hang time summer camp!

this past week has been filled with summer camp.

i've done a summer camp before when i worked as a gymnastics coach.

the gymnasts would come in the morning and stay for 4-6 hours. 

mostly we just had fun on all the gym equipment.

i thought this most recent summer camp would be pretty similar. 

what i didn't take into consideration was most of my gymnasts were girls and all of the hang time campers were boys....

the hang time summer camp was supposed to go from monday through friday.

on monday, the boys all showed up.

 andrew (7) ethan (9) oliver (9) calvin (12) brenden (12)

right off the bat, it was not a good camp day. 

my summer camp partner in crime, andrea, was running late that day. 

i was alone with 5 boys that were very unenthusiastic about the games i had planned.

even when andrea showed up, it didn't get easier.

we made it through that first day with lots of groans from the boys, and lots of nervous sideways glances between andrea and me.

it was not going as planned.

we decided to rope one of the safety coaches, patrick, into helping us out. 

maybe the campers would be more excited about a cool guy coming and jumping with them.

BINGO!

the rest of the camp was a blast! the boys loved their new toy (a.k.a. patrick) and he brought up a ton of ideas that helped us adjust our games and activities into something the boys would enjoy

in the end, it was a summer camp to remember! everything turned out perfectly and the boys want to come back for our next round of summer camp! 

un/fortunately i won't be around for it. my Mr. and i are vacationing that week in oregon and california! 

more news and pictures from that to come.

life is good :)