Learning

Goodbye Training Wheels

Yep. Mackenzie is a 2 wheeler girl. What a big step. Here is the picture she drew for her Dad who did such a great job working with her on her bike. So cute.

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Rick and Melissa

We are so happy for Robert's brother Rick and his new wife Melissa who were married August 20.

Spaghetti

Spudman

Spudman is an awesome tri up in Burley, Idaho where you swim a mile down the Snake River, bike 25 miles and run 6. Last year Robert did the race without me because I was quite pregnant. I was a little bitter and made the goal to do it this year. Here we are after the race:

Do we look half dead? We were! I didn't have a goal time in mind because I had no idea how long the swim and bike would take me. I ended up with a time of 2 hours and 48 minutes which I am happy with.

OK, what do you think the highlight of the weekend was for my husband? It has nothing to do with his lovely wife or the race. Not even the post race meal (which was so good- Maddox- after being so hungry). It was meeting Chad Lewis (BYU and pro football great). The first time we saw Chad when we were registering and Bert wasn't very thrilled about what he said to Chad but he got another chance when Chad and his wife borrowed our bike pump. I thought it would be cool for Robert to have a picture with Chad so I asked Robert if he had his phone. He looked at me like a was crazy- then he said oh yeah, lets get a picture. He told me after he thought I was telling him to ask for Chad's phone number. Oh man I cracked up at that.

This was my first time leaving Charlotte overnight. We had 4 different people help watch the girls so it was kind of a pain. But they did great and Robert and I had the best time on our quick overnight getaway/race.

4th of July

4th of July 2011 spent at the cabin with our friends the Hyers (not pictured)

Oakley parade

Fallon Continued

Slow posting about it, but we had the best time during our Fallon week. It kind of made me homesick to tell you the truth. If I hadn't been dying to see Robert (and the girls missing daddy too) we may have stayed all summer.

The 4 amigos and homemade icecream

No hands. No problem.

The girls even got to ride horses. Our friend Sandy, who used to work at Jeff's, was so awesome to let each girl take a nice long ride and feed Ruby carrots afterwards.

Somehow this is the best shot I got of the chubby babes. Maybe you can't tell from this pic, but they were seriously buds. My orders were for Blake to teach Charlotte how to entertain herself. He failed.

We had some fun with Great Grandma Jean who lives up to her name. She's so great. Cut the flour. Bubbles. Flannel boards. Dress up. Waste basket basketball.