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Cousin Camp 2022
We headed out Friday morning and picked up a camper in Carrington on our way to Cousin Camp 2022!
We had a new, first-time junior counselor, Dana, this year!
This year's theme was "Life Skills" which had the teams starting out at the Farm and Family Center to find ingredients to make a meal for $15.00 or less.
Counselor Tia did a lesson on first aid which came in handy a couple different times as you never know when a teammate is going to fall ill or have an accident. This one was a trial run, I think. ;-) Liam's face in the background, though. Haha.
On to the cooking!
I think this one might have been for real - I think PJ cut her finger during the cooking challenge.
Counselor photo... and camper photobomber. Ha!
The gutter sundae was a hit again this year.
There goes two gallons of vanilla ice cream!
Breakfast: I didn't realize the plethora of flavors that Pop-tarts now come in.
Group photo attempt.
One of my fav events: fear factor food challenge.
Isla was the youngest contestant, but very determined nonetheless.
Lots of nose-plugging...
Sierra getting in the zone to take the championship.
Junior Counselor Cody ran the lawn mowing competition.
Junior Counselor Dana showed the campers how to change a tire.
....and then it was their turn.
Finding out who the winners of Saturday's events were.
Strategically choosing prizes from the epic prize box.
We stayed overnight one more night after camp was done and the older girls had fun four-wheeling together.
Clara made a countdown chain to her 10th birthday. We baked a red velvet cake for her family party and chocolate cupcakes for her friend party. She looks so tall in some of these pics! Izabell's boyfriend, Neil, and Clara share the same birthday, so they all went out for lunch on their actual birthday on the 2nd. And then Neil had to get a tour of the Clara Express. Dana was in charge of getting balloons for the party and I sent him to Dollar Tree which apparently doesn't fill latex balloons, only Mylar. Dana "just knew" he had gotten the 'wrong' ones, and called me in a fit of rage over it and then followed up with this photo. haha. It all worked out just fine for Clara's ninja themed parties and I was able to pick up a few more black latex balloons from Cash Wise on my way home from work. Clara had already started partying at Prairie Joy's birthday party the night before, so I think she was short on sleep. I couldn't find her when I got home on F...
Brynn and I were very excited to embark on our mother-daughter trip to Chicago this week. We had gifted Brynn part of the trip as her sweet 16 birthday gift. We flew direct out of Fargo on Wednesday. We stayed at the Grand Plaza apartments on State Street in a VRBO rental. We loved it there! The building had an outdoor rooftop pool, library, gaming/movie room and gym on the 9th floor. This was us looking down from our 50th floor balcony. I refused to go to the edge of the balcony. Blech. (Photo credit: Brynn on this one!) Here are a few pics of inside the apartment that I hawked off of the VRBO listing. We got our things settled and ran next door to a Jewel Osco grocery for a few things and then got ready for dinner at River Roast along the Chicago River. It was very good and beautiful weather. I think Brynn said this was her favorite place that we ate at. Our waiter Jorge brought Brynn a carrot cake when we said we were celebrating Brynn's birthday on the trip. We came back to the...
S'mores on the deck... We got Brynn's team tennis pics back. They turned out great! I had to get a couple of pins and magnets. I should have taken a pic of Hubert and me spectating at one of her games last week as Hubert was sporting his pin. :-) We three girls played last week during a nice evening. Clara's class is doing an alphabet countdown to the last day of school. J was joke day. And Clara loves to share jokes with her teacher. She made her own joke book to bring. Cindy took Dad and me out to lunch for our birthdays last Thursday. It was such a fun time and Dad and I each got a cookie skillet for being the birthday kids! So delish. We went to Granite City. Always good! Dana and I went to Sartell, MN on Thursday night and arrived late. We stopped over at the after party of the groom's dinner for our friends getting married on Friday. I snagged their kitty for a snuggle. Roger and I were the photographers for the wedding which was beautiful. We had such a good tim...
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