thanksgiving day bike ride 2011

i guess it was actually labor day last year when we got the bikes out and went for a ride around my parents neighborhood, but either way, we had fun re-creating our photos from that day last year.

i probably should have used the bathroom before we left because i almost peed my pants on at least 3 occasions. From chasing down rogue deer, my inability to kick my bike up like a bad ass 'bmx'er AND my inability to lift a bike up over my head, i came a little too close to having to run into the desert to 'water the cactus'.

here's what we got out of our photo shoot. jeremy's face in the last 4 pictures cracks me up, he was REALLY getting in to the shot. I literally had to pretend i was an actor for the 'over the head' bike pics, i had a job to do and i could not let the crew down by giggling and peeing. guess it helped because i even managed to get the bike over my head AND stand on one leg! ha!

'so i put my right foot on the pedal and my left foot, where? what?'


when you see me start to fold in half like this while i'm laughing, chances are, i'm about to pee.


all right, this works. just like last year!


again with the bike trick, maybe if joshua wedges a rock under my wheel it will work...it didn't.


say cheese...


if you see me fold up into this position, there's no doubt about it, i'm about to pee.


mid fold...consumed with laughter.


heck ya, we did it! jenny gets a super star A for effort. our bikes were insanely heavy.


my inner yogi and jeremy's inner metal dude take over.



***and seester! what a difference a camera makes, huh? so much better than last year!***

listen up, peaches

I wasn't sure if Jeremy would be able to recover from Saturday night but somehow he did and although it was a bit later in the day than we had intended we actually made it out to Schnepf Farms for their annual peach festival.

Jeremy wasn't in the mood to drive and apparently I wasn't either because not only did I miss the exit for the 60 East I also took the 202 north instead of south out in the east valley, who does that! We got to the farm with about an hour and a half to play, which really, was plenty of time. The line in the bakery was out of control, grumpy people waiting in line, not even certain that they would get a fresh baked pie. We went to the front of the line, grabbed a frozen pie and were out of there in less than 5 minutes. Not only were we able to get a peach pie, we got some ice cream & candy for Espen, fresh squeezed lemonade and some peachy delish salsa and hot sauce too! We even had time to take a hayride to the peach orchard to pick our own peaches.

By the time we got home and had dinner our pie was perfectly thawed and ready for baking and holy crap, it was the best pie I've ever had.

Disclaimer: this post is loaded with photos of Espen. ha.


{espen and his skunk}




{my peach guy and our peach pie}




{espen picking out his ice cream and baseball cap cup}




{not sure how this happened, but we had the whole trailer to ourselves and it was awesome!}


{probably should have had lemon or coconut flavored, every picture of espen from here on out is filled with blue teeth/tongue}


{seriously, who do i think i am in this picture. antm, what?}


{peach pickers}




{me and my peach}


{family of peach pickers}


{our peach booty}


{skunky now wearing the sticky baseball cap}


{love that jeremy and the woman behind are sitting the same way with their thumb on their chin because really, who sits like that!}


{about to get baked}


{lovers}


{kissers}


{farmer espen, washing the peaches, notice all the un-ripened green ones, espen picked them, ha}


{cooling off}


{not cooling off fast enough}


{while i anxiously waited for the pie to cool off, these dudes cuddled}


{finally!!}


{fly fly peach-uh pie...jeremy? that was for you}

And on a side note, this morning before Jeremy left for work he set up Espen's big brown bear at his desk and when Espen saw it he went insane. It was SO funny. He quickly went from cracking up to teacher mode, explaining to me that he needs to teach his bear how to play games on his dad's computer...


{i can't get over espens casual stance}


{taking this seriously}

easter & a mini road trip

I like easter. I like to sit outside and eat lamb with mint jelly. I like to watch Espen hunt for eggs. I like the weather. Last easter I got sick and ended up throwing up while my dad was over after dinner trying to help me hang a headboard I made while Jeremy was in CA. This year I was healthy, happy and had a great day with my family and a fun night in Tucson with Jeremy.

{acid mothers temple, tucson}