The Kupperman Family: Recapping the Summer

Sorry for the delay in posting, but summer just caught up with us. After we returned from our trip, the kids were busy with lots of fun camps (and I was busy as taxi-mom). We also spent some time camping at Crater Lake and had our annual family BBQ. Here are some pictures of how we spent the rest of our summer.

Michael at soccer camp. The camp was at Brown Middle School.

Evan moves the ball at Soccer camp this summer.

Evan had a great time and learned some new footwork skills at this weeklong camp.

Michael works to score goals during scrimmage time at summer soccer camp.

Emma sits with Uncle Matt and eats her toys while Uncle Matt reads an engineering journal.

Michael, Maurice, and Kobe spent a week at Camp Invention. They invented this Rube Goldberg Machine. On the last day the parents came to see all the kids inventions.

Evan shares some of the inventions that his team made at Camp Invention.

Evan learns how to use a BB gun at Camp Ireland this summer. The camp is for Tiger scouts thru Weblo scouts. Safety is number one!

The Flying Dutchmen take a break from practicing their skit for camp. Their Pack was so big that they had to split into two dens for camp. Their skit was telling Pirate jokes and singing in between "Yo Ho Yo Ho a Pirates Life for Me!"

Evan learns how to use a bow and arrow at Camp Ireland. He has a difficult time pulling the bow back far enough to get the arrows to reach the target at first. He gets better as he practices.

Michael practices using his bow at Camp Ireland. He's quite good at it, if he could only get the arrows to move a bit to the left.

Michael uses a BB gun at Camp Ireland. He tried sitting up and laying down and was a much better shot laying down. He worked hard and earned a special patch for his shooting skills.

We're at Crater Lake camping for a long weekend. Michael makes friends with a little chipmunk that came right up to him and said hello.

Evan, Michael, and Matt look at Crater Lake. The smoke is rolling in and it's getting hard to see all the way across the crater. The sky is getting hazy.

What a beautiful day today! The winds are not bringing smoke into the crater today. A biker offers to take some family pictures of us. She does an excellent job!

These are the Vidae falls at Crater Lake. The boys - Michael, Evan and Matt decided to hike part of the way up the falls.

Evan and Michael at Crater Lake.

Back at our campsite - Evan and Michael stand by our tent. The campsite had bear lockers and all food and cooking items had to be locked up whenever you left your site and at night.

What is camping without roasting marshmallows and making s'mores? Michael built a fire - he did a great job and we used it to roast marshmallows. Yum!

The boys can't resist being silly! It's time for bed and the boys are still having a great time. Brrr - it got down to 36 degrees this evening. We had extra blankets but it was still very very cold!

A very smily Miss Emma. How can you not love that face?!