Racing Weekend

What a whirlwind trip! Right after lunch on Saturday we loaded the car and headed up to Idaho Falls for the Alan Butler Memorial Crit (a family favorite...we look forward to it every year). We left a little early so the girls could participate in the kids races (their first race ever). They LOVED it! Hmmm....future bike racers perhaps?

Ready to go!

Morgan was first off...she raced the 4 and under.

Coach daddy right behind her...he was giving her some last minute racing tips.

Strong finish!

Happy Girl!!

Haley up next with the 5-7 year olds.

Notice she refused to wear the yellow race shirt. She loves her pink!!

Look at that finish...she totally smoked that kid at the line!!

Showing off their medals!

We hung out for a bit before Ryan raced at 8:00 that night. The girls and I stopped into a cutesy toy store to look around while we waited. I needed to nurse Piper and just figured I'd have to find some random bench by the race. But...the toy store just happened to have a big huge comfy chair (perfect for a nursing session!). So I asked the lady there is she would mind...which of course she didn't. My kids were doing pretty good playing with a set of dolls...perfect! Or so I thought. In about five minutes Morgan managed to knock over two displays. One being puzzle boxes strategically stacked in a pyramid formation. And the other, a very tall, spiral clothes rack holding very elaborate princess costumes. Needless to say Piper got cut off abruptly and we got out of there (of course after we helped clean up).

Ryan had a great race! Him and his teammate managed to lap the field and got first and second. I'm sure he'll have a race report on it. I'm VERY proud of him!

The next morning we went on our annual walk along the river path to the falls. We grabbed some bagels from the free breakfast so the girls could feed the ducks.

The T-shirt Ryan is wearing is referring to bike wheels...honest.

Just in case you were wondering.

Idaho Falls Temple

After our walk it was off to Jackson, WY for another crit. Let me just say here that the drive from Idaho Falls to Jackson is absolutely beautiful!! I loved it! That area is amazing!!

Ryan had another great race...they snagged first and second yet again!!

Now in hindsight, we probably should have left and headed for home immediately after the race. Instead we had dinner at the brewery next to the race (Ryan won a $25 certificate for the place...so why not, right?) Well, by the time we loaded up to go home it was already 7:30 (home was still five hours away!) And going through those canyon roads is not fun at night, the deer are everywhere! I was panicked that we were going to hit one for sure! Then we realized that both of our headlights were out...yeah, not a good thing. So this resulted in driving with our high beams...which of course resulted in blinding every poor soul who drove toward us. Sorry people...please forgive us. People kept flashing their lights at us..."Hey, morons...your high beams are on!!!". Oh...it was awful. We decided to press forward and continue on. We made it home around 1:00 in the morning. Wow...it felt good to be home.

So even though the drive home was NOT ideal, it was a great weekend!!

Now, I'm comatose...it's been a hard day. However...I did get our headlights fixed...in case you wondering.