Home sweet home and happy birthday Luke

It is good to be home, but it was fun to be away. So much has happened in this past week. I'll try to summarize a bit here.

Before the trip I got 2 more units of blood, spending Monday in the hospital till 3 pm or so. Tim and Luke left around noon to go ahead to set up the campsite before it got too dark. The rest of us pulled in about 1:30 am.

Cheri, Roger and crew arrived Tuesday afternoon. We squeezed their three tents behind our camper in a shaded area. Seventeen of us enjoyed our small space. 18-month-old niece Emily was the hit of the campsite, entertaining us with her cute sounds, ventures in and out of camping chairs and around the campsite, and her love for the music surrounding us (she would sit in her stroller and listen to a band, leaning forward, tapping her hand on her knee and applauding when the music was over).

Three (or four?) runs to Walmart provided enough nourishment for our group for 5 days or so. We even had a cake to celebrate Luke's 21st birthday on July 7. (Happy birthday Luke!) It's hard to believe he's really all grown up now. We will probably have a Nelson celebration this next weekend, but we enjoyed celebrating with my side of the family on his actual b-day.

It was good to be together as siblings and with our nieces and nephews. The cousins seemed to enjoy each other and the friends they brought along. Tim hit many seminars and films this year--I got to two concerts and mostly enjoyed family and the change of pace.

This morning I got nephew Daniel off to soccer camp (pick up time is noon on Friday, Cheri), so now I will begin to focus more on cleaning up and unpacking.

This was our 12th year in a row of Cornerstone. Will we do it again? That is the perennial question...

Till next time,


Suzi

PS I have now been blogging for three years! Hard to believe!