August 12, 2019
Dear Family and Friends, Today is Caden's birthday. He is twenty years old. He will finish his mission in January. I can't wait for him to get home! We had the Kerns family reunion up on Willow Creek last weekend. I admit I was skeptical about camping up there, but Steve Moultrie put up a shelter and brought in some port-a-potties, so it was almost as good as home. (Not really, but it was as good as any other camp) The first night was beautiful, and I slept really well considering there was a cow bawling all night looking for its calf. There was something about the acoustics down in that draw – there were times the cow sounded kind of like the T-Rex on Jurassic World. The kids spent the time making whips, throwing knives, and making and using boffer swords. It could have been the training facilities for the Dauntless faction! Friday evening, it started raining, and we had about 90 minutes of lightening. I had been down at Grandma and Grandpa’s with Abram