Solar Eclipse



A few Sundays ago, we heard there was going to be a solar eclipse and the western part of the United States was going to have a pretty good show. We were told in Las Cruces that it would only be about 40 percent, but we took our chances anyway and went out to check it out.  Mike rode his bike up to the top of A Mountain while I ran it.  It's so much harder to run it!



It was cool because the temperature changed so quickly and there was a haze around us. If you look at the picture with Mike, it almost looks like it is dark out.

We found out that the best thing to use besides the elementary school pinhole boxes is believe or not, old welding masks. A couple had some and shared with us and we were able to take a picture through it.

 

What a neat thing to witness! I'm so glad we did it!



Stephanie's Baby Shower

Stephanie is another science teacher at my job.  We both talked about getting pregnancy this year and she got pregnant pretty quickly. So the whole year we have gone through all the stages of pregnancy and it was so fun to watch her. 

Now that school is ending, she is getting ready to have the baby so we held a shower for her.  Here she is with her presents.

 Some of the words of advice.

 The cake.

 The diaper cake.  Cute idea.

 The whole gang showed up...

Cody's Birthday

Cody invited all the girls out for her birthday at Olive Garden.  What a great idea!  We all have been so busy with things going on in our lives that we needed to take a little breather.  Here is the group.  Most of us play volleyball together. 

 Cody was excited because she go a Happy Birthday from Abe on her facebook!

Bad Luck on the Bike

Last week Mike was riding with some friends on a road ride and a car turned in front of the group.  They all had to brake on their bikes and another rider hit him. Poor Postal Service bike was gone.

The plan was to sell our Lexus and use it on a new bike. 

So we bought a new bike and it came in on Friday.  Mike went on his first ride Saturday morning a day later, this is what it looked like:

 It snapped.

 What a good looking bike.  If you look closer, you can see the rear art of the frame broken off.  Again, the bike was rear ended.

 Thank you Trek for warranties.

High Altitude Classic

It's been years since Mike has raced in Cloudcroft, since they had to stop it for a while and then ended up cancelling it last year because of fires.  We finally got to go try it out and even better, were able to sleep in our own beds the night before.

This was my first Cloudcroft race and I was VERY nervous considering I had gotten way out of shape during the winter and lost all hill climbing skills I gained last season.  Here I am right before the race.  It was nice because we actually had time to be ready and hang out before the race.

 Mike was sporting Crazy Cat and Zia Velo.

 The hill climbing was intense and we had to do it twice! Mike was able to do it under two hours and it took me a lot longer.  Afterwards, we had todown some pickle juce so we wouldn't get cramps.

 Even though I did pretty crappy, I still got 2nd place!

Overall, it was a fun race, but VERY HARD.

Easter Pictures 2012

I got way behind on blogging...so here goes our Easter pictures.

The annual dog terrorizing bunny ears picture.  He looks so tortured...

                         
                      We had a small handful of candies just to keep us from going crazy, but man its good!

                                  My new H&M sweater (courtesy of my Vegas trip) and the Cub.

                                                                Happy Easter Everyone!

Moab Trip April 2012

The boys went later this year to Moab to try and get some warmer weather and they were pretty lucky!

Here is the crew (both Alpha and Bravo groups)...

 They were able to stay a little longer and of course got some awesome scenery shots!

 Greta shot of Mike!

 The new trail called the Magnificient 7!