Cassidy's 5th Place X Games 2009

Cassidy took 5th place in Supermoto against some of the best riders around the world. Not bad for a dude who sits at a desk now and eats lunch from a vending machine. He has only been on a bike 6 times since last season! He is amazing and we were so happy to be there again with him. The X Games are a blast!

Cassidy's team: David Pingree and the legend Jeff Ward.

Starting line on the jumbo tron. Wish I could have gotten pictures from the asphalt part of the race. The majority of Supermoto is on asphalt, they go up to 100 miles per hr and around tight corners of concrete barriers. Then onto a dirt motocross track, it is such a fun sport to watch.

Our good friend Rob Collins came out and spent the day with us.

Dad and Maddy with Rick "The Giant". Our families long time friend.

The family with Troy Lee. He is Cassidy's sponsor and owner of Troy Lee Designs.

Proud of our brother!

Cassidy loves it when his proud mom kisses him at one of his races.

So many interviews when you are famous.

Someone taking some of his gear that they won.

Proud wifey Nicole.

Troy Lee's head mechanic Matt Jory from Austraillia and girlfriend Chelsey.

Troy and Cass talking about his race.

Cassidy's friend Greg Jenson and girlfriend Katina. Greg owns Motofrugals.

Greg and Jeremy Jenson and Cass

Rick stole some pasta from the riders. He felt he needed to carb up before the race. He is hiding it from the chef.

Rick, Greg, Nicole Rob, Lisel, Chris, Dad, Mom, and Maddy

This is ME WITH STEVE MCQUEEN'S SON CHAD!!

My bud, the handsome Carey Hart :)

He is SUCH a nice guy...said some really great things about Cassidy. His brother passed away last year after crashing racing Supermoto. Cassidy was racing at the same event.

Carey's tent comes with a turn table.

Fancy cars and his own personal doctor to work on him before races.

This is Adrian Chareyre from France, he took 3rd. Maddy and I have become friends with his teammate Mauno Hermunen from Finland on Facebook. When Cassidy won the biggest Supermoto race in the world in Belgium, Mauno took second. It was fun to meet someone from his team. As we were taking this picture he said, "Ahhh thees eas America!" Pretty funny.

Katina and I with Mark Burkhart.

Greg and Jolene from Travis Pastrana's show Nitro Cirus.

Everyone's favorite redneck.

Jeremy McGrath!

Every time we take pictures of him at races he will turn and smile.

Jeremy #2

Ok this girl is so inspiring and amazing. Her name is Ashley Fiolek, I met her last year at the X Games. She was injured and not able to race. But this year she was ready to go. She is 16 years old and deaf. She has to rely on feeling vibrations in her bike to know when to shift. She ended up with the gold! So fun to watch.

We made a stop at one of our favorite shows. Kat wasn't there but it was really fun to see the place. We even got to watch a Ford commercial being filmed.

This one's for you dad...

Cassidy with teammates Jeff Ward and David Pingree, and some kids from a charity deal in California. Dad we will have a blogging lesson soon, you can click on it and make it even bigger! :)

Beaux+ Bee =

Beaux was jealous of her dad's BAD allergic reaction to potato peels (we think) that left him with giant swollen wrists, hives covering his body and his top lip 3 times its natural size. He has looked like someone from the Simpson's since yesterday. So she invited a wasp to sting her bottom lip. I don't know why people pay so much for lip injections...just go tick off a bee.

FOUND...

Grandpa Jerry sent us on quite the treasure hunt, it was the highlight of our weekend. We couldn't have had a better time. The girls were so excited and proud of their tree that they will always have from their grandpa.

Grandpa Jerry spends many a day on the Alpine Loop on his motorcycle. Even squeezing through the gates and sweeping it off before it opens for the season. On one of his rides years ago he started this tree.

Growing up we had a family tree, so this was neat to have one for my girls.

Pointing to their names!

Excited to start their hunt!

We missed it on our first try so we had to turn around and keep looking. The second time we all felt the vibe where it was but Greg was the one who spotted it first.

Haven't seen the loop this gorgeous in a LONG time. Make the trip, you won't regret it. Thanks dad! This is just the beginning of our trips to their tree!

My dad is SO cute. I LOVE that he did this for his 'tree little girls'. Check out his blog...it's under Dad on my blog list. Can't wait to find our tree!