out in her jammies.

Jacob and his buddy, Mason at camp! Bunk beds!

Jacob and Mason

Our snail, Gary. He is getting pretty big for a snail.

Updated fish tank decorations- went with the SpongeBob theme

Crumpled up in Logan's bag, but he got this at the Wilds camp :)

Went to the Plessinger's to celebrate Colton's bday and Julie let all of the kids ride her horse :)

Jacob and one of his counselors, Squishy

Front room built-ins, new carpet and new loveseat. We are loving it!!!

Big crab at OBX

Colton's bday!

Jacob- all 3 kids were so excited to ride the horse

Jacob at OBX. I knew this picture wouldn't come out well, but it was just a sweet memory of Jacob sitting there, playing with the bucket and sand for over 20 minutes by himself. :)

Maggie and Estelle put on makeup

First OBX lunch.... Nelly's bar

Justin took Jacob, Jackson and Logan to the driving range. Maggie likes to go to, she just didn't want to go that day. We got the kids a set of golf clubs to share.

Logan looking official in a swim cap because his ear hurt

We got Penny a leash lol! This is how she feels about it.

Gull Lake was absolutely incredible. This is one of our babysitters, and our pastor's daughter... she is one of the counselors at Gull Lake this summer. :)

Justin won the archery contest... we didn't know he'd get a golden arrow! (It was USA night if you can't tell, lol)

Making snow cones!! Grammy and Pop Pop gave the snow cone maker to Jacob for his birthday!

Logan and I on the ropes course! I said that Logan can't say he's afraid of heights anymore.

Logan and his counselor, Kernel Mustard

USA Night at Gull Lake

Bird Sanctuary near Gull Lake

Mags

Jacob and his counselor, Bearlock Holmes

Maggie and her counselor, Strawbaby Shortcake

Bird Sanctuary... this bird was so funny to me

Pheasant

Go Logan! This was a hard obstacle.

Maggie's new friend, Cooper, getting baptized at Gull Lake

Gull Lake girls during the talent show. Maggie is 3rd with the blue shorts

Ready for the zipline!

Plessinger kids do the zipline! (I did it 5x and was nervous every time, but it was so much fun!)

Maggie playing bocce ball

Maggie ready for the rock wall

I paddle boarded twice while I was there. It was my first time and I really enjoyed it!

The boys played a TON of 9 square. I had never seen it until GLM (Gull Lake Minitries). Maggie played a good bit too! She's on shoulders here.

Date night at GLM. There were two evenings where the counselors took the kids, while the adults had dinner and a speaker/sermon.

Maggie getting ready!

Go girl! Logan also did the rock wall a lot.

Our little breakfast nook. We were on the lake, but on the third floor.

Maggie and Cooper playing at the small GLM beach.

We all enjoyed the dodgeball!

Maggie played at the splashpad a lot!

Jacob nailed the 80s night dress up... and it was his 9th birthday!!

Dancing at Gull Lake

This was right after we rode the Sofa Soaker for 30 minutes. It was like a big chariot behind a boat, and we had SO much fun!! We also rode the water rocket, which we loved too (minus Maggie... she got water up her nose and didn't like that).

Logan and Jacob did a lot of the field activities (flag football, ultimate frisbee, etc)... Justin did some too!

Splash pad!

Jacob's bday at GLM- Snow cone maker!!

He also got a lasso, and tied up Logan, the best bull/big brother ever

First time kayaking!

GLM medieval night!

Bowling at GLM- Jacob had soooo much fun bowling with some buddies

Lasso!

GLM medieval night!

Jacob's birthday with his buddies, Luke and Cooper

Taking Cooper and Luke home, haha

Jacob's bday!

Jacob and his friends slept in a tent in our backyard for his birthday. And Justin and Logan slept in a separate tent. They loved it. Both of Jacob's friends had never slept in a tent before. We didn't know that until the morning.