Fun In Tennessee

Tennessee is beautiful Kevin, Cameron and arrived on Sat the 15th and we all had a great time. Kevin and Todd left early Monday morning for a bike ride across Tennessee. Kevin says that the country side is beautiful and the weather has been great. This ride is not quite as serious as LOTOJA they call it a rolling picnic. They stop along the way and check out the local attractions such as the Jack Daniel's brewery ( great place for missionary work right???) Vicky, Brennan, Jen, Cameron and I, met the guys in a place called McMinville on Wednesday night, we had dinner and walked around the park a little just to spend a little time with Kevin and Todd. Vicky, Cameron and I have been all around Franklin and she is showing us all the neat historical sites form the Civil War and we also went to the Grand Ol' Oprey and of course the mall for some shopping. We had a great time with the Scott Family and we cant wait to visit again. Tennessee is really a beautiful state. Here is a link to a newspaper article the one of the local paper wrote about the ride my brother in Law Todd is interviewed and quoted in it. http://www.t-g.com/story/print/1277766.html Now its off the Oregon for my Cousin Janel's Wedding!

LOTOJA 2007

He did it!!!!!

Kevin completed his fourth LOTOJA ride on Saturday the 8th. For those of you that don't know what that is, its a one day 206 mile bike ride from Logan Utah to Jackson Hole Wyoming. He started at 7:22 am and completed it in under 11 hours (his best time yet) he finished 423 out of 1000 riders. Kevin has been training with his friend Clayton all summer for this race , they were a great team and even got Clayton's employer T-Mobile to sponsor them with free Jerseys (real men do wear pink) They both did great and had an amazing support crew:)

It is amazing to think that less than 5 years ago he was going through chemo therapy and hardly able to walk from one end of the house to another. He sure has come along way, I'm so proud of him.

Catch Up (pics now included)

OK so is been a few weeks since my last post, but boy have we been BUSY! As I said before we went camping with Kevin's fam and had a blast. Kevin rode his bike up to camp (approx 113 miles) he left home at about 6:30 am and arrived before 3:30 pm tired and a little sore but happy and ready to camp (remember this is just a training ride the big one is 206 miles).
Less than 2 hours after we arrived with a huge scrape on the side of his eye and dirt up his nose Cameron had already managed to look like a solder coming home from battle. but was that enough? NO! not for my son, instead he decided he wanted to get a more authentic look so he face planted it on a gravel parking lot and added a nice gash above his eyebrow. 40 min later we arrived at the hospital in Montpeiler for stitches. What an exciting first night fortunately everything went a little smoother the rest of the time. We had fun singing songs around the camp fire and telling silly stories that we have all heard about 1000 times (burnt toast) good times. We spent one day at Bear Lake, rented wave runners and messed around on the beach. Cameron loved the water and the sand he and Kevin even got in a mud fight (the things we teach our children).
After spending four days camping we were all dirty and tired and I was ready to go home, but instead we packed out jeep up again and headed to Lava Hot Springs for our ward camp out. So it was a busy week but not over yet. We drove straight home Saturday afternoon just in time to get cleaned up and go to the Ogden Temple for Cindy to take out her endowment's. Wow a great week spent with family and to end it at the Temple, even better!

Sitting Around the camp Fire
The Bear Lake Mud Monsters Menatonka Cave
After all the dirt bumps, scrapes and bruises
a long ride home is something to look forward to.