Brooke's Belly

Brooke wanted to show off her new "figure".

Tour Update

For those of you who haven't been watching the Tour De France, here is a quick update.  It has already been a very eventful race, with just 5 stages down there is still time to tune in and get into the action. 

Currently Lance Armstrong is in the overall lead, just 55 seconds over his teammate George Hincapie in 2nd place.  Lance has done well but probably received the yellow jersey a few stages earlier than he had anticipated.  David Zabriskie, a Utah native, won the first stage and has done well hanging onto the yellow jersey.  That is, of course, until his dramatic fall yesterday just about a mile from the finish of the team time trial.  It was truly saddening to see, because he had been doing so well.  In a gesture to show respect to the yellow jersey as well as Zabriskie's success so far, Lance Armstrong did not wear the jersey at the start of the race today, it was only after the race officials asked him to put it on that he did so.  His comments regarding the incident were that he didn't want to win the yellow jersey by a crash, he wanted to earn it.

The sprinters have been putting on quite a show in these first flat stages of the tour.  There is a lot of speed and action near the finish line of each race.  At the end of Monday's race there was even a little "head butting" for room to pass.  Tom Boonen is currently in the lead with the sprinters green jersey and has won 2 stages so far, keep an eye on him to continue for sprint points and keep the lead. 

There is a lot more riding, crashes and action left to go in the tour and some exciting mountain stages ahead.  Make sure to check it out, the tour is broadcast on OLN pretty much 24 hours a day so if you have the channel it won't be too hard to catch it.

Independence Day

Happy Independence Day!!
I hope everyone got out and enjoyed the day. For must of us this most likely included Parade's, Carnivals, BBQ's, and Fireworks. Let's also remember the reason for this holiday and give thanks to those in the military as well as our ancestors who bravely fought and died for our freedom.

Freedom Blast

Brooke, Greg, Susan and I, went to the Freedom Blast in Salt Lake yesterday. It was really fun, we were able to see BMX/Skateboarders, Rollerbladers, (All Star Stunt Team) and a crazy high dive team. They had a really impressive ceremony with a 21 Gun Salute and F-16's flew over really low in a "Missing Man Formation". Then of course, we saw Kelly Clarkson and the fireworks. Kelly was actually pretty good (I am admittedly not a pop music fan), but I was impressed at how good she sounded at a stadium like that. She did sing to a "Backing Track", but you could tell that she could sing very well. She played a lot of her "rock" songs, which was good, but we had a bunch of little girls right behind us singing every line to every song. It was funny. The fireworks were well done, there was some technical difficulties so there was quite a while where the fireworks stopped. The All Star Stunt Team came out again to entertain until they could get the fireworks working again. It was a fun night.

Happy Canada Day

For many who do not know, July 1st is Canda Day. Happy Canada Day to all of you Canadians out there who might be reading.