Mauna Kea 200

First things first, David is 40 and I never pictured myself being married to a 40 year old, that may be because it used to seem old to me or that I still view myself as 19. That being said now that I am no longer in my 20's and I have to face that fact 40 is not old, my perspective has changed a bit. I am telling you all of this because at 40 David still has "it". Intellect, good looks, he's in great shape, he hasn't started growing ear or stray chin hairs yet, and he can ride like a "demon".

We just finished the race at Mauna Kea and Dave took 5th place overall (100+)riders. Now let me brag. The following are the top reasons I think that Dave's placing says a lot about him.

1. He has not been on a dirt bike for over 3 years
2. He did not have a chance to ride the coarse or practice the terrain at all before the race. In fact a 3 hour ride two weeks ago was his only warm up.
3. He has never ridden jungle terrain like the first part of the course.
4. He rode injured.
5. The first 4 finishers set up the course, talk about advantage.
6. He got no sleep the night before Lydia decided that would be her contribution!
7. The rest of the riders talked about how much they trained for the race.

We were up at 4 A.M. Sunday arrived at the start just outside Hilo, HI
by 5 A.M. Race started at 6 A.M.. Dave rode 36 miles through some crazy jungle terrain. Elevation started at 800 feet and finished at 6300 feet to the first check point. Second Leg, 63 miles around Mauna Kea volcano which started at 6300 ft went to 9700 ft then back. The best part was each leg had a significant period of pouring rain, and when I say pouring were talking cats and dogs. So between temperature, weather and elevation alone it is a crazy course. I wont even get started on the terrain.

We had a great time, met some nice people and I got a rad tan that resembles something of a raccoon crossed with farmer john (even with SPF 55). Happy to report for all of you that think I am too overprotective with Lydia, she even got dirty!

Long of short he rocked the race. Lydia and I are very proud of him.
Go Daddy!

Mauna Kea

Pictures

Pictures

I had a few minutes so here are some new pictures. Approx. from April until now. There are also some pictures of our house in there as well. It is quite funny because as soon as Lydia realizes she is getting her picture taken the fun stops and the seriousness begins. She has already made it quite clear that she will not be performing on command! Enjoy!

Oh FYI the red mark on Lydia's face is called a strawberry hemangioma . It is a cluster of vessels under the skin. It is supposed to stop growing by 6 months and go away by two years.If it doesn't go away on its own then you can have them lasered off and yes we would if necessary. I am telling everyone this because I am so sick of being in the store and having complete strangers come up to me and ask what is on my babies face and if it will go away. YES IT WILL and even if it doesn't she is still the PRETTIEST BABY EVER.

Team Todd

Today we are headed up to Mauna Kea the Volcano closest to where we live. Well I guess I should say the tallest and coldest because our house is on Hualalai an inactive volcano, but that's not the point. Anyway, David is going to race in a motocross race tomorrow. We are excited because it is cold and there is actually snow on Mauna Kea. We have scrounged up all of the babies clothes that are now too small for her, but warm and are headed out. Lydia and I very quickly made a "Team Todd" beanie, cap, and onesie for her to wear in support of her daddy. David's nickname when racing and growing up was "Demon Dave" (fitting I think :), so we figured Lydia has to be "Demons Darlin'". Anyway I will post pictures when we get back along with others we have. Also after months of technical difficulties I finally figured out why my "comments" wouldn't work on the blog.So, now I say post your comments! Take care and we will see most of you in a few weeks!

Bad Blogger

I know I have not posted in awhile and some of you may be wondering why? Well, the answer is between trying to get packed, help David with the house, the baby and the dogs, I just don't have time. As for us, we are moving out of our rental on the first of June. Where to , you may ask? Well, we don't know quite yet! We are then heading to Boise on the 3rd for a few weeks. I am staying a bit longer than Dave. My husband is coming home to frantically try and finish our house and well I will be of very little help in Boise showing the baby off.

Lydia is wonderful. She is getting so big, today is her 4 month birthday! She is cooing, laughing and yes throwing little tantrums (which she totally gets from her Dad).Her new trick is sticking er fist in her mouth and making herself gag. It is actually funny and kind of not all in the same moment. She is generally a very happy baby, but she is starting to teeth, so she has her moments. Each morning when she wakes up she is so happy, she grabs my nose or lips to give me the wake up call and then laughs and smiles for awhile. I often lay there wondering how we can be so lucky. We went through a lot and worked very hard for her and couldn't feel more blessed. I am totally in love. I never thought it was possible to love someone so much. Some of you may know Kara, the sweetest and kindest person I know. The one I am trying to model my parenting after(along with my Aunt Jocelyn), but am not as laid back so it may not be working quite as well. Well any way, I used to spend a lot of time with them when her oldest daughter Tatym was a baby. In fact Tatym was actually my first baby. You know that magical child that you fall in love with and wonder if you will ever think your own child is as cute , wonderful, or special. Anyway back to the story. When she was little and she got a snotty nose, she couldn't blow it yet (obviously) and well didn't really love that nose suction things and to be honest how often are those on hand anyway, so Tim, Kara's husband (if anyone ever thinks they have had a hard time from me, well they should talk to Tim, he had it the worst)would suck the snot out of Tatym's nose so she could breath. I used to be repulsed by this. I mean who the heck sucks snot out of their kids nose. I use this story to illustrate on special point. I love Lydia, so much that I would actually suck snot out of her nose so she could breath freely and wouldn't even think twice about it! I now say, way to go Tim!

We can't wait to see everyone that lives in Idaho!