keeping up

seems to be harder and harder to keep up with this blog these days.  and the more time that passes the more pictures that are piled up and the more overwhelmed i am.
but here's some from our trip to see audrey, craig and there newest addition emmitt!

one day we stopped in berkley and looked for my parents old shop.  lots of fond memories for me playing around there as a kid.  i made lucy take a picture in front of the shop.  i wish i can find where the picture of me, not much older then lucy was standing in the same spot.

on another day we drove up to santa rosa to visit our friends that moved there from boulder.  they have a little girl named lucia that lucy just adores.  the girls had a great time playing dress up in their elsa dresses.  they took us to a beautiful winery and we had a relaxing afternoon underneath some beautiful old oak trees.

we had so much fun visiting with audrey, craig and emmitt.  their house is awesome and we love their neighborhood.  can't wait to go back and visit soon.  miss you guys!

i found the picture!! i'm on the left.

18 years between these two pics and we pretty much look the same.  

can't believe we are both mommys now!

leadville vs strider race

in august nate and lucy each had their own bike races.  lucy had her first bike race on her strider.  super cute race from ages 2-6.  i couldn't believe how little some of these kids were.  a real course and registration check in and everything.  she got a jersey as part of her registration and she wanted to wear that thing everyday.  she's since talked about wanting to do another race.

nate got to do the leadville 100 mountain bike race.  it's something he's been dreaming of doing since we were living in ohio.  never imagining that one day we'd be living in colorado.  it was a grueling race that lasted over 11hrs for him.  i think he had 15min to spare before the cutoff.  he made it just in time and got his silver buckle!  i've never attended anything like this event before.  so many inspiring people from all ages.  i think the youngest was 18 and the oldest 80.  men, women alike.  watching these people race that are twice my age for 100miles at over 10,000ft elevation is beyond anything i've ever seen.  very inspiring to say the least.  i would consider nate to be in pretty good shape but some of these people are in really really good shape!  it was also really neat to watch some of the pro mountain bikers with their whole team and crew.  lucy and i were nates little crew and we met up with him at two seperate points along the race route to give him food and water and to cheer him on.  so proud of him for finishing!  and glad he was able to check something off his bucket list.

"I'm going to take you down!"

founders of the leadville race ken chlouber, and merilee mauqin

some pics nate took along the race

at one of the pit stops

this is kind of gross, but what nate dug out of his pockets after the race

david wiens 6 time champ