Mountain Top Youth Camp

The 3 Amigos made their annual trek to homeschool “summer” camp, where they got to spend five days and four nights sleeping in a cabin in the woods with their buddies. Stephen and I had a couple nice dates while they were gone. I also did a major spring cleaning/organizational overhaul of the house and caught up on sleep (of course).

As always, the dudes shower little and play a lot, and always come home with grand stories of sunny adventures and fostered friendships. This excellent camp has been teaching kids about Jesus and nurturing an appreciation for recreation and the outdoors for 51 years. My boys sure do have a blast up there on Sauratown Mountain!

Mr. Paul, their camp counselor, just so happened to be a news photographer, so he captured lots of cool action pics with his fancy-shmancy camera. Here are some of my favorites shots from the boys’ fun-filled week at camp in Pinnacle, NC. Enjoy!

Houston is in an alliance with his pal, Gray, while playing a fierce round of gaga — their favorite game from camp.

Zeke borrows his friend Will’s journal & draws funny pictures in it for him. He says his stinky socks were from the day before & that the cabin crew had just gotten back from Bible study @ chapel.

Gabriel hits the heck out of a baseball filled w/ shaving cream. Check out that look of concentration on his face … that’s some serious baseball playing.

While standing in a line, which homeschoolers are admittedly terrible @ doing, Gabriel yells raucously for his team during the sponge race. “Woot woot!”

The goal of the game, explains Gabriel, is to try to get as much water as possible into a bucket via these giant soaked sponges.

“How in the world are we going to make this work?” question the older, more skeptical kids. “And here I thought camp was going to be a break from all the thinking I normally do,” ponders Houston. “Sheesh.”

The 3 Amigos happily play shipwreck, which is kind of like a counting game, where you have to sit with the number of people the counselor calls out. If you’re left standing, you lose.

“He’s always with the girls,” explain the twins about their handsome big bro. “They’re always grabbing me & pulling me down,” Houston says about the chicks. Uh oh.

Gabriel’s just being cool while playing shipwreck w/ his friends. “I was always with these two,” he says of the dudes on the left.

Gabriel is getting into the obstacle-course-type game, Indiana Jones, & trying his best to get the ball into the treasure bucket.

Zeke’s team, the Hungry Treasure Hunters, battles the Blood-Thirsty Indians during the Indiana Jones competition. Not a very PC game by the sounds of it … ha, good!

Zeke sprints to the next obstacle, trying to escape from his arch enemies, the Blood-Thirsty Indians. Too funny.

In this action-packed shot, Zeke says he’s diving to safe his life. Wow.

Last but not least, Zeke leaps to score a win for the Hungry Treasure Hunters. Way to go, team!

One thought on “Mountain Top Youth Camp

  1. Wow, this guy is really good! I so enjoyed the pictures. Look at those sweet faces and how much fun they were having. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall. I knew the girls would be after Houston ( I just bet that Zeke and Gabe are just no telling about their girls). Heartbreakers they will be. I love them to the Moon and back !!!!!

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