Mesquite 2010

For the last few summers we have traveled to Mesquite, Nevada with Lance's family. The kids love playing with there cousins and love the waterslides! It was between 115 degrees and 120 degrees the entire trip!! It is one of the hottest places I have ever been. We live at the pool and only get out to go to dinner:)

Carlie loved the waterslides and especially loved that she could touch the bottom of the pool this year!! She could go down the slides all by herself and not have to be caught at the bottom:)

Cayden decided when we got to Mesquite that he could swim now on his own (as long as he had his life jacket on). He loved it because he could go in the deep part and he could go down the slide by himself and swim back over to the side of the pool!!

Cayden loved the waterslides and went down them at least 100 times during the week!!

Lance with 2 of his brothers and kids

Cayden got bit while in the pool by some angry red ant with wings! His hand immediately swelled up and hurt really bad.

We went to Vegas one day and saw Michael Jackson and a few other celebrities!!

Tour de Donut 2010

It was time again for one of Lance's favorite races!! This year it was a little different. A few days before the race a local cyclist was hit and killed while riding with her friends.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=11578756

(copy and paste link to read story, sorry I don't know how to link)

Family and friends of Elizabeth "Bunny" Bradley came to honor her. At the beginning of the race they let balloons go and then the family and friends got to ride the first lap before the official race started. It was nice that so many family and friends came to remember her! Even her parents rode the first lap along with everyone else!! I didn't personally know her but just having my husband involved in the same sport it was sad to think about how quickly something can happen. It was sad to think she was just doing something she loved and how something so tragic could happen.

After, the official race started. You ride 7 laps, eat donuts, ride 7 laps, eat donuts and then finish with a final 7 laps!! You get 3 min. deducted off your time for each donut you eat so there is a big incentive to eat donuts until you are sick!!!

2 Caveman even showed up and brought there "dinosaur"!! They rode the race barefoot (where do these people come from)!!

It is pretty funny to watch. Lance ate a total of 14 donuts!!!! He will dispute this and say he only ate 10 because he spit the last 4 out (apparently you only had to fit them all in your mouth and then whatever you did with them afterwards was your choice) either way it is crazy!!!

Lance and his fellow Infinate teammates were the first to arrive for round 1 of the donuts!!

He paid for it the rest of the day and vowed to never eat that many donuts again (although I think he will forget all about this by the time next year rolls around)!!! The winner ate around 30! For some reason the computer didn't pick his number up when he crossed the finish line so we don't know what he placed:( He was in the top 10 somewhere......Until next year I don't think Lance will be eating any donuts!!:)

4th of July Weekend

We went to the Riverton Days where Lance rode in the Tour de Riverton. He rode 25 miles in 1 hr. and 20 min. and was one of the first 1o to finish (I should have been better at counting since no one was keeping track):) The kids went on some rides afterwards:)

4th of July 2010