Return of the Road Warriors

Or, Our New Traveling Circus Act

We have been relishing Ryan's completion of school! I would say we have attempted to cram five years worth of activities into the past week! One of the first things Ryan did last weekend was get the family bikes down and fixed up. We used to ride all the time in Arizona, but seeing as how I was eight months pregnant when we moved here, we didn't ride them right away and then with Ryan's brutal school schedule, he never had time to get them all ready to go. We have been out riding at least four times since he finished and loving every minute of it! Okay, well not quite every minute. Lincoln feels very left out in his trailer and starts asking to walk about five minutes into every ride. The girls are needing to get "re-conditioned" a bit, so they need a starting push way more often than I want to give them one. Isaac's bike is too small for him, but luckily that doesn't hold him back. My legs are covered in cuts and bruises from injuries sustained on these family bike rides. What is it with kids and riding bikes? We will all be riding along, everything is going smoothly and then the kid in the front of the line sees a strange looking bug crawling along the sidewalk and what do they do? Why, slam on their brakes, of course, causing a five-bike pile up on the sidewalk. Gotta love it!

We are now teaching the girls to ride without training wheels so our bike rides consist of riding to the school parking lot and taking turns running around with the two-wheeler while the other parent and kids ride in circles around the parking lot. Luckily kids are very easily amused.