Curt Turns 1 Year Older!

We had a great time with friends celebrating the big 40 for Curt!!!  We scheduled a dance lesson at Fred Astaire Dance Studio and had a group lesson in country and salsa dancing!  It was so fun!  We learned some new moves and even the people who say they don't dance had a blast!  It was great to see everyone and loved that the variety of styles of dance appealled to everyone!  Then we went to Kobe and enjoyed dinner at hibachi Japanese restaurant with friends!  Tons of good fun and so many great friends and family!  Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate his great night!  (My hubby is old!!!!)

We are on our way!  Kidless for the night!

Getting our dance on with friends!

Curt took turns dancing with other women!!!

Jill and Rick and Crystal learning to salsa

Laurie and Steve listening to steps!

This was our salsa expert couple!  Julie and Mike loved the salsa, not so much the country!

Curt dancing with his little sister!

The Kuhns, Salazars and me!

Curt and his buddy Randy...love this picture of Curt!

The Bairds joined us for the night of fun too!

This is Curt's work crew!!!

Crystal, Meloney, and Cynthia

They gave him a sword because it was his birthday...scary!

Love you baby!

Dewberry Farms 2011

We had a fabulous warm day yesterday spent at Dewberry Farms.  We started last year going with the Heemer family and decided that we would make it a little tradition!  It was so fun to go and do things a little different than we did last year.  We spent time on the bouncing pillow, walking through the corn maze, swinging on a rope swing into mounds of hay, riding the cow train, going down slides free standing and on the side of a hill, going into the black hole room, enjoying the beautiful view of the pumpkins in the patch, and just watching the kids enjoy everything!  It is fun watching all four kids play...so close in age and all blondies!!!
Colson's favorite: "The black Hole room was so funny!"
Brooklyn's favorite: "Holding onto the twin pumpkin I found and sliding down the hill slide!"
Thank you Heemers for a great time! 

My First Ride!

Curt and I got new road bikes this summer and have been looking forward to taking them out for our first ride together!  Today we woke up early (3:30 am VERY EARLY) to drive to Lufkin.  We checked in and and started our ride at 8:00!  It was crowded but not too crazy!  I was fine as long as I was not at the front of the start...it was too crowded up there!  This was my first official ride but definitely not Curt's.  He was so encouraging during the uphills!  It started in Lufkin and went through country roads of other small towns.  It was a wonderfully pretty ride and a gorgeous day!  The morning was very cold...I spent the ride at the beginning as a big goose bump but it warmed up for a great remainder of the ride.  There were many hills...I struggled through the uphills but LOVED the downhills!  We finished 25 miles in 2 hours and 3 minutes which I thought was pretty good.  We got up to 31mph on the downhills and averaged 12.3 mph on the ride!  We only took our phone so the pictures that we got are from it but they turned out ok! 

Starting line!

Curt gearing up for the ride!

Before the ride!

The second rest stop!



Helped our legs feel refreshed!



The finish line!!!!!!