The Darby Queen is the obstacle course at Ranger School. Mr. L has gone through it recently in the first phase of Ranger School and he's now in the third phase!! They opened up Camp Darby for a 5k, 10k, and 30k, then opened up the course for us to try. They had spotters and most of the elements were the easier ones. The high ones were closed for us. And were super hard!! I can't imagine doing this with no sleep, no food, and so much pressure to finish. Not to mention NO HARNESSES and no gloves on the rope ones!! Crazy guys!
Us heading for the start of the course.
Crazy inverted ladder... I didn't try the face first option but these girls did.
Traversing a double cable.
Sorry it's out of order but this is before we started...
Monkey bars!
Army crawling under barbed wire. Yes we crawled and it was dirty! At Ranger School, they fill it with water and you have to crawl through in the mud!
You can see me taking it easy in the back, and Mrs. M over there hopping over like you're supposed to :)
Miss W. on the monkey bars.
Had to post for her crazy face!!
On this one you had to run and jump to grab the rope and swing over the cross beam. It was totally easier than it looked.
This one was crazy. I had a hurt ankle so I was pretty tired by this point. The beams get further and further apart and you have to go up one side, flip over the yellow one, then go down the back side. These girls made me nervous!
These were posts that stuck up out of the ground and you had to hop from post to post to make it across the area without touching the ground.
Me tackling the rope crawl :)
We didn't do this one because after the 5k and all the others we were pretty tired. I almost did but I decided I better save the ankle! It was such a fun day and so cool to see all the crazy stuff Mr. L just went through a few months ago. I'm so proud of him and keeping my fingers crossed he graduates in less than 2 weeks!!! Rangers Lead the Way!!!
Mr. L and his Dad
And Mom
And cousin Katie
His buddy Clay
My family
Part of the Rangers In Action Demonstration
YAY!!!
Part of the demonstration. Yes, they actually had to do this in Ranger School
Notice the line of 4 guys hanging from the helicopter
Belaying
Cake made by me :)
Yep, they had to do this too!
The whole family was home!!! First time in at least 5 years!
Extended family Christmas in the sunroom
All tuckered out!
Dad playing the new dance game for the Wii
Bo enjoying his candy cane bone
Love this one!
Bo's Spider Man rolley backpack, for the "special" pup he is!
Brunch!
The family photo!
Brothers and sister :)
The sweetest one :)
Shot with Uncle Dan
Master Bath
Dining room/area
Front windows
Living Room
Sunroom/office
Master Closet ;)
Master Bedroom (Still nothing up on the walls yet)
Kitchen
Guest Bath
For Christmas I got Dad's old Cannon camera. It's an EOS D30. So not super souped up new but still pretty awesome and takes some amazing photos! Plus Mr. Bo is enjoying his new 65' trolley system in the back yard :) Check out all those pine needles!
Us heading for the start of the course.
Crazy inverted ladder... I didn't try the face first option but these girls did.
Traversing a double cable.
Sorry it's out of order but this is before we started...
Monkey bars!
Army crawling under barbed wire. Yes we crawled and it was dirty! At Ranger School, they fill it with water and you have to crawl through in the mud!
You can see me taking it easy in the back, and Mrs. M over there hopping over like you're supposed to :)
Miss W. on the monkey bars.
Had to post for her crazy face!!
On this one you had to run and jump to grab the rope and swing over the cross beam. It was totally easier than it looked.
This one was crazy. I had a hurt ankle so I was pretty tired by this point. The beams get further and further apart and you have to go up one side, flip over the yellow one, then go down the back side. These girls made me nervous!
These were posts that stuck up out of the ground and you had to hop from post to post to make it across the area without touching the ground.
Me tackling the rope crawl :)
We didn't do this one because after the 5k and all the others we were pretty tired. I almost did but I decided I better save the ankle! It was such a fun day and so cool to see all the crazy stuff Mr. L just went through a few months ago. I'm so proud of him and keeping my fingers crossed he graduates in less than 2 weeks!!! Rangers Lead the Way!!!
Mrs. R and Mrs. L! From skiing in Colorado to sunbathing in Destin! We are so blessed by such a great friendship!
Beach-side!
Mr. L and Mr. R... Man Love at its finest!
At dinner with the family
Photo time! We had a great getaway and some nice family time with Mr. and Mrs. R and her family. Mr. L played some golf, we soaked up some sun and had a nice breather of a weekend!
Somebody's excited!
Posing for his birthday photo :)
He loved it!!
On Mr. L's last night before Ranger school, we celebrated Bo's 2nd birthday! His cake had whole wheat flour, peanut butter, an egg, some oil, and a little honey (of course Mr. L baked it!). It was pretty gross but he was excited! We topped it with peanut butter and of course some Pup-Peroni to spell out Happy Birthday! We made a cake for ourselves too :)
