i was reminiscing about the past today as I thought about my kids. It was prompted by the fact that four of them had birthdays in the last couple of days. Sam turned 37 today and I think, Wow, the time has gone by so fast. I think my favorite activity of all time was watching them play sports. Sam and Seth playing basketball and the girls volleyball. All through Junior High, High School and College the first thing I put on my calendar was all the games, even most of the away games, and we missed very few of them. Susanna and Shelly played volleyball together as twins and they were poetry in motion. If I had a hundred hours of video of them playing I would watch them over and over.  Our annual hunting trips to the Steens mountains even when they were in diapers was an amazing time as a family bonding and learning character together as we toughed it out in the wild. Our annual trips to Brownlee Resevior the day after school was out to catch hundreds of Crappie, to swim, and camp together. Life is totally different now, but  life is still fun.