Early-morning swim workouts begin...so that means 12-hour days for Kiersten from 6am to 6pm (swimming, school, track)!I try to squeeze in a workout before getting Kees ready for school.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Morning workouts begin!
Early-morning swim workouts begin...so that means 12-hour days for Kiersten from 6am to 6pm (swimming, school, track)!I try to squeeze in a workout before getting Kees ready for school.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
First baseball practice
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lance's bike
Lance Armstrong's one-of-a-kind time-trial race bike was stolen... and found... by the good cops of the Sacramento Police Department within three days.I imagine it would have been sort of hard to sell or let alone ride that thing so I wonder if they just abandoned it somewhere.
Story to follow, I'm sure.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Jonathan and Lars
We met Jonathan and Lars outside Barnes and Noble where Jonathan was attempting to repair his bike. We learned that they were on a pilgrimage, on their bikes, from Virgiania to Paraguay for the Mennonite World Conference in July 2009. I offered to help them out and after realizing that I didn't have the tools to help them, loaded up their bikes and trailer and took them to our local bike shop.We ended up being late for Kees' baseball try-outs but we were glad that we had stopped and helped them... they were good kids and were far, far from home (and their destination, for that matter)!
You can visit their website here: www.americas.bikemovement.org and follow their journey "down south".
Multitasking
Kiersten, who is my efficient multitasker, figured out a way to rig Kees' music stand to her bike so that she can read her teen magazines while on the trainer!Foggy Mornings
We've had crazy weather this winter... not a day under 32 degrees... mostly in the 70's... and either foggy or 30-40 mile per hour winds...it's been spring-like since the fall!
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Oma's 100th
Found a cute picture of the kiddos taken in Holland when my Oma (grandmother) turned 100... this was a castle near Amsterdam called Muidenslot.Friday, January 30, 2009
The Hatfields!
Funny blast from the past...The photographer really got into this, brushing a goatee on me and telling me and Kees to "look mean" and Kiersten to "look ladylike".
Kees definitely looks mean and Kiersten has the ladylike look going...I'm not sure what kind of look I'm workin' there, though... I think I was mad because my gun was so small ;-)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
OFF Road fun on ROAD bikes!
We left the house woefully underdressed, understimating the effect of the humidity on the wind-chill. We circled back, put on some extra layers and were then cozy as clams.
It was a blustery day and we were a little bored with our usual route so we got adventurous and took our road bikes on a trail for jeeps and mountain bikes! I figured we might get a flat or two, but what the heck!!
Kiersten quickly realized that unlike her mountain and cross bikes, her road bike with 23mm tires does not go well through 4" of sand and promptly crashed. She and Kees were laughing so hard after that that it tooks us five minutes to negotiate that section because they were being so silly and kept crashing, LOL!
Other than the sand, and having to dig twigs out of our spokes periodically, it was actually pretty managable on the road bikes. They need a good cleaning though!
All in all we had a fun ride which is what it needs to be every once in a while.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Buddha Button
Our little dwarf hamster Button...sometimes she sleeps like this in her little condo... Buddha style...very Zen hamster ;-)Friday, January 23, 2009
Samson has lost his powers!
Sorry... crappy pics... camera is no mas!Kees had his lovely locks shorn today and fears that he might have lost his superpowers!! Girls (and women) always compliment him on his long hair and natural blonde highlights... now the poor guy is going to have to rely on his personality to get the chicks... or get back to the beach, quick ;-)
I think it looks good...like he always had it before I suggested he try it longer. We'll see what the girls at school say on Monday!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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