Labor Day Weekend!

We spent Labor day at the lake this year! Big Horn lake is about 45 minutes away and we all love spending the day there! We also went to Big Horn canyon afterwards, which is gorgeous! Here are a few pictures from that day! =)

Optimist Camp

One of the best parts of my summer was this camp I helped at for a week. Its the third year I've been a counselor there and I absolutely LOVE it!
The Optimist Special Children's Camp takes place at the Lions Club facility near Red Lodge, MT. The camp is available to children with special needs ages 8-21, and approximately 50 campers attend each summer. The Optimist Camp is offered at no cost the the children and their families.
This really an incredible life changing experience. Its a lot of work, and by the end of the week all of us counselors are completely exhausted but it is SO worth it! The kids look forward to this camp all year... for one week they are loved, and excepted by everyone. We do activities with them, play games, have a carnival, a dance, and pretty much just spend the whole week making sure these kids have the time of their lives. Here is a 2 pictures from my week there. One of them is of my campers and other counselors in my cabin that week. There are about 3 counselors to every cabin and each cabin has about 5 kids. The other picture is with one of the kids who called me his girlfriend all week! The whole week he followed me around like a shadow, so someone snapped this picture for me at the dance we had during the week =)

California

Carol and I (Cori) went to Cali in June with a bunch of kids from our church for a youth conference there. It was the second time I had been to the conference, but Carol's first time. We absolutely loved it! We drove down there in our van with 9 other people. We left on a Thursday, got there Friday morning, spent Friday Saturday and Sunday there, and then Monday at the beach, then drove home Monday night and ended up back in Powell Tuesday evening! It's quite a drive but totally worth it! Here are a few pictures from our trip. We didn't take as many as I would have liked to but some is better then none I guess!
The pictures are of the beach on Monday, me at lunch with 2 of my friends I had met there, and Carol and I at the beach! =)

Swimming Lessons!

Swimming lessons has begun for Carol, Callie, Cianna, Cassidy, and Charity! My sisters make up almost half the class! =) This is a picture from their first lesson for the semester with 2 of their friends in the picture on the right. Carol isn't in this picture because she is still in Kansas, but she will start her lessons when she gets back! The girls absolutely LOVE swimming!

Charity's Test

Charity tested for her yellow belt in July. She passed! She was the only one of our girls to take it, and the only girl testing! Most of the other girls will be testing later on in the fall for their next belts =)
Here's a few pictures of Charity!