Summertime

Finally! Summer!

Not much happens at camp in the winter. And as one of the old timers up here says, "The mountains only have 2 seasons: winter and July." This is not quite true, but when mid-May rolls around there are still no leaves on the trees, it seems about right.
Fortunately, the long, boring winter makes summer that much more welcome. On Sunday, about 30 college summer staffers rolled in to camp, so the summer is finally getting underway! We also had our first ridiculously huge hail storm of the season (which Samson was not thrilled about). It must really be summer!

So far, we're all enjoying different summery things. Ethan is LOVING having a whole staff of college girls to dote on him, Samson takes advantage of every opportunity to rub his shedding self all over everyone's legs, Levi gets to be outside all day and goof around with a bunch of college kids, and I am SO thankful to see some old friends and spend the majority of my day with people who can actually talk.

In the spirit of summer, I thought Ethan's first swimsuit picture would be appropriate. We haven't gone swimming yet in the camp pool because it's so cold, but a few weekends ago, we swam in the heated pool at EPIC in Fort Collins with Kara and Aydin and some friends from church. It was a pretty big hit.