New Home and New Hobby

The end of April saw our family moved to an apartment in Visalia.  We miss having a huge yard to run around in (especially Boggart), but we gain a really neat perk .... sidewalks!

A couple of weeks after we moved in, we went to the store and found some bikes for Joshua and Ginny.  Ben got Josh's bike - with a promise that he would get his own new bike when he could ride without training wheels.  We also got helmets for all three:

Byron put the bikes together with minimal help ... ;-)

I previously blogged about the bikes, but I didn't have the cable to get the pictures from the camera.  Now I have the cable, so I thought I would add the pics.  The kids love riding their bikes as often as they can.  Ben has tried riding without the training wheels, but has decided that he is just not ready for that and Ginny's helmet still doesn't fit too well.

Robert had been riding Byron's older mountain bike, but when a friend came to visit in July he borrowed the road bike (and Byron's riding shoes with the clips).  Now Robert prefers the road bike and loves to ride "clipped in" because he can go so much faster.  He has only managed to fall over while clipped in a couple of times so far!