Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I've got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's goin' my way.
(I just love me some Rogers and Hammerstein.)

The sun is up and so am I. Today my eldest daughter goes to church camp for the next week in Oklahoma. I spent last night in a sewing frenzy, making her more culottes to go with the three pair I made earlier this week. What are culottes? Here's some I've made in the past. Or this bunch here. She has three camps to go to this summer, but this one is the most expensive at $110 - which is really cheap, if you ask me. She has been in a candle-selling frenzy for the last two months getting ready for all of her trips. Got the all-important bathing suit on Saturday at Old Navy, so she's all set.

Oh my gosh! Look at the time! I've got to take her to the Church now! I'll take photos and be back. Oh yes, I will.

As promised, I'm back! (with photos) The great thing about blogging is that you never even had to know I left, but I did. Here are a few snapshots of my girl...going into 6th grade next year (gasp!) - where DOES the time go? It seems like just yesterday she was learning to crawl, and today I wake up to find she has grown wings and is ready to fly on her own for the week.

This is our wonderfully energetic and young youth pastor (his wife is inside their little house behind the van trying not to curse, because it would seem that he's not a packer and miscalculated the amount of items he'd need to take for a week, so she's frantically packing things like...well, you know...underwear and toothbrushes):

This is the van fully loaded. Oh wait! We forgot the cooler. Guess it's going to have to go between the front seats. Wait a minute...how's he going to see out the back???


There, that's better. Now I can see a few of the kids who've already claimed their seats, my girl choosing to plant herself right smack dab in the middle of the fun:





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