Redlands Bicycle Classic

One of my National Officiating Assignments was the Redland Bicycle Classic. It is so much fun to work an event on the National Racing Calendar. The race has Police escorts, motor officials, Comm cars, a race caravan, and all of the hoopula that goes along with it. I was the Chief Judge for the Men's Event. I got to work Registration for the first time, checking licenses, resolving problems, assigning time trial start times. It was quite the experience. It was a good thing James Abbott was there making sure that I was doing things right. My friend, Sean Weide,

who was in my "Cat. A" class was there with Team Type I. The local newspaper had requested to do a story on me and they wanted someone to take pictures of me at a race. I enlisted Sean to be my "personal photograper". He pulled out his camera and took pictures of me during the whole event. I would get back to my hotel after each event to an email from Sean full of pictures he had taken that day. The first day was a time trial, the women went first, when it was time for me to go to the finish line my ride there was a Convertible Corvette. It was pretty fun cruising to the finish line in that car, if only Sean had been there then, I would have loved a picture of me in that car.

Redlands was a great experience and a wonderful opportunity. I enjoyoed working with Janeen and Taylor as my assistant judges. It was great how well the men and women's judging crews worked together to make the event successful for all of us.

Competition at American Fork High School

On March 7th, Rachael and the Winter Guard competed at American Fork High School. They did a great job and again took first place!!

Carl's Jr.

We took Austin and Sean and Bryton to Carl's Jr. for lunch before Rachael's competition at American Fork High School. The boys ate their lunch


then headed into the play place. They had a great time playing, running, chasing, sliding.





















Rachael enjoyed her time there

Fun time was had by all.

What was LOST is now FOUND

A week ago we let our dogs out into the front yard to play and to our surprise we found two strange dogs in the yard. We herded our dogs back into the dog run and watched the other dogs in the front yard. They seemed to have made their self at home. Richard went out and found they were friendly. He checked for tags and found a phone number. We called the number to find out they had been missing for a couple of days and the ex boyfriend would get a hold of the owner. Since the dogs had been missing for a while we filled a couple of food dishes and water dishes for them and them began to chow down.















Apparently it was so good it was "Finger licking good". The bigger dog licked the spoon clean.



After about an hour a car turned in to the circle and both dogs got all excited. They knew that car. The dogs were happy to see their owner and she was happy to see them. They got into the car and drove away. We did our good deed for the day.

A Church Breakfast Party

We had a great time at the Annual breakfast. Rachael and I were helping to cook pancakes in the kitchen. (Can this work for one of her Value Experiences?)


Then the program began. Once there was a snowman . . .




The young men did a "Ballet"

The young woman "sang and danced"













The best was yet to come as the Relief Society Presidency took the stage.

We have a lot of talentedf people in our ward. We had great food, good times, and great entertainment. I can hardly wait to see how we will out do this next year.

Daddy Daughter Date

Richard took Rachael out of school early recently and the two of them went to Park City to wander Main Street during the Park City Film Festival. They sent me regular text messages about all the fun they were having trying to find the "Stars". They think they saw "somebody" because people were taking pictures. They had a good time, doing lunch, getting water bottles and eating Rocky Mountain Chocolate.

Rachael becomes a parent.

We have Piddidle. Rachael got this cat when she was 2. The cat stays mostly downstairs and loves to sleep on the bed with Rachael. She will also sneak into Steven's room and sleep on his bed if he leaves the door open. We have to be careful about leaving the door to the room under the stairs open, because she can really hide in there. If the dogs come downstairs they head right to the cat's food dish and eat it all up. She does have some sort of things going on with her eyes. The hair around them has all fallen out. But she doesn't seem bothered by it in any way. We think it is cute the way she stretches out on the edge of Rachael's bed trying to reach Rachael as she puts on makeup in the mornings. We love our kitty.

We also have Chloe. Our Blue Heeler is just over a year old and we got her for Christmas last year. Chloe has lots of energy and knows that she can hide in her kennel and maybe avoid going outside with the other dogs.





When Steven moved home, his two dogs came with him. Sugar, the Black Lab just loves attention. She would sit beside you all night if you just kept petting her. She loves to go for a walk and jump into the stream at the park. She will walk in the stream all the way to the park. I am sure she can hardly wait for it to warm up enough to get into the water.




Chubbs is a beagle. Chubbs is our barker. He has this deep sounding bark. I am always telling him to shut up. His tail never stops wagging. He is the trouble maker at the house. He sneeks out of the fence, then Chloe follows him.




You would think that one cat and three dogs would be enough. But no, Rachael decided she needed another pet. We told her no more cats, NO MORE DOGS, she kept asking. Finally she asked about a fish. She was told that she would have to pay for, she would have to feed it and she would have to clean the fish bowl. She decided that she was willing to do all three. So off we went to Pets Mart.


This is what we came home with. One Beta. After much deliberation (not as much as the K2's did over giving the new baby a name) the fish got a name - DIABLO






This picture shows the beautiful colors Diablo has. Rachael claims that Diable gets excited and swims around the bowl when she walks into the room. But the color in the video isn't very good.




So Rachael is now "the parent". Long Live Diablo.