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More to come later

Simply Amazing!

Allison and her group, the Sprocket Rockets, survived the race. They rode through hail, rain, wind, I-15, had critters chasing them at night, 108 degree heat, saw the Big Rock Candy Mountain, and even met a few locals. The organizers did a pretty good job with everything, except they had some trouble figuring out distances. Allison was suppose to ride about 60 miles total, and she ended up riding about 81. Through all the adversity, they finished the race. Sure there were a few flat tires, Allison riding in a lightning storm and getting blown over. (If she had any weight on her that probably wouldn't have happened.) Allison was riding the last leg, which they had 16 miles longer then it was suppose to be, she hit the wall. Her team got her to stop for a minute, and they could realize that she was getting really dehydrated. She sat in the car for a couple of minutes and got some food and water. I heard that she ate about 10 fruit leathers in about a minute. Well the rest of the girls and Jeff got out their bikes and escorted Allison in to the finish line. It was pretty emotional for everyone, and an experience that I will never forget. Allison is truely my hero, and I hope to someday be like her.

The Sprocket Rockets

Iron Woman



Yes, she caught and passed those male riders in front of her.

Love your guts Iron woman!

Lance Armstrong?

Months ago Allison agreed to ride with a group of friends from Salt lake to Vegas at the end of July. It's called Saints to Sinners. Since there really isn't many pictures of her on here I thought that I would post some of her training photos. (If you have Eye of the Tiger on your computer, now would be a good time to start playing it.)

Good Luck! Love you hot stuff!

There will be more to come.....

4 years old!!

4 years ago TODAY a sweet little angel entered our lives... our Porter BEAR was born.Porter makes us laugh EVERY day with sayings like "Hello, gorgeous!", "that's interesting" and "Will you download with me?" Chocolate milk, cookies, brownies and candy are what he loves most and he is ALWAYS hungry. Porter is a smart kid and LOVES to read books and color. He'll sing and dance for you and even do some YOGA. He is really good at snuggling and cuddling and tickling and teasing. His laugh is contageous and his smile melts hearts. There has never been a sweeter kid.

Porter, I love you with all my heart... I'm so glad I have you. Love you, Bear!
-Mamma

Quote of the Week...

Quote of the Week...

I've got to give credit to my mom for this one... she's the one that told me this. A week or two ago, Disco was asking Mimi if she'd seen some movie... I think it was ICE AGE 3 or something. Well, Mimi couldn't remember so she appologized to him.

Then he said...

I LOVE that! I'm never going to tell him he means MEMORIES...

I like REMEMBERMEs way better!

Thanks, Mimi!!

Quote of the Week...

A couple days ago... at 6 AM... Bear came into my room and woke me up. He kept saying he wanted breakfast... blah blah blah...IT'S 6 AM! I told him he'd have to wait.

Then he pulled out...

Ok... I'll give you anything you want, then. :)

Best Nativity Ever!

Are you ready for this? This is our family's FIRST EVER Nativity... and it turned out AWESOME! I have been laughing about these pictures... can't wait to SHARE!!!

Here are our SHEPHERDS...

Here are our STABLE ANIMALS...

Here's the HOLY FAMILY... complete with ANGEL...

Here are our THREE WISEMEN...

This is another SHEPHERD and our INN KEEPER...
And here's the entire CAST... (minus the NARRATOR... ME.)

I can't even WAIT till next year!!!

FIRST ANNUAL NIELSON-HARRIS CHRISTMAS PARTY!

We decided to have a dinner party for our good friends and neighbors, the Nielsons. I'd ALWAYS wanted to do this. I asked them if they would join us for Sunday dinner and... sorry, but... wear your SUNDAY CLOTHES! When I told that to Lilian, she said... "you mean the Sunday clothes we wear to church or the Sunday clothes we wear AFTER church." Unfortunately... I meant CHURCH CLOTHES. I told her I wanted to have a nice FANCY Christmas dinner for once in my life. Little did she know...

I had NO INTENTION of making this dinner FANCY.

Here is our nicely set table... complete with Christmas dishes (thanks, Lilian) and goblets. Notice something missing from this table?That's RIGHT!

In each of those nicely tied packages were a pair of GLOVES and a plastic APRON.

Tee hee hee...

And of course, we served SPAGHETTI ...

Merry Christmas, Nielson Family... Love you guy!

Missing Tooth

Jack was so excited to lose that sucker... he'd been wiggling it for weeks and finally, one evening as Jack was eating popcorn, it just FELL out. Jack had FINALLY lost his first tooth! For some reason, this is a really special time... kinda like passing into KID-HOOD. After we put Jack to bed that night, he got up and asked if he could call Ed and Mimi and tell him his wonderful news. Of course, we had to let him!