A few years ago, the Elder's Quorum President decided that it wasn't fair to have only a Father & Son outing (he has four girls and one boy) so he renamed it to Father's & Kid's Outing.
Well, needless to say, Jacob wasn't pleased about it initially. He really has wanted time alone with Rob (well, alone with Noah, too). But slowly has warmed up to the reality that girls ARE going to be at the camp out.
This year, in addition to Rob taking Jacob, Gabrielle, & Noah; Steven took Indigo & Kiara. It really was a Father's and Son's (and kid's) camp out.
From what I can gather it was a lot of fun. (You know, since I wasn't there, ahhh so nice to be alone - hee hee hee.) It was really cold (Gabs left her jacket at home so she wore Rob's and both of them stood by the fire). There was crawling on the dirt in an effort to hide from the Flag Capturing fiend, s'more eating, Stinging Nettle rashes, and hot dog roasting to name a few things.
I went out to dinner with a bunch of women folk from the ward and had scintillating conversations about numerous topics, one of which me telling the bishop's wife and one of the counselor's wives the detriments of staying at church longer than three hours. (Seriously? Our church is supposed to let out at noon, and on average by the time the closing song and prayer are said, it is 12:15 [really, not kidding]).
I told Christy (the B's wife) to ask her husband to give me a calling to hold up a sign to tell people that their time is up - hey! we do that at work to the professionals that speak for us. That would be soooo cool. We wouldn't have to sit in the hallway anymore to leave church on time. (Before you think that I am going to hell for saying such a thing, try sitting in church for longer than three hours 98% of the time; especially on fast Sunday. I know that several of the people in my ward feel the same way, I am just the one to actually state it OUT LOUD.)
Yours in a very warm place,
Jessica
P.S. Well, at least I won't be cold all of the time, right?
Well, needless to say, Jacob wasn't pleased about it initially. He really has wanted time alone with Rob (well, alone with Noah, too). But slowly has warmed up to the reality that girls ARE going to be at the camp out.
This year, in addition to Rob taking Jacob, Gabrielle, & Noah; Steven took Indigo & Kiara. It really was a Father's and Son's (and kid's) camp out.
From what I can gather it was a lot of fun. (You know, since I wasn't there, ahhh so nice to be alone - hee hee hee.) It was really cold (Gabs left her jacket at home so she wore Rob's and both of them stood by the fire). There was crawling on the dirt in an effort to hide from the Flag Capturing fiend, s'more eating, Stinging Nettle rashes, and hot dog roasting to name a few things.
I went out to dinner with a bunch of women folk from the ward and had scintillating conversations about numerous topics, one of which me telling the bishop's wife and one of the counselor's wives the detriments of staying at church longer than three hours. (Seriously? Our church is supposed to let out at noon, and on average by the time the closing song and prayer are said, it is 12:15 [really, not kidding]).
I told Christy (the B's wife) to ask her husband to give me a calling to hold up a sign to tell people that their time is up - hey! we do that at work to the professionals that speak for us. That would be soooo cool. We wouldn't have to sit in the hallway anymore to leave church on time. (Before you think that I am going to hell for saying such a thing, try sitting in church for longer than three hours 98% of the time; especially on fast Sunday. I know that several of the people in my ward feel the same way, I am just the one to actually state it OUT LOUD.)
Yours in a very warm place,
Jessica
P.S. Well, at least I won't be cold all of the time, right?
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