The Hottest Thing on Two Wheels!

There are many milestones throughout a lifetime.  The early years seem to be riddled with them.  First step, first word, first birthday, first tooth...and so on and so on.  But as we get older, there tend to be fewer milestones.  Sydney, at the ripe old age of six, just happened to experience another milestone.  She rode her two-wheel bike on her own for the first time.  One day she came up to me and asked if I would take her training wheels off.  So, with a wrench in hand, cranking away with mild skepticism about this new endeavor in my mind, her training wheels came off.  She was determined, and in no time she was balancing, riding, and pedaling away.  I was surprised because she had so little practice in the scheme of things...after all, Sudden Valley is riddled with steep hills and is not the best-suited place for little-girl bike riding.  But, there you have it, another milestone down...way to go Syd!!!  Corwin is taking note of this, and he is even improving at his balance bike.

The original deck during the demolishing
stage...now three feet longer!

In other news, our house has recently been under construction again.  There is a never-ending list of home maintenance, home improvement, and the all of the other things that must be done to make a happy wife.  This recent project was at least outside, and it was to expand the deck.  I say expand because Karen wanted a bigger deck, but in reality it meant completely taking the entire old deck apart and rebuilding another one from scratch.  It's resulted in weeks of sore muscles, plenty of small scars on the hands and other body parts, and just general exhaustion.  We did install Trex, so hopefully the long-term benefit will be less time in maintaining it.  And, now that it's almost done, we can start to enjoy it.  It should give us more space to BBQ and sit at the table, and with two sets of stairs we'll now have better access to the yard.  It was fun working with Karen's Dad, Don, and we got to make regular visits to the Happiest Place on Earth...oh, well, not that one...the other one, Home Depot (they also make dreams come true!).

First haggis!!!

We also made it out the the Scottish Highland Games today.  This is an annual event that takes place in Ferndale, at Hovander Park.  It's a great event to see some dancing, some traditional Scottish games, eat some traditional Scottish food (hooray haggis!!!), and listen to some pipe bands.  Sydney has had haggis in past years, so I was intent on having her eat some more this time.  It was fun for us all, but Corwin was the one who sported the best attire for the occasion.  The question is...like traditional Scots, was there anything on under his kilt?  I'll leave that one a mystery for ya!

Pipe bands were fun to see!

I hope the two people that actually read this blog are doing well!  Until next time, enjoy your June!!!

Getting his kilt in order for
the games!

Ice cream at home...oh, and sitting on the new deck their
Dad helped to create!

Corwin at the Ferry Terminal...hanging
out with Dad before a work event.