Our Alpe d'Huez

Last weekend (Friday night and Saturday) we watched the Tour of Utah. Friday's stage was a fast criterium downtown and Saturday's stage finished at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon (after climbing over Alpine Loop and South Mountain). 99 miles of torture if you ask most people. It was a good time because the race is gaining popularity even though this is only the second year. Many of the racers say it is the closest stage race in the US to the European races because of all the climbing. Anyhow teams such as Garmin/Chipotle and the controversial Rock Racing with the likes of pros such as Tyler Hamilton and Oscar Sevilla were in town. We had a great time.

Tyler and his friend Logan watching the two lead riders rounding the bend.









Zipp, there they go.














The winner of stage 4 at the top of Little Cottonwood (Jeff Louder) a local for team BMC.

swimming

We haven't done nearly enough swimming this summer- we are headed up to Bear Lake for Labor Day week/weekend with the Balls family- We hope to play and swim and even let Toby swim all he wants!

We spent Saturday at my parents place in the Mountains- Tyler had a great time playing in all the dirt he could possibly imagine- Darren and my Dad cut up giant trees that had been cut down- My mom, Renee, and I loaded them up in a trailer and hauled them away- If anyone needs any firewood- Just let me know- You can get all you want- for a life time!

Our tired Neighbor

The scene- Our kitchen

Louis our neighbor rings the door- I am giving her a ride to the Relief Society Party - I have to drive since I have lots of food to take over.

Tyler says- Louis come see all the toys up in my room

Louis (who doesn't do stairs very well says)- I am just too pooped today, I just cant today

Tyler- Mom ... What did she say?

Me- Sometimes people say they are pooped when they are tired

Tyler - Oh!

10 minutes later Darren walks in the door- the first thing Tyler says is-

Daddy- Louis just pooped today!



Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the yummy corn- Tyler inhaled it!

over the shoulder baby holder

I am trying to find a good baby carrying sling- I have one but it doesn't really help my back and neck feel that great if I use it for very long (thanks Rowie I do use it but know there are better ones out there now).

So I have done some research and found a good one called over the shoulder baby holder... but are there others that are easy, and not difficult to use. I need my back to feel better!!!

great blogging website

Katie told me about this great website- it is really easy to use. I figured it out quite easily. You just entire all the blogs you are following and it is just like email, it tells you when someone has updated their blog so you don't have to go check everyones all the time.

It is bloglines.com

If you know of any other good ones, I would be interested.

Top reasons you should go to Boise Idaho on Vacation

6. You might just see a few goats trimming the baseball fields grass ( I didnt' have my camera to take a picture of this but it was a bit funny) I guess you dont have to have a lawn mower there.

5. You can attend church anywhere starting from 8, 9, 11, 1, or like we did- 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm !!!!

4. You can swim at the neighborhood pool three doors down- it is a salt water pool and you dont smell like chlorine when you are done

3. Dan and Katie will take you rafting down the Payette river - hitting a few rapids- getting thrown out in some huge rapids, not be able to see because your contacts go all blurry- hit a second set of rapids still not in your boat- getting sucked under in a cross current, scrambling to the surface to take a breath- happy to see your boat really close!


2. Camping in the Boise National Forest and playing in the natural hot springs. This was awesome- you stand on the rocks, jump into the freezing water, swim to the shore and then sit in one of the hot pools with the hot waterfall water falling on your head- Really it was cold, but well worth the jump. Toby wanted to go out and rescue everyone when they jumped in. If you look at the picture of Darren's face in the water- it is a ..."holy cow that is some really cold water" face.



1. But the best reason to go to Boise is because you can stay at the LaRiviere's brand new beautiful house- sleep in a great bed, get fed when ever you are hungry, sleep in if you want to because well, you should see all the fun toys those girls have- the play room is from heaven, and even attempt to go to the temple and Katie will babysit- (ps. the boise temple is now open as of the begining of Aug- If you try to go say in July it is closed and has lots of construction workers all over fixing all kinds of things but they will politely tell you that the temple has been closed for a while)- And all that- Free- well besides the gas- It was a free vacation-



So thanks Dan and Katie, Chloe, Stella and Fred- we had a great time!
So go to Boise- it is great fun!