The American Church:

Someone suggested that this Wendys commercial was a good metaphor for the American Church...What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qd5UEfs4W8

Time Flies:

Not that anyone follows my blog...but it has been a stinking long time since i wrote anything. It was actually the first day of summer camp...the last time I posted anything. There are a lot of reasons why...but mostly exhaustion! Today was the first time that I even read another blog.
So I just wanted to let you know...I'm back! I wouldn't be on the lookout for anything profound, deep or insightful, just stuff I think about!

Summer camp:

It is 7:30am and in less than 3 hours we will be loading up vehicles heading for Hume Lake San Diego! It seems like so long ago that we began promoting camp...but at that same time I can't believe it is already time to go. I was thinking this morning that for over a decade I have been measuring time by summer camp...I have been to a lot of weeks of camp. The camp I grew up going to was called "Woodland Lakes Christian Camp". I have a lot of fun memories about camp...How about you?

Counting down:

I am now less than 24 hours away from leaving for camp. There are dozens of things still left to do...mostly just double checking forms and permission slips and reservations, but I always have this haunting feeling that there is something that I have forgotten. I have never forgotten anything big...it is usually deodorant or a towel...or underwear. Have you ever forgotten anything funny on a big trip?
This year is a little more nerve racking because we are going two weeks back to back. First High School and then Jr. High. We will have one day in between to come home do laundry and then head back to San Diego.
The other thing I am counting down to...I am going to be an uncle again anytime now! By brother Micah and his wife Junko are going to have a little girl any day now. We are very excited to meet the newest addition to the McSwain family.

Swimming!

Growing up in Cincinnati not many people had a pool, and if they did it was an above ground pool! But out west in California, it seems like everybody has a pool...except us! Today though, our friends the Thomas' let us go swimming in their pool. We had a blast, it was the first time that the family got to swim together! Isabella loves swimming she would have floated around all day. We had to make her get out so we could put more sunscreen on her!

My Girls:

I took this picture on Sunday afternoon. I am blessed with two California Girls...I had a great fathers day...I got a new hat and a new grill! I am very excited, I don't know if there are many people that like to BBQ a lot...I do...and I am going to get to do a lot of it now because I got a sweet new BBQ from my awesome wife!

Fathers Day

Fathers day! Today is my first! I have to be honest...it is a little overwhelming, kids don't come with manuals. Maybe because I work with students I see the results (more often bad than good) of what fathers can do to there kids. In April I heard Andy Stanley say this about fathers at a conference..."My only unique role in life is to be Isabella's father" That is heavy...there are a lot of things that I will do in life...different jobs etc. but only one unique just to me!

I love my little girl!!!