Easter Morning

After the Easter Bunny found our house, we went for a family bike ride. Sedona is starting to enter a new level of mountain biking, which is both exciting and scary! She is starting to do quite a few bridges and ramps, as well as some rocky downhills. It's neat to ride with her now because she is not far behind us! It will only be a matter of time before she's faster than me!!! The two of us were riding together today after school and I said that in another couple of years, when Aja is a more confident rider, we'd probably be ready for a family bike trip to Sedona, Arizona!

Party Time!

We had some friends over last week for a combined BIrthday/Easter dinner (Aja and my birthdays). My friend Tricia has a cupcake/cookie business so she brought desert. Yummy!!! And oh, so beautiful!

Do you know this Child?

Aja loves imaginative play! She is constantly playing babies, and dressing up/acting. I would not be surprised if she becaem an actor one day! She cracks me up! There are so many more pictures I could be taking of her crazy outfits, but here are a few of the recent ones.

Our First Ride of the Season

I may have run a half marathon last weekend, but am I ever out of bike shape! Time to start getting back to it, but.... I have signed up for an other half marathon in June so will have to continue running quite a bit. My rides may be limited to the bike club that I coach at school right now. We had 29 kids out the other day, two of which were Aja and Sedona.... yeah! Future riders!

Aja's Birthday Party

Although Aja's birthday is Easter Sunday, we did her birthday party yesterday. It was easy- an Easter theme! We did an Easter egg hunt, dyed eggs, did some Easter crafts. Aja opted for ice cream sundaes instead of cake, which the kids always love. The weather was beautiful so the girls had lots of fun playing outside! The parties keep getting easier as they get older!

April Fools' Run

I switched from trail running to road running for the last few months as training for the April Fools' Run race, a local half marathon (21.4 kms). The last time I did this was 4 years ago and I remember sating then that I didn't feel I could have gone any faster. Interestingly enough, my time was the same: 1:54. I felt great for the whole run which was nice! I have been training with my friend Erin, and we ran most of the race together today. On our training runs, we chat the entire run. Today we listened to music instead of talking, and it's amazing how much faster we were (adrenaline rush as well, I am sure)! The reason I got into of trail running was because I find it easier on the body and got really sick of training on the road. However, I am surprised to hear myself say that I really enjoyed training for this run! Thanks for all the early morning runs Erin, and Maude, if you're reading this, we missed training with you!!

 The Finish Line.... 1:54

 At the start line- looking a little more fresh!

Kids' Mad Dash

At the end, there was an Under 7 kids' mad dash which Aja did!

Sedona's Year End Soccer Tournament

Sedona's soccer tournament was cancelled a month ago due to really wet weather. They rescheduled it to yesterday and played 3 games, 2 of which were very wet. At the end, they all got a medal. Sedona loved playing this year and has already signed up for next year. This is one of her good friends, Isabella.

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