Camp Sushine AU is over!

nancy could not even fake a smile, she was so upset that camp was ending...
um we were really lost in the hedge maze...notice the boys not really smiling too much
hard to describe what is going on here, the bay we went to had a bunch of jelly fish things in the water so we had a war!
Hattie at the petting zoo that we hired to come to the park

me and some kids on the last day!


the boys being silly on our last day/long bus ride to the waterpark

the team at the camp dinner!


Sorry it has taken me so long to update! The last week of camp went by so quickly! It was really really good though! Just to give you some perspective...in our meeting Bree and Clayton told us that in December the numbers for camp were very low. How low you ask? There was a day that we had no kids signed up at all! Ahh! In a month they had people coming from all over the world and maybe there would be no kids to work with! On some days we had 7 kids signed up, but with 12 leaders...that is a little too much supervision! haha...anyways on the last day of camp we had 40 kids! From the first day to the last our numbers went from 17 to 40! How awesome.

Some of my highlights from the last week:
-one girl was signed up for one day and begged her mom to let her come back for another. She did come back, but when it was time to leave she was really upset...her mom looked straight at me and said "You are really making an impact on her." Which as simple as it sounds, really make an impact on me! I didnt even feel like I was close to the girl or that we connected but I guess God used me in her life
-one kid that I had the entire three weeks (3 times a week tho) really started opening up. Like he just came out of his shell. We would joke and kid with eachother and stuff but he never really showed that we were close. When he was leaving on the last day...he just looked straight at me and gave me the biggest hug! See....for some people that is not a big deal but I he had never hugged me before and I hadnt seen him hug anyone else there. It just meant alot.
-A 3rd and final highlight (believe me i could go on forever but I dont want to bore you):

To Clayton and all the staff at Camp Sunshine

This is just a short note to express a grateful mothers thankfulness to you all for giving my boys Braden and Ali such a happy 3 weeks holidays (with always such a warm welcome each morning when they arrive) We have family circumstances where Braden and Ali's brother is severely diabled with Spina bifida and a mother heavily pregnant with identical twins. My husband and I cant take the boys out to entertain them to places that they would like to go. And so I have tried other holiday programmes where they were absolutely miserable and crying not to go. You guys got the thumbs up from day 1. You give my children a happy memorable time, the chance to be real boys and something to look forward to each holidays. From here on it is their own right to have a happy childhood which is so important to me that they get and you help me with that. Thank you!

With lots of warm thanks to you all.

Okay so basically words cant describe my experience it was so good and I got so close to the other staff members. Thank you all who donated so that I would be able to not only get over here but work for free so that camp could raise funds and flourish in the future!