Thursday, September 24, 2009

"Dieciocho" Teen Retreat (Part 6)

Our Family and Jenna's Involvement at Camp

Our family was pleased to observe Jenna's attitude and willingness to try new things and get to know the campers during the retreat. Despite some limitations in language, she was always trying to talk with the girl campers.

Jenna was thankful to be able to stay in a cabin full of teen girls. She learned so much in those three days. She participated in cabin devotions each day.

Jordan and Ben played outside with their cousins each day. They were in a boy's paradise with all of the outside adventure to experience.

Kristi's involvement was limited due to Lukas being so small. She did get outside a few times and visited with some teen girls.

Jenna participated during game time and had a lot of fun.

Sling that water balloon over the net!

Lukas probably had the easiest job for the weekend...just be held by everybody. Myrian and Víctor enjoyed their time taking turns holding Lukas.



















As you can see, Kaylee was super excited while cheering at the water balloon volleyball game. So excited in fact, that she grabbed her pig tails and pulled them up and down rapidly.

There were times of pouting as well. While I was not very pleased with her attitude here, I couldn't help but snicker while taking this picture of Kaylee making it known to me that she wasn't going to obey immediately.


The boys did make a few new friends during the weekend. It probably had something to do with Abram attempting to talk English with them whenever possible.

Jenna eating with her cabin girls.

Kaylee and her co-hort in crime cousin, Morgan. They loved playing around the campground, especially in the sand. These princesses make getting dirty look pretty.
With all of the outdoor activities, everybody was pretty tuckered out come bedtime. Our family crashed in the upstairs room of Dan & Liz's house. We plan to help out in some way during the next retreat in mid Oct.

Come back tomorrow for the next post in this series.

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