Or ward organized a camp out this last weekend.  I’m not really in a state of mind where hanging out with a million noisy kids and a bunch of adults I don’t really know sounds like fun, but we had agreed to go and keep another family company, so after work Friday we packed up a bunch of crap and drove the 20 minutes to the camp ground.  Luckily for me, the family we were to spend the weekend with had similar ideas to mine, and had selected a site well off the beaten path and away from the main population.

Michael ran wild in a large pack of kids the whole time, enjoying the danger associated with being “off leash.” Isaac spent most of his time with a friend taking apart a rather large fallen ponderosa pine with a couple of hatchets.   I spent the day with our friend who liked crowds about as much as I do, and the evening watching a fire and the night sky in relative quiet and peace.  Liz hung out with her friend and talked homeschooling, and Sydney stayed home to sleep off a headache.  Not a bad weekend overall.