Cousin Camp 2023

Cousin Camp 2023: On The Prairie kicked off last Friday! This year's theme threw it back to older times on the prairie. It was a super fun theme with butter churning, doing laundry with a wash board and clothes line, root beer floats and old fashioned games like gunny sack races, capture the flag and three-legged races.

We headed toward camp on Thursday...

Clara and Prairie tearing around on the Razor. 

Junior Camp Counselors

Welcome to Cousin Camp 2023! Introductions and sharing what our fav ice cream flavor is.

Signing this year's shirts. Brynn designed the logo and it turned out great. Camp started out pretty chilly on Friday afternoon.

Making butter was super cool and all the kids seemed to really get a kick out of it. Everyone tried their hand at churning. It turned out really tasty too!

We headed by ATV (pretending they were horses) to the Hurd Round House for games, a picnic dinner and the talent show. 

Clara and Sierra shared some of the Laura Ingalls Wilder story for the talent show, dressed for the part.

So much talent displayed!

Reagan, Elise and Brynn corralled the junior counselors for their 'magic trick,' which was actually a ruse to pelt them with paint balloons.

Revenge!

The 10 and under crowd played chubby bunny and had s'mores while the older kids set up camp at a nearby farm for the night.

The next morning we all headed out to the camp site to have breakfast.

Counselor pic!

After breakfast we kicked off a camp favorite: fear factor food challenge. These kids are getting more and more difficult to take down each year!

We wrapped up with a game of kickball and lunch!

Video recap!

Mucho thanks to Tessa for putting all the work into making cousin camp a success for another year! (And for many of these photos).