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My older son, Logan, turned 8 last month and has been excited to get his OHV permit (801-538-7433) so we can hit the trails without worrying about the 5-0 catching up to us. The course is two-part, they must take a 50 question T/F and multiple choice test and pass with at least 75%, then the have to pass a riding safety course. Logan did awesome on the written test, we studied a lot, and had no trouble passing all the skills on the riding course.

If you know of good spots or want to get your beginner kids out for a ride, let me know, we’re looking for people to ride slow and mellow with!

Took the boys out to putt around for family night 🙂 They did really well… the grass has grown in a ton since the last time we made it out, so we could only go on the dirt roads. We decided to head north over to the little track area and both boys made it up and over the hill, I was very impressed. After cruising around a bit, we decided to go down where mom was waiting and try our hand and a couple of steep little hills. Logan was pretty tentative, but after I coaxed him on, he did exactly what I told him to and got on the gas pretty hard launching him off the top of the hill and crashing… I felt really bad, but he did end up going back down on his bike and doing it again successfully on Landon’s bike. Landon cleaned the hill several times and had a blast going up and down it.

Here’s the video:

So, we decided to pack up the kids and head west for Memorial Day to do some riding in the west desert. It was beautiful when we got out there Sunday evening. We set up camp, played for a little bit, made a campfire and roasted some marshmallows. The boys look like they fit their motorcycles well this year and Alisha likes her new moto.

We woke up the next morning to rain… I thought to myself, “no big deal, the weatherman said there was a good chance of rain, we’ll wait it out, let it dry, and still get plenty of time to play.” So, the kids woke up, came into our tent and we had a good time playing games, reading books, and taking naps… it kept raining and raining and raining… finally about 2pm we decided to pack it all up and see if we could get out (we were about 1/2 mile off the main road). We had to get a little rowdy with the Jeep but finally made it back to the road with a huge sigh of relief. It’s seriously going to take a week of cleaning to get the nasty salt-clay cleaned off of everything.

Moral of the story: you’d have to be an idiot to go camping to the west desert in the rain… “Making Memories” is what we like to call adventures like that.