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Camp Cotten | Adult Summer Camp

Party Planning· Weekend Recaps

4 Aug

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Over the weekend, Mr. Cotten and I hosted our first “Camp Cotten” at my parent’s pond. Friends, let me enlighten you. If you’re in need of a party theme, this is a good one:

Adult Summer Camp.

That’s right. Salute those shorts.

We’re talking tents, family-style dinner, fishing, pond floating, dock-jumping contests, s’mores, cornhole, glow-in-the-dark badminton and a keg of our favorite brew… all over two solid days of awesome weather.

This, my friends, was adulting done right.

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I was asked prior to the party what the Speedo policy was. I said, “If you got it, flaunt it.” You work that Speedo, Matt.

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Zuko may have won the dock-jumping contest on cuteness alone.

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Photo by Katrin

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The party continued all the next day, which meant the kiddo got to join in on Adult Summer Camp. Even though she was a little apprehensive at first (and nearly drowned mommy), Dorothy took to her first time in the pond like a champ.

And when I say champ, I mean this kid might be diving before she turns two.

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Thanks to Uncle Cody’s swim lesson, D can now float pretty much on her own!

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Camp Cotten = success. Next year, we’ll have customized event Speedos for all our guests. 😉 Thanks to all of our friends who made the trip to enjoy a perfect summer weekend with us!

And thanks to my parents, who did a TON to make sure the pond was ready… let us take over their house… and fed our starving friends Sunday evening…they rock.

 

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Did we literally have to sew and body tape this gi Did we literally have to sew and body tape this girl into her solo costume at 7 am? You bet. Wouldn’t want to spend my weekends any other way. 💜
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Just like that, Biddy Ball is over. 😢 We’re S Just like that, Biddy Ball is over. 😢 We’re SO proud of Frances for trying something new, developing as a player each week, and even scoring her first basket in the last minute of her last game! 🏀 We’ll miss our Tuesday and Thursday night games, until next year! #francesbelle
“Play it again, play it again, play it again… “Play it again, play it again, play it again… “ 🎶
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