I headed out to Squaw Leap this morning and it was a good reminder of what horrible shape I'm in. I think it took me about 2.5 hours to complete the 8 mile loop. Going up isn't getting any easier for me, but I think I am getting better at the technical downhill. No crashes today, it's been a while since I've been able to say that after a ride.

It can't be 4th of July with a bar-b-que, friends, fun and fireworks. Luckily, yesterday was the 4th and we had all of those things. Claire and Chloe managed to party on until 10:00 pm which may be the new world record. Jamie and I were able to kick back and enjoy ourselves a bit too thanks to lots of help from friends and family.

Highlights of the day: Tasty lemon squares, three kinds of beans, fighter jet flyovers, cul-de-sac fireworks show on the ground and big time fire works show in the air.

So I turned 30 last week, which pretty much ... sucks. I remember being in high school and thinking that 30 seemed so old. Now that I am older and wiser I realize that 30 seems ... so old.

I suppose it is due in part to this depressing fact that I have started to get back into mountain biking. I say "back into" because I think there was about a two week period just after high school when I was "into it" the first time. It is fun, just dangerous enough, great exercise and I can go it alone when I want to. This is important because most of my friends have other hobbies to deal with their varying degrees of midlife crisis. 

I used to think that trading my Mustang for a Harley was my mid-midlife crisis, but now I realize that I just thought motorcycles were cool. Maybe it was a pre-mid-midlife crisis. Anyhow I have decided to sell the Harley and get a car again. Maybe a Hybrid or car that runs on tap water and banana peels (do they make those yet)?

I wonder what I will be into when I turn 40 .. sailing around the world? trying to become the world champion hot dog eater? In a mental institution from ten years of having twins (don't get me started on turning 45 and having two teenage girls)?

The girls have both been feeling under the weather for the last week or so. They seemed to be feeling a bit better today so we hopped in the pool for some floaty time.

I've been trying to post a new blog for a few days now, but things have been a little busy. Hey I have twin daughters, what do you expect?

So what's new... lets see. Chloe is very close to taking a few steps on her own. If she hasn't already... I think Grandma and Grandpa might be concealing certain "firsts" so that mommy doesn't feel bad. And hey, I'm all for that.

Claire has turned into little miss "ham it up". If she makes a face or does something that makes us laugh, she will continue doing it.. over and over. First she would scrunch her nose, then she would breath in and out really fast, then she started tilting her head back and doing the nose scrunch thing and now she has learned to wink. Well it is more of a double eye blink than a single eye wink, but it is still pretty much the cutest thing you have ever seen.

The weather was nice today and so we headed up to the lake for a bar-b-que with family and friends. We thought we would try and grab some nice "ten month" photos of the girls while we were up there, but Chloe wasn't diggin' it.

This was the first time she has really ever been put down on the ground with leaves and grass and stuff. I don't think she knew what to think. One thing was sure sure, she wasn't in the smiling mood. Though Claire was hamming it up as has become the norm lately.

First Chloe got it, then Jamie's Dad, then Claire and now Jamie and I have it. It feels like a cross between the bird flu and SARS, but without going to the doctor I can't be sure. Either way we are a pretty pitiful bunch around here lately. Will post more after recovery.

P.S. Airborne doesn't work.

Come on daddy wake up already!

5:00am - 6:00am: Jamie wakes up with the girls. I remain unconscious.

6:30am - 7:00am: Roll my lazy @#$ out of bed and head for the nearest bowl of Fruity Pebbles.

7:00am - 8:00am: Hit the gym. I have been hitting said gym for over a year now and haven't managed to grow a single muscle. Maybe I need to start drinking some of those powder filled protein drinks that all the huge guys at the gym are always talking about. Or maybe I should just mix in a salad now and then.

8:00am - 8:30am: Sit down at my desk, turn on Howard Stern and go about burning out my retinas for the next eight hours.

5:00pm - 5:30pm: Do battle with the Fresno rush hour traffic. This is the only town where people will actually forge their own right hand turn lane as if they were blazing a trail through the rain forest.

5:30pm - 7:30pm: This is the best part of the day. Playing with the girls, feeding the girls, changing the girls ... you get the idea.

7:30pm - 11:00pm: Ahh adult time at the Scott house. Translation - veg in front of the T.V. or kill time on one of the many hobbies which have all but fallen by the way side. The most recent of which is photography, but my models went to bed at 7:30pm.

We took Chloe and Claire next door for a BBQ with friends last night. The girls were pretty good and enjoyed the extra attention.

Jamie's parents also moved into their new apartment yesterday. Jamie is back at work and Grandma will be on baby duty during the day. An added perk is that we will be able to drop the girls off at the Grandparent's and go out once in a while. We had a great time last night, but I think we are both looking forward to a night sans kids sometime in the near future.