new girl in town

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Been a long time since this blog has rock and rolled. work has been crazy and baby E arrived on Saturday Aug 14th.

had to drop in and record the impressive ride by H yesterday. when we left the driveway he looked at me and said, "We're going to go on our longest ride ever today". i loved it. the conviction made it sound like we were about to ride across the state.

he did do his longest ride ever. 9.6 miles! rode to Cedar Lake, stopped at a playground, around Cedar Lake, and back home. my little man. you are a great big brother H.

Comments

JoshRLC said…
Congrats! Can't wait to see her at a race. ;0) Fantastic. Pretty little thing too.
August 20, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Pierat said…
Excellent. I had a feeling you were getting close. I hadn't seen a post from you in a while. Congratulations.
August 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM
JDA said…
Five thumbs up!
October 5, 2010 at 7:27 PM
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