WE RIIIIIIIIIIDDDE!!!!!

I decided we needed to get some bikes already. I really love biking, and we've only been biking I think once or twice since Neal and I got married. I own a bike helmet and padded bike shorts, but no bike?! So I got on craigslist and found us a couple of bikes and an ibert safe-T seat and a bike trailer for the boys.

This is my bike. Turns out, with the basket and the old fashioned brakes, I couldn't hook up any of the kids gear to my bike! Sooooo.....

TA DAAAAA!!! My most manly man of a husband put it all on his! That's at least 60 extra lbs.!!!! Neal is the best. I tried to use his bike just once to see if I could take the boys out in the trailer on my own, but Neal's bike is the perfect size for him, and my feet couldn't reach the ground even if I sat on the bar. :(

We've been on a few really great rides this fall. We biked to Terrace Park where the Japanese Gardens are, which is really close to our house. We also went on the bike trail, starting at the Falls and it was one of the most beautiful days we've spent together as a family. Caius and Leland take turns sitting in the green ibert seat. Leland doesn't have the nerves for rollercoaster-y things, so we go up hill with him in front, and down hill with Caius in front. On our ride near the falls we went pretty fast downhill, and ran into a few clouds of gnats. I was worried that Caius would get a bug in his eye, but when we got to the bottom Neal told me he loved it so much, he just opened his mouth wide and screamed the whole way down with glee. Then we found a bug in his teeth. Ugh....I don't even want to think about how many bugs he must have swallowed. The important thing is, he had so much fun, despite the bugs (which he is normally pretty skittish about) and it is a beautiful memory for all of us now.

In the picture above Leland is happy happy eating his pizza crust, Caius is peeking out from the trailer window, and Jerrick is obviously uncomfortable. The next ride, we put him in the cargo area of the trailer, swaddled, and propped up by pillows and blankets. He slept soundly for the entire ride that way!

Here's a youtube video of the fruit of the loom commercial that Neal and I think is so funny we laugh til we're blue every time we see it:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39OpLtEsg0g

That's why the title of this post is awesome.