Robert and Elzada Simmons

Since  Brad and I have been married I've gotten to know Kent's parents Robert and Elzada pretty well. They are such nice people and both extremely inspiring! They have 9 kids and Kent is number 8 of 9 so Robert and Elzada are the ages of my grandparents-they are both around 80 years old. Staying with them at their house this weekend helped me get to know them even more. Elzada is an amazing pianist and has been playing really difficult classical pieces since she was 10 years old! She was sweet enough to sit down and play a few songs for us. We loved that! And Robert has been very fit and active his whole life. We determined that if American Ninja Warrior had been around when he was in his prime he could have won it. He is 80 years old and he still goes to the gym every day! Well, he corrected me, 5 days a week. :) I was surprised on Sunday night when he asked me if I wanted to go to a spinning class with him the next morning at 5:15. I laughed, but he was serious! I hadn't brought any tennis shoes or gym clothes with me since it was going to be such a quick trip, but Elzada let me borrow some of her socks and shoes, and my nephew Emmett let me borrow his gym shorts. I'm sure I looked pretty ridiculous to everyone, but it was worth the early morning! Robert and I warmed up with some weights and then I sweated buckets during the spinning class. I've always wanted to do a spinning class, I just never thought the first time I would go it would be with an 80 year old, who probably did a better job than me! He is very fit still and I hope to be as active as him at that age.