Our boy is 5!
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| Invite pic for his lego party |
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| Before Sulli's birthday we took a trip to visit our good friends Noah and Angela in Spokane |
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| There is a large park downtown Spokane where you can feed seagulls and geese. Kid heaven. |
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| We went to an amazing BBQ restaurant in Wallace, ID on the way home. Sulli found his place in the world. |
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| And we finally got to the lake! |
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| I love lake hair! |
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| We stopped at Camp Tuffit again. The boys got blowpops at the little store. |
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| Another bit of cheese from Camp Tuffit. The place is one of a kind! |
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| And we stopped at my favorite restaurant at Flathead for lunch on a beautiful day! |
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| I call this three towheads in a hammock |
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| Three twoheads and one Eliot in a hammock |
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| Sulli and I went to the flower farm for the Clarkia weeding party. Unfortunately, Sulli refused to help pull any weeds again this year. One of these years he will help out, I know it. It was a beautiful day either way. |
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| Bitterroots at the farm |
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| Missions |
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| Sage in the sun |
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| BFFs! |
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| We ran into our neighbors playing in a mud puddle, so naturally we joined in. It was disgusting! |
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| Sulli's school has summer camps right now. This week's camp was all about fairies. These are the fairy houses they made. |
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| And this was Sulli's fairy. He made all the clothes himself. Catch Sulli's fairy wings? They had a fairy lunch/tea party. |
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| Mimi made a surprise visit for Sulli's birthday! It was the best present! |
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| Sulli's party. This plane is where it's at during a party. |
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| His party was lego themed. I put a bunch of legos out on sheets and the kids just came and went creating ships and stuff as they pleased. |
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| Sulli got some amazing presents including a fishing pole, a ninjago hoodie from Olivia, tons of legos, and even more costumes. Here is ninja Sulli. Thank you all for the wonderful gifts! |
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| We took Mimi to Garnet ghost town. The beargrass was blooming like crazy! It's the strangest and coolest flower. |
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| Sulli got to hang out with Mimi a lot and she went to school with him a couple of days. It was so great! |
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| Sulli also got an umbrella for his birthday just in time to get rained out at an Osprey game |
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| 5 year olds are still cute when they fall asleep in the car. |
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| So I attempted my 130 mile ride last weekend. This is the sky at morning, not a good sign right? |
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| Me and Molly pre-ride. She looks totally relaxed and ready. I look terrified! She and her husband, Brook, finished the whole ride. They are kind of my heros. |
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| This was the breakfast stop about 40 miles in. Beautiful place to eat breakfast although a monstrous climb was waiting for us after we ate. There weren't a ton of people left at breakfast by the time I rolled in. This was the most intimidating group of humans I have ever been around! I really felt over my head but I kept going anyway. |
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| The valley we rode through was untouched beauty! Rolling meadows full of flowers. |
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| I was trying to take a self pic at the meadow when this nice woman and I were swarmed by a plague of mosquitos. It stayed this way throughout the rest of the ride. My knee and shoulder were really starting to hurt so I had to pull over and stop every 3-4 miles to stretch. I had like 30 seconds to stretch before getting eaten alive by the most voracious fuckers I have ever encountered. I have probably 100 bites on my legs and butt. |
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| Ben met me at the lunch stop. He drove 2 and 1/2 hours to get to me, then another 50 miles to trail me and get me back to Dillon, then another 2.5 hours home. Best husband ever!!! I was pretty miserable at the lunch stop but decided to eat and rest for an hour or so before calling it quits. I felt good enough to keep going after a long rest. But then, after the lunch stop I was riding on a high plain when a thunderstorm came through. Initially the rain was a welcome relief from the oppressive heat but the lightening was getting pretty close. As I was slowly making my way up the hill I heard a pop and a transformer for an electric fence exploded right next to me. As my brain was forming the thought "oh shit!" it was interrupted by the loudest thunder I have ever heard. Suddenly my throbbing knee and burning shoulder felt right as rain and I rode faster than I ever had to get the hell down from that plain. Once I got around 100 miles another storm started moving in and I just thought, I'm done. It was a good choice. The rest of the ride looked miserable for the poor riders. Driving rain and a sidewind that almost knocked them off their bikes. I was sooo happy to be off my bike! I am selling my road bike. I'm glad I tried the ride but road biking is not for me. Ben and I are going to get a couple of mountain bikes instead. I think we'll like that better. |
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| Back home the very next day, Ben and his partners had a booth at the Made Fair in near 100 degree conditions. |
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| I couldn't be prouder of Ben and all he has accomplished in the last few months. His company is designing their own 3D printer called the Helix. It should be out soon and it will be awesome! Sulli has been working on pole sliding for a while. He finally nailed it. The boys got some walkie talkies to play with at the lake. It was awesome. They would be screaming at each other, right next to each other through the walkie talkies. They are such cousins We found these at the ghost town. What is with the twitching? Creepy! |
