June Summer Camp Fun......Boys camp for the....boys (of course) and Governor's camp for Delaney!

Delaney attended the Southwest Virginia Governor's School summer camp.  Cooking classes and a drama class were her two class choices.  It was tough, so next year she hopes to attend again and do other fun things.  She loved learning how to cook more yummy things so she can cook for the family and of course she loved acting out.....she and her friend Grace shared the joys of Studio C with the rest of the class.



While she and friend Grace Walker went to class these two boys had fun with their own homemade version of day camp.  Mama Walker took them on a hike, and other outings.  They had fun making crafts her home too.  Mama Hale had them make their own fire starters using lint and egg cartons.  With the camp fire they roasted their own dinner and made s'mores.  They also went swimming at the local pool.

June's full of Summer Camps-- Connor and Camp Davy Crockett & Cailin at Camp Cougar

Summer camps were all around us this first month of summer....

Cailin--she spent 3 full weeks attending Camp Cougar.  This was sponsored by Pulaski High School and she got one credit of PE for doing so.  Along with driver's education classes she had health classes and lots of fun outdoor adventures.  They went canoeing, spelunking (going through a cave), rode on a zip line, white water rafting along with other fun times on the lake doing various water sports and hiking.  The most important thing she acquired from this camp was learning more about the high school and meeting new friends for her upcoming school year as a public school girl.  sorry, no picture

Cailin--Camp Cougar was really fun, and really scary as well. We did driver's ed, which was pretty boring because it was all book work, buuuut, we did a lot of fun stuff, too, and I made a lot of friends. We went canoeing and caving and rafting and swimming and tubing and all sorts of stuff. The rafting was really scary. We were going down class four or five rapids that have killed people, and I thought I would end up as a number in that. "Yes, this rapid has killed 4 people now, and the latest one was last summer!" No, thank you. But it was a lot of fun, too.

Connor--For scout camp I went to Camp Davy Crockett this year. We didn't actually do that many merit badges, I think I got two or three. It was very poorly organized and most of the time we sat around. It was still a lot of fun, the people I camped with were really good. I had fun, we just didn't get that many merit badges.  (Mom speaking here--he told me that the food was quite good and plentiful...two things a ravenous teen boy needs!)

Ryan--Personally i think all the summer camps they went to were great. It meant I didn't have to deal with them while I was here at home. Always asking me things and wanting to use my stuff. Although I guess I did miss them every now and then. But for the most part it was just the same old every day routine for me. I was glad for them when they had a lot of fun at a camp and would come home telling mom or dad about what they did that day. So there's all that.

June Summer Camp fun.....Down Syndrome Music Camp

The NRV Down Syndrome Association sponsored a music camp this year.  I thought Brianne would love it....and I was right!!

For one week in June we attended a music camp where we sang lots of songs, played games, nursery rhymes, read stories, played musical instruments....and sang more songs.  It was delightful.

The event was held in Blacksburg, so we made a special day of it and packed a picnic lunch to eat at the duck pond on Virginia Tech campus.....that was fun too!