Sophey's week at church camp was a big success. She loved it. Hardly got homesick and said she only cried once... when she got hit in the face with a wild volleyball lob.
It is GORGEOUS at Camp Tuttle. It's fourteen miles into Cottonwood Canyon, east of Salt Lake City. The air... oh, my gosh... the air smelled wonderful. Fresh, clean, pine tree wonderfulness. And the temperature was in the eighties, which after our one-hundred degree plus week, felt almost like an autumn reprive.
We explored the camp. Rustic cabins all named for saints. St. Francis for the boys. St. Margaret for the girls this week... They smelled old and just the way old church cabins should, I think.
Mike wanted to stay too.
And I think Jesse had second thoughts about deciding not to go... they play golf frisbee here even... his new favorite sport.
I have to admit, I was worried about her going for a whole week, wondering how this girl with the color-coordinated sparkly shirt, shoes, and glitter nails would make it in the great outdoors. But she was a trooper... and loved all of it but the five-mile hike. She said a squirrel threw a pinecone at her and hit her in the head on the hike. Who knew there were angry squirrels lurking in the woods with pinecone grenades ready to launch them at girls with glitter nail polish? Rude.
We were invited to an outdoor service when we picked her up at the end of the week. It was very moving, sitting there in a church made just by God, with pine tree pillars and an endless sky for a cathedral roof. Bird song. Kid song. And a few raindrops on our cheeks at Communion... it was so lovely.
Sophey and her new found friends held a funeral service too while they were there for some butterflies. It made me want to be a kid at camp again. I remember when I held funerals for dead bugs and birds... such sweetness.
XOK
I LOVE your new blog look!!
Absolutely gorgeous ~ the colours & butterflies and English mailbox, Etsy shop & flickr buttons - perfect ♥
Such a pretty campground & how sweet is your Sophey xo
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Thanks, Deb! The banner needs to be sized one more time to get it right... but I like it too!
Posted by: Kelly | July 18, 2012 at 05:19 PM
Makes me want to go to summer camp too! Great pictures - I could smell the cabins through your post:) Have a Blessed week.
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