Summer 2009

July equals YW Camp . . . purchasing $3000 worth of food and transporting that food to DeQuincy Louisianna is insane ! ! ! Feeding 200 + teenage girls and adults for 5 days is CRAZY. But every year, I do it . . . . or I should say WE do it. It takes all the McKees on Timber Lane to make this happen and this year we were two short . . . Ken and Braeden left for Scout Camp the same week. TaTa Karen and Uncle Pat really came to the rescue and Aunt Lorre and Jacob took in an "orphaned" Kallahan in east Louisianna. Kallahan and I left on Sunday morning with the 1st load of food . . . got to camp and had the place to ourselves until Monday ! ! ! We went down to the shooting range, to the lake, hiked the camp, and slept with the Cook Shack door locked and the A/C blowing really loud so we couldn't hear all the critters outside ! ! !

1st load in the walk-in fridge . . . that's only one side and the freezer is just as big. The dry-pantry is huge and full . . . insanity I say! Insanity !!!

My Ritz-Carlton for the week . . . . the king-size bed is mine . . . . Head Cook gets all the perks, right? Bunk beds for everyone else.

Down at the shooting range . . . Kallahan is one happy boy . . . just wishes we had the key to the guns !

Down at the lake on Sunday afternoon . . . all the work is FINALLY done and we're enjoying the breeze and the BEEssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss . . . . see Kallahan's attack next:

We had a private dinner of watermelon . . . that's all he wanted and we enjoyed EVERY bite !

Monday morning 4am . . . on the road again to Aunt Lorre's house in the country. What a beautiful home on a beautiful piece of land . . . I so wanted to stay with Kallahan and enjoy the love and spirit there. Kallahan got to know his cousin Jacob and he had a GREAT time ! ! !

We're still not unpacked from camp, but we finally felt feisty enough to have some summer fun. Movies one day . . . Ice Age 3 . . . Kemah the next day . . . swimming and fun with friends.

Funnel cakes at Kemah . . . YuMMY . . Yum ! ! !

The boys and I are headed out to Salt Lake City/Provo/Rexburg and everywhere in between to visit friends and family . . . and, oh yeah, to see Katie and Steve graduate from BYUI . . . someone has to help out with Raleigh, right?!? It'll be August before we return . . . sure to be lots more pictures and many more stories. Life is Good ! ! !