After our Traverse City adventures there was no slowing down for this crew. We left Drew with Gma and Gpa Cooley in TC for the weekend as the four of us headed straight to Springhill Camp in Evart, MI for the Rock Your Family retreat through Kensington!! We worked the sessions with the Birkett family and had so much fun!! With all 9 of us we slept, worked, ate, and played together 24/7 all weekend!
Matt and Ally are great friends and Ally also worked with me during my time working at the church. Their daughter Lilah is Elle's BFF and attended both preschool and Kid Care with each other which means they were together every day M-F this past year. These two are inseparable and love each other to pieces however, they have also learned how to be a good friend through their old lady squabbles with each other. :) Devin and Luke have also gotten to be good buddies this past year as well.
After working our first session, the guys were off to the first event, starting BIG...The BIG zipline!! I could not believe that Luke just hopped off a 40 foot platform in the dark and away he went. Ben said he was really nervous as they were climbing up the steps but he loved it!
The next day, we woke up and after the 2nd session we were ready for the water activities! Here we are at the burger stand next to the lake.
1st up: The Blob. The Blob is that yellow/blue striped well, blob thing in the water. You jump from that top platform and land on the Blob and then crawl to the outer tip of the Blob. The next person jumps on the Blob and this catapults you into the air and landing in the water. SO fun but I have to say it's a thrill and scary too! Ben, Ally, Devin, Luke and I had fun taking turns. The girls were out and Matt was holding Baby Weston. Ben launched me high into the air!
The water slide "The Gusher" was more my pace. It was a big hit for everyone...except sweet Elle. She could not get into the lake water...Not a fan of the muck and touching the bottom. Oh well, maybe next year!
Next up was the open swim full of a water trampoline, a castle in the water with different obstacles, splash pads, and these yellow foam floating islands (My favorite!) that you could run on top of the water on, jump off of etc.
These two were ballers ALL day long!!! They played from sunrise until the early hours of the next day.
Rocking our family!
Birkett's and Morin's, love.
Then it was the Mom's turn to take the boys again on the zipline! I was completely fine until I stepped to the edge of the 40 foot platform and then some nerves set in. You have to take the plunge all by yourself and once I experienced it I was even prouder of Luke for conquering it twice!
Here we are set to jump!
We did it!
Luke is a great teammate!
After the 3rd session, the retreat through a Princess/Superhero Ball! These two are dressed up and ready to dance!
(I wish we had more pics from the weekend!)
The next morning we worked our last session and then packed up and headed out to meet Mom and Dad to pick up Drew. We missed you, buddy!! The weekend was amazing and we are so blessed that we have loving and encouraging friends within our church family to do life with. We were beat, smelly, sore but SO much fun. We love Springhill!
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