Hi Family and Friends, Thanks for clicking on the link in our email newsletter! All the pics down the right-hand side are clickable. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year! Love from, Ant, Shayne and Ty.

XMAS 2011 HERE WE GO AGAIN. It just seems like yesterday that I sat here typing the 2010 season. Wow how time has flown this year, and what a year it has been. Probably the biggest news of the year for us was the merging of the 2 sanctioning BMX bodies in America. I was Chairman of the BOD for NBL when our new program we launched this year ran into financial problems. Fortunately we were able to come to an agreement with ABA that kept NBL on its feet through the transition period. Now we are one USABMX and BMX lives on! Our track here in Peachtree City hosted one of the largest Nationals this year. We had a record breaking 800 riders from all over the country including Canada, Brazil and Jamaica come and spend 4 days with us racing. The city is still talking about it, you couldn’t get a hotel room within a 30 mile radius of the event. Every inch of the park was filled with parents, kids, riders, vendors and spectators. It has taken Anthony and I about 6 months to recover. LOL. The event was also transmitted live on the web. We were lucky to have a really great crew of volunteers so Anthony and I were also able to race our home track. Our Black Crown team did very well too. We launched Strider Bike racing for 18month -5 year old on that weekend too. BMX racing pretty much dominated our spare time this year. Anthony and I ran 4 regional events, also ran the SQ series for Ga State and then raced the National circuit. Actually we managed to take Ty to our friends track in NY to race while we worked. Then we visited and raced Pittsburg PA and stayed with our good friend Bob and Polly. They spoilt us rotten with great food and beer all weekend. We spent a couple of hours in the emergency room with Ty who jarred his right arm when he landed hard after having jumped the notorius SouthPark pro section. He is proud to point out that he did not crash!!!!! He even finished the day in his mains, with a heavily strapped up wrist and thumb. Anthony went down hard too in the 3rd straight . When we arrived at the emergency room I was the only walking rider! Toss up who we should X-ray first, Anthony or Ty. Suffice to say that we lived to race the rest of the season and finish again in the top 10 in the Nation. Mom is proud to say that she is still number 1. Ty has grown up so much. He graduates in May from High School and will be heading on to college. We finally got him to get his drivers licence. He drives Anthony’s truck, Anthony drives my truck and I drive an Xterra. It is musical cars in the morning. The kids at the track are not used to seeing me in an SUV, so do a double take. Ty still loves his golf cart and uses that more than his truck. The deal is that we pay for one tank of gas a month and he has to pay for anything extra. He trains young BMX riders and then he also babysits. Next year he will be looking into a radiology degree. The colleges are close to home so he may commute for the first year. He does have his eye on a college which is a hop skip and jump away from a lake. He is big into his bass fishing – when he is not bmxing. He has started to make his own lures now and is perfecting a worm that he plans to market. The garage is set up like my kitchen!!!! Don’t think it is going to pay the bills just yet though. As you can see from the pictures he is 5 9 and still growing, he went from a size 9 shoe to an 11 in 3 months!!! We think he will be over 6 feet tall soon. He now likes his hair short, and cuts it himself. ( Yeah mom gets to go the hairdressers now ) Racing starts again seriously in January and our season will end in November 2012. Ty is planning on going to Chula Vista, the Olympic Training center, in March and doing some extra traveling with his friends. Since he does not have school on Fridays, he can take off with his team mates and pick up some new tracks. Anthony and I are still running the PTC track, so will only travel to tracks 5 hours radius to get qualified for the national series. Shayne actually managed to get a half marathon in this year. We had some down time over Thanksgiving so she hit the road in Atlanta for a fun half marathon. Have to say that arriving at this event in a Miata with heated seats was a beautiful thing. We started the run with warm hamstrings and a warm back. It was an exquisite day, 40’s to start and 50’s to finish. Stephanie and I stood out in our bright orange reflective race jersey that had on the back “Hurdle the Weak, Trample the Dead”. LOL We are both strong hill climbers and proceeded to pick off the competition on the hills, laughing and talking up a storm. I do not run faster that I can hold a conversation, see no point in it!!!!!!! Anthony and Ty squeezed in a couple of weekend camping and fishing trips at Lake West Point this year. Always a competition to see who caught the biggest, the most or any fish at all. Ty’s fishing skills have improved hugely, and he may be able to outfish his dad soon! Well we are exactly 1 week from Christmas day, so will close. We hope you are all doing well and have a wonderful Christmas and a great 2012. Love, Anthony, Shayne and Ty We would love to hear what you and your family are up to, so give us a shout!

Don presents award to PTCBMX track. Shayne in Pittsburg, PA Shayne and Kitty at the Grands in Louisville, KY Ty relaxing at the Grands in Louisville, KY Ty gets ready for his next race... Ty with 4+ pound bass Ty with a really healthy bass Ty with 10+ pound bass, covered in mud!

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