Tour de Utah/ Ultimate Challenge

Danny's Ultimate Challenge Experience

 I was pretty lame at documenting his endeavors even though I carried my camera around all day. But here's how our day started.... super early! Fortunately for the boys, Grandma and Grandpa invited them over for a sleepover so they were spared the 4am wake-up call.

 Still feeling good 40 miles, and two climbs in. If only this good feeling could have lasted... Danny had a fun day with goals to "dominate" next year. He didn't crash so I'm pretty excited too :)

Next up, watching the pros compete in the Tour de Utah.

 There were Helicopters...

Team Cars...

Oh yeah and racers!

 Cadell Evans, a bit blurry and he looks a bit like a monkey because he's eating but still.

 JENSIE!!!! I love watching Jens and reading his blog. I'm definitely going to miss reading about his Tour de France experiences. I'm hoping he gets a good announcers position.

 Plus, we saw some fancy bike handling skills. 

Why yes I could use a drink...

 tricky, tricky...

 success!

 Btw, I totally can put on a jacket while descending down a mountain with no hands.

 I definitely support team Jelly Belly! And, anything that includes being covered with pictures of candy.

 Time for a Coke? If you can't tell he is totally drinking out of a mini coke can.

Okay this was cool! This guy saw us and tossed us his bottle. Instead of just chucking it to the side he put in effort to slide it straight to us. His drink of choice? more coke! lol

Birthdays 2014

 First up, my (Jenni's) birthday.

My day began by picking up these cool guys on the train. They decided to spend the whole day just with me.

 We went to temple square. Ben tried to flirt with a sister missionary, but I explained she was off limits.

 Then, they made me a HUGE lunch at the Church History Museum

 They even did the dishes afterwards.

 Not to say our day was with out some hard times.

 and fitful naps.

 but we finally found our treasure...

 My "birthday cake" some macarons from the Grand America

My birthday present from Danny was a baking steel that allowed me to make this delicious looking pizza! :)

A few days later we were ready to party for Danny's birthday

 In honor of his 29th birthday we wrote down 29 reasons why he's our Superman.

 Made a superman cake.

 Does this face look guilty to you??

 Yes, yes, it does.

 Danny asked me to save my usual cheesecake for after his big bike ride next weekend, so we came up with a reasonably healthy alternative. It really is just a hunk of watermelon, but it was actually delicious!

Out of the mouths of babes

We were driving home from the store last night and had this conversation with Will

Will: mom can I invite Max next time I have a party (anticipating his next birthday already)

Me: yeah of course

Will: To my choo choo train party

who else should I invite?

Me: who are your friends?

Will: maybe the z house? 

(Side note: the Z house is our bishop's house who happen to have a Nabraska flag in their front window when we moved here, but the had to hang it sideways due to the window shape... Thus the z)

Me: oh Claire?

Will: no the mean boys that live there (Claire's older brother's, who apparently traumatized him with water guns on our visit and have since been known as the mean boys)

Me: Will if they're not nice to you why do you want to invite them?

Will: we can tell them to be nice and tell them about Jesus

Me: your going to do this at your party?

Will: yeah

Me: like a church party?

Will: Yeah! A Jesus train party!

Yeah about those invitations, not sure how to phrase that :)