I have always been one of those moms that cries with pride when one of my sons does something remarkable. As if they are an extension of me and I helped make them remarkable. While I didn't cry yesterday I felt immense pride as if J's accomplishment was part of me too.
On Sept 8th J rode in an ambulance for 31/2 hours to save his life. Yesterday, 5 months later he rode his bike in the Tour de Palm Springs to celebrate his life. We rode with our friends from MN the 15 mile ride and had a great time. They had over 10,000 riders in the event and I have never experienced anything like it. Great fun and we all agree next year we will shoot for the 25 mile ride.
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| Sept 8th ambulance ride to Rochester |
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| Feb 9th celebratory bike ride! |
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| Tour de Palm Springs 2013 with Lynn and Mary Kay! |
Yesterday as we were loading our bikes we spotted our first big horn sheep coming down the mountain. Its so incredible to live in this little cove and have such amazing wildlife out our door.
I doubt we will ever stop getting excited about seeing them this time of year. We had quite a bit of winter weather and snow in the mountains so maybe that helped send them lower. Very cool.
I realized I have not shared one of our biggest remodel projects that John B and Timothy came and did for us in Nov. We had replaced all the carpet in our house last spring but left the old in the dining room. Our plan was when we got back from MN we would tackle retiling it. Well we all know that didnt happen so John said if Timothy would come so would he and there was no talking him out of it. He brought his Jamie and Timothy his Jammie and we all went to work.
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| The girls working on some pavers around the pool |
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| The girls cruising in Jammie's 'new' bug! |
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| Before with a mauve/brown carpet |
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| Timothy and Jammie arrived and up came the carpet |
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| Timothy using his mechanical engineering degree for precision! |
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| John B using his engineering degree for perfect cutting! |
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| John telling Jamie how to do grout and Gracie shadowing her! |
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| Beautiful design in alcove |
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| Beautiful dining room thanks to Bishops and Kamolzs. |
I have a few other projects to share but will save them for another post. Thanks for popping in and have a lovely day!
xo
Wow, another post so soon?!! Woo hoo!!
ReplyDeleteLove that you all enjoyed the ride so much, it must have been an incredible feeling for you and Jerry after what you've been thru. So happy the recovery has gone so well.
Boy, that is a wonderful difference in the dining room, it looks great. You know you're very fortunate to have so much wonderful help and knowhow. We don't all have that, some even have to hire people to do it ; ) (actually, Neal would take offense to this comment, I forgot who I was married to for a second)
xoxo