Monday, September 29, 2008

LotoJa and Jenny Lake


Our Guys are in the Simply Mac Jerseys!
Keith and I at Bar J....Yummy!

Jenny Lake...great pic Keith!

I am about two weeks behind on all of my pics and postings. Hopefully I can catch up soon, time just seems to be going so fast! Well...the second weekend in September is the annual LotoJa bike race. This is year #4 of being support crew, we have so much fun watching all the guys and look forward to that weekend all year. For those of you who do know, the LotoJa (low-ta-juh) is a road bike race that starts in Logan and goes to Jackson Hole Wy.It is 207 miles in one day! For the last four years we have watched my brother Nate, my brother-in-law Joel, and some other friends and family take on this amazing feat! Nate was not in it this year because he got to go on a cruise the next day! I think I would have done the cruise too!!! Luckily they just missed the hurricane! feeewww! I can't even describe how much fun it is watching and being support for these guys! Way to go boys!

In years past we drive up there on Saturday, and drive back down Sunday. So this year the idea was for it to feel a little more like a vacation. Keith was our official driver, he did awesome! This year we started out at about 7 am (in Miss and Joel's Tahoe with Missy, Brinsen, Maci and Korbin, Keith, myself and all the support crew stuff.....it was a really full car, but the kids were all so good, and Missy's organization with everything made it go really smooth) we left right after the race started and spent most of the day driving and stopping at the feed zones, then after Joel finished...9 hrs and some odd minutes later, 61st out of 1000 riders, we went to the Bar J ranch for dinner and watched the Bar J wranglers! It was a great day, and then we all went back to the hotel and crashed!

The next day we went up to Jenny Lake and took the ferry over to the other side of the lake and hiked up to the waterfall. It was so pretty! We had some caramel apples and found a great candy store the next day and then went home. Mom and Dad didn't get to come this year because of everything with the surgery, but we're getting ready for next year and when we can all be there. We had a blast, thanks for the great trip!

Friday, September 26, 2008

Cute Kids!













Ok, so I know I might be biased, but I am sure my nieces and nephews are the cutest kids EVER....they make life fun! I only wish I could see all of them more! Here we are at my big 25th b-day party! It was so fun and we missed all who couldn't come. I was excited to get to see the rest of the fam the next week....

We found out the Wednesday after my birthday that my dad was going to have heart surgery that Friday... He was very blessed to find out that he needed the surgery before anything bad happened, so he got to go fishing with all the grand kids on Thursday! He is such a great dad and grandpa, this picture says it all! Everything went well on Friday and both Dad and Mom are doing great! We love you guys!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

La La

By the way, for those who don't get why it is la la land, it is because my nieces and nephews call me La La and it just kinda stuck. Those of you who know me, you know why it fits so well.....ha ha!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Finally blogging

So I finally decided to start a blog, after a lot of encouragement from everyone. I think I am the last person I know that didn't have a blog. Hopefully I will be better about taking pictures and blogging now that I am finally blogging.

I would love any tips or tricks on how to add stuff and make my blog look good. It is kinda harder than I thought.....then again, I don't think I really knew what to expect. Any suggestion is a good one!!!

Anyway, I have lots of fun pics from fun times this summer (that I will add as soon as I figure out how) and would love to hear from everyone about their fun summer and how things are going. Hopefully I will be able to figure out all this blogger stuff soon and get up to speed.

Hope to hear from everyone very soon,
Heather