First of all I need to thank Carrie and my brother Jimmy for letting me play so much with their kiddos. They are so adorable! We didn't have the camera out last night but baby Katie was giving Rick the biggest smiles. Seems that he has already won her over. While he was playing with her, I was off with Jimmy 3 to check out the zip line.
Every year my mom has a ward bbq. I have always enjoyed going so I always go back. It is so nice to see all these people who I grew up with and that love me as their own child. I so miss my
mom's next door neighbors.
So back to my story...
The ward bbq takes place in the stake property to the north of Skyline's tennis courts. There are all sorts of things there including 2 baseball fields. It is lower then the parking lot so the zip line is set up from the top near the edge of the football field and runs down across one baseball field all the way out into far outfield. Probably more than 400 yards. I thought that little Jimmy might be too small but thought we would check. He wasn't. The harness was really large on him, all the way up to his armpits but he could still go. He was about the 5th or 6th little kid to go and by far the smallest.
I asked him over and over if he was sure and every time he told me yes. We told him that he needed to hold on to the rope. I told him to hold on to it like a pirate holding his sword and that going on the zip line was like a pirate jumping between boats. He thought that was great.
One of the kids in the ward was great and lifted him up onto the rope and another was waiting at the other end to help him. When I went to get him in the middle of the field he had the harness off. I said, do you want to go again. He said yes. He couldn't walk with the harness on it was so big! He took off and ran up the stairs to get ready to go again. This time he just cruised.
Alan Hyde in my mom's ward also decided to ride the zip line. Now the reason this is so amazing is because he is like 80 years old! What a sport!
Rick and I left before my mom did with the babies but she told me today that Jimmy was trying to go again before they left. What a good pirate Jimmy is going to turn out to be. Capn' Ris will be proud.
