ACA Awards Party

Last night was the ACA Year end awards party. It was held at Great Divide Brewery in Denver. We pictured a brewery type restaurant/bar with seating and food-right?? NO, it was literally a brewery where they make the beer. We walked in and it was like a huge garage, with the distilleries and it smelled bad-like a beer brewery would...Interesting, but we still had a good time. There were lots of people and free beer. The winners of each category were announced in a rather fast manner. Nobody was really paying attention to anything the announcers were saying. Did I mention that Doug was one of the announcers??? Needless to say, we picked up our awards, took some photo's, said hi to lots of our friends and headed off to dinner with some teammates. It was a fun evening all in all. However, I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would actually try to achieve any of these awards, they don't seem to mean much! Doug's team won the BAT or Best All Around Team and my ladies won the BAT for SW 1-2's. I took home the honor of Best All Around Rider for 2008 in the SW 1-2. Rachel was 2nd in the Best All Around CX Rider for the 35+ ladies! We had a good year over all, hopefully we can have another good one in 2009.

Cheerleading/Basketball Season

Cheerleading and basketball season have arrived. For 2 months out of the year, the girls add yet another sport into their already hectic lives, and make the days and week ever so exciting. Meghan loves to cheer on her sister and Erin loves to attempt the game of basketball. Actually Erin is really quick on her feet and loves to play defense. If we could just get her to realize that this is not football! Meghan loves to go out and do her round off back handsprings and wow the crowd. It's about the outfit for Meghan, and of course the pom poms!! It's fun to watch them both as they each love what they do.

New Years Day Resolution Ride

We had a great team ride on New Years Day that started in Parker with a core group. We rode to Cherry Creek Reservoir and met up with several other teammates. It was a gorgeous day for Jan. 1 and it was fun to see the group after a Christmas hiatus.

Skiing on Christmas Day

We spent the latter half of Christmas Day on the slopes of Sol Vista. Meghan decided to snow board and Erin decided it would be more fun to jump and tree ski. We had a great time, the weather and snow were perfect.

Christmas morning

The girls had a great Christmas, Erin got her i touch and Meghan got an ipod nano. They also got some cute clothes and of course the dollar bills from Grammy Kirk were a hit!

Christmas in the mountains

We had a fabulous time this year for Christmas. We rented a house in Sol Vista and were joined by my dad, his wife Sue and her daughter and husband-John and Jordan. My brother and his family joined us as well, but stayed in a different condo (thank goodness!). We had a blast skate skiing, snowmobiling, skiing and tubing at the Frazier tubing hill. It was great to be with family, however, 13 people in one house for too long a time can be a little trying! Sue and I got everyone these reindeer and Christmas pants to wear around the house. It was funny having all the guys wearing the same thing! Next year we are going someplace warm. I'm voting for Costa Rica and a surfing camp. We'll see how that goes!

Level 4 State Championships

Erin had a successful State Championship. This was her first year competing in gymnastics and she exceeded any and all expectations I had for her. She did great and got a little stronger as the season went on. It was fun to watch her entire team morph into little competitive gymnasts. We were so proud of her, and like Meghan, she had a personal best meet at State Finals. She started off her meet by scoring a 9.525 on vault! She had a great bar routine, landed her beam routine and ended her day with a 9.0 on floor exercise! She ended up with a 35.95 overall point average. Pretty good for a first year level 4 newbie! Her hope is to make the level 5 team with her sister for next year. This will take a lot of hard work, learning a bunch of new and harder skills, but she is up for the challenge and we are doing all we can do to help her make her goal.