Alysa's Awesome Antics

We have had a very eventful ( in our opinion) past week, and would now like to share some of these most exciting events with you! To start off with, I got a new bike about a week and a half ago, and I am in love! Compared to my old bike, which took a lot of work to ride, this bike is a breeze! It seems to take about 4 minutes less to ride to work, and now with my new comfy memory foam seat, no more sore fanny muscles! ( Sorry if that seems indelicate.) For those who don't know, which would be quite a few people, I've taken to riding my bike all over to save gas, and since Reed and I are sharing my car b/c of issues with his, sometimes he has the car and I have someplace to go, so I ride. It's great exercise and saves us a lot of money on gas.
I have had the good fortune of taking care of my sisters house (while she and her family went on vacation) which is just a short drive or ride from our apartment. I say good fortune because she has a wii (sp?) game system. Hopefully this makes sense to someone spelled out, because it just looks wrong. If you know anything about wii's, you have to use your arms to play the games. A lot! I haven't been this sore in my arms in a really, really long time. After the second day, I could barely lift my right arm, and it's not as if I was playing it for all that long. Oh well. It's probably good that their family is back or I might actually do myself some harm! :)
And last but not least, we had the 4th of July! We had so much fun at Reed's aunt and uncles house with his brother Mark, wife Dalana and their kids, and Reed's parents and other aunt. Very nice to get to spend the 4th with family as it is tradition to spend it with family! By the way, you missed out on my first homemade potato salad! Yum. And missed seeing our first (and hopefully not last) family treading water competition in the swimming pool! Mark conceded to me (Alysa) because of family obligations. He felt obligated to go and entertain Seth and Ella. :) Since we didn't time it, we don't know how long it truly went on, but there were some guesses that it was easily over 20 minutes? I don't know, it's just a guess.