Fiesta and Spiderman

This weekend was one for the books!

Friday night John and I went on a little date. We’re still new to Medford, and for dinner, we felt like something predictable. However, after finding out it was an hour wait for Olive Garden we said, “Aw heck with it, let’s try something new.” So we drove around Medford, and landed on Fiesta Mexico. We let the waiter choose for us, and it was seriously delicious. I crave Friday night dates all week, and by Friday afternoon, you can’t wipe the smile off my face.  As always, it was just nice to reconnect and laugh, and dissect topics together. It’s cheesy, it’s cliché- but seriously, John is my very best friend. I really enjoy his company.  We got home and put kids to bed and ate Johnny’s leftover birthday cake. Just a great Friday night.

Saturday John took the reigns and we headed to Emigrant Lake to go rock climbing! I don’t think we have gone since we left Rexburg, Idaho. We were all a little rusty. The views were beautiful. The kids explored and conquered a new-to-them world. On the other side of the cliff were rolling hills of pasture fields with cows grazing. The air, the moo’s in the background, the light breeze, the sun reflecting on the water? Just what the doctor ordered.

William went first, and then my phone died, so he is the only one we have pictures of. :) 

 It was pretty tricky teaching them to trust John, who was belaying, and to lean completely back to repel back down the boulder. They were terrified. We kept saying, "Be like spider-man!" At one point William said, "I don't even like Spiderman!" We would promise them they wouldn’t get hurt, and then somehow every single one of them did, haha! Not terrible, just enough that I may win the “We should have them wear helmets” argument next time, haha. We made a lot of progress and it was a great family outing. I got to lay up top and the kids would make eye contact with me while they repelled down the rock. It was really sweet looking at their faces as they overcame their fears.

You can't tell that he's standing on a ledge, it was actually quite a ways up for his little five year old body!

Now- in true transparency I was tiiiired on this trip. I don’t know what was up, but as soon as I got to the place we were climbing, I laid down and totally fell asleep. Ha! But so you all don’t think I’m too pathetic here, John taught be how to belay myself, which I did somewhat decently, may I add. We got to the car just in time to head home before dark. Everyone was starving and suddenly the bananas everyone thought was disgusting on our way out, looked mighty appetizing after hours of play. We stopped by Costco on the way home for a pizza, and called it a night.

Sunday was church with all its goodness (including a double meltdown on the way to primary class, whoohoo!) Then it was spending the day together. Just an overall, grateful to be alive kind of weekend.