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Rocky Point Nov. "08

2008-11-12T21:55:00.000-08:00

We love Rocky Point! We stayed at the Las Palamos Resort. Kori, Kelsey, and Trevor met us there the first night and we had a great time with them. They could only stay the one night, but I think they thought the day at the beach was worth it. The next four days was just Kam, me, and the kids. It was one of my best vacations ever. Just super relaxing, kids got along great with each other, and the baby was so cute at the beach.

These pictures start chronologically from the bottom to the top. I still haven't gotten the blogging thing down, obviously. Oh and there are a ton, sorry.

The last morning we were there the kids woke up super early to get the most out of the day. Actually they woke up around 6:30 every morning, but on the last day they went to the beach and the pool right away. I didn't mind, I couldn't get enough either.

This is the pool, at 6:30 AM

Cru became such a daddy's boy on the trip. I loved the bonding Kam and Cru had in R.P.

My beach baby. I had no idea what to expect Cru to be like at the beach since he is only 7 months, but he had a blast. By the end of the trip he had eaten a bunch of things for the first time, beans, crackers, Oreos, chips, tortillas, cheese, yogurt, and sand, sand, and more sand.

love this pic.

I asked Leif to take a picture of Kam and me, after the picture Tre said, "I snuck in." I thought it was pretty funny.

The kids made lots of drawings in the sand. They were usually called Mr. Potato head.

The baby turtle crawling out to sea.

eating more sand

I asked the boys to hug each other for a picture. Tre's eyes are so sensitive to the sun that he was smart by this point and said "ok", and faced backwards. Poor fair child.

Cru loved to crawl out to the balcony

Me and Cru

When we fist got to our condo we tried shoving Cru's head and body through the space between the railing and the floor luckily he couldn't be squeezed through. This is where Cru spent most of his time in the condo, out enjoying the view from up so high.

La vista de la playa. (the view of the beach) My limited Spanish from high school didn't help much, but it was a lot of fun for me to practice when ever I could.

just relaxing

Cru's first siesta on the beach.

Trevor and Kelsey Bailey, newly weds. So glad they could come. It was totally last minute.

Cru waking up and enjoying the view.

My hot husband.

Halloween

2008-11-12T21:20:00.000-08:00

The boys absolutely love Halloween. They look forward to the holiday all year.
Kori was in charge of her ward's Halloween tunk or treat and she went all out. They had a bouncy slide and homade rootbeer.

The vampire got some good air.

Cru's first Halloween. I know the baby pumpkin is a little cliche, but he looked so cute.

Cru kept his whole costume on all night. He even fell asleep buckled into his stroller with the thing on.

I think it's as old school as you can get. The cowboy, pumpkin, and vampire. They looked great!

Leif wanted to be as scary as possible. He was a pretty freaky vampire. Not like the beautiful Edward from "Twighlight."

Leif got a hold of Tre's neck. "Young blood.."

love it

This costume is right up Tre's alley. He looked so cute and loved every minute of being a cowboy.

" Hey y'all, put 'em up!"

New pics of cru

2008-11-12T20:26:00.000-08:00

Cru is 7 months old now. He is crawling all over the place, up the stairs and out the back door. He can pull up on everything including my ankles all the time. We are haviung so much fun.

Death March

2008-11-12T19:32:00.000-08:00

In October Kam and I and some great friends did the "death march", hiking from the south rim of the Grand Canyon to the bottom across the bottom and up to the North rim then back down the north rim across the bottom yet again and back up the south rim. (50 excruciating miles in 21 hours non stop).
Yes I am bragging!!!
This is The North rim it was so high. It is 8 miles up to the top.

The guys. Chad Smith, Kyle Reedy, Aaron Adams, and Kam.

This is just after the sun came up. I was so glad when it came up, because on the way down the south rim I fell, sprained my ankle a bit, and busted my headlamp and lost a battery. I came down most of the south rim by moon light.

Kyle and Val and us coming down the North rim. My ankle is sprained at this point and poth of my knees are aching so so bad. Val has blisters on the bottoms of her feet and on most of her toes and we are so tired. The guys were totaly fine.

I love this man. I never could have finished this crazy adventure with out Kam. He kept me going. Wiped my tears a couple times and told me I could do it the whole time. That was the hardest thing I have ever done. And now it is in writing, I am never doing that again...

With all that said, I am glad I did it. It was the since of accomplishment I thought it would be. I think I could do anything I put my mind to.

Finally updating the blog..

2008-07-08T09:49:00.000-07:00

So I am finally finishing my last post about the kids 4 months later. Here are a couple recent pics of Leif and Tre. It is now November I think the post will still say July, oops.

My buddy Tre is such a sweet heart. He has all the girls in preschool after him. I am going to have to look out for this one. He is a special kid.

Leif is my major helper. With two younger brothers he is always having to help me. He has an awesome personality, and wants to make everyone laugh. I am so amayzed by his testimony of the gospel, at 7 years old he can grasp some big concepts. He is also an awesome skateboarder and soccer player.

The Evolution of Cru

2008-07-03T08:57:00.000-07:00

I will do a quick picture recap of the kids for the past few months.

Here is Cru

a few days less than 3months old

10 weeks

3 weeks

1 week

I have loved every minute of Cru. He is the easiest baby. Oh wait, I forgot the first two weeks he was born he had major gas and cried a bit, but we took care of that and he has been wonderful ever since. He is now a little over 3 months. He smiles all the time, sleeps through the night, and loves it when his big brothers hold him.

Watch Prada grow

2008-06-15T21:27:00.000-07:00

This is our goldendoodle (Golden retriever/poodle), Prada. I got her when I was about 7 1/2 months pregnant. Yes, I am an idiot. I think emotionally my mind was getting ready for a new baby and I confused that with wanting a puppy. Oh crap, literally!

Here Prada is 8 weeks old, This is Tre's new wrestling opponent

14 weeks old

6 months
6 1/2 months
7 months
We have had a lot of fun watching her grow. We have gone through 4 pairs of shoes, a duvet and comforter, remote control, DVDs with the cases, countless rolls of t.p., and who knows what else that hasn't come up missing yet. In spite of all this, she is a great member of the family and we all love her. Yes, Kam too. I have seen him pet her a time or two.

La Vuelta de Bisbee

2008-04-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

I'm on location in Bisbee Arizona at the oldest and most prestigious cycling stage race in AZ. The town here is beautiful and the weather has been great. Perfect conditions for a bike race and a tan. I'm with my Rideclean team racing with 4 team mates (Brian Forbes, Mark Assmunstad, Dan Vasichek, Kyle Colavito, and myself) in the Pro 1-2 race. The race is 4 stages over 3 days. Here's a quick recap.
-Pro 1-2 field size - 85

-Stage 1 - 3 Mile Uphill prologue - Let me first say that I am not a time trialist. In the prologue I ended up 31st...not great...but not bad. My time wasn't too far off the leader. Mark got 10th and Kyle 12th so we will work for them. I rode all out, but maybe started off a little too easy. It definitely wasn't easy at the top though because on the way down I had to stop and puke...must have been a good effort. I coughed for a about 5 hours after. Ouch.

-Stage 2 - 80 mile Road Race - Pretty much the race is us and some other American teams against a team from Mexico named Tecos. They have 4 guys in the top ten and are pretty much controlling the race. We tried a couple time to send guys up the road but each time Tecos would pull it back. It pretty much stayed together till the last series of climbs when it started to shatter. I hung in there and finished with the main group scoring a 25th spot, moving me up to 24th over all. All the Rideclean guys finished up at the front which was cool. So Mark and Kyle moved up a bit.

- Stage 3 - 8 mile Time Trial - The time trial had a pretty wicked cross wind. Did I mention I wasn't a time trialist. I took 25th. I guess I pretty much must be the 25th best rider because that seems to be my spot these days. Mark took 4th and Brian 5th so that's rad. They will both move up the overall.

- Stage 4 - 90 mile Road Race - The road race is tomorrow, so we'll see what will happen. Hopefully it will all stay together and then I'm sure Tecos will be firing all sorts of amigos up the road on the final climbs. The race is cool. We start in Bisbee and cruise out to Tombstone and around and bit then back over the pass and finish on a tough climb right outside of down town.
There is over 6,000 ft of climbing, so It's pretty much like racing to Payson maybe a little longer in mileage.

So check it out. The team is staying at the coolest hotel. It's called the School House Inn. http://www.schoolhouseinnbb.com/
It was a school house built in 1917 that has been converted into a bed and breakfast. It feels like we're staying at grandma's house with all the decorations and smell.

Each room is a different subject. Todd and I are staying in the History room.

The History room is filled with history books and antiques from the 30's and 40's. None of the rooms have TVs or phones. It's been awesome. We race our bikes and come back and read. Then we race our bikes some more and come back and lounge and read again. The arithmetic room has a chaulk board with simple math questions.

Some of the stuff in the room. These pics don't do it justice.

If your lucky you could stay in the Principal's Office. Mark and some other dudes are in there.

The hallway is filled with old homey type stuff. Not your typical impersonal, everything nailed down hotel room.

The Tecos guys are staying at the School House Inn too. They have the full set-up. They have mechanics, massages, team cars and vans. They're legit. Hopefully we can put the hammer to them tomorrow and make 'em suffer.

Peace.

Another W for Four Unity Racing

2008-04-20T20:55:00.000-07:00

Four Unity Racing comes out on top again.
After the good results at the national race in Fountain Hills last weekend we knew we would be going good this weekend in Prescott at the AZ State Mountain Bike Series race #6. We went out fast and hard moving into the top 6 positions on the first climb. Once Scott from Sampa racing moved off the front I threw down and Lance and I were able to open a gap on the rest of the field. Kyle (Fav Five) and Ben the Pest kept the pace going high and didn't let anyone get away while Lance Romance and I settled in and were flying around the course. The legs were feeling good, I had my flow on and I was stoked to be with my buddy heading for a 1 -2 finish in the Pro class....well things changed rather quickly for me when a stick flew up and lodged itself in my derailleur and broke it straight in half...WTF.
Well Lance kept the pace going and took the Win, so I was stoked for him and Kyle and Ben kept it going for a 4th and 5th place finish. Three out of five podium spots in a Pro cross country race isn't too shabby. I somehow rigged my ride into a single speed and finished with cashed legs and a good new tan. So I'd have to say it wasn't all bad.

Ben pre-race ready to rip.

Four Unity on the podium. Lance Romance a.k.a. Free Range #1, Ben the Pest #4, Kyle Fave Five keeping the top 5 streak going.

I've got to shout out to all the Four Unity sponsors who make our racing justifiable to our wives:

Allenscleaning.com, Titus, Decor Unique, Mi Amigos, OSPT Physical Therapy, Kori's Home Management, Treehouse Group, Adventure Bicycle Company, Freedom Boardshop, Vans, Smith Optics, Maxm Components, and Magura Brakes.

Good people and local businesses we hope you will support.
Peace.

CRU

2008-04-17T22:20:00.000-07:00

Okay here is the little dude.

This is a classic. We have one just like it of Leif and they look a lot alike. We haven't gotten to many smiles out of Cru yet, but the few we have show a couple cheek dimples like Leif.

He is such a cute, cool, little man with Summer's dark brown eyes and his skin is a little darker than Leif and Tre's.

Here's Cru thrilled to be in his pimpin car seat. It makes his cheek's look all chubby...but their not. Hopefully soon though.

I just had to throw in this pic of Tre scratchin'. He likes to listen to my ipod when I get home from work so I think the jungle rhythm's are getting to him.

Tre's home all day so he is getting the pics lately. I'll do a separate post for the Leif so we even it out. Tre digs his little bro...especially because that makes him the big bro now.

What else???

Prescott "PUNISHER" is this weekend. The team should be riding strong. Lance and I rode yesterday on the mountain for a few hours. Rare to get a few hours out at Hawes but somehow we managed. Saw Scoot dog out there tearing it up, so that was cool. He's still keeping it real in the board shorts and skate helmet. We just look gay in the skinneys, but once you go skinney's you never go back.

Lance always keeps the conversation going. He was telling me about a story he heard on the environmental impact of eating meat...specifically beef. It was crazy, but you know if you can't convince people that a vegetarian diet is a wise health decision...you can always jump on the green band wagon and their ears perk up. Take a listen <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89676010>

That's enough. Peace.

Rock Racing

2008-04-15T22:56:00.001-07:00

I'm going to get some pics of Cru up here as soon as I get my ghetto laptop or rather lapbottom working. Time for a Macbook? We think so.

In the mean time...Ever heard of Rock and Republic? I know the girls like the denim. I'm sure now they'll love the lycra.

They just got the invite to the Tour of Georgia. They crushed it at Redlands...I'm sure they'll do just fine in Georgia.

Virgin Blogger

2008-04-14T21:14:00.000-07:00

OK, I'm going to try this blogging thing...we'll see how consistent I can be with it. This site will contain all things Reedy. So family stuff, friends stuff, cycling stuff, and everything else that may be going on.

We'll start with this past weekend.

Friday
- Finding Nemo on Ice, the kids had a blast thanks to Evan (our awesome ticket friend)

Saturday -Leif killed his soccer game. He had a good goal shot, played hard and the team won.
That night we had Aaron's birthday party at the house. Summed up best by Kim (see link to Adams), but here are a few other pics. Happy B-day Devon.

Kyle took 3rd in the Cat. 3 race at the State Championship Crit race on Saturday with an awesome lead out by our man Free Range (a.k.a. Lance). Kyle is now known as Fav Five...If you need a top 5 finish he's your man.

Me... just sucked wheel and made a last ditch dig in the Pro 1/2 to pull back a one man break then fell off the pace...weak. At least I didn't hit the deck like some poor fools. My man Ham Fist took 5th.

Sunday...Hell of the North...Tommeke, Tommeke, Tommeke.