Tour de Donut Newspaper Article

The following was posted in the Daily Herald newspaper:

Bicyclists take on the Tour de Donut challenge

"Jeff Perri, Lance Gillis and Brad Rowberry [from left to right], all of Riverton, eat donuts as part of the Tour de Donut on Saturday. The Tour de Donut takes place in American Fork and kick offs the city's Steel Days celebration. Cyclists ride 21 miles total, with stops for donut-eating every seven miles. Each donut eaten takes three minutes off each rider's final time. Money raised by the event will be donated to a variety of charities including Kona workers, which help with AIDS in Africa. The money raised will buy bikes to allow workers to travel farther, according to the Tour de Donut events coordinator, Debby Lauret. Around 320 people signed up for the event, Lauret said. "We have the serious riders and coach potatoes," she said. "The idea is to have fun and raise money for good causes." LANCE BOOTH/Daily Herald

info gotten off of http://www.heraldextra.com/

Tour de Donut......

Lance took 5th place in his catagory of Male between the age of 14-34 (there were 44 racers in his catagory)!!!

Everyone lining up for the race

The start of the race, Lance is #225

Cayden had to bring his bike too!!

Lance ate 2 donuts the first time around and 5 the second!!

The kids were excited to get a donut too!!

FINISH LINE

Infinite Cycle friends

Lance raced in the Tour de Donut this morning in American Fork, Utah. The concept of the race is to eat as many donuts as you can, each time you stop at the pit stop!! You then get to to deduct 3 minutes for each donut you eat off of your time at the end!! Lance ate 7 donuts and thought he was going to be sick!!! The winner (the last 2 yrs. in a row btw) ate 28 DONUTS!!!! I told Lance he is going to have to work on that for next year!!:) Who can eat that many donuts??!! Lance watched him and he would smash 3 donuts together at a time, I guess that is the key but then you still have to finish the race and not get sick!! It was amazing how many people show up to these races! Lance did really good though and had a fun time. He finished the 21 mile race in 1:01:00 (that included the 2 times he stopped to eat donuts) so that is really good!! Great job Lance and we can't wait to go watch the next race!!

Some of My Favorite Things.......

I love Recipe Books! I don't know what it is about them but I would rather sit and look at a recipe book (with pictures of course) than read a book!! I counted the other day and I have over 40 cookbooks! I really do have a problem, if I am grocery shopping or just at the store and I see a cookbook with a picture on the front that looks good I want to buy the cookbook!!! It doesn't matter that there may only be a few recipes in the book that I like! I am not a great cook nor do I love to cook (I just like to look at the recipes and think about how good something looks and how good it would probably be if I made it:) I tend to pick the desserts when I do want to try something new which I really need to stop doing because I do not need to eat anymore desserts right now!!:) I guess I should start making all of these great looking recipes, if only my family was not soooooooooo picky and was more willing to try new things!!:)
I love Purses! I don't know why but I get bored of my purse so quickly and tend to always find a new cute one that I want when I am at the store:) Lance says I need to stop buying purses because I have too many!! How many is too many though???? I do have quite a few (I think I counted about 15), but I don't have as many purses as I have cookbooks!:)
I love anything Red! It doesn't really matter what it is, if it is Red there is a 99% chance that I am going to love it, and want to get it!!:)

Finally, I love shakes! Not just any shakes though. I love the really thick ones! My favorite are the M&M blizzards from Dairy Queen or the Cherry Cordial shakes at Dairy Keen in Heber!! I won't turn down ice cream though even if it isn't one of the above, those are just my favorite:) I really need to stop liking things with sugar in them:)

4th of July Weekend

We went to the carnival and the kids loved riding a few of the "little" kid rides:)

Cayden loved riding the dragon rollercoaster

We went to our favorite place for breakfast on the 4th, Kneaders (the French Toast is the best)!!

We had to make red, white and blue cupcakes

Waiting for the fireworks to start

The kids loved the sparklers

Happy 4th of July!!

Goodbye Mesquite for a long, long time!!

Carlie's first time going down the waterslide by herself

Cayden's first time going down a waterslide by himself

Carlie and Cayden with some of the cousins at the pool

Josh won this toy at the arcade and gave it to Carlie, what a nice cousin!!

This was Cayden's favorite car at the car show, Daddy better start saving up!!:)

All of the cousins (except we missed little Kooper who didn't come)
Lance always has to get a Pina Colada (virgin of course):)

Cayden and Zach

For a lot of years Lance's family would plan a trip every year around the 4th of July to Mesquite, Nevada. We have not gone for the last few years so this year they decided it was time to have a family vacation again. Most of the trip I do not want to remember!!! To sum it up Carlie was sick before we left, we thought she was better so we went a day later than planned. We got down there and she ended up being sick almost the entire trip! We get ready to get in the car to come home (a day earlier than planned) and Cayden starts puking everywhere!!! Just our luck!! Luckily we think the heat just bothered him (we are not quite used to the temperature being over 100 degrees yet)!!! So to focus on the one day of fun that we had, we mastered the waterslide! My kids have never liked waterslides!! I think it helped that they could sit on our laps. By the end of the day they were going down by themselves and loving it (as long as someone was waiting at the bottom to catch them)!!:) The kids did have a lot of fun playing at the pool with there cousins!

Happy Father's Day!

Dance Recital Spring 2009

Thanks Shauna for curling Carlie's hair!


Carlie with her friend Kaya

Carlie had her dance recital tonight. She did such a great job!! It is always fun to watch her get up there because she gets so into it!! She gets so nervous before the recital but once she gets up there you would never know it! Cayden loves going too, he is always paying full attention and you can even sometimes catch him dancing to the music:) I am glad he likes the recitals because I am sure there will be many more in the years to come:)

I Love to See the Temple..........

About 2 hours after we went through the temple open house, we had a horrible storm and the Angel Moroni was struck by lightening!! This picture was taken after it was struck by lightening. The face and down the front of the statue is black now!!


We got to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple open house today. It was a special experience to be able to take Carlie and Cayden and show them what the temple is like. Carlie was so serious through the whole tour and you could tell she was just trying to absorb everything in. I hope they will remember how special today was and how special it is to be able to go to the temple one day. I had the opportunity to help at the open house last Thursday and that was a neat opportunity. It is wonderful that we have so many temples so close to us and to live within walking distance of this one! We are so lucky and I hope we can remember that and take advantage of how lucky we are to be able to go to the temple whenever we want to:)

The Last Days of Kindergarten...........

Carlie and some of her good friends in her school class.

Kindergarten program

Cayden posing in front of Carlie's artwork hung in the hallway.

Carlie's classroom after her program.

Carlie had to make sure I took her picture with the giraffes! It is her favorite animal!

Carlie with some of her friends. She was not this happy during the fieldtrip she is just good at putting on a happy face for pictures!!:)

This is what is looked like most of the fieldtrip!!

Kindergarten is is now over but it has been a busy week. Carlie had her end of year program last Friday where they had a fashion show recognizing each child and sang some fun songs they had learned. They then went to the zoo on Wednesday. Carlie had been so excited for this day to come. The weather ended up being horrible (which wasn't surprising after it had already rained every day that week). I think it rained (actually not just rained, it poured) the majority of the field trip, good thing I brought an umbrella!!! Everyone was dripping wet when it was time to get back on the bus!! Carlie did love riding the bus however and I think that was the highlight of the trip because she kept asking when we could go home and made me promise that we will go back to the zoo when it is not raining (which right now that is hard to know when that will happen)!! Carlie has had a fun year going to Kindergarten and had a really nice teacher:) She is excited to go to first grade all day and get to eat lunch at school this fall!!

Brotherly Love!!!

The Price of Children......

I found this on a friends blog and loved it, thanks Jodi.........


The Price of Children

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family. Talk about price shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. But $160,140.00 isn't so bad if you break it down.It translates into:

$8,896.66 a year,

$741.38 a month,

$171.08 a week.

A mere $24.24 a day!Just over a dollar an hour. Still, you might think the best financial advice is; don't have children if you want to be 'rich.' Actually, it is just the opposite.. What do you get for your $160,140.00?
Naming rights. First, middle, and last!
Glimpses of God every day.
Giggles under the covers every night.
More love than your heart can hold.
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
A hand to hold usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
A partner for blowing bubbles and flying kites.
Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.

For $160,140.00, you never have to grow up. You get to:
finger-paint,
carve pumpkins,
play hide-and-seek,
catch lightning bugs,
never stop believing in Santa Claus.

You have an excuse to:
keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,
watch Saturday morning cartoons,
go to Disney movies, andwish on stars.
You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas,
hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.

For a mere $24.24 a day, there is no greater bang for your buck.You get to be a hero just for:
retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof,
taking the training wheels off a bike,
removing a splinter,
filling a wading pool,
coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.

You get a front row seat in history to witness the:
First step,
First word,
First bra,
First date,
First time behind the wheel.

You get to be immortal. You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren. You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God. You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost. That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!

See Heather I can Blog!!! Happy Birthday!!!!