Friday, December 4, 2009

Thanksgiving Memories

We went to Utah for Thanksgiving. My sister-in-law Kimberly had to work on Thursday so we called Friday Thanksgiving. So Thanksgiving Friday we had TOTALLY fun day. We played speed basketball, tackle football and most exciting Alexis learned how to ride a bike without training wheels!

My sister-in-law Kelly was telling me Friday morning about some good black Friday bike deals at Wal-Mart and that got us talking about how Alexis needs a new bike because she can ride her scooter faster than she can our little bike and she is a little embarrassed by her training wheels. Kelly mentioned that when they are ready they just "get it" referring to ridding without training wheels. We went out and decided to see if she would even ride on a bigger bike. I held the back and she took off. It only took me a minute to realise I could let go of the bike because Alexis was balancing the bike all on her own!! Yippee no more training wheels!! Congratulations Alexis! She rode her cousin Ryan's bike the rest of the trip and when ever she was on it had this HUGE grin on her face. Now she is begging for a new bike... maybe Santa can find one ; )
This is me trying to keep up with her and (notice Justin is just in his socks! ; ) )
The boys had fun doing silly stunts and of course pictures had to be taken.

4 comments:

Katrina said...

Yay for Alexis! Teaching Ry how to ride a bike w/o training wheels is on my list of things to do. Hopefully she learns before she graduates from high school!

Sarah said...

Go Alexis! Isn't it so exciting? I love watching them grow up.
Glad you had a good Thanksgiving!

Dan and Sarah said...

YAY!!!! that is a memorable event, even I can still remember the day I rode my bike without training wheels!-Last week (JK)- Next thing you know she will be learning to drive!:0

Anonymous said...

My Sister in law was telling us that her girls learned really quickly after getting a scooter...so we are going to try that same trick and asked Santa to bring our kids scooters for Christmas for that very reason...maybe she took to it easier because she is so fast on her scooter.