Went camping

Had a GREAT time camping over the weekend with Seth chan chase drew levi and gina. We went to Glen Helen regional park (the "untamed wilds" as I call it ... not) with the boys' Contenders for the Faith school group, about five other families. It was great! Had fun campfires at nights, the kids put on skits, did some fathers-day themed "game shows" to see how well the kids knew their dads. Spent saturday at the park's water park, swimming and hitting the water slides.

Slept well enough, considering the freeway was close and the very active railroad was too.

Everyone had a great time. My better half forgot the camera (she blames me) so as of now we have no pics, though Christina hopefully will email a couple she took of us.

Boys ran around field collecting, er, "treasures" - mostly broken glass ("crystals") and even an old mostly intact muffler. Comedy. A billion bottle caps, Seth made pins out of them w/ a hammer and safety pins.

My tree-identification skills totally paid off. Ashes, sycamores, oaks of course, and even a beautiful, lone "desert museum" (yes thats the name of a tree) out there covered in yellow flowers.

On sun morning I, er, "led" little-kid worship and Rick gave a nice msg. Then a mere three hours to break camp and home we came.