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Friends and Campers


 Two friends from church invited our family to go camping last minute. Because of the short notice I knew camping was out. We did however go and spend the day together. Mark was still in the field running the Salford over oats. The Mai family we have gotten together with a few times. The Peters family I had gotten to know Sue Ann through helping during cornerstone VBS. The Perkins family I had not met. Every family had 3 to 4 kids. All the kids were similar in age and everyone got along great. They had their little circle of campers and were set to stay for 3 nights at the Hidden Acres campground. Such nice people, the husbands and kids were so kind. Everyone started out by heading to the Lake and beach area. The kids all went to playing, swimming and paddle boating. They spent over 2 hours at the beach. The adults all had a nice shade spot to watch and visit. The kids caught tadpoles and turtles. They went down a long water slide and hopped of the big blob. Jake and I took a canoe out too. It was perfect. I got to know Mrs. Perkins. She has a boy that is 10 who spent his entire life like an ordinary boy when out of nowhere his legs began giving him great pain. He can no longer walk. He has been seen by many specialists and they cannot find any reason or anything wrong. So, he spends his time in a wheel chair or riding his 4 wheeler. His 4 wheeler is like his bike. It gives him a chance to be a kid and go places where a wheel chair cannot. They are a neat family. After the beach each family prepared a cold lunch for their own kids and sat at picnic tables. 
Soon, the group of boys started shooting air guns at targets. I am not thrilled with guns, want my kids to know a lot of safety before they handle a gun. This isn't what I had in mind. I couldn’t tell my boys no when there were 5 other boys shooting. I let them shoot at targets and they were hooked. Over an hour of shooting and they were the only ones left shooting and someone finally had to tell them to stop. They are most definitely hooked.
Around 4:00 we all headed to the indoor pool to cool off and swim. As I sat there with this circle of people that I am getting to know, I thought, this is what I have always wanted. I have prayed for years for good friends, good freindships with nice people and families with kids that our kids can be friends with. Growing up with neighbor kids and family pizza nights, I miss that family fun that I enjoyed as a kid. I also loved the little taste of camping in a group like that. I would love it. The kids loved it to. Jake was telling Sue Ann how he wished he could stay. She told him maybe he would get to go there again sometime. Jake said, "yeah, but I want to be here with these people." That pretty much summed it up for me too.
 We ended up with Rylie at our house and the tent was still up, so the boys all slept out in the yard another night in the tent. Fun times!

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