1st Newtown Ward Campout July 26-30

Our little family attended an annual Ward Campout at a place called Camp Bellows AFB. It was an week long optional campout where people from our ward could come and go and stay however long they wanted. Shaun luckily was able to get the whole week off so on July 26th to the 30th we had a blast camping and beaching everyday. Our ward is chock full of such fabulous people.

The first four pictures were taken from my facebook, that's why they are so small.

Ian and I running around on the beach.

If Shaun had his way he would be at the beach from sun up to sundown, he loved being out there.

We had a ward event each night. Family skits, Charades, night time crab hunting, and this pic was of Karaoke night.

We also had a paintball session set up on one of the days. This here is our group shot.

I went jogging every morning with a very good friend of mine Trang Lafitaga. On one of the mornings they shut down the road to allow these huge hoover crafts on to the base to load and unload equipment and troops. It was awesome! They let us go up in one that wasn't being used.

Shaun taking Trang's daughter Jazmina out snorkeling.

Ian loved to lay down on the warm sand. Strangely, he is not a big fan of the ocean. Likes to be on the beach more than in the water.

Cute pic of Jazmina




This is a video of Shaun's first fish caught with a spear.

Ian really amazes me. I had to keep from cringing as I watched him, but its just so gross seeing him play with a dead fish! But he was purely fascinated by it.

My fabulous friend Trang.

There were a lot of little kids running around. Here they are all taking a nap together.

Jen Ta'a would give her boy a bath in the tub when it got too hot. I thought it was hilarious!

Just some of the kids and their sea snails.

Now for the paintball. Shaun of course sprained his ankle, which bruised and swelled up for days after.

That's Shaun dead center in the white shirt. You can imagine what Shaun was thinking, about all the rules he had to listen too.

He wasn't too happy about how expensive it was.

Guess how Ian got this mess on his face? All he did was press his face up against the mesh fence surrounding the paintball field. The thing was filthy.

Deuces!

Despite the rules and the money he still had fun.

I forgot, there was also a card game night. The game was called 'Trump'. They taught it to Shaun who told me it was a very complicated game. Notice the hang loose hand sign? People still do that here, everywhere, anytime the want.

We had a lot of fun and cant wait to do it again.