Another year, another successful (and crazy tiring) Camp Branstad is in the books. The campers arrived on Saturday afternoon shortly after camp counselor Marcus returned from his Canadian bear hunt full of stories for the kiddos.

We got soaked during a water balloon fight, played red rover (for like three seconds) painted canvases and scarfed down s’mores before the campers retreated to our upgraded 10-person tent. And, of course, the Camp Branstad experience wouldn’t be complete without a late-night broken glow stick freakout (complete with a frantic Google search about possibly ingestive glow stick goo) and a 5AM wake up call.

Can’t wait to do it all over again….in 364 days!