Spencey and I drove up for Greystone pickup and spent another night in Traveler’s Rest!

We then headed to camp bright and early the next morning. Bet you can’t guess who was FIRST in line for pickup?!

They finally let us walk up the hill at 9am and I barely got up the walk before Samantha came running! I got the biggest running, jumping, crying hug ever and it was the absolute BEST!! Oh it was so good to see her and love on her! Spencer even got a good running hug too!

Happy campers indeed!

We then got to spend a little time seeing her cabin and crafts and friends!

We then loaded up and headed home! First stop? Starbucks of course! Pink drink and cake pop coming right up!

Samantha chatted the whole way home about her adventures at camp. I am so proud of her for going for three weeks, making new friends, learning new things, and gaining all sorts of independence! She’s a Greystone girl for sure!

Samantha rolled into her final week of camp all smiles!

I loved when I got glimpses of her doing her activities. She did so many activities I never saw like pottery and volleyball!

This night was the play! They did Frozen and Samantha had been in drama as one of her activities. She was a troll in the play!

I love that she got up on stage and so wish I could have seen the production!

Then the countdown was on to pick up day!

Last full day!

and last night with an Encanto program!

Such a cute cabin!

And then it was pickup day!!! see you tomorrow!

Week 2 and lots of fun pics to share! We did get a scanned letter from Samantha on that Monday and it made me a little sad. She talked about how she was homesick so she went to talk to Laura, the camp director. I was wondering if she was really THAT homesick so called the camp and talked to her group leader, Hagen. Hagen was so sweet and said she’s no more homesick than any other 9 year old and definitely not the most homesick in her cabin. She said there was one little girl that was pretty homesick so she went to talk to the director Laura (or La La as they call her) and came back to the cabin saying how fun she was to talk to so then a few of the other girls thought they needed to go talk to Lala too! I felt so much better after talking to her. I also felt better after seeing more and more smiling pics each day!

What a cute bunch with Jimmy, the camp head of the camp!

Another day, another smile!

Happy camper!

This is when I really stopped worrying!! That’s our Samantha!

And the this picture from Carnival night – can’t deny the fun in this pic!!

Cutie!

Sewing!

Pizza night! I thought the hats were too funny!

Lots of crafts!

Trivia night!

Green and Gold day!

Doesn’t get much cuter than this!!

She did love waterpark!

Sunday at the pool – can’t beat it!

Phew, that’s a lot of fun! Two weeks down, one to go!

Spencer and I picked up our Greystone girl on Friday morning and I got the biggest running jumping crying hug ever and it was the best! We missed her so much and I’m so glad she’s back – but I’m also so happy she got to experience camp. Going to the three week session ended up being the right decision – she said she was homesick the first week but then got over it and wasn’t sad at all the last two weeks. Hooray! I think staying that long at camp allowed her to work through the homesickness and then get into a routine and really have fun. She made some cute friends, did lots of activities and crafts, and gained some independence! I’m so proud of her and, most importantly, she’s proud of herself. Lots and lots of pics from the 3 weeks to share starting with day 1!

Cabin Tu7 with counselors Sarah and Ky’Aisa!

The girls in her cabin were: McCarty, Charlotte, Piper, Perry, Gianna, Dilly, Helen, Sloane, Eloise, Jane and Bitsy.

I figured out that Sloane is the daughter of one of my friends from Vandy! What a small world. It was even more fun when I saw the pics of Samantha and Sloane together the first full day of camp! They had tons of activities together and had fun together the whole session!

Samantha did all kinds of activities – I think her final schedule ended up being: MWF – Drama (they did the play Frozen), soccer, volleyball, tumbling, cooking, ceramics and crafts. TThS – drama, knitting, painting, sewing, archery, waterpark, and tennis.

Of course I loved seeing these tennis pics!!

Cabin lip synch! Nice beard Samantha! ha!

I got a lot of pics like this – smiling on her way to activities. I sure was glad to see that happy smile!

Action photos were hard to come by so these were especially awesome!

Another day another smile!

Knitting is fun! haha!

Happy girl!

Cooking!

Waterpark – I think one of her favorite things!

What a picture!

Talent show night. I didn’t get a picture but Samantha got up on stage and did a round off backhand spring!

See her back there waiting to go on? 🙂

Cute girls…

Morning and evening flag ceremony…

and Vespers.

And that was just the first week! Lots more pics to come!