Last week

Last week saw me with my dear family. Mom and Dad have all the children of their progeny over for a cousin's camp the last week of June every year. I have always loved this as a chance to spend time getting to know my nephews and nieces, as well as a chance to spend time with siblings. Sadly work kept all the guys away but myself and Dad so I spent a great bit of my time with the kids running games and teaching bible verses to the younger kids while Dad taught the older ones and read the missionary story of John Paton to the group. Mom and Dad focused on the theme of bugs for cousin's camp this year, and the kids loved it. Kristen, my sister, took the theme to a new level with bug themed meals including a beautiful ladybug cake for two of the cousin's birthday, bug shaped snacks, and even (scrumptious!) meatloaf molded in the shapes of four different bugs. We had a great time! My favorite contributions were the bug videos, family pictures on the TV screen, and IDs of the fish the kids caught in the creeks that border my parents' land. for your info- they caught a full grown tessellated darter, eastern blacknose dace, and at least two different types of crayfish along with several small minnows that were not identified. I also introduced the children to the joys of Pat and Mat  as well as the videos of Miniscule  and Bakkom , as well as some educational videos on bugs-
In all, we had fun!