Fathers Day 2020

This guy keep our house running and our mouths fed.  If he sees a problem he takes care of it.  He keeps our house clean.  He takes time with his kids to help them to be strong mentally and physically.  We have added a few more grey hairs to his head - especially in the last year or two.  I can't imagine the stress it takes to provide for a family and he sure does it well.  Too bad he doesn't love food as much as we all do - but we made him "Waffle Love" waffles with all the topics we could think off. We ate outside in his lovely kitchen.  

Nolan invited us over for a yummy dinner and dessert.  Pat and Seth drove all the way down.  It was a lovely afternoon.  The kids played hide and seek- since Nolan had new garbage cans the kids found a great hiding place and never got found.  

Sailing with Jim Daniels

My Dad has a good friend named Jim. Jim has lots of sail boats and took us all out for an afternoon on the Lake.  It was so fun to learn how to sail.  Tyler and I caught a great wind and our boat took off.  So exciting.  Unfortunately this trip also started a few weeks of family stress with Covid.  My heart goes out to those who are sick and for those who are treated poorly because they have or might have Covid.  

CastleRock #3

We had planned to stay until Sunday but the weather was going to go from 80 to 45 as the high! so we packed up Saturday morning.  The girl had made "Cactus Cakes" which looked lovely :). We headed to Bath Rock and almost everyone made it to the top thank to the rebar.  Jenny and Asher waited at the bottom.  What a view.  

We only had a few hours of good weather so we headed over to Castle Rock.  Keaton wanted to do a multi-pitch.  We got in Big Time which was 5 pitches but we were able to do it in 3 up and rappel 3 down.  We got off the climb and to our car just as the rain started.  It was perfect.  There is something about climbing on rocks that makes me so happy.  The kids were at the bottom climbing or chasing lizards.  Such a fun day.  As we drove away we literally were being chased by the storm.  Semi trucks were blown over.  trees falling down. I was in the bathroom at a gas station when the power went off. Snow, rain, hail, wind...we were sure glad were weren't in a tent!

City of Rocks #2

Friday-  I couldn't sleep in knowing there were climbs right out side our tents that needed to be climbed.  We are camping at Bread Loaves and there are several fun climbs around there.  Upper Bread Loaves West

Lots of excited kids up on the wall.  The Larkins and Allens showed up late on Thursday night so we were all together.

We headed over to Practice Rock after breakfast,  - Kids loved climbing on some easier climbs.  The sun was coming out so we couldn't stay for too long.  After climbing we had lunch and sat in the shade at our camp site and ate and played games.  Corey was bored out of his mind with his boot on his foot.  It wasn't long before he showed us all how to climb with a boot on.  

We decided to head back to the Drilling Fields. There are five climbs from 5.4-5.9... and harder if you are awesome on slab. The shade was a welcome relief.  Kids pushed limits and climbed more... and some were tired of climbing and stopped.  But the adults loved it ... even the dirty ropes that made hands black.  We got done climbing and found a storm was rolling in.  We stopped to wash our hands at the pump but saw that the STORM WAS REALLLLLLY rolling in.  We ran to the camp site and it was a total down pour.  Jennys tent was blown around pretty bad.  The "girl" tent had water in it.  We were relieved when the storm passed on through 20 minutes later.  

City of Rocks #1

Darren was able to get off work for half of Thursday and all of Friday so we jumped on it and headed to City.  We met the Larrabees there and set up tents.  Then hiked out to the Drilling Fields- Lost World.  Fantastic!!! shady in the afternoon and enough easy climbs for us all to enjoy.

Thursday - Drilling Fields. There are five climbs from 5.4-5.9... Slab is a whole new thing.  Not a lot of fingers and toe spots but lots of rock to smear on!  Keaton was amazing.  He helped set up all kinds of climbs so it wasn't just me.  We marked off a lot of climbs that were on my bucket list.