New family addition

This bike showed up at our house when a friend moved away frm golden.
A real beauty. Thanks Jamie.

Too Funny!

Bike Rack Envy.

Revelstoke has come a long way in the last 15 years since I lived there. The community planners are definitely doing something right over there. Golden has many things to learn..... These beautiful bike racks were installed last summer and they sure are great accents to the downtown core. Hopefully we will see some of these this fall to accommodate our new bike share program.

Why not tackle two things at once...the stairs.

Since we were planning to get rid of the carpet on the stairs at some point we decided to do all of the woodwork at the same time. The stairs soon revealed a beautiful history once the five layers of gross paint were removed along with some graffiti that my daughter accented the post with when she was four. That part was a bit sad to scrape off. Good bye carpet, hello beautiful fir.

Floor Reno's

We have these 120 Fir floors. They are splintery, yet beautiful thick boards that just aren't readily available these days. We decided it was high time to redo them. Since I have a few weeks of down time I thought "Why wait?" Are are the pre-sanding shots.

Calgary Science Center = Lego Extravaganza

Here are a few pics from the LEGO exhibit at the Science Center when we went to go see the exhibit upstairs. Julian and I are massive LEGO fans and these where a few of our favorites. I loved the simplicity of the bike below.

First in Flight

The Penny Farthing

Space Race

History of the Bicycle-too bad it ended at the BMX.

Santa Maria

Summer Swim Meets

The kids have been loving swim club this year and they are both turning into fantastic little racers too! Here are a couple pics from Revy and Golden Swim Meets.

It's Catch Up Time.

Holy Christ, I have to say that since taking a new Canmore job the ol' blog took a beating. While my tenure with CCC is over I hope to spend a bit of time here again and keep the world (my mom and friends) updated on our goings on.

I'm sorry blogisphere.

Make Love, not Match Racing.

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Three weeks and counting..

With just under three weeks of "spring break" remaining before we get back into ski training I can't wait to start logging hours again for the sake of training and ultimately racing in the Masters World Cup in Vernon mid March 2011.

I am more than a bit amped to get rolling with a training plan already assembled and a great training regime for our athletes here in Golden as well. We will all be working off of custom tailored 416 hour plans this year.

This spring has big trail runs, huge road rides, grueling long distance roller ski trips, beautiful alpine climbs and a few time trials thrown in for good measure.

Mix that in with lots of family fun, sailing, mountain biking with Julian, and two family vacations (we have NEVER had a family vacation- 8 years and counting) this summer is going to ROCK!!

Ick....

With a snowy and miserable day in Golden today the Hudson's aren't sure what to do with ourselves! Hopefully the day will open up with some decent spring weather to

a) work outside in the yard

b) yard sale prep for next week

c) bike ride with the kiddies

d) sail with the kiddies

I could wash the dishes but crap, that is not fun.

I had a great first official sail of the year last night down at the new sailing spot. I think we will consider building a small dock down there at some point. The Sunfish is down there now as well along with my windsurfing rig that I walked in for 2.5km yesterday. That was an experience that I would rather not do again.

We need to find a few more sailing folk to pick up boats so we can start having some fun evening races. I am assembling some bouys to take down there next week.

Well, enough procrastinating...off to work on Mimi's new room and do the dishes.

New sailing locale until June/July.

Oh man.....I'm loosing my frickin mind about getting on the water. Julian and I went for a spring recon and landed a big one. Sailing next weekend! Rain or shine we are getting things rolling. It will be about a 15 minute bike ride into the beach but is SO worth it. Check it. Getting the boats in there will be the true adventure. I see a portage from the river in our future!

Golden is the best!!