Tyler got his Christmas present early, a brand-new dirt bike for the start of the riding season. Jake was selected as the JV football defensive player of the year. Outstanding achievement, especially considering he started playing football his freshman year literally not knowing anything about football. He has been pulled up to the varsity team helping them prepare as they have been winning through the championships so far. The boys and I met some of Jakes friends to ride and camp with on Saturday. Tyler did awesome on his new bike. He looked comfortable on it right away. Jake raced on Sunday and did great as usual. He cliched 2nd place in both his classes for the fall race series.

Jake had another race earlier in the month. He did well but his bearing went out on his rear wheel. Luckily his friend Hunter let Jake use his spare bike for the last race. We flew to Idaho to celebrate Grandma Gretchen’s 80^th birthday with her and the cousins. The boys went with their cousins to a Washing State football game.

Slacking on the Blog again. In early October we celebrated Dungey’s 9^th birthday (for real this time, we accidently aged him by a year for the few years). Jake had a race also at the beginning of the month. I went on a 3-week work trip back to Sicily. Tyler’s football team did not make it too far in the play offs, but he’s has already started Rugby workouts. Jake finished up his season with JV but will join the Varsity team for the playoffs. Tyler dressd up as a cop for Halloween.