Shenandoah National Park...on our motorcycles! WAY COOL!

Michael and I have fallen in love with motorcycle riding... so when spring comes we're itchin' to get out on the bikes. Since we live in upstate NY sometimes our springs are later than we would choose so this year we decided to trailer the bikes south and get a jump on the season. We stayed in Strasburg VA for three nights and spent two of those days on our cycles going end to end on Skyline Drive...the main road of Shenendoah National Park... right down thru the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was spectacular! God's creation is beyond AMAZING! It was like a two day long worship service! We did about 400 miles on our bikes...the longest the girls had been on our bikes yet...and without a complaint! We were so impressed! It was 70 degrees in the valleys and we actually had snow on the ridge on the first day. GREAT TIME! Enjoy the pics!

A Classic "Krissy and Kasey: biker babe's" shot...

Kaseys creative boot shot...

I love the "edge"...

Gayle's creative bathroom mirror shot...

...and yes, I took this pic and every one of mike ahead of me while driving my cycle! Let's call it Creative Blue Ridge photography!

An Update from the Long Winter Months...

I realized today that I haven't updated the blog in a long time... the good thing is that I also realized that we have filled our last few months with a bunch of really great stuff... so, even though I'm a slacker... I'm a slacker with a good excuse. So here's a quick overview of the first 4 months of the year:


I coached Kristin's intramural basketball. Krissy definitely has "point guard" in her future...

We had a great time skating this winter...

...picked up a couple cool snow mobiles this winter...

I took a trip to Tennessee with my friend, Kath... got to meet her granddaughter, Madison, daughter Carlye (son-in-law, Andrew), and Kath's son, Jake... fun weekend...

For the family Christmas present, the immediate family spend a couple of days in Manhattan to see "Little Mermaid"... we stayed in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square...but it was cold in the city so we all bought stupid winter hats... (See below)

We took the kids to Florida in Feb. Spent a few days with my parents and then a few days on the beach in Fort Meyers. Kasey got to attend a business meeting with Michael and Krissy and I suffered on the beach (and we went parasailing too!)

Kasey had her first "youth group retreat" with Loudonville Common Ground. It was up at Camp of the Woods in March. They had over 100 kids from the church attend. I went along as a chaperone. We all had a GREAT weekend but I came home with a sprained ankle and bad cough...

Kathy's birthday was in March so we celebrated it with a few days in Williamsburg. We didn't do alot other than enjoy eachother's company, act like 2 year olds in Colonial Williamsburg and got alittle rollerblading in. Good times...good times...

The Williamsburg trip was well timed as we got home and got right into Spring Softball. Kathy is the Head coach for Loudonville's Modified Girls Softball Team...and I get to be her "assistant coach". Krissy is the bat girl for the season. We have 15 girls.

The girls had the week after Easter as their spring break. We took their first formal day off (Monday) and hiked Vroomans Nose and Renssalaerville Falls.

We spent the rest of the week on a motorcycle ride down thru Shenandoah National Park... but I have way too many pictures to add to this post. I guess I'll just do another post just on that trip. It was AWESOME!