A Few Fun Candid PYC Camper Shots

Just a few candid pics of this years lovely PYC campers that I got to chat with for a few minutes.  It's always so refreshing to talk to the young people on these special weekends every summer.  It reminds me of my camp days back when the dinosaurs roamed.  :-)  PYC really helped me to stay where I needed to be at, and it's wonderful to see a whole new generation of workers and campers.  These pics are just candid, totally unofficial, and for fun though some of the campers asked if I would show their parents.  ;-)

ABOVE:  My very limited Spanish was tested with the two Spanish speaking campers this year with Mrs. Heyer helping.  It was great to try to chat with them with as little translating help as possible.  It went pretty well and they were just super friendly teens!

BELOW:  |Pics of campers and workers for fun!

 BELOW:  I really like this shot.  My camera battery decided to go dead right before I took this shot.  Bad timing, but happy the royal subject matter was patient while I switched out:  new batteries to the rescue and what a lovely shot.

BELOW:   Lovely camp workers or assistant counselors, not sure which; serving the campers cookies.  It's like artwork, no literally....the cookies make the counter top look like a checkered design.  The question is was that intentional or accident?  :-)

 BELOW:  So Rylie is not quite old enough for camp, but too lovely not to include in this pic.  :-)



BELOW:   The teens checking out the art and photography teen talent entries.

BELOW:  So being an aunt cannot even compare to being a full time mom, but I got a small taste of what it can be like.  Every year, I always try to get to as many campers as possible to chat, as services are the only time I really see the campers since I'm not really involved in camp anymore, but this year, my niece kept begging me to take her outside to see the swans in flight.  I told her I wanted to meet the teens, and she was good and walked around with me, but eventually I took her outside in trying to give her a nice day too.  I missed out on a lot of teen fellowship time, and it hit me, I was having to sacrifice what I wanted to do in a very small way to serve the niece.  Moms are great.  I just experienced a super small taste of that as an Aunt.

 Fun Aunt and Niece Blind Shots

 BELOW:  We ran into the groom to be, Sam Livingston.  The niece seemed to like him.  She gave him not five, but "10."....literally....she hit his hand ten times, though Sam speeded it up by counting 1, 3, 6, 9, 10. or something like that.  LOL!  We're very excited about his and Brooke's wedding tomorrow!

 BELOW:  Back inside!  Ran into Victoria T. here as a bridesmaid for the wedding and also saw Rachel C!  Lovely ladies! 

T'was such a great day!



4th of July Funny Chlid Saying

At my brother's firework party the children played with sparklers.

Lovely little J. vandeWater was a little timid of the sparklers...AKA fire.  She braved up, and held a lit one.  After the sparkler burnt out she told her Aunt Ariel these words....

"I wasn't killed."

:-)!

A Few Candid Shots from the Min/Staff Dinner 2017

Just a few of my random candid shots from the min/staff dinner last night.  This has been an event that I look forward to whenever it rolls around every min/con.  It's a big blessing to be able to attend.  One of those things in life not to take for granted.  It truly was a royal evening with the younger Mr. and Mrs. Culpepper organizing it.

I didn't take too many people shots this year.  I was more into the decoration.  I loved the "fruits of the spirit" theme.  Lovely idea the young Culpepper's thought up!

Below Pic:  I really like this pic of the Brown's with Aubrey.  Aubs smiled right after I shot the pic.  That is what you get when you take the pic out of surprise before your subject is ready, but still beautiful as always!  ;-) 

That's about it for the people pics.  Here are pics of the "fruits of the spirit" theme.  Each table had a different fruit of the spirit and a different physical fruit as well.

 Even though I wasn't at the table of joy, it was one of my favorites.  I liked the brightness that the color of the lemons added, and who doesn't like joy!  :-)  Below is how the full table of joy looked.

 Below Pic:  The table of temperance was another fav.  I thought the grapes looked fab, and who wouldn't be temperament sitting at such a beautiful table of temperance.  :-)

The table of Meekness!  This is the table I was assigned to sit at.  A lovely group there! .......great fellowship there, and who wouldn't like being reminded of the fruit of meekness, especially since I'm woman.  ;-)

Below is a pic of how the table of meekness looked like in full.

Yeah, another shot with people!  Going back in time, while everyone was being seated, a few of the IA young people were so kind to play live music for everyone.

The Food!

...and here is the food!  It was first class quality fit for royalty.  I know that had to be a lot of hard work that the Krueger's put into that with their crew of hard working AC students.  I didn't know if I was going to make it through the last "main entree."

Though I couldn't share in the love being lactose intolerant with mint ice cream for dessert, thanks to Mr. T. Lugo for "loaning" me his dessert as my dessert model.  Don't worry, his dessert was successfully returned to him, and he was able to enjoy it after the brief photo shoot of it.  :-)  Great evening of food, fun, and fellowship fit for royalty.  Gave me some good ideas for private dinner parties I may have in the future.

Anyway, cheers to a great dinner with some "great fruits."  :-)