Mattie turned 2 on Monday! She’s wild and crazy and lots of fun. I think the photos speak for themselves 🙂
Been doing a little racing and gearing up for The Whiskey 50 at the end of the month. Got the win at Havasu on the first really hot day of the year and a couple 4th places at White Tanks with a flat tire and Prescott.
In May we’ll head to South Dakota for the summer. Lots of house projects on tap along with scootering to the park with Mattie and post ride ice baths in the creek.
That’s all for now, enjoy the photos!
Our orange tree blossomed, but dropped its fruit for the 2nd year in a row :/
Riding out to Horseshoe Lake Dam.
No water flowing, but still fun to ride under it.
The desert is pretty right now.Evie has been crushing the SS MBAA races and Mattie likes the podium 🙂
Current things Mattie likes, trash truck, hiding things, hiding herself, riding her Strider, singing, crayons, and chalk. It’s been a fun couple of months as she really has begun to talk up a storm and is getting the hang of her strider bike.
Mattie loves her corn.
Carousel at Stillman Railroad park.
Cool dude.
She also loves her big Legos!
We spent Christmas at our new house in Spearfish, South Dakota with Evie’s family. It’s very much a work in progress, but we got a smoking deal after searching around Spearfish for nearly 2 years. The former owner collected classic cars and sold his collection of nearly 50 cars at auction in 2012 for 1.2M. Apparently Jay Leno was in attendance.
Nat King Cole Christmas.
Ralphie.
Play time!
Cozy by the fire.
The house was built in 1965 and has a lot of mid-century character with room to turn one of the garages into a master suite and add a rec room downstairs. It will be a fun project and a great place to go to in the summer when Arizona gets hot!
New Spearfish HouseKind of ugly at the moment with lots of garages. We have plans.Awesome fireplace with lots of character.Cool exposed beams.We scored a great location by the creek and City Park.
Been doing some riding. Planning to ramp up to Whiskey 50 in April and then just relax and fun ride this summer (and work on the new house among lots of other fun things to do close by in the Black Hills). Capping the summer off with the Dakota Five-O race of course.
The MBAA season kicked off a few weeks back with McDowell Meltdown. I raced Estrella race #2 this past weekend and placed 3rd in the marathon race. These youngsters are getting fast! Evie raced Singlespeed at McDowell and won that one, and placed 2nd at Estrella. I will be putting a bigger gear on her bike for the next race, ha.
Arizona has lots of dams. Bartlett Lake Dam pictured here on my ride.Bartlett Lake in the distance.
Tis the season for Christmas tree hunting. Christmas was my grandma’s favorite time of year. She passed away last week just shy of her 92nd birthday. She lived a full life with 8 kids and dozens of grandkids!
Last month we remodeled the master bath. Only thing left to do is carpet in the bedrooms now.
We got our Christmas tree out at our secret spot again in the Tonto National Forest. Mattie has had fun pulling on the lights and branches, only pulled it over a few times now. Maybe should have gone with the Charlie Brown tree instead.
Lots of time on the bike for Mattie as she gets bigger and stronger. It’s been fun.
