Great Things Keep Happening!

Tonight as the day ends I am feeling so blessed.
Great thing 1- Yesterday morning Chris met with a group of guys from the ward and they went and biked 39 miles. He had such a great time and it was the farthest he has yet biked.

Great thing 2 -Then later that day we got to go on a date because my new companion called me and wanted to watch our kids while we went on a date. I am still in shock about that one. We had such a fun time. We went to COSI and watched a movie called "In To the Alps". It was a documentary about a man who climbed the Eiger, on a huge imax screen and it was incredible. We both are ready to go on a trip to Switzerland.

Great thing 3-We came home and I made hamburgers and we ate squash, lettuce, and cucumbers from our garden. I had our awesome new babysitting friends eat dinner with us, and then we went out to ice cream. It rained and the wind was blowing so hard that it broke our umbrella while Chris waited in line for our ice cream. (Very funny to watch from my dry spot with the kids.) It was so fun and we were happy to have made some great new friends.

Great thing 4-Today was Chris's second sunday that he was on call. I can't say that I love going to church with out him but I had a really great day. I made it to church on time this week.(i was five minutes last time I went by my self.) The kids were really good and I only had to leave sacrament once for a potty break. Then Laura went to Sunbeams and I went to nursery with STeven because I had been asked to sub. I took Aaron with me and hoped that he would sit happy in his car seat. I wasn't so lucky and he got fussy. It was of course really noisy and he was tired. I took him into sunday school while the kids were having snack time in hopes that I could find someone to pawn him off on. I spotted the couple who had volunteered to watch our kids the day before. I quietly handed him off and ran back to the nursery. I had left one lady to fend for herself in there, so I was trying to hurry. I had a really fun time being in nursery I brought lots of songs and activities and since it was the older nursery they loved it. It was a good reminder to me that I belong in primary. Later when the kids were occupied I snuck back into sunday school to make sure Aaron wasn't causing to much trouble. The brother who had taken him for me had him sound asleep in his arms. He kept him all through priesthood as well and I guess he stayed asleep the whole time.

Great thing 5- I spent most of Sunday playing games with my kids
Some funny things that the kids have done lately. Laura comes up stairs with a bloody nose. I ask her what happened she says "Steven stuck his finger up it and made it bleed."

Steven was asked what he wanted to be when he grows up he says " A superhero" Practical Laura says "Steven aren't you going to be a dad?" She is very literal about most things, not a lot of make believe in her.

Today Steven annouces to Laura with his pants already completely off "Laura I'm going potty now by myself and I want some privacy." Then he marches off to the bathroom. uh yeah I guess I need to work on that privacy concept a little more.

Camping at John Bryan State Park

One of the great things about Colombus is our new friends. We have made friends with a family that has kids the same ages as ours and that like the same things we do. July 18th we went camping with them. Saturday we went and ate breakfast at an actual flour mill.

The mill is famous for their pancakes and from the photo I think you can see why.

This is Laura and Chris in front of the water wheel. It is sadly not great for pictures because they keep Christmas lights on it. At Christmas time they have a light show that we will have to go back and see. I think then I will appreciate all the lights on the Mill.
Rock climbing is the reason we chose to camp here. It was the first time we have gone since Laura was a baby and we lived in Logan. So a first in over four years. It was so fun.

I have this same picture of all of my kids now about the same age in this pack. It has come in handy many times and this was one of them. Thank you Chris's parents! The big red mark on his forhead is a misquito bite. We all have had more misquito bites this summer then all the rest of them combined.

Here we are starting our kids young. Chris made a harness for the kids out of some webing. They thought it was great!

Reaching for that hold. Laura loved rock climbing.

Steven had some very interesting technique. We will have to work on his form some.

Here is Chris truly in his element. I like rock climbing but Chris LOVES rock climbing so this was an especially great trip for him. He was a bit rusty but still scrambled up to the top.


Here he is, his favorite place to be, on top of a rock. His favorite rocks to be on top of are of course much higher but this was still fun.


And last and also least is me trying to remember how to rock climb. Lets just say I didn't really remember but I had a wonderful time trying.

This gives a new meaning to "CHEESE". Our last picnic on a moss covered table. mmm.

So now for a little bit of history. Posting these pictures brought back memories. A good six and a half years ago Chris had me climb up this rock pinacle up Logan canyon. He climbed up first then he belayed me from the top while I climbed up after him. When I finally made it to the top he had sparkling cider and our song playing (John Denver's Annie's song). He also had flowers (some ended up blowing off but I was sitll impresssed). He then told me he loved me and asked me to marry him. I wish I could remember what he said exactly. I know I wrote it down but I'm not going to look it up right now. Anyway it was a special day that I will always remember and makes me fall in love with him all over just thinking about it.

A Happy 4th of July

We really had a fun 4th of July this year. We started the day with a rainy parade but we had a great time anyway. Steven and Laura enjoyed walking to the car splashing in the puddles. Then Chris got home and we went to a bbq. WE both met a few more new people. Then we went to a park and watched the fireworks. Someone there was playing music over a speaker and that provided for some good fun dancing. I spent some time reflecting about what a great blessing it is to live in America. When I was in Russia everything there was so uncertain. The best anyone did there was buy a two bedroom apartment and only a few people owned a car. The people that I knew in Perm would never be able to live in a house like I have and it is very small for American standard of living. Even though we live in a economically uncertain time I'm not worried about wether I will have enough food to feed my children. I have so many wonderful things because I live in America.

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