So ever since the beginning of the summer, Me, Betsy and the kids (Brenna and Breyson) have been going to this State park called Eagle Island and there’s a little beach and it is roped off so it’s pretty fun. We just go and swim there all day.

Saturday morning I hatched a hair brained plan to institute the Crazy Coppess Challenge – later renamed by the kids who voted the “Crazy Kids Challenge.” The Crazy Kids Challenge consisted of 10 events some timed, some team, some completive, concluding with Judge Bob’s (Broc’s) obstacle course. We had a total of 6 participants, and had a ton of fun and laughs. The kids competed for medals, and the Grand Prize was some kind of hippo looking trophy. The event spanned from its early conception around 9:00am to getting stuff ready from about noon to 3:00pm to the actual competition starting at 4:00pm and concluding with a delicious hot dog and potato chip dinner around 7:00pm.

We, of course did not take enough pictures or video, but I am posting the individual event results, and my impressions.

Last night at around 5:30 pm Broc and I got into the truck and headed out to a place that we can never go back from. A place that just a couple of months ago was so far away. A place that even now seems surreal, like it never really happened. At about a quarter to six, I said good by to my little boy, walked thorough an empty church, got in my truck and drove home – by myself.