Summer time

So summer is awesome. No school! but a ton of work. I work two jobs and in most of the rest of my free time I am either climbing, playing ultimate, at cross country (6:00 a.m.) or with the missionaries. It's awesome but tiring. I'm still not an expert on how to use these things but i'm getting it well enough. Summer just contains too many things for me to look forward to as well. I am going to a family reunion in Utah in just a couple of days. Then right after i get back i have youth conference which will be awesome, There are going to be three stakes there, one from Mizzou, Paducah Kentucky, and mine. I am really looking forward to that and to mix things up in my life a little bit. Right after that is EFY which i am most excited for. EFY is the most awesome experience that i think everybody should go through. Well I am about out of things to rant about so adios!
PS. I had a pretty cool, half missionary experience the other day. I was going climbing with some non-member friends so i thought why not put a John Bytheway CD in, Our ward mission leader always tells us to use buzzwords like ward, stake, EFY, any words that will get us talking about the church and Bytheway uses a ton of those so i had to stop and explain about every minute but they really laughed and i think it was good for them!

Climbing in Indiana

so there aren't too many good places to go climbing in Indiana. Definitely no lead climbing already set up. Some of the places where there are cliffs, they are too tall to do top climbing, or too short to do that much of a climb. I have been able to find some cliffs around here that are pretty good though so i go when i can. Right now my project is getting some climbing shoes and maybe a chalk bag. The climbs here are difficult so it is still fun but not very tall. Here are some pictures...

Farewell Kip...

So this will be a short, mournful blog. but last Wednesday night kip had a stroke that blinded him completely. We had to put him in the kennel for the weekend when we went to Wisconsin, but when we came back there were no improvements. We just couldn't stand to see kip suffering and running into everything so we had to put him to sleep. sad sad day for the family.