We left right after Nick's baseball game - beautiful night for a Canton WIN - even with an odd call at home where they claimed Vinny didn't touch the bag. Canton team moves onto the next game.
Look at these 2 feeling like hair twins. Ready for a delicious breakfast and time to hit the trails.
First wave of riding done and these guys are chilling with lunch - the most beautiful view. Love capturing it
Rebecca rode with the first crew early morning and rode again with the afternoon wave. I have never seen her tap out.... unit right here....
First ride sucess
She was so tired we opted to come to her for the group photo
Lots of bike carnage
Ceila walked up the bar and said '3 root beers please' Done!
Ever heard the expression drinking from the fire hose?
Chris was blessed to celebrate his birthday at Kingdom trails! Love how the kiddos gathered around for the gift opening - Kingdom trails swap and Darius Rucker concert tickets! Not a bad haul =)
All cleaned up for birthday dinner - on the house!
It may begin to look like all we do is eat. Now we included the Barbers. We have so many kiddos the adults are now at the smaller table.
The official Gordon Keller ride day. The river and ice cream made for a good cool off spot.
We saw all kinds of fancy bike racks, but Dad's birthday bike rack takes the cake. Look how many we stacked in there.
This ride was EPIC - swamp donkey and boy did we get WET. We hoped the cover of the trees would help. Maybe. Can you tell Shane was front man?
These kids are rugged, tough, strong, WET riders
Kids went back and this crew went on!
Erin won the award for most awesomely dirty and well riden photo for the year!
3 pretty ladies at our new favorite Burke hang out spot. Can you believe the floor is heated in the winter?
Gotta relish in this pretty impressive haul
The kids played in the sand volley ball court until they got DIRTIER. I didn't think that was possible either.
cool childhood memories
Driving home racing to catch the sunset. I snapped a few of these from the truck
Hosing them down as best we can
Another cute - but VERY dirty boo boo bear
Capturing the sunset in one of the most beautiful places.
We are so bless with these great adventure families and to have the friendship of these ladies - life is made better by good family friends
Pictures cannot fully capture the beauty of this place. The air just feels better.
Sunday - more bike carnage
The decided NEW FAVORITE trail - swamp donkey - get it?!?!
The irony of this photo. Frankie is a talented bike and surely takes plenty of risks. Here is a fall along swamp donkey. I captured the photo as he wasn't quite ready to get back up. He later went over the handle bars again, but this time more significantly.
Rebecca had to bike back to get the car, Asa walked him back while we tried to help with bikes or whatever we could do. They opted to hit a clinic on the way home. The found a tear in his kidney and kept him over night. He was on a strict diet of CHILL time for 4-6 weeks. While this was SUPER scary - they were thankful that was the extend of it. Memorable year Frankie Briggs.
