FUSE

 

What a great start to our week off! The weekend 3 of my kids have been anticipating for over two months has finally come! FUSE is basically our churches' in town summer camp. Joshua and Savannah got to participate last year and now Alexa is in youth also and so excited!! 

Why the name Fuse? I looked up the definition of fuse and this is what it said:

fuse¹

fyo͞oz/

verb

verb: fuse; 3rd person present: fuses; past tense: fused; past participle: fused; gerund or present participle: fusing

1. 1.

   join or blend to form a single entity.    

 

This is exactly the purpose of the event to blend the kids together and form friendships and relationships at the start of the school year. Within the youth group each of my kids are in their own small group with mentors and the groups are divided on grade and boy/girl. They stayed the weekend with their mentors at a host home and went back and forth to the church for times of worship, guest speakers and fun! My kids all have great mentors who are eager to be there and excited to take part in the kids lives.

 

Needless to say they came home Sunday exhausted!!

 

 

 

Youth Camp and San Diego

Youth Camp was already planned and Jay didn't want to disappoint the kids so he agreed to take them. He changed it to Stram Camp in San Diego, CA. This worked really well as the kids and I got to drive the suburban because they needed a 2nd vehicle to haul all the stuff. So we stayed with Jutem and Brian for the week while Jay and Anastasia stayed at Stram Camp which was less than 10min. away. Whoo Hoo!

We headed over on Monday and camp went until Saturday. Then my dear husband and daughter drove the youth all back to AZ Saturday afternoon and then turned around and came back to SD Sunday night and we stayed until Wednesday. He wanted to spend sometime with his sister and just enjoy SD with us for a few more days.

The kids and I had a relaxing and fun week. Besides being with family of course we loved the much cooler weather and we were outside every chance we got. During our trip we celebrated Alexa's birthday, went to the park, the beach, Seaport Village, swimming, tent camping in the backyard and I got to go to California Adventure with the youth group!! I was so excited about that. I am such and big kid... ;). Of course during all of this I took a million pictures (well not quite but probably close) and since I am trying to get my blog all up to date I am only going to post a few here. (It is getting to be a pain to up load and get them in the right places) The rest I will place on FB.

All the cousins

Celebrating Alexa's birthday


Tent camping in the backyard

SeaPort Village

A performer that the girls loved.


Hanging out at the beach

We took a walk on the pier at Oceanside beach and Savannah almost got too close to this pelican and he opened his mouth and almost ate her head. (It was pretty funny!)

Cousins at the beach


Jadon loved the beach and the sand

The youth group at California Adventure

We are action figures

We were able to escape one night and go on a date and we walked along the beach at sunset. It was fabulous.

Can you read it? It says I heart Jay! Awwww!

Superbowl Party

I think I have mentioned that Jay is also the Youth Pastor at our church now. So he wanted to host a Super Bowl party. Now mind you we NEVER watch football and if we watch the Super Bowl it is just for the commercials. And on top of all that we knew we were hosting this party but about 3 weeks before it we canceled our cable (not even thinking :) ) So we called and got it turned back on and we will cancel it again afterwards. (That story is for another post).

We planned fun games to play as well and there was plenty of yummy food too! I got a few pictures but then my camera started acting funny. I guess it would help if I read the manual on how to set it. ;)

Ok so the best game of the night was by far the "banana split" game. I can at least say that because I was not one of the participants. hehehe....

Two players layed down on the ground (covered in a trash bag) while the other players stood in a chair and had to drop the ingredients for a banana split in to their mouths (we did not use nuts and the bananas were cut up so no choking hazards here). It was hilarious!

By the way who won the Super Bowl? ;0