Summer 2011

We had a blast this summer! In June Spencer was able to spend 2 weeks in New Mexico with his awesome uncle and aunt, Steve and Caryn. Steve set him up with a doctor to shadow. Spencer really enjoyed it and learned A LOT! He was able to spend time with the family and whenever he was home he had a cute little companion, Emily.

The beginning of my trip was not as fun as Spencer's. My flight kept getting delayed so I got to spend the night in the Atlanta, Georgia airport. This was my bed...

After 2 LONG weeks we met up in Utah! Spencer picked me up from the SLC Airport and we head straight up to Sun Valley where we spent the week with the McConkie Family!

We spent some time at Red Fish Lake. It was beautiful but the water was freezing. The kids didn't mind though!

Cute Annie did some drawings for us!

Little Eli just being a boy...

We spent a day at the pool. Annie was showing us her awesome swimming skills.

Tyler was "helping" Sam swim.

Molly and Grace had so much fun!

Here is Dave and cute little Kate!

Kate let me hang out with her a little bit too.

Before we left I had to race Dave in the pool. I won but I guess it wasn't too fair since he has one less toe than me... ha ha

After Sun Valley we spent the 4th of July weekend in Samak, Utah with the Tingey's. We also were able to enjoy the Oakley, Utah Rodeo! We loved hanging out in Utah with all of our friends and family!

The Cabin was awesome! It was so relaxing.

Spencer missed his dogs!









We definitely got some hiking in. The water was the highest I have ever seen it! I love the Uintas! They are so beautiful!

We ate well....very well.

We got to play the golf ball game!

A great Tingey tradition.

And then there was....The Perfect Mallow...

We had such a great time in Utah! We love our family so much and are so excited when we get to see them!

When we got back from Utah Spencer signed up for a bike race in Blacksburg, Virginia but we found out the night before we left that it was cancelled, so because we had a nonrefundable hotel room we decided to take the trip! We checked out Virginia Tech's campus (which is beautiful) and did some golfing!

It was an awesome summer!!!

National Championship Road Race 2011

On Memorial Day Spencer and I, with our friends Brandon and Laura, went to Greenville, South Carolina to watch the 2011 National Championship Road Race. Spencer is what I would call a cycling finatic and I also enjoy the sport. Brandon and Laura were good enough to listen to us (mostly Spencer) talk non-stop about the cycling sport.

We drove down to South Carolina on Sunday afternoon. It took about 5 and a half hours but with these wonderful folks the time flew by.

On race day we planted ourselves close to the top of Paris Mountain. Also close to what we think was George Hincapie's house. The race was a circuit race so we saw the riders go by four times. Waiting was intense but we had tons of fun!

Before the race started we saw this guy drive by and just had to take a picture.

This is the pack for the first round. Mostly the guys stayed together. There were some stragglers.

And then we saw good old GEORGE HINCAPIE!! I love him! He is such a cool guy! Not to mention one of the best road racers of all time... Go George!

Towards the end of the race we saw Taylor Phinney who is almost 21 years old. He will be an amazing pro for sure.

After the cyclists passed us for the forth time we drove to downtown Greenville to see the end of the race. It was very exciting. We were near the finish line where George Hincapie and Matthew Busche sprinted it out for the gold.

Sadly my man George did not win.... when they wizzed past us we thought for sure he had it in the bag but he lost by literally a rim width. When they crossed the line they had to wait for the photo to determine who was the champion.

It was sad but it was ok. Good for Matthew Busche. It was his first National Championship win.

The National Championship Time Trial was the day before so we did not see it but I have to give a shout out to Dave Zabriskie. He is awesome and this is his 6th National Time Trial Championship. He is pretty freakin amazing. We are sad he moved away from our home state but we still love you! Go DZ!

New York New York 2011

Let me just start out this post by saying I have the best boss EVER! Towards the end of May our little dental office went to a dental convention in New York City. As you can tell from the photos below there was not a lot of dental conventioning going on. I also was a bum and did not start taking pictures until we were about a day in. So here we go.....



We found an awesome Thai restaurant! It is called Breeze Thai. I'm here with Sarah our hygienist and Bethany a fellow dental assistant. It hit the spot for all of us and it was Sarah's first time with Thai so that made it even better! Not to mention our Strawberry Daiquiris (virgin of course :)) Which I LOVE!

Doesn't it just look delicious?











After dinner we walked the 20 or so blocks to The Empire State Building. We got there at Sunset. It was so beautiful!








Here is the view of the buildings below.

The weekend we were there was a busy one. There were pretty much this many people at all times on Time Square.

We had to visit Serendipity! It is a cute little restaurant but it is so busy. We went there at 10:00pm and they told us we would have an hour wait! So we decided to go the next morning and stand in line for a half an hour to be seated. It was definitely worth it!

I got their famous Frozen Hot Chocolate.

It was SO good!

That night Sarah and I went to the Broadway musical Wicked! It was fantastic! I had forgotten how amazing Broadway actors are. They did such a good job and we had a great time!

On our last night Bethany and I had some shopping energy at midnight so we went out on the town! There were so many people out and about it was crazy! People pushing around their wide awake little toddlers! Only in New York I guess.

Well our trip was amazing. If I took pictures of every place we went shopping there would have been A LOT more but I will just leave that up to the imagination. ;)