For the second year in a row, we headed to Jacksonville, IL at Illinois College for FCA Camp. It. Is. Awesome. It is hands down one of my favorite weeks of the year! It allows me to see what Daniel does for a living, and it involves Sawyer and me in that! Plus, cute-face teenagers running around everywhere and no grading? Dream week. While Daniel is working on coaching and teaching, the state director's wife heads up a Spouses Program for the coaches' wives and FCA Staff wives. She does a phenomenal job, and most of the ladies return each year so relationships are built throughout. There are a few Grandmas there to watch the babies, and there is also a kids program for the families who come. Everything FCA does is with excellence- at a sports camp focused on a few hundred teenagers, they still have the commitment to focus on 15 or so families who come along for the ride. I love going! Those particular friends spoke into our lives about my struggles with being a lonely working mom and our adoption plans. Plus, we got to be with Daniel most of the week. All of that equals a great week!
Sawyer was particularly interested in this fountain that included tons of rocks...
Big Boy eating college food all week :)
We slept all together, and it made my heart want to explode- those boys are sooooooo cute!
Maybe he'll be a college kid walking around here in 16+ years (if I ever let him go)!
In this video, you can see the start of a chapel service. Cute teenagers. <3 them. Daniel was the emcee the entire time, and so you hear him at the end starting everything off. I should've kept recording because he had them all laughing that night! My husband has an awesome job!
To make it even better, my brother lives about 30 minutes away, so both years Sawyer and I have made some extra time to spend the day with him while Daniel is at meetings and such. We don't get to see him often, so I was a little concerned about Sawyer being shy around him. I shouldn't have worried- Aaron had a basket of baseballs and footballs and basketballs, so they became extra best friends. We ate hot dogs and watched ridiculous kids shows and walked to the park to play- a VERY different day from Aaron's usual 30-year-old bachelor life (minus the hot dogs- I think he likes those anyways)!
Sawyer climbed up this ladder by himself for time and time again!
He LOVED this slide!
This was his last week with his pacifier- no more paci-face pictures
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One of these days they will be able to even out the teeter-totter, but let's hope by then they will be doing something a little more manly together!
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