Pictures from our trip to Ketchum

This is the start of the trail right
outside of Sun Valley, ID. We started on the Harriman Trail.
It was a great trail, but hard for me. Dave was awesome as usual. Of course I liked it better on the ride back down.


These are taken on the way down the trail. I was flying! (Well, fast for me! :) ) We then moved on to the Wood River Trail. we started below Ketchum, rode North until the end of the trail, then came back. Dave has a great plan of always riding downhill for most (or at least the 2nd half) of the ride. He is a smart man!
The ride goes parallel with the highway for a while then goes through town.


We stopped for a quick snack along the river. Then we were back on the bikes ready to get back to the car. We actually rode more than we had intended to ride that day, but the weather was great and the biking was wonderful! I am planning another trip when it warms up! Until then....

Getting up early!

So today my alarm went off at 5am. I had stayed up late with Kirsten, just hanging out while Dave was gone at the Men's Retreat. I had changed my alarm...or so I thought. 5am it went off! UGH! I stayed in bed for awhile trying to go back to sleep. No way was my body going to do that!

I have been trying to get up at 5am since the summer. Some weeks I do great, others I fail miserably, but I guess my body is getting used to it, because today I could not go back to sleep.

My friends and I are trying to start a book club at our church. In the summer we read a book called "Shopping for Time" that talked about a 5am club. To get up at 5am to read the Bible, pray, have a cup of coffee (or anything else that you like) and plan for the day. On the days when I do get up early I find that I have already done so much before my real day begins (when everyone else gets up!)

I would not consider myself a morning person. At least I am not one when I first get up, but after being up for 2 hours I am quite myself.

"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed."

Mark 1:35 (New International Version)

A Change of Seasons

The signs are all around me. Closed toed shoes will soon be my fashion accessory of choice for my lovely tanned feet. It is a choice of necessity. I have on occasion worn my lovely sandals on a day that wasn't really made for the enjoyment of such footware and it was as if my toes screamed at me forsakenly, "why do you hate us so to leave us in the cold?"

Sometimes I am like that in my personal life. I know that it is time to go to the next season, but I hold on. Here is my thinking though...I am going to not rush to the next season and give up the rest of what I love about this season. Oh, I know that there are Christmas decorations being sold now, but since it is still a little warm and there are still leaves on the trees (changing colors) I will wear flip flops and other sandals of my choice. When it is cold, really cold, I will cover up my toes (at least while I am outside).

In my personal life, my baby has turned 16. WOW! I love this season that I am almost completely in, but not really. I like how independent my older two are becoming. I like how dependent still is my youngest. I know that this transition will not nor should not last long, but I will choose to enjoy it.

"There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1