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Cousin Camp 2024

I am finally getting to updating the blog for Cousin Camp 2024. The theme this year was All Star Sports. I wasn't sure if all the campers would be super into it, but last year the campers all seemed jazzed about the sports theme for 2024.

We brought Brianna with us this year again and came up on Thursday night. We got pretty out there brainstorming ideas for themes and adding to our already large list. I'm not exaggerating when I say that we're set for the next 10+ years! We also discussed what the future looks like for the older campers and we are so pleased that they want to keep coming back for many more years.

Anyhoo! On with it...

Elise and Brynn made the camp sign.



Fueling up at the DK before the campers arrive.


As always, we started out with t-shirt signing. Brynn did a great job designing this year's logo again.


After that, we walked over to the community center for basketball games. The younger lot played against each other while the older campers played a 20-minute game.



Junior Camp Counselor Dana and Counselor Tia's team won.


Tessa and I were chuckling at Brynn and Elise, because they weren't very aggressive with their defense or offence...they would just hug each other if they were guarding one another. Haha.

Again, Tia and Dana's team won for the older group.

After basketball, we made our way back to the house for the food challenge. This year the campers were tasked with making foods you'd typically eat at a ballpark.








Judges deliberating.

Next up was the highly anticipated game of slip-n-slide kickball. It was pretty entertaining for us spectators, but the campers seemed to also have fun playing.



Isla got a hold of Marsha. haha - so cute.




















Marsha missed her chance to play.

After a dinner of brats and dogs, it was time for the talent show. We had a great display of different talents ranging from musical numbers, magic, sports and a space demonstration by Clara.
 


I loved Tessa's fitting idea of the ice cream baseball cap sundaes.








And for an extra treat, Cayden whipped up some Italian sodas for the campers.


The campers were supposed to camp out in tents again this year, but it was raining so some of the older girls opted for the new chemical warehouse nearby. It looked like a pretty sweet set-up  over there.

Group photo time!


Then we got going on everyone's fav: fear factor food challenge. We did have some pukers again this year, but we were still impressed with what the campers took down!













One of the foods was spicy and Sierra kept covering her ears. haha. I wondered if steam was coming out of them from the spice.



Both Prairie and Sierra emerged as the winners.

The last activity was a good, old fashioned game of baseball (or t-ball, if they chose that route). Everyone played really well!






Winning team!

Hot tub time!


Giving out some more awards at the end and getting hyped for next year which will mark ten years of cousin camp!

All of Tessa's planning, prep and hard work always makes for an epic cousin camp.

My fam and Brianna stuck around after camp for more ATV riding, hot tubbing, relaxing and visiting.


...and Rosa's! Thanks to the girls for making the Rosa's run.


Tessa grabbed her camera and got some shots of us with the beautiful double rainbow.






It was a beautiful night to unwind out by the fire.

Video recap!

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