Sunday Nights...Ah July 2nd

So it is Monday morning once again, I survived another Sunday Night! What’s so big about Sunday Night you may ask, well we have a teen hangout time and a cookout. They have all been different.
The first night we were at Pastor Gene and Joy’s house and we played volleyball in the dark, played goofy golf…which is fastly becoming my favorite game ever!
The second Sunday we were at our house and got out the new slip and slides. The 5th and 6th graders loved this, the older teens were a little to cool to hang out with them, but it was ok. The high schoolers left after we ate to go get one of their friends in revenge…side note. Over the past year and a half they have toilet papered a house or two. Forked yards and gotten permission to destroy each others rooms. Stuff like turning each others beds upside down or wrapping them in saran wrap or papers or duck tape. This one was one of the best ones yet, including stacking the beds on each other, hiding all of his clothes, and taping his boxers to the ceiling! This one I didn’t help with, but it sounded like fun…After they left Becky and I played the Wii with the Jr. Highers…We bowled and one of the girls let go of the remote and smoked her head…it was hilarious!!!!
The third week we went out into the country…I mean out in to the country, it’s about 20 miles from here and there is only one road in and one road out, and your cell phones don’t work. We finally found it and went back and found the car that was coming later. We sat around for a while and then she gave us the tour…good thing it wasn’t a big tour…they own 305 acres, and raise and breed horses. We had fried chicken and potato salad…and a few other things. After dinner Kelly, the host said, “ Well Tim, do you want me to show you how to rope a steer?” I was like most definitely…I thought this would be easy…not so much, it took me a while to rope the metal steer but once I did it was in trouble, I pulled it through the yard! Her husband Rob, had a great time making fun of the way I through the rope…so did the teens. We probably spent an hour and a half trying to rope it…and yes I have gone shopping to look to but one…You never know when a Youth Pastor will have to double as a ranch hand.
Last night we were going to go to our friends, the Epp’s, who just came back from Nicaragua. I took a nap yesterday during the race and woke up to three missed phone calls from Rich. I called him back and he told me Judy was in an accident and was at the hospital. Then he told me she was hit by a Semi Truck…And I was worried, here is what happened. They were in the right lane at the stop light and the truck was in the left. The trucker decided he was going to turn and turned right into them, luckily there was a light because if he was going any faster it could have been really bad. She got out of the hospital in time to be there last night but she was really sore. We had sloppy joes and hot dogs, had smores and swam for a long time. We had 13 teens last night, and we made a whirl pool in the pool, a lot of them had never done it, it was a blast.On the other note it is July 2nd and were about to get really busy. We leave for camp exactly one week from when I am writing this. We come home Friday morning and leave for Mexico 4 hours later. After Mexico we get to see family!!!!! By the way James, Becky is looking forward to her new counter tops!!!