Evie's new hiding place

Evie has a special hiding place here at our new house! She found a little cabinet door that is just her size and she fits inside perfectly! When Lisa was visiting last week she would go inside and hide and then scare Lisa! I think Uncle Ryan called her and told her to scare Auntie Lisa! Ha!

My Birthday (yes i know, it was last month)

Yes I know my birthday was last month, but I found this picture on my camera and remembered I wanted to post it. The week leading up to my birthday I thought a lot about Marge and how much I would miss her this birthday, it being the first one since she passed away and all. She always, always timed her cards just right so they arrived right on your birthday, even if she was going to see you in person that day. She always created a little pocket in the card in which she tucked some fun money. :) I kept thinking that she wouldn't be there on my birthday, but to my surprise I found her. After digging through a bag of office type stuff Marina had cleaned out and passed on the the girls, I opened one up that day to give to Evie and found a name tag with Marge's name on it. It was in that one of a kind Marge Chiesa hand writing, no one on this earth writes like she did. It made me happy to know that Marge found her way to me on my birthday. I love you Marge and miss you so much. I will never doubt that you will be right here with me...

The parents to be!

Here are some pics of Lisa and Ryan at about 12 weeks! She is due November 22nd! We can't wait! Ryan is looking really good and is putting on all the weight for lisa! ha!

Chap and Rep

My Uncle Marty just emailed me some old pictures he found and I couldn't pass up posting this one. I am not sure if this is in mexico or at a mexican resturant. But seeing my grandma with a "King of Beers" in her had was priceless!!!! My grandpa passed away 7 years ago March 4th, I can't beleive it has been that long...But GG (as the girls call her) is going strong! She has beat stomache cancer and breast cancer and living life to the fullest at "the home" in Merced! Love you GG!

Oh Evie!

Spring has definitely sprung and the girls have been in the back yard playing with the sand and water table and picking flowers and putting sand on the dogs. I looked out yesterday to check on Evie and did not see her, so I went out to take a closer look and found her with a bucket of sand under the covered bench! she was perfectly content playing there, so i snapped a few shots and let her go about her business!

Luci, meet the toilet

So, today our good friend Gabe and his daughter Makenna came by for a visit and then offered to watch our girls so we could goto the bike race. All was well, they had pizza, made a fort and then luci decides to go potty and slips on the step stool and racks her chin on the toilet! We came home to a calm household and luci fast asleep in Gabe's arms. What a great dad/kid sitter he is! I had to take luci to urgent care and she got 3 stitches in her chin. The little cutie never even shed a tear or acted scared while she was there! The doctor and nurse were so impressed with her! Way to go Luci and she will have a scar to tell the story about for years to come! :)

LIVESTRONG at the TOC in Santa Cruz

The Tour of California paid a visit to Santa Cruz County with the finish of Stage #2 in Down Town Santa Cruz today. John and I raced down to catch the finish and then head home to take Luci to Urgent Care after she took a chin dive on the toilet!(pics to follow this) We were right at the fence down from the finish and saw Levi, Lance, Floyd, George, all of the great riders! I got some good pics, but of course missed the first few! I was just too excited! We saw so many friends of our down there and even saw my old teammate and friend Jodi Dailey. (we ran xc and track together at SFSU)

LIVESTRONG 4 Kaky, Martha, Lorraine and GG!

Me and Jodi