The girls: Hazel, Iris, Gertrude, Pearl, Beatrice and Harriet are doing great! No eggs yet, but we are having a great time watching them scratch around, doing their chicken thing.
The boys have been having a great summer! Lots of beach trips and hanging out with their buddies and cousins!
I can't believe that Tristan will be in 7th grade next year and Nathan is entering his last year of elementary school! Time is flying way too fast!
Both the boys have been racing their mountain bikes this season and doing very well. We are very proud of them!
Sean has also joined in the fun and started racing his mountain bike this season with the boys. He's doing pretty good at it too!
Along with racing, Sean has been having a blast as a coach of the San Gabriel Valley Composite High School Mountain Bike Team. At the end of the season they were in first place in Southern California! Not bad for a first year team! Sean's goal is to be coaching a Monrovia High School Mountain Bike team by the time Tristan is there.
And as if Sean weren't busy enough, he and his co-coaches have joined forces with our local Boys and Girls Club to start a mountain biking program for the kids that are enrolled at Boys and Girls Club. They are currently starting their second session of the program and I think it has worked out beautifully as kind of a sister program with the high school mountain bike team, as the team members do their part and volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club twice a week to help teach kids how to ride bikes.
It's a WIN-WIN!
For me, I'm busy trying to come to terms with not having my thyroid! I'm not trying to sound overly dramatic. But, I have to be honest and say that it has been difficult! My energy level is WAY down and I've gained 13 pounds since April! Coming to terms with being on meds for the rest of my life has been somewhat shattering to me. I DO NOT like the thought of that in the LEAST! So come to terms with it I must, but honestly, I'm not quit there yet!
I'm trying to be patient with myself and focus on other things that I am passionate about. The biggest of which is supporting my husband and kids as they race their mountain bikes and help the Pablove Foundation fight childhood cancer with LOVE! With the help of the Pablove Foundation, we are currently in the process of growing our team, Mountain Biking for Pablove and working on getting solid sponsorships.
In early June, Nathan submitted this video and entered the Farm Rich Kids Who Give contest.
We found out just today that he is one of the finalists. This is the video we will submit so that they can make the final decision. Keep your fingers crossed.
They will be announcing the winner on August 15th. If Nathan wins, he could win, among other things, $2,500 to go to the Pablove Foundation and an all expenses paid trip to New York this fall to attend the Kids Who Give awards dinner!
Among our Mountain Biking for Pablove activities, Sean and the boys were featured as part of The People's Fleet contest that the Pablove Foundation entered this summer in the hopes of winning a $5,000 empowerment grant.
I continue to be inspired by my husband and my boys and hope that it lifts me and brings me to a point where I will participate in my own athletic endeavor. I am very proud of our work with the Pablove Foundation! They are doing such wonderful things for kids and families living with pediatric cancer! I know that our efforts go towards something very positive and loving and it feels good to know that my boys can do somethinig they love and give back at the same time. We are helping the Pablove Foundation fight childhood cancer with LOVE! We've set a very big goal for our team this year of $5,000. We have a ways to go to reach our goal by the end of October. October 2nd the boys will participate in the California State MTB Championships and October 6th Pablove Across America begins their over 1,400 mile ride from Milwaukee to New Orleans. We would love to have your support!
Please click on the link below to visit our team page. You can donate to one of us, all of us, or the team. Either way, you will be helping the Pablove Foundation fight childhood cancer with LOVE and that is AWESOME!
Love,
Lisa
