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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!!