Fall Fun

The weather has been absolutely beautiful! Danny is in the middle of soccer and doing well when he is not hurt(pulled a quad muscle last week). Whitney ran her first Cross Country meet in Boise and had fun spending the night in a hotel with the team and taking a travel bus on Saturday. This was her first race as she has also been hurt(tendonitis in her heel). She did well considering she has been out most of the season. Tori has been doing well in Cross Country also. She took 8th at the last meet out of 64 kids. Not bad. She is also kicking but on clogging even if Autumn Coats is one tough teacher. Whitney put together a musical group called the Light Keepers with her young women and performed today in Sacrament. It was beautiful. She sang and also played her cello.

We've been spending a lot of weekends trying to get the cabin closed in for winter. Saturday we went on the Teddy Bear motorcycle fundraiser ride with a million other riders for abused children. Then the guys went up to Lava to put in windows. I'm going to try to post some pics of our fun times at Lava with this. Haven't had lots of luck posting pics.

The gym is coming along; over budget and over schedule. The story of my life. It's exciting to see the progress though. They are going to sheet rock this week! Then we get to start painting and making it look like a gym. Yeah! Sometimes I'm positive we are absulutely insane to be doing this.

Tori Birthday

Wow! This week has flown by. It's been a crazy one. We started it by celebrating Tori's birthday. We had a great time spending the night in Salt Lake at our favorite hotel, Country Inn & Suites and then hitting all the rides at Lagoon the next day. I was so sick after only about 2 rides. Still kept going and proud that I did not upchuck all over everyone. The kids had a blast (literally)! They especially loved the Wicked (new extremely wild ride) and did not love getting soaked on the Cliffhanger. We were so wet. Ended it with a great dinner at Famous Dave's (I think they named it after my brother Dave) and watching Chris open a few birthday presents.

Just dropped of our interior designer here from San Diego. It's been a whirlwind or plans, paint chips, tiles, stains, carpets, and lots of color and ideas. So much to do and so little time but I'm excited about the direction we are going. We are going to have the most beautiful gym!

Tori birthday pics

Tori had to babysit most of the day and we are now at Country Inn and Suite's getting ready to party at Lagoon tomorrow. More pics to come!

Labor Day ride

For Chris's birthday, we hooked up with our friends, Clyde & Sandy Johnson and a bunch of their friends and rode to Yellowstone. We stopped by Mesa Falls (my favorite) and spent the night in West Yellowstone at our Worldmark condo. It was sweet, especially the pool! I woke up a little earlier for a 7 mile run and then swim before heading to breakfast with the gang and then a ride through the park. A highlight was jumping into Firehole Falls and floating down the river a little ways. The rocks were sharp but it was fun. Then back on the bikes for a long ride home. It was beautiful day and a perfect ride until we hit a bad motorcycle crash when we were almost home. A couple had been riding drunk and without helmets. It was bad. Made it home to celebrate Tori's birthday. Whitney and Dan did a great job decorating and Tori made a great cake. Great day!