Addi to Camp & Emee's Musical

It has been a VERY busy week trying to get Addi ready for camp and Emee having 3 hour musical practices every night. I hope that it is easier to get ready for camp each year after you have that 1st year under your belt! We drove to Oklahoma City Thursday afternoon for Addi to catch the camp bus Friday morning. We went out to dinner Thursday night with David's very good friend and college roommate, David (they also had a 3rd roommate named David!), and his wife. We went to bed fairly early that night as we wanted Addi to start camp well-rested and we had to get up early the next morning. She woke me up around 6 and got in bed with me & patiently waited for the wake-up call at 6:15 -- she was SO EXCITED about camp!! We got up & got ready in record time and got to the bus. She knew people that were going to be on the bus, but didn't have a "best buddy" with her. We were on one side of the bus waiting for it to pull out and apparently she was on the other (we couldn't tell b/c the windows were tinted). Well, some of the other parents from here realized that she was crying - I think that she was kind of scrunched up to the window so others wouldn't see her, but that made it visible on the outside. One of the other parents got her daughter (who will be in 3rd grade - her son was in Addi's class this year) to go sit with her and start talking to her. I guess they thought that we had left...when they realized that we were still there and called us over to that side, she was all right and laughing & talking! Thanks to the others for helping our girly!! I told Dave that I would have been really upset about it all if she hadn't been SO excited that morning. I did shed a little tear as the bus pulled away - 2 weeks is a LONG time and Branson is a LONG ways away, but I know she will have the time of her life. They post camp pictures everyday and I told Dave if I could just catch a glimpse of her smiling in one of the photos, I would feel a LOT better. Well, God answers prayers...this morning I was checking out the pictures and I was on page 13 of 14 and I hadn't seen any of the kids from here...& I have to say I was getting a little teary. When page 13 came up, the 1st picture was of Addi (& not just a glimpse, but of her & a counselor introducing her when they arrived!) - she was just kind of looking at him like "what is he doing?" but she was kind of smiling! I saw 2 other pictures of a boy that I recognized from here, but none of the girls! God helped to relieve my anxiety in a big way!! I am still going to try to figure out how to get the picture on here... {We did it!!!}

Emee had her 1st performance last night and has another tonight. She did GREAT and was so cute - she was a "cheerleader" - Dave got some better "action" shots on the video camera, but I will try to put some up here that I took. Of course, Kendie has been going to all of the practices and knows all of the songs and the choreography. When we told her she has to sit with us & be still she wanted to know why - we told her she wasn't really in it and her response was, "But they NEED me!"