I beat my update goal!!

I made a goal to update before an entire year went by and well, here it is! (For you Crystal and Britt, my 2 readers)

We moved last month, YAY! We totally are in love with everything about our new area. Our home, our community, our proximity to the beach. We love San Clemente. We invested in some super cool beach cruisers and we ride everywhere. We rode out to dinner for date night. I rode solo to the post office. We go on family rides on the best beach trail ever. We can go right and go to Trestles beach, or go left and ride to the pier. We can go right from our house too, no need to load up in the car. It is just so much fun! I love my bike. I even have tassels on my handlebars. And yes, that is a bell on there as well. The kids get a little embarrassed when Lee and I ring the bells, but you have to let people know to move out of the way.

Other things worth mentioning....Lee and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary Sept. 4th. We took a 8 day vacation to Playa Del Carmen. It was too rough to do any scuba diving this year due to hurricane Gustav, but we managed to still have fun. We went on a cool ATV tour through the jungle. Our hotel had free ice cream cones available all day! I'll have to add photos later as they are all on the laptop and Lee has that in Hawaii right now. (He assures me he is not having any fun without me and is only working.)

Brodie turned 13 in August. It really is bittersweet. It's so fun to watch them grow up, but they only grow one way and it goes so fast. He's about 1/2 inch shorter than me. Bronwen will be 12 in 2 months. It's weird to move into a new neighborhood and everyone comments that we have "older kids". Yeah, I guess we do. 5 years till Brod's an adult and 6 for Bronwen. That really is not very long. Sad huh? OK, well I'm gonna go cry now, and hopefully update before 6 months goes by.

So, I don't post a lot....

Christmas eve, with new headlamps from Tama

This is me Christmas Eve, after all the stockings were hung and presents wrapped
Brodie was our only brave one, it was too cold for me! Bronwen did one run too, but we didn't get pic's.

Lol, Crystal, how did you find me? I didn't realize I had an audience now.

We were busy over the holidays. We spent Thanksgiving in Glamis. Not too sure we'll repeat that again next year, or any year over Thabksgiving. We heard it was crowded, but we didn't quite get what crowded meant. I had never seen people use so much caution tape to section off a personal camping spot before. It was insanely crowded. Now Glamis itself is a great place to ride when it's not so crowded. We got there a few days early and had a great time until the masses arrived. Our kids had made a mini track in the sand a ways off from our camp site. A few days later some people came and tried to tape it off so only their kids could use it! We actually had to argue with the mother of that group. She was telling us that we should have taped it off if we wanted to use it. Hello?! We thought it would be nice to SHARE with other kids so we didn't "claim" it with gobs of cones and yellow tape. Of course our kids want to use it, that's why they made it! If you want a track all your own, go and make one.

Christmas was spent waking up here at home, and then we drove to my parents house for the rest of the day. I had the assignment of any potato dish for dinner. I love potatoes, so that was easy. It was a fun and relaxing Christmas day.

We left to go to Park City the next day and spend a few days at Lee's parents cabin. There was plenty of snow! The kids had fun making racetracks on the hill with their cousins. Fortunatly the house is huge with plenty of room for everyone to sread out. The kids spent most of the time outside sledding or inside playing the Wii downstairs. We adults spent most of the time upstairs away from the noise of all the kids downstairs.