FATHERS and SONS

A week ago it was fathers and sons, which is held church wide on Mothers Day weekend. This is so Niki and other mothers across the land get a break from the boys. We had a lot of fun. The camping isn't quite the same as it is in Utah where there's real mountains. This was a place called Wilderness Park that was just down the road from a subdivision. It was a small grassy field with the whole Stake camping near each other. Still, there were pine trees, so it's not too bad. When we got there, kids were kicking a soccer ball, so Max naturally joined in for over an hour, and after one too many dads got hit in the face with the soccer ball the game was over. A campfire was made and everyone gathered around for the ward "skits." Each year our Ward has the WORST skits, ha ha, it's almost embarrassing.

This was probably the latest Max has stayed up in a long long time. It was almost 11pm when Max finally went to bed. In the photo below it was around 10:30 and he was staring off and pretty much out of it without blinking. After a few "Max," Max," "MAX!" 's, he would say "uh what," as if he was woken from a waking sleep. We stayed up a little later and had dutch oven cobbler, which was after the smores and other treats.


I look really really ugly. This is the first official Fackrell family tent.


There was a spot up a trail near the camping area that the kids were going up to because it was "haunted." Some of the older kids were telling the younger kids that many years ago Americans and Native Americans were taken to the top of this hill, burned alive and their bodies thrown down the hill...yeah, I know, not your typical bed time ghost story. Anyway, I walked up here with Max and snapped the photo below. Later on at home, I added in an Indian with photoshop and told Max that I took a picture of a ghost. He was in shock when I showed him the final photo.

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AFTER


Here’s a little video of me scarring Max. We were walking up to the “haunted,” area; Max and Ethan Tervet were talking about the ghosts and such, so I took advantage of the situtation. With the second video a few kids were at "the spot," and I made it seem like I heard something and they all flipped out. When they're running down the hill that is true terror driving them down. It was hilarious!