Matt and Eric's Epic Bike Ride at Fountainhead

A few clips of me and Eric riding the mountain bike trail at Fountainhead Regional Park. It's the first time we had ridden together in over 18 years! My, how the time flies. We survived the trail without any crashes or injuries.

Cox Farms 2010

Taylor and Lyndee's Wedding

Naturally, the highlight of our trip was Taylor and Lyndee's wedding. We were so glad that we were able to be there for the event! I am always glad to have another girl in the family!

Shooting Guns

While I like shooting guns, I find this video boring, but I had to put it up for my brothers.

Motorcycle Riding with Steve and Kelly

Being the daring people that they are, Steve and Kelly decided that we needed some excitement in our vacation and they took us out to Hagerman to go motorcycle riding with them and Steve's friend Lane Heward. Steve is amazing. He can climb straight up some crazy steep hills. Steve arranged for me and Matt to ride in Lane's two-seat Rhino, but that only lasted about half of that day when Matt took over Kelly’s motorcycle. Steve is on the green motorcycle and Lane is on the white one.

Floating the Lost River

One of the favorite things to do in Mackey is to float the river. For those who are too young to navigate on their own, we tied them to the tube of an adult. Dad took Sydney, Matt took Savy and Uncle Bud took Audry.

Little Motorcycle

Steve and Kelly brought over Wyatt’s little motorcycle a few times and the kids took it for laps around the yard. Ok, the adults did too. Steve rigged it so that it wouldn’t go very fast.

Dad Recatching his worms

Before we left for Mackay, we had to have our family’s annual event, the “Gathering of the Worms”. My dad fills a 50-gallon drum with water and some chemical that makes the worms feel like they can’t breathe. Then he dumps it on our lawn and hundreds of worms start coming out of the ground immediately. Then everyone picks up the worms as fast as they can and we dump them into the bait box for our trip to Mackay. The funny thing is that we stand around saying or thinking about how disgusting it is, yet we just can’t help ourselves and we have to pick them up. It’s like zits; they are gross, but you just have to pop them! Anyway, after multiple dumps, we collected about 1,300 worms. The worms are stored in bait containers in the basement because it is cool. One evening we were in the basement with Matt and Erika. I commented on something smelling funny. I figured it must be a dead mouse, but upon closer inspection, we discovered that dad had left the lid of the bait boxes so the worms could get some air and some of the worms had gotten out. They were slinking across the cement floor. My dad had already gone to bed, but when he found out that the worms were out, he put on my mom’s bathrobe and came right downstairs to check on them. He started picking them up like a mother hen gathering her eggs. We were all so shocked by his outfit that we just stood there and laughed instead of helping.