Its been a while...

Sorry, I have been having some technical difficulties.

Pictures will come at a later date.

Last weekend, Dan Force led a combined youth group. He talked about how Jesus saves us from sin. The most important thing that Jesus saves us from is our own sin and aberrations. Dan did an excellent job. Essentially, he just shared the gospel; camped out in Romans; and explained our human position throughout the entire biblical narrative. It was really good. After youth group, we went to Trevor Keens house and swam for quite a while. Perhaps the best thing that took place that night was the fact that no one brought a guitar. It was good times.

Apparently, some of our girls attended a sleepover last week, in which they watched a number of Disney movies. It is safe to say that dreams and aspirations were on their minds as they desperately want to become part of their own fairy tale. This can be the only explanation for Ramsey and Rachel kissing a frog (technically it was a toad as I learned from an 8th grade biology project, but frog is what the fable proclaims). We got pictures, but I don't really know why? Apparently, Jr. High boys are not the only ones who occasionally don't think through their actions.





TUESDAY NIGHT
Chris and Aleesha got back, so now you can see pictures of Aleesha's room that the girls flipped while she was gone.

FRIDAY NIGHT
We took a bunch of the Jr. High boys camping. It was a good night. We played glow stick capture the flag in the pasture, which was really just an attempt to sprain every ankle out there. Jacob beat us to the point with his little stunt from the prior week, so he didn't get to play. Late that night, we played a game called: "Eat what Ed eats!" It is really a combination of "Fear Factor" and "Truth or Dare." That afternoon, I picked up a few of Ed's favorites: baby oysters, sardines, Vienna sausages, spam, whipped topping, and macaroni and cheese baby food. The last one was mine to pick up...I figured I liked Kraft mac and cheese, so this stuff couldn't be too bad. It taste like I licked a New York Statue after a pigeon infestation. If a couple kids, didn't want to eat what Ed eats, they had to share something personal. It ended up being an opportunity to eat a lot of nasty things. No one puked. I did, however, come awful close.

We sat around the campfire and drank root beer. You know, guy stuff. Jason H. and Aaron Jones came and helped out a lot. Aaron brought a potato gun. That was a lot of fun. They shot it across the pond to watch the potato skip. Good times. We had a blast hanging out with the guys, just doing life alongside them. They are a good group of kids. The fishing was pretty poor, but we did have guys on the canoe most of the time, making a lot of noise. Poor fishing was really to be expected.

It was a good night.