Military Camp Debriefing ...

"we are the young marines.

we'll show you what we mean

we'll beat the best, in every contest,

we'll beat them nice and clean.

semper fi

oooorah!"

ok, so my eldest son is back. there are a TON of pictures that the camp photographer took of the boys, on the website (click the title of this post to connect to their shutterfly page - picture albums a, b and cc are of the younger kids, and the rest of the albums are of the older kids).

the quote above is what they said when they were in formation, right before their awards ceremony.

HOW CUTE WAS THAT?

AND, my son won an award for most fish caught! YAY!

ok, what he actually caught was a turtle. but YAY!!!!!!!!!

he had a great time. his roommate wasn't the nicest kid on the block, but, that was a good lesson for my child to learn. everyone isn't going to be nice to you just because you are nice to them (but yeah, i SO wanted to kick that kids ASS -- pardon my french. yes, that really is french -- i mean REALLY, but, that's another story altogether. yeah, i have anger issues sometimes ...)

so some of the highlights were that he shot a rifle, a paintball gun and a bow and arrow, and he got to play in a lot mud (see the pictures). he also learned things like about-face, right-face, and left-face.

WHEEE!

his younger brother was so jealous. he can't wait to go next year.

and honestly ...

i can't wait to send him.

now, if only there was somewhere for me to send that unruly girl of mine ...