Tuesday and Giro

Pretty tame evening as I met the boys at home after work (thanks to Jake for picking up his little bro from BASE) and got to cooking. A little while later we were scarfing down some spaghetti and later some home-made chocolate chip cookies. I know, you want the picture of me in an apron, but that isn't going to happen. No outside activities as it rained early in the evening.

Pretty relaxing around the house for the evening as demonstrated by the pics: Ian playing some MLBaseball on the game system, Jake Facebook'ing with friends, and even Shadow was taking it easy (he stayed in this position for over an hour - I am starting to think Garfield is his cousin). I bounced between the two boys and even snuck in a little CofD4. The boys headed for bed and I wasn't tired so jumped on the trainer for an hour while watching the Lakers (booooooo) whip up on the Rockets.

Looks to be an easy hump-day evening as nothing planned. Ian has baseball practice after school, Jake is heading to church youth at 6pm, and I with tons of laundry to fold... please tell me she comes back soon!

Ian had to make a tough choice last night and I was impressed with his decision. Thursday is his last basketball game of the season at The Courts and also the same night is Bolivar Primary School's Celebration of Success (big event for all the kids) where in Ian will receive a couple awards and compete in a math contest. He was struggling between the two as his team needed him, but he is so proud of his achievements at school. I let him decide (although I would have corrected if he made the wrong choice) and he went with his school event - nice choice, young man! So Thursday night we'll be at Ian's school supporting his academic achievements. Funny saying in the Jones household regarding our kids making choices: "It is your choice unless you make the wrong choice, then you forfeit your right to make the choice." Jake thinks its pretty funny (so do we even though we mean it).

Jake's leg is still hurting quite a bit, but he is working through it like a champ. He will have to run his butt off this weekend if his relay teams are to move on to Sectionals.

Giro stage 5 was fun to watch today as the real contenders showed their cards and the pretenders were exposed (can anyone say Lance is and will not be Lance of TdF days). Di Luca is looking strong like the last time he won, but will have to wait for the TT to see how things unfold. So, regarding Lance, I know he was hurt and is just coming back, but can he honestly think he will contend at the TdF when the other top guns left him standing still today and they aren't is full peak form? Alberto has to be at home with a slight smirk waiting to see if they still expect two leaders at the TdF. How about next mountain stage let LA fend for himself (like other mid-packers) and send Rubiera, Janez, and Navarro on up to help out Horner and Levi?!?!?! I am not a Lance hater as I think he was awesome for cycling and cancer awareness, but he should have left it alone and not jacked with being a leader of Astana. Going to be interesting to see how he bails out Astana at the end of the month. Speaking for the Astana boys, not good news for Kloden as he will probably get benched for the next couple of years.

Fitness: 1hr big gear/strength work on bike trainer last night. Hoping to get outside this afternoon for a couple hour steady spin, but with Deb gone is hard to juggle so might end up on the the rollers (which is fine for recovery/spin work).