First day of School!

Zeb's first day of second grade. I can't believe how fast they grow.
This year we put Dax in a all day preschool/kindergarten and he loves it. But now the house is empty and really weird. The first day of school and after much cleaning and I was ready for the day I still had 4 hours until they would be home, It drove me crazy to have the house so quiet. Something needs to change............. Maybe Dax won't go to school on Mondays, so we can hang out:)

RACE!!!

So my brother Bryan talked me into doing a trail run/Mtn. bike race as a team with him. So me thinking since I ran 5-6 miles a couple of days a week, I thought a 4 miles trail run wouldn't be to bad at all and then thought I better get some Mtn. biking in for the 10 mile Mtn. bike part of it. Well low and behold this race was a hole lot more then just trail running. We did a 2 miles loop for the run and a 5 mile loop for the bike and we each had to do them twice in a row. We ran through rivers, jumped/crawled under trees, over fences and logs. The run was actually pretty fun, but coming out of the water my shoes felt like they weighed 20lbs. The bike part of it was fun at the beginning until we got to the sandy hill and mile long stretch of just sand. Basically you just spun in the sand, and if you tried to ride in it you used all your energy staying in one place, so it seemed. Once again most of my pictures didn't download, but here are some that did.

Camping

Camping at Tony Grove is one of our favorite things to do as a family.
Zeb loves smores and could eat and eat them.
Zeb has really took to fishing this year and loves to go any chance he gets.. Sad thing is Rich nor I really like to do it, but his uncles do and that gets Rich out doing it with Zeb:).....

Brent pushed Rich out on the log so he could try and get some better fishing, and as you can see it is Waiste deep to Brent. (The sad thing is my picture of Rich soaking wet didn't download.... ) After Brent pushed the log out he decided to go dry off. When rich was done Brent didn't want to get wet again so he threw a log to Rich to have him push his self back. As Rich was pushing on the log he lost his balance and fell in the water and went all the way under. When he came back up he was so cold he could hardly breath..... We couldn't decide if the look on his face from falling in our coming out was the funnest... Poor guy was freezing wet for the rest of the day:)

ReAlLy!!!!!

Just gotta love those days when Dax wants to dress himself and he trys really hard to match...

New York City!!!

Once again I got to go to New York and visit Sydney. It was a blast, like always. Thank you Syd for the adventures and fun that we have when we are together, and Rich for letting me take the time to go and play and being so wonderful about it. Thank you mom and dad for taking care of my boys on short notice and loving them so much while I was gone and Rich was working. Love you all!!
- - -Syd just picked me up from the airport..

The George Washington Bridge at 12:30 in the morning... I don't think New York ever sleeps.

10k in Central Park!

So one of the many things I did this time in New York was run a lady only 10k in Central Park with Syndey, well not really with her, but we signed up together and was planning on running it together but some girl thought she didn't need to train and only ran 2 miles once.. ha ha!! The funny part about it was the next day she couldn't walk and I was just fine:) and of course some of my pictures didn't download. - But the girl that won the race did it in 30:28 -
-----5:30 in the morning of race day, not sure what we are doing!

Eating a bagel at the train station'''''
Just checked in and put our bags in there spots....
We all got flowers at the end of the race.

THE PLAZA HOTEL!!!
Not the best picture, but we have all seen it in the movies, just cool to see it up close.

These stairs are made of Candy. This is the famous Dylan's Candy store in New York. It's three floors filled with all the candy, chocolate, nuts, etc that you could think of:) I so bad just wanted to try and dig some candy out of the stairs, but I held myself back and just walked down them:)


A Few pictures of New York City!

City of Rocks - - - -

Can I just tell you that this place is a lot cooler then I ever thought it would be. I was worried it wouldn't be that fun for the boys and the rocks would be to steep, but man was I wrong my boys loved climbing on all the rocks and Zeb would go a little to high on some, but he just kept climbing and climbing. Sometimes I would just have to look away and have Rich go climb with him:) There were also lizards that the boys caught and hikes we went on, but of course my pictures of those didn't download.

Animals & Kids

The boys and I where driving home and along side the road at Peterson's country store they had some animals, so I decided to stop for a short while (well nothing is real short with kids) and let the boys look. The next day I was watching my nieces and the boys informed them of these animals (and dax talked about the bull inside the store) so of course we had to go take another look and as you can see the kids in the background just loved to sit and watch them. - They thought this camel was pretty cool and my boys wanted to ride it:)


A Zonkey - hmmmmm - - A Cross between a Zebra and a Donkey?

The kids holding baby chicks and as you can see on Daxes hand, he came prepared to ride the bull. We couldn't leave the house until he found a glove so he could ride the bull like a real cowboy,(O HELP ME!!!!) (ha ha - the glove is from a Batman costume:)

This is the only picture that downloaded and he didn't even have his glove on:)