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.