REWARDS

Today was a day full of valuable lessons and partial rewards. It started off with Kelton's one mile race at the annual Mesa Falls Marathon. I signed Brian up so he would run along side him, but was embarrased when there were a bunch of little kids and him. He decided to hang in the back in case any of the little ones needed some encouragement. They yelled go and off they went. Kelton sprinted to the lead of the pack and I yelled SLOW DOWN. The whole time I was thinking in my head that there is no way that my little Kelton could sprint the whole way. Well, I was wrong. He came running through the finish 5th with a running time of 8:11- this is out of 45 kids. Now that's fast for a little 7 year old. Brian strolled in a couple minutes later helping a couple little ones through the finish. The only problem was that Kelton had on Brian's time band, and Brian had on Kelton's time band. So it looks like Brian went out and tried stomping the little kids. Kelton was first in his age group!

After the race we hurried and loaded Carson up and rushed to Rexburg for Carson's first football game. Three hours of torture. It is hard to handle little Coop, make sure Kelton doesn't get kidnapped, and watch Carson's game. I tell you what ..........three kids is plenty. We headed home to catch Brian finishing a fun mountain bike ride with a good group of friends. We decided to head to the mountains behind our house and pick huckleberries. It started out great! A nice hike through the woods with all the boys. How peaceful and beautiful it was. And the berries, they were everywhere. We sat and picked for about 10 minutes and wanted to find a new little spot. Carson and Kelton were making their way along the tree line when all of a sudden I hear this BIG OUCH........silence......OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, OUCH! They kicked up a nest of wasps and were getting bit over and over again. Needless to say that our little berry picking adventure ended a little bit early. Poor little dudes. Brian also got bit a few times. For the remainder of the day they were all red and swollen. Well, with the few berries we got we came home and made a yummy huckleberry cheesecake. Now that's a reward.

JUST TRI

(pics coming soon)
The Rexburg Rush triathlon was yesterday and did I get tired just watching the dang thing. Wow, impressive athletes. Brian, dad, and many many friends were involved. Everyone survived with amazing results. I was so proud of all of the finishers. Dad placed 1st in his age group. Brian placed 3rd in his age group, and my best bud Jennica placed 1st. There were 380+ people involved from all over the U.S.A. I even got to see Lisa Hart.....an old neighbor. Congrats to ALL.

So right here and now I am committing to all of my 8 blogging buddies that next year is the year. I HEATHER WILLIAMS AM COMMITTING TO DO THE RUSH TRIATHLON IN 2009. I am learning the hard way that all you got to do is TRI!

So who is in for next year?

NO EXCUSES

I am looking forward to this weekend to watch my dad, Brian, and Whitney suffer in the Rexburg triathlon. I think it is amazing to watch my dad who has had 2 knee replacements and 2 hip replacements do this event. Everyone keeps asking me why I am not doing it this year, and to tell you the truth I need practice in the swim area. Open water freaks me out just a little bit. No, a lot. There really is no excuse for not doing it. I could drive 30 minutes to Rexburg and swim with dad two or three times a week, or go down to the stinky reservoir and swim with the sucker fish. NO EXCUSES!

The other day Bri wanted to go swimming so we took the kayaks down to the river and boated next to him as he swam. Kelton had a blast. Our neighbor watched little Coop. There is an endless pool down there. Brian tried swimming up stream in the current and stayed in one place. It was awesome.

Yesterday and today Brian will be helping with the ride Idaho bike tour. They called and asked if he would help out with the mechanical end of things. He followed 250 SLOW bikers 95 miles yesterday. Yah, that took a while.

KELSON

NEW SITE UP. www.kelsonbikes.com
new stuff to be added later.

SUMMER TIDBITS

We are super stoked for the new website to be up and running this weekend. Gheen has been working so hard getting content ready to go live. Soon we will be official. Here is a sample of what it will look like.
http://www.kelsonbikes.com/test.htm

For the past couple of weeks Brian has been slaving over the apartments in Rexburg getting them ready for people to move into this weekend. He does great work. I will get some photos and show you how it is coming. I have been painting for the past week, and today I will go CLEAN!

Carson has started football practice and seems to enjoy it. I don't know how they can make those kids exercise for 2 hours every stinking day. KIDS ARE TOUGH.

Kelton has been running, and biking like a mad man. He is truly amazing. The other day he wanted to go around the mile loop with me. I saw him for about 30 seconds and he was gone. He doesn't have pity on his old mom. He spanked my trash.

Cooper has hit his early terrible two's. He has been a little BRAT. Of course getting everything he wants. How can you say no to that cute little face.

Brian will be attempting to do the Rexburg Rush triathlon this next week. He just decided a couple of days ago. He will do amazing. He hasn't swam in about 3 years, but I don't think he will even break a sweat. How would it be?

I am starting a new company called GROM (thanks to Cortney for the name). It will be cool skate, surf, board clothes for little kids. I will have the first production of shirts up next week. I am excited for the venture. Here are a few designs I am working on.

SNAKE UPDATE: Brian killed another rattlesnake last night!