Fun at Red Robin

Maycee and Tyler chose Red Robin for their bday lunch today.

It was so much fun.

Happy Birthday Tyler and Maycee

Two special people in my life celebrate their birthday today. I remember 6 years ago waking up Tyler and saying "Let's go to the hospital we are having this little girl today, on your birthday." He was so excited. I rember looking at Maycee's face and saying "She has your lips!!" I couldn't believe how much she looked like her daddy. I can't think of a better present. Tyler and Maycee bring such a joy in our lives. Maycee is always smiling and thinking of others, and makes us smile. Tyler likes to make this day special for Maycee and not focus on him. He is such a good daddy to his girls and the most unselfish person I know. We love you Tyler and Maycee.

Be a Hero. Save a blog. Use Bloggled’s Blog Backup and Win an iPod.

Hey everyone,

This is a new company one of our best friends started. What a great idea! Check it out-they are really giving out and i-Pod or cutter on Monday.

Have you ever had this experience? You are posting to your blog, click the publish button, and the very next thing you know the screen is blank. So, you click back to your drafts and nothing is there, then you click your published posts and nothing is there. At this point you are starting to think to yourself…oh no, what just happened? As you continue searching your blog admin for information you see that all your uploaded images, videos, files, and everything is gone.

Living through this situation would be enough to devastate any blogger. Knowing that years of data about your person, family, or business is gone can be difficult to overcome emotionally, but even more difficult of a problem to solve. If you haven’t backed up your blog recently, or ever, chances are your posts and everything else are gone for good.

This is the kind of situation that led Brent Ramey to the idea of creating Bloggled.com, “and to honestly save anyone in that situation the act of going insane.” Bloggled.com is a blog backup company that is allowing bloggers to backup their blog for free as an introductory product to celebrate their official launch out of beta and as a holiday gift this season. Bloggled is also offering multiple prizes to those who participate in their “Be a Hero, Save a Blog Contest” that is running through the day on Monday, December 15, 2008. Winners can choose from either a 16GB iPod Touch, or a Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter Machine and it’s quite simple to enter. All you have to do is one of the items below, but if you do more you get entered more times into the drawing…but you have to enter on Monday 12/15 to qualify so act fast, or should I say slow so I have a better chance of winning.

Join Bloggled. Register and sign up for a Bloggled account (http://www.bloggled.com/).
Friend or follow Bloggled on one of the following social network profiles:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/bloggled
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Brent-Ramey/1002883214
Subscribe to Bloggled’s RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bloggled.
Blog about the Blogger Contest on another blog then notify Bloggled about the new blog post by commenting on their blog.
Anyway, as you can tell from my post here, I have met the criteria and will be hoping I’m drawn as a winner today. You can find the full contest details by visiting http://www.bloggled.com/.

Cyber Monday 2008 Sales & Deals Online

Hey everyone,

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did. I wanted to pass this website on to all who are wanting to shop online and get the best deals. Cyber Monday is one of the best days to shop online. I like to call it the "Online Black Friday." It is next Monday, December 1st. Click on the following link

Cyber Monday to find the best deals from some of the top retailers out there.

Just thought I would pass this on. Happy Holidays everyone.

the latest...

Just wanted to give a big thanks to Brooke (my sis-in-law) for taking the cutest pictures of our girls. They turned out so cute. We love them.

Ode to LOTOJA

Alright so Kacee posted a smidge (who knows if that is how you really spell that or if it is even a word...) about our relay race we did last Saturday. Hopefully there will be more pictures to come from Aunt Michelle. First, Kacee and I had a great time hanging out together and doing something hard and fun. We left Vegas on Thursady night and drove to Utah for the second time in two weeks. We hung out in Orem Friday until Jared, my cousin met up with us and we drove to Logan. When we go to Logan to check in for the race and get our timing chip it looked like a line for a new Disneyland ride. I did not know there were that many crazy people...I felt right at home. We made it throught the line and got checked in so we were official. We then met up for dinner with My Uncle Dave and some of his family who were also doing the race. We had some good eats and then went to Lisa Rameys' parents house for the night. Lisa's dad was hilarious. I guess we stayed in the "noisy room" from what he said. We woke up at dark thirty and made our way toward the starting line to cheer on my cousin-in-law Dan who rode the first leg of the race-34 miles. We missed him at the start but made it to the hand off point in Preston Idaho. In Preston I hopped on the bike and rode the next leg of 46 miles. 46 miles is not that hard unless 28 of those miles are uphill but I survived. The next hand off point was Montpeilier where I had really busted my tail to get to. When I arrived I saw my Uncle Brent and Aunt Michelle there but no other riders...They were stuck in traffic. So my thinking I would give it all I had into Montpeilier did not work so well because I had to keep going. And when I say going-I mean UP. Pretty soon Brent and Michelle brought my cousin Jared up to meet me and he got on and rode the third leg of the race about 45 miles into Afton Wyoming. In Afton Kacee (the Hammer) took over. Jared and I got in the car to meet Kacee at the next hand off point. As we were driving we would see groups and think she had to be in that group-Nope. About five groups up the road we find Kacee in the middle of a group of guys. We could tell by the numbers on their bikes that she was in a group of catagorized racers-and she was right in the mix! Needless to saw I was proud. Kacee ended up riding a quick 34 miles. The next exchange was not so smooth. Uncle Brent still had my bike in the back of his truck so Jared had to get back on and ride until Brent caught up and took me up to meet Jared. From there I rode the rest of the way into Teton Village. This was the most beautiful part of the ride. With mountains on either side and the Snake River winding next to the road I could not have asked for a better scene to ride in. The best part of the day was when I crossed the finish line. Not because I was tired after riding 92+ miles or because out of 58 teams we came in a down right respectable 21st but because of our team name. Jared named our team "Pretty Pink Ponies." When I crossed the finish line the announcer, over the loud speaker, says, "Welcome to Jackson Hole the Pretty Pink Ponies." Then with a sort of confused sound in his voice-because he can see four guys names on the computer screen he says, "Pretty Pink Ponies? Welcome guys." It was great!

So after 10hrs and 16 min we finished the 206 mile LOTOJA race. It was a fun experience and I am already looking forward to next year.

PS. The kits we are wearing are Crystal Springs Cattle Company kits. That is Uncle Brents cattle business name. Special thanks goes out to My Mom, Dad and Sisters who all helped with the girls, Uncle Brent and Aunt Michelle for toting us around and supporting us, and Grandma and Grandpa Stewart for driving into Afton to cheer us on-Thanks guys!

'Till next time~Late

We survived Lotoja

This past weekend Tyler and I and a couple of his cousins rode a relay from Logan to Jackson Hole. We had the funnest time. Thanks to my wonderful in-laws and Camie and Randy who kept our girls for us. I was able to catch Tyler in action while I was driving. What a hottie!! We finished in 10 hours and 15 minutes. Not bad.