"Will you play cars with me?"

Riding in the foothills

One of the things I really like doing is hopping on the bikes and running up the street to the PG/AF foothills. For the most part it's wide dirt trails and access roads but if you get closer to American Fork and clime a little, you can get in to some pretty technical single track riding. Today Darren Krutzinger and I spent a couple hours exploring some very tight deer paths and had a great time.

We also hit some massive mud puddles and got pretty soaked and dirty. At one point Darren didn't see a set of triple puddles coming up right before a turn and launched out of the third puddle (at full speed) down a pretty steep hillside. After separating early, both he and his bike tumbled about 50 feet before coming to a stop. Luckily, Darren was find and the bike was just a little tweaked.

Here they are all cleaned up after a hard day at work (Yamaha YZF426):

Arctic Circle

One of our fun trips to Artic Circle. I think this time we rode our bikes and just had ice cream.

Jump On What?

Just 4 minutes away in Lindon is the coolest place called Jump On It! It's a warehouse with wall to wall trampolines; probably about 75 of them. There are even two of the walls that have trampolines mounted at 45 degree angles. Amber missed out on the fun but I am sure she had a great time at Cindy Lynn's bridal shower.

I think Elaina is tired.

Carter's Entourage!

Any time we return home from a family outing, these kids come running. Who are they? Carter's Entourage! Sam Sutton, Tristan Wamsly, Braden and Logan Hall. Without Carter, they mull around the neighborhood watching our house for a sign of #9.
Here they are checking Carter's chore chart in the morning. They all know that Carter can't play any video games until he earns his 6 stickers so they all pitch in & help him out.

New Tie-Down rails in the trailer.

I am not much of a project guy so when I actually accomplish one, I need to document it. Per Dru's recommendation, I mounted SuperStrut upside down with hidden bolts. That way the floor is still smooth for sliding stuff across it.
Here we see Ben's & my YZ426F's and Jenny's TTR230. Sometimes we'll throw the kids quad in as well.

Jet Ski's on Utah Lake

I woke up with a wild hair this Saturday and ran out to play Paintball. Well I couldn't get my tanks filled so I decided to make good on my threat to rent some Wave Runners and spend a day on Utah Lake. We invited the Suttons to share the cost and the fun. Unfortunately, their costs went way up when Robbie sucked up some rocks and ruined one of the impellers.




Even with one ski, we had tons of fun and got to go out plenty of times. These things are so stable that I was able to crank the handlebars all the way while going full speed. That's pretty fast on these 1400's.