Summer 1

So I thought I would do a quick recap of The Stocking Family Summer 2010. I will leave out a lot of fluff for sake of time.

1. My summer started out by a Girls Mt. Biking Trip to Moab in May. We arrived Friday morning and road Slick Rock Trail which proved to me a long cardo tiring day. It was a 12 mile loop that is all solid rock and nothing but steep ups and downs. It is hard to learn to trust the rock but amazingly your tires stick to the rock so you almost defy gravity.
We then got up the next day and rode the Whole Enchilada. I certainly underestimated this trail we rode around 20 miles of this trail which took us most of the day. What can I say we were a group of girls just out to enjoy our ride, some people can do this trail in 3 hours. This trail was quite the opposite of the day before trail, instead of being smooth solid rock it was choppy rocks and was really jarring. But we finished and It was a fun and satisfying day.

Mason's First MTB

My parents, my husband, and I got Mason a new (used) 20" Mountian Bike for an early birthday present. My friend sold us this bike which was nice because we have been looking for a good used bike for Mason all summer. It looks a little big for him but this is the smallest MTB they make and I knew it would just be a matter of time before he would be ready for this size. Mason takes after me and loves to ride bike especially in the mountians. It is fun to take him with me down some trails and from here the sky is the limit.

Belated Spring Update

As you all know I am about the worlds worst blogger and I am going to try to get caught up so bear with me:-) I admit I have been having to much fun.

February, March, and April was a very eventful early spring we helped my sister move to her new home in American Fork(which is very nice and big), help put on a baby shower for my good friend Teddy which was a wonderful success yeah for babies.

We celebrated Monroe's 34th birthday, and to finish it all off my sisters and mother and I had a girls weekend in UT which was a blast and so good to spend some time with just the girls. We don't have many opportunities anymore for just girl time.

As you can see we are all sitting on the floor at my sisters old house many hands made light work and the move went really well.

Monroe's Birthday was celebrated with just a little family party. The kids had fun making cards, helping wrap his presents (which was two pairs of shoes and safety glasses for work), and most of all blowing out the candles and eating the strawberry tart that is a must for everyone of Monroe's Birthday. Honey you are getting so old;-)!

This was our girls weekend we did some shopping, eating, sleeping, more eating, and more shopping. All the things that we love to do and the best thing it was all without kids. Thanks Grandpa and Dads for that and thanks girls for a wonderful weekend. It was great to get to know my sisters a little more again. Life seems to take over to fast to keep some relationships going that this was a good reminder that we really do have fun as a family.

I will leave you all with a pretty special picture of my beautiful little girl. Enjoy!