Too busy to blog

Life's been busy of late.

We had a great visit with the Dale Cressman, Brenda Martin, and Hannah family and a little after that another great visit with the Dennis Flaming, Jana Papke and Devan family. In both cases we took one day off during the week and spent evenings and weekends with them, leaving them to do day trips and exploring the area on their own the other days.

This weekend, well let me tell you, it's a litle crazy. Friday night, after soccer, Gabbi and Reuben prepared us a great dinner and Cam and I exchanged birthday gifts. Saturdy we went to the Bay area to have lunch at the home of fellow Blue Norther Mat Thomas and his wife Jayana and their kids Asher and Julia. After lunch we explored the Berkeley Hills with them seeing great views of San Francisco across the Bay. Saturday evening we were supposed to go to other friends for dinner but it fell through. Sunday Reuben is off to a UC Davis baseball game with his best friend in the neighbourhood along with Cam and Rick, their adult chaperones. Later in the afternoon we're having another family over for dinner. Man, it's a busy weekend but strangely it's starting to feel more normal.

Lacking the time to do a full-fledged blog I'll throw out a few other events and details:

• I ran the American River Half Marathon last weekend, suffered through a leg injury and dehydration in unexpected heat but still beat my personal best time by over 2 minutes and finished in the top 10 percent of runners in my category - go me!!


• We know we're settling in to Davis when going somewhere rather than saying 'let's take our bikes it'll be fun' we say 'why would we take our car?' The car tends to sit in the driveway almost all week.


• We are looking forward to 4 days in Mexico with Kerry and Mandy next week. The kids are looking forward to Kim and Angela Penner coming from Ontario to look after them while we're away.


• The Amgen Tour of California rolls through Davis while we are away next week. Lance Armstrong, team Radio Shack and all the other big boys will whiz by about 750 meters from our house - very exciting.


• Gabbi is singing a duet at the Spring concert at school on Monday night, we're looking forward to that performance.


• All of our visitors are causing us to discover great new day trips. Before we leave we'll write a book 101 great day trips from Davis CA.


• Thanks to some new solar heating panels, our pool is warming up nicely and the kids have already been swimming a lot.

Gotta go, got too many friends around here to be spending any more time at this. We just got invited to a neighbour's for dinner on Tuesday night too. I gotta get someone to help us manage our social calendar. :)