NEWS JUST IN

ELDER MICHAEL NASELLA will be landing in Salt Lake City, Utah NOVEMBER 27, 2009 at 11:45 am. That is 8 WEEKS from this Friday!!!! Wahoo!

09.12.09 Lotoja

We had a way too busy year to have time to train so this year we decided to volunteer to still feel a part of the race. It turned out to be a lot of fun. Us girls got a lot of gruff from some of the jerks that rode the race, but in the end we had some real good laughs about it on the drive home Sunday morning. The first night, Friday, was registration and our job was pretty much box duty. Our job was to find empty boxes, break them down, and then haul them off to the cardboard bin.

These are our "Yes, I can help you" t's for registration night.


Day of the race. "Event Crew"
We were suppose to make sure all riders were really who they said they were...or something like that

Happy to see the last riders off

Now time to clean up the starting line

After cleaning up, we headed out along the race route to help the riders along. We were able to help out at a crash near the begining and help with thirsty riders up a nasty canyon along with many other things. At the finish line, Bridget and I helped pass out the finishing awards which doesn't sound too bad right? WRONG! It was the worst job, at least we think it was. Let's just say by the end we pretty much wanted to throw the awards in the peoples faces:) Again, something we laughed about on the drive home. All I wish is for those men that mistreated us all day to hopefully feel a little remorse.

Our cool tats of the Lotoja insignia

Labor Day Weekend

So I know this is way late but we had a great holiday weekend so I wanted to share.

1st we went to Heber Valley Camp for a family reunion for Dave's mom's side. Sadly most pictures were lost but we do still have pictures of my first experience repelling...

After the reunion we met up with my fam in Park City. My dad had a tennis tourney so stayed in Deer Valley, watched some tennis, and went down the Alpine slide a couple times. It all reminded me of my childhood days.

Dear Mr. Dean Hughes

I finally finished the sequel series to Children of the Promise, Hearts of the Children, today. I read all 10 books in the 2 series and I loved everyone of them...well, loved isn't a strong enough word to describe my feelings towards these books. I don't know what I am going to do with myself now...

Dear Mr. Dean Hughes,

If you by chance stumble across this blog one day, I would like you to hear me out. I know you said you were done with the Thomas family, but couldn't you just add one more series? I've grown so close with them, I can't picture my life without them. I do have to say, I believe you finished it off in a great way. So great I was almost in tears in front of 20 + students. I've really fallen in love with reading and yes, just about obssessed with WWII and history because of these books. Thank you for the time and effort you put into these great books.

Forever a fan,

Rachel Price