Tarver Tales: Rock Climbing

So after days of hearing, "Aunt DeeDee how come we never do anything fun?" and "Mom, I'm soooo bored" I threw the kids in the suburban and said, "Fine!!! Let's go climb a dangerous and unstable rock mountain!" and all the kids jumped up and down and cheered! "Finally, something fun!"

So off we went to Quartz Mountain State Park. Here they are before they go up. I'm talking while I take their picture. I'm telling them, " You guys have to watch for snakes, and be careful where you step. Watch where you're going! And PLEASE don't fall!!! I don't want to have to take you to the ER with a broken limb or worse and have to call your mom and tell her!!!!"

All these kids heard, was "Blah, blah, blah, snakes, blah, blah, ER, blah, blah, Mom".

Fine! Just go! I'll stay down here and wait. And BE CAREFUL!!!! Coming down is harder than going up!!

And they're off!!!
And I start praying!!

I'm still praying. I'm such a Mother!!! All I can think about is an escape plan if one of these babies come flying down the mountain and how I'm going to get all of them back down without hurting themselves so I can get them to the hospital!

Um....guys? Be careful please! Guys?

Ahhhhh!!! Brandon? You okay? "I'm okay mom! Geesh! Just trying to climb....can you please calm down????"

Can you see them? Look really hard towards the center left you can see red shirts. Oh my gosh they're high!

Okay guys...heh. That's far enough! Go ahead and start heading down now....heh...before your momma has a heart attack...

Here they come...steady and careful.

I missed the memo on wearing red today I guess. Hehe. Here they come. The little punks! They told me, "I thought you said it was harder coming down! That was too easy!" Well it was hard for me dangit!!