Hi Ho Hi Ho....it's off to camp we go!

It's time for our annual vacation to Iowa Regular Baptist Camp (http://www.irbc.org/) We are bursting with excitement and have much to do to pack & prepare to leave tomorrow morning.

IRBC is a tradition that started with my mom back in the 50's. You can still find her name scrawled on the walls of the barn from when she was a young girl. We attended family camp when I was a child and I also attended many years to youth camp myself (ahhhh, the memories!). Now we've been going as the Peterson family for 6 years now.

So I will me MIA on the blog for well over a week. Camp gets done on the 4th and we plan to head down to the DesMoines area for the weekend to visit friends & hit the day at Adventure Land. I'm sure I'll have a lot to tell about once we get back & into the swing of things.

Have a great week & wonderful 4th of July.

Nature

We went out to Lake Warren last night for a Postmaster meeting & potluck picnic. While Jim had his meeting portion I took the kids off for a little walk. I was really just trying to kill time & keep them away from the meeting so they would not be loud. It unexpectantly turned into a little mini nature adventure for us.

Mandy also found these robbin eggs in our yard.

Nice picture of the kids at Lake Warren

We sang at church yesterday morning. I gave a short testimony about John's fall & the miracle that it is (only through God) that he was fine.

Pretty Princess

On Sunday we took Carmen to get her ears pierced. It's a family tradition that Grandma Luna take the grandaughters to get them done. All of us Luna girls had ours done at a young age as well. It's a Mexican tradition, so as part of my heritage we had our girls done too.

Typically we've gotten the ear piercings done at 2 months, right after their first shots. That happened to be at the same time that my mom fell & broke her ankle & was house bound for many weeks. Then it was many other little things & time just slipped away. So the day before Carmen turned 6 months we took her into the Wal-Mart & got it done.

It was quite a head turner experience as 1/2 of the store was staring & watching as we held her down & she screamed through the process. However it took less than 60 seconds for her to calm down & get over it (thanks to mama nursing her). Then everyone oooed & awwwed over how pretty she looked. (Although people tend to oooo & awe over her no matter what, she is awfully georgous).

Before with Grandma Luna

During

After, she was sound asleep within 5 minutes of it happening.

Thirteen

Today I took Carmen to the dr. She weighed 13 lbs. & 13 oz. on Friday the 13th. I think 13 might be her *lucky* number.

ballet recital

Mandy & Angel had their ballet recital last weekend. They performed in The Swan Princesses. They both did a wonderful job, putting in countless hours of work & rehearsal. And all that cookie dough & candles we sold to many of you helped pay for all of it. Angel's costume alone costs $205. (yikes!) Of course none of that matters when it comes down to performance night. Enjoy the pictures!