nice weather for ducks

well... the weather has been nice on the week days and terrible on the weekends, so I haven't had time to climb outside. I have had time to take jobs to the park and play frisbee though.

Herm sure has packed on the pounds in the past few days, but he can still do a handstand!

Here is the star of this blog... the frisbee catching Kona

My impersonation of Konayeah kones

putting the breaks onchomp

dog in motion

a little pep talk

climbing photos soon i promise!!

jobs

kona has been dubbed jobs due to text messaging between alex and i. jobs comes up first so we leave it. she is basically a full time job so it is quite applicable.

al pal and i went photo shooting yesterday. i learn something new every time i take photos and throw them on my computer. either, hmmm... that is not at all what i expected, or hmmm, that is interesting. it is a learning process that i enjoy very much.

alex for some reason became inspired to do a back flip. ah ha. i wasn't allowed to post the photo of her face in the sand but this one turned out nice.

lumpy

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741
awesomeness comes from this link above

Lumpy RidgeAlex and I headed up to Lumpy Ride a few weekends ago and attempted Right Angry Man. Melissa Strong is ridiculously close to sending it.

Al Pal is 20...soon

I baked a cake today for the first time in years. It was a great success!! Alex turns 20 on Friday April 3rd. Such a big girl now. I met her with a face full of braces at age 14. She had just returned from a Continentals in Mexico City with a stubbed bloody toe. I said, "How'd ya do?" She said, "ohhh, I don't know... 1st, 1st, 2nd." Then she warmed up on my projects and I was like who is this girl?!

Anyway...the cake is delicious and after that she ate cheesecake at dinner. Afterwards she modeled for me in her new yellow see through rain jacket. Enjoy the sequence cake shots!

Lisa, Alex, and Jeff Climbing Hard in Bishop

Although I am not in Bishop, secret sources tell me there has been a lot of eating, sun tanning, rattle snake sightings and hard sending occurring. Lisa Rands sent Haroun and the Sea of Stories, V11, yesterday snagging the first female ascent. Today, Alex Johnson almost flashed A Maze of Death, V12, falling off the the last hard move when her foot slipped, then completed it on her 5th try. Jeff Sillcox had an amazing week claiming ffa's of A Maze of Death, Xavier's Roof, and Stained Glass Right. Pictured below is the pre-sending ritual of Dorito and girl scout cookie eating.

This is by far the best photo that has been sent my way. Here is Lisa on THE send of Haroun and Alex is just doing her thing.
photo by Jeff Sillcox

Nice Al Pal!
photo by Jeff Sillcox

:)
photo by Jeff Sillcox

Lisa using the Al Pal foot stool
photo by Jeff Sillcox

Moon photo by Jeff Sillcox

Stars by Jeff and Alex

What are you doing up there Jeff?
Photo by Alex Johnson

Jeff sending A Maze of Death
photos by Alex Johnson

Selfy!

Lisa on the Womb
Photo by Jeff SillcoxApparently it was really hot outAhh haaa
photo by Jeff Sillcox

I am not there but I just wanted to say HI!

the photo shoot

Since all of us were so psyched on climbing last Sunday, our session turned into a little photo shoot for a moment. Alex didn't even put her shoes on and I climbed for a total of 5 minutes. No reason really - pure laziness.

Although Flan doesn't comply with my camera in her face, Alex on the other hand is not shy. She thoroughly enjoys reflecting herself and making sexy faces.

Kona is not shy either...especially if there is a frisbee in my hand!Jemerson - look at you stud!

Sorry Mary your son is still smoking and yes, he still looks like he just rolled out of bed - always. We are trying though.. we took him shopping and got him a hair cut!

I let the Poudre River try a hand in my photo shoot. It did ok, it could have looked sexier and strutted a little more.

ABS Nationals

This weekend ABS Nationals went down at the Spot Gym in Boulder, CO. I had the opportunity to take photos at the qualifiers and finals events. I took so many blurry photos and learned a lot. The results of the finals are as follows:

Women

1. Alex Johnson

2. Chauncy Cox

3. Alex Puccio

Men

1. Daniel Woods

2. Paul Robinson

3. Sean McColl

The following photos are a chronicling of the weekend from my point of view. Enjoy!

Puccio on women's qualifier 3

Flannery Shay-Nemirow staring down women's qualifier 2

Flan on women's qualifier 2
Alex Puccio on women's qualifier 4

Flannery crushing women's qualifier 4
Daniel and Jon
Giovanni Traversi on a men's qualifier

Cookie

My 7th grade boyfriend Matt Kennedy

Magnus

Christian looking ripped

Judo sick of my camera in her face

What you lookin' at Al Pal?

Matt and I decided this hold looks like a wet sand dribble

Alex cruising women's quali 2

I am pretty sure she was being made fun of for not tying her shoes

Emily Harrington reaching on women's final 1

Kasia on women's final 3

I found Wade on top of the Hueco bouler

back in isolation

Alex likes to ruin all of my shots

Paul gets all the ladies

Yeah that's right

warming up in iso... alex this one could have been good

blurry group shot

Brushing Crushing FlanFlan on women's final 4

Audrey waiting her turn for women's final 1

Lisa crushing number 1

holding on for dear life

Lisa on women's final 3

Alex Johnson on the top of women's final 3

The crowd's reaction to Daniel's flash of men's final 3

Alex Puccio on women's final 3

Jemerson! So photogenic.

women's final 4

Jemerson and Feinberg

Chauncy at the Youth Finals

Good job to everyone who climbed and worked hard!