Climbing OUTSIDE!

Today Corey and I went climbing outside for the first time ever. 

Our Green River camping friend Craig texted asking if we wanted to go this afternoon. We said yes. Corey also wanted to get in a ride. I didn't feel up to a ride, but then I went anyway. We arranged it for him to meet us up at the Lisa Falls trailhead after we biked up the trail. We figured it would take us about an hour so to meet at 2. We were mostly right on time, except that it took us a few extra minutes to get out of the house. So we were there at 2:10. Craig was ready and we hiked up the short trail to the bottom of the slab we were gonna climb. It was like 60 minutes of instruction and learning, 5 min of actual climbing, and 25 min of figuring out what to do and who goes where. Craig climbed up first and set the anchors with "nuts" and "cams" (see all these new words we learned!) Craig anchored himself at the first pitch, then Corey went and removed the anchors, and then I went up. This climb had a "mantle" move, another new word. The climb is called Lisa Buttress I think? He showed us something on "Mountain Project" about it, and that also said that this was a 5.7 route. I could believe that. Corey's shoes were no good, if we do this again we'll want climbing shoes. It's probably time to bite that bullet anyway. After climbing for over 90 minutes and a bit of visiting, we said bye and finished our ride up the trail to the Ruins. Came down techy. We were gone for quite a bit - left at 1:15 and were back home at 5:15. We met Craig at 2:10, started our climbing at 2:30, and did a whole 16 feet. The mountain looked so cool from up higher! 

We started the second half of our ride at 4:45, and were home in 33 minutes. All was well at home - kids coloring on the sidewalk with chalk.

Wes was a champ and took Peter to his 2:00 soccer game so we could go recreate. Natalie, Owen, and Daniel all went to Peter's game to cheer him on.

Owen had a 9am game and requested that both Wesley and I attend and cheer him on, which we gladly did. Corey took Daniel to his game. And then we left Wes to do Peter. When we left home, Wesley was rallying the troops to work. "All right soldier!..." (He had Hyrum's pellet gun)

It's been really great having Wesley home to help out. We're gonna miss him when he starts working as an FSY counselor soon. Tonight the kids watched Holes. That is a really fun show (except for the nice school teacher turned outlaw murder part...) We've all seen it before, but I guess the kids only caught some of the fun connections back then - today they understood more the back and forth and past and future connections with Stanley's grandfather and Madam Zeroni and they were kinda mind blown - like when Stanley carries Zero up the mountain, that is how the curse gets broken!! WHAATT?!? And then I was really liking what Stanley said about feeling really good, feeling lucky. I want to feel that too - maybe our luck is changing too! Cause we have a clean basement, I make bread now, I've been really coming across a lot of art inspiration with people I'm meeting and stuff, so I'm inspired about that, and today we felt inspired to climb outside, yeah... maybe we're gonna have money soon! Corey said he wanted to get me a new bike for my birthday (aww, so sweet) and maybe that will happen this year. That would be fun. I'll try to keep expectations low, but I'm also going to try out "feeling lucky" and we'll see what happens! I got lucky today with a present from Mel - she amazon'd me a new bread knife! Wow! 

It cuts SOOOO amazingly well. Maybe our lucky is changing. And now it's 12:45, I should head to bed and blog more tomorrow. 'Night!