Wish 100

Umm hmmm thats right! I did my second organized ride of the season....I'm hoping to fit in one more if my health will only hold out a little longer:) I did the Wish 100 which is 60 miles last saturday with my two friends Kristin and Ruth. We had sooo much fun and for me was the longest ride I have done. It was such an awesome accomplishment for me-not only was I able to finish but I was even smiling at the end, despite the SUCKY "mountain" we had to climb right at the end. I was even able during the middle 20 miles to catch up to and keep up with a men's team. I have to admit it helped being able to draft off of them especially "Big Dog" who was the biggest black bike racer I have ever seen. I am up to almost 1000 miles on my road bike that I purchased the beginning of June. Looks like I am about ready for a new road bike!

Just taking it easy across the finish line.

I ROCK!

Lucy and Grey both had a homemade card waiting for me at the finish line. Adam had flowers.

Kristin. She is why I got back into cycling even when I really didn't think I could do it again.

Ruth. This was her longest ride as well. As soon as she crossed the finish said now we are ready for 100 miles. We will see Ruth:)

My kids of course.

Kind of a lame bike but we had to take a pic. I'm so pretty.

My Beautiful Children

Since Grey is turning two next week and Lucy will be SEVEN in a month I thought it was time for some current pics. I had a friend take some pics of the kids last weekend and I thought they turned out perfect! Catherine was able to capture their personalities so well. Check out more pics here:

http://jelly-pop.blogspot.com/2009/09/bushells.html#more

Photo Booth

As I mentioned before we got a Mac. When we were trying it out at the store this was Lucy's #1 reason for why we just HAD to have one. I think it was Adam's also!

Last Day of Summer

I told you I lost most pics and will post as I find them. Okay so these were taken at Hurricane Harbor Lucy's last day of Summer. I really thought she wouldn't be very brave cause she usually isn't. We started in the Wave Pool which went great she loved almost drowning several times. Then we decided to move to the water slides. She picked the Hawaiian Half Pipe for her first slide-seriously. Adam thought "there is no way I want to go down that, but what the hell I will take her up and she will see how high it is and how steep the slide is and change her mind". That did not happen and this was the result:

I screamed their whole way down. People stared at me but like I cared, my six year old was about to die! Lucy could not get ENOUGH of the slides. The higher the scarier the better. I was in awe of this chick. Way to go Lu! Just a note of how "Momish" I have become. I did go down one slide with Lucy-one of those tunnel twisty ones and that was enough for me. I was so motion sick! I have totally become Dianne (my mom).

Grey's FAV slide. He thought he was so big and brave. Lucy put up with going down it once for my sake so I could get a pic of the two of them together.

The Pineapple Express turned out to be Lucy's fav. You just went straight down on a mat on your stomach. Whatever!

YO GABBA GABBA!!!!!

Grey still loves Gabba.  In fact it is the ONLY TV he watches.  So when we heard Plex was going to be at Toys'R'Us you know we were all over it.  Lucy, Adam and I were so excited to see his reaction.  Grey's reaction when he first saw our dear friend Plex:  little overwhelmed, little scared, no facial expressions, just a Beavis and Butthead like chuckle.  So funny!  He really could not believe his eyes.  Grey never did dare to give Plex a high five but Grey did follow him around the store until some toys lured him away.  I do believe it was Grey's greatest moment so far in his 23 month life.

BARBIE!!!  The store conveniently had some Barbie dolls nearby that were buy 1 get one free, so Lucy got one for her and her best buddy Sara autographed by the doll herself!

Some More Firsts:

Grey's first dinner date with Erin, who by the way calls Grey "my Grey".

I love that girl.....

First REAL haircut:

#1  Screammmming!  #2  Stick the sucker in.  #3  Its all good as long as I have Mom's hand.

So Far No Good

Still have not recovered our summer pics but I found a plethora of fun pics on my phone.  Some are summer and some are from the last school year.  All are priceless to me so I decided to post them all for my sake (and the family journal sake).

Airplane ride back from Utah.  Considering we had two stops before reached Dallas, I think the kids did AWESOME.

Lucy, Bubba the dog, and Grampie....we miss you both.

Cousin Autumn and Lucy all ready for Cheer Camp.  I took them shopping first to pick out cheer outfits.  They even got to be in the Kaysville parade.  Which I have the cutest pics of that are on my memory stick stuck in my laptop.  Suck!

Nanny, Gramie, and Lucy.  The four of us went to the Deseret Star Playhouse to watch a play.  The Grandmas enjoyed it much more than Lucy and I.  But we got to eat while watching which makes any activity fun:)

Okay these next four pics are from Lucy's school field trip to the Dallas Zoo.  I got to go and had so much fun.  We sure miss Lucy's buddies from Alex Sanger Elementary:(

Jalissa and Lucy on the tram.

Jalissa, Lu, Abigail doing the rabbit ears, and Dusy (as in rhymes with Lucy remember?!)

Grey's first day of Nursery coloring his first Nursery picture.  Awwwww.  

Okay so these are so old but couldn't leave them out.  Easter at school.  They had an egg hunt for the kindergarten classes.  I got to help and watch 60+ kids collect a bajillion eggs in about a minute.

Okay so I am proud of this one.  Lucy and I decided to make an Easter treat for her class.  We did the birds nest and used Rice Krispie Treats for the nest, candy grass, jelly beans, and of course a YELLOW Peep (cause birds are really yellow said Lucy).  We were a hit and I was the coolest mom.