The Werleys

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

PC - Thursday

On Thursday morning at PC Andrew and I woke up with the sun and took a breakfast trail ride. This was one of the events we didn't get a chance to do last summer and we were so excited about riding some horses and eating a yummy breakfast together.

Belle, a very sweet counselor and one of Audrey's favorites b/c of her name (of course!) showed up at our cabin to watch the kiddos for the morning, dress them and take them to breakfast while we were doing the trail ride. When I came to pick our kids up, she looked at me wide-eyed and told me that I am one brave woman. LOL! She then said that her and her sister are about 16 months apart in age and she now had a new appreciation for her mother. Love it!! The A-Team kiddos sure do know how to make an impression! ;) They must have kept sweet Belle busy and on her toes for those couple of hours. :)

After the trail ride we went to a beautiful spot at the camp and ate breakfast. (Made me miss my sis a little bit b/c I know it is one of her fav spots at the Bluffs. :)

This was the yummy bacon that was served and is famous around PC. It was SOOO good and covered in maple syrup! YUM!

I had to put a pic of Ains playing in the sand. We were in this spot often during the week after meal times and the kids just loved playing in it. We definitely brought some sand home with us as well in shoes and on clothes. ;)

In Cove Kids on Thursday, Austin and Audrey went on a hunt to find the Bubble Princess. They searched for star clues that lead them to her. I am sure that sweet Audrey was WAY into this activity. She couldn't wait to meet the Bubble Princess! :)

The Brave Knight helped lead the way...

The Bubble Princess! :)

Nothing gets better for Audrey than books, bubbles and a princess combined! I just love that I knew my kids were having a blast all day long in their classes with their counsellors. SO thankful for that!!

At lunch Andrew was selected to play a men vs. women game. The guys had won earlier in the week, so the pressure was on to keep the legacy going...

This event - the Kleenex pull - was unfortunately his downfall. ;) Women won, but it was a close call. Way to be a great sport, babe!!

Then my sweet hubby was peer pressured into entering the EPIC splash event later that afternoon. He doesn't even like heights! We were so proud of Daddy!

Audrey wanted her Daddy like NOW!! :) Enough with the competitions already! Poor girl!

Austin was loving jumping off the diving board some more.

And our brave boy even attempted the blob! He was the only kiddo his age doing this thing! Austin was in.his.element. all week long and loving every minute!

That night we got dressed up and attended an adult only banquet. It was another great night of food and entertainment. Austin took this pic and he was so proud of himself. :)

Love this boy!

This girl was tired by the end of the night, but like all my kiddos, made some time to be silly before bed. :) More to come...

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

PC - Tuesday and Wednesday

Tuesday was Ainsley's class - the Butterflies - turn to go to the pool during Cove Kids. She did so great all week. She is a pretty easy going kiddo (praise God!!) and didn't have much trouble out of her bed and on a new schedule all week. The thing Ains had the hardest time with was taking a shower every night. (There are no bath tubs and our little girl likes her bath time. :)

Ains with one of our fav Cove Kids counsellors - Night Crawler. :)

Austin and Audrey's class - the Bears - went horse back riding while we were in our speaker session on Tuesday. This was one of the main events of the week that A-Town can remember from last year and he was VERY excited to get back on a horse (named Brownie) again. He didn't want to eat breakfast, do our family devo or anything that morning. Just. ride. Brownie. So glad he got his chance. ;)

Our sweet boy on Brownie.

Audrey - not so much. I think she is going to leave the horse back riding to her big bro. ;)

Sweet new friends.

On Tuesday night the adults got to have a picnic dinner (yes, it was still like 100 degrees outside!) while the kids were hanging with their counsellors for dinner. The camp provides this lovely basket of food, a blanket to sit on and a page of questions to go through together while on your date. They make the guys look really good. ;) My sweet hubby also added a personal touch by giving me a card. Loved it!!

And we are off...

We had a great dinner sitting on the boat dock over looking the lake.

After dinner, we went on a sunset boat ride. It was an awesome night!

The sunset.

On Wednesday, the adults got the morning off. (We didn't have to pick our kids back up until after nap time at 3:30!! :) We went into Tyler with Mandy and Steve and had a great day! We ate Mexican food, had good conversation and then went bowling together. We love spending time with the Helms and are so thankful for their friendship. :)

When we got back we rushed to pick the kids up, put bathing suits and sunscreen on and headed to the boat dock for what we thought was going to be banana boating, but ended up being tubing. It was Austin's 1st time to ride in a tube and he did great. (Another 1st - many more coming for our boy who is growing up too fast.:)

Daddy went tubing as well. Let's just say we went a lot faster when he was on it. ;)

These two spent a lot of time playing up on the top bunks of their beds in between events. (It was a 'safe' place to play without their little sister bothering them.) Poor Ains! It's not her fault she is 2 and the baby sis! :(

That wraps up another 2 days at PC. We love everything about this place! So thankful that we get to create such great memories as a family!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Pine Cove 2010 Days 1-2

We had another amazing week at PC Family Camp! We were so blessed again this year! I wish I could explain what a wonderful place PC is for our family. We are able to "get away" as a family, rest, spend a ton of fun time together (both with the kids and as a couple:), and be encouraged and filled spiritually all at the same time. It is just a great place for our family and we are so grateful for the opportunity to go each year (this was our 2nd summer to go. :) I am going to attempt to document the week in pictures. LOTS of pics (sorry!), but I hope that our kiddos will look back to their 1st years of family camp with fond memories of all the fun we had. :) Here we go!

This is the scene when you 1st arrive at camp. Everyone is so excited you are there! :)

We made it!! (And even on time!;)

We shoe polished our car this year. :)

The 1st night was a lot of us settling in our cabin and getting to know the counsellors and signing up hearing about all the 'happenings' for the week. We ended the night with a pool party and slept VERY well. (We were so tired!:)

On Monday, we ate breakfast, had a family devotional time and then sent the kiddos to Cove Kids while we went to a speaker session (on grace based parenting - awesome material!!). We were so proud of Austin! As I posted before, he took swimming lessons earlier this summer. At camp, he had to take a swim test to be able to swim without a life vest. He not only passed the test, but also jumped off the diving board for the very 1st time. :)

This kiddo was loving every minute of camp!

Monday night was the 1st theme night - Great Scot! We all dressed in as much plaid as possible and headed to dinner.

This was pretty much the scene all week. We tested out that jeep stroller and the weight limits carrying all 3 kids all week. :) You may be asking yourselves, what is Andrew wearing??

YES!!! It is a kilt!! :) He was such a great sport to wear it! Fun memories! (Thanks to Mandy for making it for him.:)

Our family of 5.

This is what almost every meal looked like. Our great friends, the Helms came to camp with us this year and we had a blast with their sweet family! We ate almost every meal together. 5 kids and 4 adults around the table= just a little bit of chaos, but it was fun. :)