NOTOMATONO 2008

Benlomond Peak.

standing, Reedo, the soda brothers,  Preston and John "the schlong" Roylance. Sitting are Nate Woods and Jed(johns bro in law.) We had others comitted, and training but were not seeing results, so they dropped out.

The notomatono is a gruelling mtn bike ride that starts from top of the pass.  Just East of  N.O. town.  Take the northern skyline trail to Benlomond peak , then drops into Willard Basin.  From there you take the jeep trail to mantua. At this point you have traveled about 22 miles.  Then you drop on the paved road down to  Brigham and take the old fruit highway back south 20 miles to N.O. town  also know to yall as North Ogden.  Takes about 7 hours to do this 43 mile trek. To put it in comparison people riding the lotoja at the 7 hour mark would have covered between 120 to 150 miles to this point.  Everyone finished this year which is a first.

I love you michelle.

Reedo showed that he is the ultimate human speciman by showing up on a bike from walmart and just taking it to us.  It's not about the bike.  Reedo def.  took his share of the pulls on the way home.   Jeff this his rookie season over the mountain finished with flying colors.

Reedo and John

This is Jed (sved)  John the "schlongs" (what did you say?) brother in law.  Last year with little experience and no skills, he turned around and took the trail of shame back down the mtn, with his tail between his legs.  

This year the dude did very well and even put the hurt on us a time or two on the way home.

Nathan Woods the man.  With barely any miles on his legs for the year this dude stomped over the mountain.  Animal!!!!!

Trey cruising his new bike

Trey cruising his new bike

Happy 4th Birthday Trey!!!!!

Busy day with Landon, and Cassidy getting baptized, but Trey still had a great bday.  Check it out.  Here on his bran new Jet 16 Trek.

The talked about Party Hat.

Treys cars cake.

The next Tony Hawk

YMCA!!!!!

Nothing like a woman scorned

The never ending summary to summer

So the end of our never ending summer summary, which I think I just did backwards.  Excuse the mistake new to this blogging.  We went to Downata Hot Springs for our last Horah of the summer.  We went with Prestons sister Holly, Thurnburn family, our poker buddies the Snars and Prestons cousin John and Kims family.  Thanks for all the fun. It was a long, fun summer so my kids can't say it was totally boring.

So like every summer you have to fit in swimming lessons.  If you ask Jess if she wanted swimming lessons she said" Heck ya, 2 weeks of swimming in a pool why not!" They had an awesome teacher Holly, thanks!  They almost are as good as Micheal Phelps.

In August we did the Marshall Bear Lake Trip.  The kids love this trip.  Trey, Kelty, and Teagen were playing a chasing game.  The girls just swam like fish all day.  My brother Brett brought his water ballon launcher which kept the kids busy for a while.

Of course we played soccer.  We did the Cache Cup in Logan. Both Elle and Jessica played.  They both did great.

Elle got to celebrate her birthday on no other then July 24th.  I was new to the whole blogging thing so I didn't get to post her birthday.  She turned 9 she got to pick what she wanted to do that day.  We went to Walle the movie and dinner at Olive Garden who can complain.  

In July it was my granparents anniversary.  So we went up and hung out and celebrated them.  They have had a rough few months.  I truly love and appreciate them.  Along with the party we went down the Logan River.  This was Treys first time. He just loved it.

One of our favorite places to camp is at Mantua.  We try to go a few times each summer.  This summer we got to go twice.  Lots of boating and fun in the sun.  This is Preston skiing which he hasn't done in a few years.  I haven't in 4 years but I did get up.  It was a fun time we got to hang out with Preston's sister Jamie, Jeff, Jason, and Jenna. Also his cousin John, Kim, Kassidy, Katie, Shae.

We then went to Mantua with some good friends the Pittmans.  That was an exciting adventure with them and a plug.  Thanks to our computer crashing I cant find those pics.  The next adventure was up to South Fork for the Fourth of July.  The girls had a blast going down the river. This trip was with the Dagley Grandparents.  Plus we had some sibling vistors.  Brett and Steph came up with their daring girls who held the gater snake we found.

So the first of the summer started with Nicci's new calling which is Girls Camp Director big title huh?

Anyways it turned out nice but not a lot of sleep.

Belated First Day of School and First Day of School

So I thought I would finally get all my kids first day of school, but unfortunately they started different days.  Jessica & Elle started August 25th and Trey started today.  Jessica is now in 6th grade, Elle is in 3rd grade and Trey is now in preschool twice a week for 2 1/2 hours.  I really don't know what to do with my self.  It's amazing how they grow.  Jessica started out with glasses and now doesn't even have to wear them anymore.  She is unfortunate to have to have braces.  Elle has just gotten taller.  Trey I can't believe is this old, it went by fast.  So here are their pictures of present and old.  Also by the way I have to say something about Trey's pictures.  This morning he was so excited about preschool he couldn't wait.  When it was time to get ready to go he told me that he needed his hair done like the girls.  Without the long hair.  So I got some hair pomenade and gelled his hair.  He then told me he need to see it. "Mommy that looks good" he said then went on to say "I look really good".  We then preceded outside where he made sure to pose. I never knew he would care that much about what he looks like.   

downata hot springs

some dudes wife suggested we come here for a family get together back in the day.  Turns out it's a pretty fun place.

downata hot springs

Went here for labor day weekend.  I was too scared to take my nice cam to take pics in the pool.  But heres some of everything else.  Sunday we took a small drive to red rock pass.  this is the place where lake bonneville drained fifteen thousand years ago.  

downata hot springs

Jeff (thurn burn) Thurn took some of the kids lizard hunting after swimming on saturday.  We got bored so decided to eat some cow terd. (above)  Here we are playing some volleyball.  Thurn burn, Preston, J Web, and som dude named Darren (tburns buddy).  We eventually played some hill billy back wooded fellars that put the beat down on us.  that's how sad we were.