Just hanging/ climbing around

Since Jensen and Nathan are both starting up baseball this week, we decided to let Austin try something different and fun for exercise... climbing! This is not something he had ever really done before but he is learning fast and loving it! I actually believe it is good therapy for him. We got him a pass for a couple of months to try while his brothers are busy with baseball and part of the deal is he gets two guests each month. So on Saturday since it was raining and we didn't have much else to do, we all went down to Yosemite fitness and used those two passes and let the 3 boys climb and climb and climb! They had a good time and got some energy out and it was a fun way to kill a few hours on a rainy day. I only got a few pictures and they aren't all that great again with my non low light lens on my camera (see post below).

Look how high that seems- the picture actually makes it look bigger than it really was! Go Jensen...

Austin loves having something to be proud of and that he accomplished. Last night he was so excited because he got to the top of one of the hard ones.

Concentrating on trying to make it to the top

Our boys have always been climbers. It started when they would climb up on the table, then climbing trees, now pretty much anywhere they can. It's fun now to have someplace to take them where they can really climb, and not get in trouble for it!

I can't believe he's 12

Where has the time gone?

He has grown so much since then...

Happy 12th Birthday Austin.

Wagon Train

Well, he did it. Our oldest son not only survived his first week at camp, but was already scheming about next year's plans on the way home! He went to Hume Lake's Wagon Train camp, the same camp that his daddy went to when he was a kid. He had lots of stories and exciting things to tell us when he got home, so I'm pretty sure he had a good time! He is such an outdoor kind of kid that we knew he would love it. I was missing him by mid-week, and realized it was just a little too quiet in the house without him there!

This is the covered wagon that he and 9 other boys slept in: a young boy's paradise!

The inside of the wagon filled with boys- yes, it is that small!

Before and after shots... they get pretty grimey up there. Actually he said he took 2 showers that week, so he wasn't completely filthy. (a lot of kids didn't even take one!)