Daddy is driving us to our last camp of this year. We are driving 5 hours to go to Lake Ann Camp. It is a great camp with lots of fun things to do.
This year I am in Jump Start. I get to play in a bog, take a ride in an inner tube down a river and hike some sand dunes. I get to learn more about God too.
Please pray for nice weather because I will be outside a lot! For help for me too as we learn verses and new song and I try to make new friends.
“See” you in a week!
This week, Mark and I have archery camp.
I have done archery at Lake Ann Camp , but did not learn as much.
Tomorrow is our last day. We get to play games and show off what we learned.
I want to learn more archery, just for fun!
We met a lady who was from Sudan. I liked her. She gave me this dessert recipe to try and it was good! It is sticky and sweet. She said it was one of the favorite desserts of people in Sudan.
She was fun to talk to. I hope that I can meet her again sometime.
Basboosa
Syrup Ingredients
Cake Ingredients
Prepare syrup first. Dissolve sugar in water in a medium saucepan. Add lemon juice and bring to a boil. Once the syrup begins to boil, add in honey. Reduce heat and allow to slowly boil for about 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease and flour a 9×12 baking dish.
Cream together butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. Add eggs and vanilla.
In a separate bowl, combine semolina, baking powder, and baking soda. Slowly add to butter and egg mixture. Stir in milk.
Pour mixture into baking dish and smooth with spoon.
Take a butter knife and make diagonal lines from left to right and complete to make diamond shapes. Place an almond in the center of each diamond. Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove cake from oven and pour syrup over cake until no more can be absorbed. Allow to cool for 20 minutes. (Is never served warm…sitting even a day is fine!)
Last week we went to Junior Naturalist Camp. It is a camp were we visit a lot of places to learn more about nature. When we are done with the classes, if we volunteer (6 hours) to help one of the places we visited, we earn a Jr. Naturalist certificate and a pin.
I knew most of the stuff that they were teaching, but some of the stuff I didn’t know. It was good review. We went to see the schoolhouse (at Bonneyville) and we did a class about rocks. We went to a forest and learned about trees. We went to the water in Oxbow to learn about water creatures (Mark calls them “aquatic creatures”). We made butterflies when we studied insects. We played games and made some friends.
On the last day, we got caricature pictures drawn. He asked us what was one of our favorite things at camp. I said writing in my journal. I like my picture. Some of the boys had really funny pictures. One was riding on a turtle bigger than he is. Another was riding a snake board, just like a skate board but with a snake.
I am glad camp is over because I can sleep in. Camp was long days (8:00-5:00) all week and we learned a lot! But, I had a lot of fun and wish we could still go.
We took these pictures just for fun. My job was to put them into the basket and the truck and arrange them to be cute. I like the one with them in the basket better. I want to make it into cards.
The nabors got sum new Kittens. Thar names are Polly and Holly. Polly is the striped one. Holly is the one that look so soft. They are soft. Holly is softer.
We saw Flopsy. Flopsy is Oma’s dog. She misses Oma and Opa. Flopsy was glad to see us. She is staying at Nana and Papa’s because Oma and Opa are gone.
Happy Third Anniversary Uncle Josh and Auntie Angie! I love you!
Yesterday I had a soccer game. It was much nicer than Saturday’s game!
I played well. I scraped my leg on cleats. I don’t know when or how I did it. It looks worse than it feels. Momma said it is my first “casuality of soccer”. She hopes it is the worse I ever get!
We won our soccer game 3-2!
  
We accidentally left open the back door. We were making dinner then we heard something crash in the window! Mommy looked and saw a bird.I took some pictures because he looked funny sitting on Megan’s rocking chair or on our clean dishes.
He flew out the back door. I helped Mommy “herd” him out.
Megan said “birdies no sit on my rocking chair. Not nice.”
Then I got to play with the bird (picture).