Kaden singing Twinkle Twinkle to Kaleb So Cute!

Kaleb Crawling 6 Months Old, Sorry for my bad camera job

Our Family is Growing

Kaleb is 7 months old already. I took some really cute pictures for Father's Day after Justin making the comment that we did not have any pictures of Kaleb on the wall. I also added a few pics of our family and of Kaden. Kaleb is crawling now (the army crawl) and talking A LOT! He is getting so cute. Kaden is really enjoying these days playing Lego Star Wars with his dad, and starting to actually get the concept of it. I thought you might find these pics as cute as I do.

Well we have made it to Steamboat Springs CO. We are having a great time and going to take a rest day tomorrow. Then out of here we go over rabbit pass and then we are going to take 14 north west over the rest of the Rockies and come out in Ft Collins. At that point we will be on the down hill side of the mountains and rolling on to Kansas City. Thus far we have had really good weather and our bikes are running smoothly. We cleaned out my pedal in Vernal, and I lost a screw that holds the clip on the bottom of my shoe yesterday in Craig CO. We got a replacement screw at a auto parts store and my dad just filed it down to the right length. Yesterday my dad got the first flat on this trip. Here are pictures of us entering Colorado, we stopped to take pictures on the leg between Vernal UT and Blue Mt CO. The flat happened about 8 miles out of Craig we had just finished fixing it and pumping it up when mom pulled up behind us.



It was crazy the way the flat happened we were riding side by side talking when all of a sudden we heard a very loud BANG! We both looked at each other thinking my bike is still rolling smoothly it must have been yours... When we couldn't figure out who's bike popped we kept on rolling... up the hill. At the top of the hill at mile post 82 my dad yelled Stop, it was my tire. so we fixed it. I kept the staple looking thing that popped his tire after taking a picture I taped it into my journal since dad is keeping his journal on the computer and can't tape it to his computer, but I will share the picture I took of it with you all. Another thing the boys love to do it play playstation. We set it up in the back with two screens. They love to play Lego Indiana Jones. Kyle is a big help when they get to a part where they have trouble passing. Today we have gone swimming and played at the park. Then they got to throw rocks into the river passing by. I have pictures on my cell phone of that and will have to wait till I get home to upload them. We are having so much fun! Wish you all were here with us!

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Our Trip from Orem UT to Kansas City MO

Our Trip from Orem UT to Kansas City MO

Yesterday was spent fixing the motor home and getting everything
ready for the trip. Dad was working right up through Friday of last
week, and then he had to finish remodeling my mom's bathroom, and
then do all the other things he had to get done before leaving.
Right around 3pm, they realized they could still leave, but decided
to have one more night here and leave rested the next day. Good
thing, as they discovered Lynette's bike was broken when she went to
ride it after Dad put it together.

This morning, Dad and Lynette went to the bike shop at 9am to get the
replacement part. Mom loaded up the motor home. Lynette took off on
her fixed bike to test it out ... and crashed. She came back home
with a badly skinned knee and a palm so swollen that my Dad (the one
who maintains his composure no matter what kind of injury we've shown
him) comes stomping into the house yelling, "ICE! GET ME AN ICE
PACK! I NEED ICE!" So, we cleaned up her leg, made her wiggle her
fingers and make a fist, and iced her palm as a blue bruise
appeared. We ate lunch, let the kids watch a movie, let Lynette calm
down, and then, at about 1:30pm, with an ice pack stuffed up into her
riding glove, Lynette followed Dad off down the street on their
bikes.

Mom let Kendall sleep until 3pm, then packed the kids, Kyle, and the
dog into the motor home and took off. They made it about 100 ft down
the street when they stopped and pulled over. Kyle jumped out and
ran back into the house shouting, "We forgot the dog bowls!" He
grabbed them, ran back to the motor home, hopped in, and they drove
off. They are planning on staying in Heber tonight and will be
somewhere around Strawberry tomorrow.


That is how our first day went in the words of my sister. We actually didn't leave till Tuesday, the plan had been for Monday. We have just finished our 3rd leg and are resting peacefully at Starvation? about 100 miles from Orem. After getting off we had a rather uneventful ride the first day. The excitement began shortly after arriving at the first destination, when we realized there was a water leak. My dad had me filling up the reserve tank while he ran around the motor home looking for the leak, unfortunately for me I was filling it faster than the leak was letting it out and I got sprayed with water. He eventually found the leak and a place to buy the part. (By this time weather had moved in and it was raining.) I called the parts place and they were closed but they guy said that he would wait for us to get there. The RV only has only 6 seat belts. We all hurriedly climbed in the RV Dad driving and mom in the No Doze Seat, (No Seat belt seat.) Crazy!! Mom was holding on tight as we rounded the corners because not only does she not get a seat belt but the seat she is in isn't even bolted to the floor so she was flying! Then the refrigerator door flew open and the eggs and salad fell on the floor! We made it to the shop only about 7 miles down the street and back without any more excitement.

The second day we started out in the rain but it cleared up about 7 miles into the ride. It was a pretty cold ride. 30 miles and the majority of it uphill at about 6 mph. We made it to Strawberry and dad had to fix another leak in the shower. The third day was a ton of down hill riding 44 miles, and dad got to fix the shower leak again, the kitchen faucet and the screen by the table. The latch to the bathroom is broken also. All just the little things keeping him busy when we aren't riding.

Over all we are having a ton of fun!

Kendall Loves the water

Kendall was having so much fun at the pool, That's right the pool. It is finally warm enough to go to the pool here. The kids have been having a lot of fun there, It opened memorial weekend, but that weekend it didn't get above 69 degrees the whole time. We have been going the last 3 days though and having lots of fun! Kendall was learning to float on her back today and loving it.

Here is a picture of Kendall and Lila (my sister's daughter) They were having fun playing strollers, I post this more hoping you can see the PINK Walls in the background. Yep that's right I painted Kendall's room PINK! I like to call it princess pink she even says "pink" now.