After Camp...

...we stayed for another five days with friends in the Kinistino area!

We had a wonderful time visiting with families, riding dirt bikes, four wheelers, and rhinos!

Thank you all for your amazing hospitality!  God bless you!

Playing with friends Sunday night

Joy and Emily

Sis. Donna and Sis. Becky

Julianna and I went mudding!  :)  We had a blast together!

Bro. Dave, David, Ezra, Emmalyn, Hope, Elainah, and Lillia

The trail through the field...

Bro. Dave's grain bins

One afternoon hail storms ran through the area bringing down trees.

Hope and Caitlyn

Bro. "Victory" (as Joy says :) and our family minus me...

David and Bro. Vietally

Swimming at Bro. Dave & Sis. Donnas

Hope loved tearing around on Isreal's dirt bike!

Is Lillia driving?! :)

Bro. Lewis and Israel

Bro. Lewis let Hope drive the quad! 

Hope, Bro. Lewis, Lillia, Joshua, and Israel

Lewis doing a wheelie!

Sis. Becky with Joy and David

 

Next Post; Candle Lake

Northern Lights Family Camp

A week after leaving home we arrived in Canada!

I had quite a few camp pictures so I did collages on picmonkey.com  (Thanks Joylin!)

 

 

Preparing for a camp with 500+ people coming from all over the world is very hard.

Add to that fact that there was no electricity or water until minutes before camp registration!  The areas surrounding Prince Albert we were without power for days!  Thank you to Bro. Paul & Sis. Holly, and all the volunteers who made this an enjoyable weekend for us!  God bless you all! 

I know there weren't that many pictures but you know how it goes,

when your having fun you don't think about taking pictures!

Next post; After Camp...

 

Mt. Rushmore

Mt. Rushmore... This amazing landmark located in the Black Hills of South Dakota was carved by Gutzon Borglum and 400 men in just 14 years.  Only six years were spent carving, the other eight were spent raising funds for this enormous project, which cost less than a million dollars. Gutzon died in 1941 before the completion of the monument, leaving his son, Lincoln, to finish the work.  The four presidents Gutzon chose each represent something that happened to shape our country.  President George Washington represents the founding of our country as our first president.  Thomas Jefferson doubled our land in size when he bought the Louisiana Purchase.  Theodore Roosevelt promoted construction on the Panama Canal and encouraged causes like conservation and economic reform.  Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, kept our country together during the Civil War and ended slavery on American soil.  These four men are remembered today through Gutzon and Lincoln Borglums carvings in the Black Hills.

 To give you an idea of the size of these carvings, George Washington's nose is over 20 feet long!

 We went for a little walk and saw these mountain goats!

 We also went in the evening for the lighting ceremony.


Canada here we come!