Thanksgiving

Dave says: It has been a busy semester and I haven't written a blog for awhile. Fortunately the semester will be over in 2 weeks and I'll have a month to recover. Right now I have a few papers and tests coming up. I'm also working on some exciting research which fills up the rest of my time at school. Alisha has already started training for next season and I've been doing my best to get some riding in as well.

The only day of the break that wasn't crammed full of stuff was Thanksgiving itself. Alisha and I rode to Saddlebrooke with Alex, Doug, and Tulio on a Thanksgiving day that was a bit cool by Arizona standards but warm enough to make all the cyclists in SLC jealous. We had Thanksgiving at my grandparents' house with my mom and the kids as well as Christine and her family.

On Friday, we met the Toussaints for breakfast at Einsteins. Next, we worked out some of the details with the short sale that my parents are trying to purchase here (hopefully more details to follow soon), and went to see the latest Harry Potter movie. I find it unfortunate that all the "bad guys" in this movie are extremely powerful while the "good guys" are a bunch of kids who spend most of their time hiding in the woods and arguing amongst themselves. For dinner, Alex and I went to see our old friend Clay. I hadn't seen him for several years and he is climbing up the corporate ladder at Exxon. Even after a decade, we all still seem to have a lot in common. Clay's mom made some fancy pizzas, we also saw Clay's younger sister Amanda who we used to torture, and we all watched Arizona lose at football to No. 1 ranked Oregon.

Saturday began with a leisurely bike ride but as soon as we got home it was time to travel up to Phoenix. We went to the Mesa Temple with my family and did some babysitting for Christine. We drove back late and slept in this morning. After a windy bike ride and an afternoon of church, it's back to homework and preparing for the coming week. I can hardly wait for Christmas break.

SRAM Commercial Bloopers

SRAM - The Bloopers from Jim Fryer/BrakeThrough Media on Vimeo.

Alisha says: Here are the bloopers from the SRAM commercial. It's amazing how hard it was to say the line "I'm Alisha Welsh from Peanut Butter and Co./Twenty12 and I chose SRAM". Quite a few of my team mates made the bloopers, I make a great face around the 7:40 mark.

Episode 2 - The Heat Is On

The Heat is On - Ep 2 "Building Champions" from Jim Fryer/BrakeThrough Media on Vimeo.

You can catch me for one split second in this episode at minute 1:29 :)

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Fishing at Navajo

Brody in his monkey Halloween costume playing the penguin computer game

Homemade doughnuts for the party

The sheep making their way down Main Street

Alisha says: Last week I flew to Cedar to visit my family. There is just something fun about returning to the place where you grew up. We started the week out with a trip to the St. George Temple. Tuesday we went fishing at Navajo Lake and gathered some firewood for the fireplace that my parents had just installed in their home. It was really cold but we still caught two small trout.

Halloween seemed to last all weekend as it started on Friday with a Halloween party that my little sister planned. My Mom, Mandy and I made homemade doughnuts and two different kinds of chili while Shane made dry ice root beer. Several of my cousins came and brought their children. Saturday we went to the Livestock Festival Parade. The livestock route to bring the animals off the mountain for the winter goes right down main street so they turn it into a parade. It was actually very entertaining watching them herd a couple thousand sheep down the road. That night we took Brody trick-or-treating and to a carnival.

I had a ton of fun playing with my nephew Brody. He is a crazy active two year old. He pronounces my name "She-sha". He loves me to chase him and run so all week I heard Shesha run, Shesha run, which meant chase me. He could probably run at least a quarter of a mile without stopping. I also taught him how to play some games on the computer. His favorite was the penguin game so I also heard Shesha penguin, which meant he wanted to play the penguin game. His favorite movie right now is How to Train Your Dragon so I think we watched that about seven times.

I love hanging out with my family and ended up seeing and visiting many friends including my Coaches from high school and college as well. I was taking the week off the bike before starting up training again so instead I went on a couple of my favorite runs from high school and college. It was nice and cool while I was there but no snow as Dave was hoping for so that I would want to return to Arizona sooner. It was such a fun trip. I love my family so much!!