X Treme Tubing

The kids are preparing for the debut of the summer X-Games, extreme tubing edition. I think they are well on their way to winning a gold or two, especially in the new Co-Ed Three Tube event.

But, I am biased, so you take a look and tell them how they are doing.

Here is the group: Allison and Conner, Sarah, Nick and Savannah.


Just getting some speed up.

Conner gets some air.

Nick hits the wake.

Sarah is not thrilled that Conner is trying to land right on top of her.


Nick skims along the surface and tries to hold on.


Nick tries to deal with Conner and hold on.


Full speed ahead or maybe full speed sideways.


When someone gets flung off and you've managed to stay on, you can celebrate a bit.

More success


But things don't always go as planned. Here, there are arms and legs going all over the place and Sarah is calmly telling the boat driver to slow down. The kids had lots of fun taunting the boat driver all day in an effort to get him to drive even faster. After a few crashes, the taunting went away.

Then the big kids went without the ankle biters. The boat driver let 'er rip.


Nick learned that if he put a back into it, he could flip Conner over.


Nick, say cheese for the camera guy.

Last one.

Are You Ready For Some Football?

I am ready. The kids are getting ready.









Oh, and Sarah starts softball next week. They have a former Lady Vol softball player as a coach this year. I think she throws harder underhand than I can overhand. Sarah should be kicking it up a notch this year.

Houston, We Have Lift-Off

Nick's first water skiing attempts went very well.

Need for Speed

Tube's Company, Three's a Crowd!

Sarah on Swing

I am still processing my images from the Dells and Roscoe, but here is one of Sarah.

The Wisconsin Dells

Here is a quick photo to start the summer vacation 2008 foto series. There will be more, but a bit later. If you missed this years vacation, you can see you missed some fun, but now is the time to start preparing for the 2009 blow-out.



Here is another group shot, but a little different group and this one from Roscoe, not the Dells.