Telos Timp Triathlon

I finished!!! yeah! I did my triathlon on Saturday and it was awesome! It was so hard and there were times that I thought I just wanted to quit, but I made it! At the end of the run we thought we were close to the finish line, but nooooo, we still had one loop to do around a park. It was like AHHHHH!!! NO!!! When we got on our bikes the route we did was a 2 loop set. The loop had a huge hill on it and the 1st time I couldn't get my gears figured out on my bike and therefore 1/2 way up the hill I had to get off and walk or fall over. I chose to walk about 20 feet uphill instead of falling off. Luckily on the 2nd loop I got my gears figured out and was able to stay on my bike. The swim was last in this triathlon, which I loved. It felt so good to get into the pool at the end. This was a great experience and I can't wait for another! My time was 1:30:38 This may seem long for some, but I was dang proud since I was planning on about 2 hrs total. The sense of accomplishment was so worth all the pain!

(This is a picture of Diane, me, and Sarah before the race)
(this is us after the race showing off our legs with our age in black marker for everyone to see. Sorry it's so blurry-my camera was having issues)

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Peyton's first grade program

(here is Peyton with Miss Green, his teacher. She rocks!!! We love her!)
Here are some pictures from Peyton's first grade program. He did such a great job! They sang about 6 songs and had speaking parts. The program was all about families and a couple of the songs were a total crack-up. They sang one song called "Daddy Cool". They had to do their own dance moves during this song, and Peyton chose to do the robot, the sprinkler, and a mod move from the 60's where he had two of his fingers in a "V" shape and went across his eyes. So cute!! Way to go Payt-we love you so much and are so proud of the big 1st grader you have become.

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11 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2 boxes of Golden Grahams
1 box of Kix
6 boxes of Nature Valley granola bars

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PS-I will post new pictures of our newly completed storage room soon-it's beautiful!!!

triathlons???

So my cute neighbor Diane just did a sprint triathlon a couple of weeks ago. I was telling her how awesome she is and how great she looks. Today I came home to a cute message from her telling me she is doing another triathlon in 3 weeks and wants to know if I want to do it with her and our other neighbor, Sarah. What the??? Seriously I called her back and was laughing so hard that she thought I could be ready in 3 weeks. I did tell her that I would love to run with she and Sarah since I know I can run 3 miles. So tonight we ran 3 miles in 29 mins and I feel pretty good. The crazy thing is that I am seriously considering entering the triathlon in 3 weeks. Am I crazy? I must be.

Tim

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Did you hear? Tim McGraw is coming in concert!!!!! I know my family thinks I am crazy. This is going be probably the 6th time I have seen Tim in concert. Do you like I how refer to him just as "Tim" like we're old friends or something. I wish. My friend Lisa and I have been to every Tim concert together and we love him. Shane is fully aware how I feel about Tim and seems to be resigned to the fate that he is my secret "crush". Ok-maybe not so secret. Lisa and I have dreams of one day getting backstages passes and meeting Tim face to face. A girl can dream right? Until then I will just have to settle for my Tim collection of CD's and concert photos. I can't wait until June 27th!!!!!
This is Lisa and I at last year's concert.



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for anyone who cares, tickets go on sale tomorrow-Saturday. I happened to get mine early b/c Lisa's sister is a MEMBER of the Tim McGraw fan club and got to buy pre-sale tickets-see there is a bigger fan than me!

Tagged...again

ok, so once again I was tagged. This, however is a short one, so I will participate.

Here are the rules: each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.

at the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and post their names; then goes to their blog, leaves them a comment by letting them know that they've been tagged and invites them to read your blog.

Here goes:

1. I am a big sleeper. I need AT LEAST 8 hours of sleep. Truly I do better with like 9-10 hours of sleep. My husband knows I am NOT a morning person and is usually nice enough to just leave me alone and sleep when he goes to work. Having to get Peyton on the bus at 8:00am really puts a cramp in my style because we have to get up much earlier than that to have him ready. Oh the days of sleeping in.....I miss them.

2. I have webbed toes on my right foot. Two of my toes are partially webbed half way up. I have always been super self-consious of this part of my anatomy. As a teenager I usually tired to find sandals that would cover my toes (how sad!). When Shane and I were dating it was getting pretty serious and I thought I needed to alert him to my "condition". When I told him I had something to tell him he thought it was pretty serious, I am pretty sure he just laughed when I told him. I was totally serious and quite relieved when he thought it was so silly. I have pretty much overcome my "toe shyness" and don't really care about my toes too much. Just so you know I have endured a ton of teasing from my brothers over my toes, oh you know "Hey Ro we can take care of those toes right now with a knife" followed by a shreiking "what???"

3. I don't like to sleep with the doors open. Not even the doors to our closet and our bathroom. Totally freaks me out. I had a bad experience at Laura Hodges house once at a sleepover. We were sleeping in her parents room (can't remember why or where her parents slept that night). Anyway from where I was sleeping I could see straight into their bathroom (same floorplan in their master bedroom as my parents) I swear in the middle of the night I looked into the bathroom from the bed and I saw the sacriest skeloten face ever! It was like in Indiana Jones-Raiders of the lost ark at the end when they are opening the ark and the "angles" are flying around and then their faces turn into a horrible skeloten-just like that! Eewwww-still freaks me out!

4. I have used Tres Semme mousse on my hair since high school. I heart Tres Semme. It really is the best mousse and for the $$ you can't beat the price.

5. My favorite all time hair-do is long permed hair. Don't you wish it would come back in style? All you had to do is take a gob of that Tres Semme mousse and then scrunch your hair dry with your fingers and a hair dryer-really the only part of my hair I had to curl was bangs. Lest you are worried that I had a "Utah Claw", never fear, I never let my bangs get to those heights. Ahh-what a hairstyle, so fast and easy!

6. I love fast food. I wish I didn't, but I really, really do. Some of my favs are: Nachos Bell Grande at Riverton Taco Bell ordered past 11pm when they are "short staffed" (hee, hee), 2 cheeseburger meal with no onions at McDonalds, Crispy Chicken Salad with ranch dressing at Artic Circle, and last but certainly not least Sammies chicken flatbread sandwiches at Quiznos with a cup of Cheddar Broccoli soup. Yum!


Ok-I tag Kimi, Kim, Sandee, Lara, Elisa, and Jacy

Let's see your lists girls!

Easter 2008

so I'm getting a little smarter when it comes to downloading pictures. Jacy taught me that you can download 5 at a time, but I can't get them to seperate into my message, so we are back to photos all at the top, but more quantity. I really need a blogging 101 class.

Easter 2008 was pretty chill at our house. The kids woke up and loved their easter baskets. They both got baseball pants (which Connor would wear everyday if they were clean-that kids LOVES baseball, I think he has seen Sandlot at least 100 times and can quote numerous lines from the movie like "what, what?" or "you play ball like a girl" quite comical if you've seen the movie and have then seen him do his "lines"-ok off that tangent), a game for their gameboys/DS,candy, and then they each got a pair of crocs for spring. They were in heaven! After looking at a lot of other blogs I love the idea of the easter bunny coming on Saturday and reserving Sunday talking and thinking about the real reason we celebrate Easter- The Resurrection of our Savior. We may be doing that next year in our house!
As you can see the boys looked darling for church in their Easter clothes and were really giving me a hard time getting their picture taken. The are so funny. After church we went up to my parents for a nice Easter dinner that was so yummy. It was fun to see my siblings (that could come over). All in all a great holiday!

more Kauai pics

Some of these pictures may look a little familiar to some (ahem-kim)The first one is when we went to the awesome restaurant called the Beach House that is in between Poipu and the spouting horn. It is set right on the beach and has an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately we didn't get reservations at sunset because we could never decide what to do in advance (nice in some ways), anyways, we got there after the sun went down, but we couldn't have had a nicer table in the restaurant! We seriously were right next to the open window looking out onto this beautiful green grass and then the ocean. It was breathtaking. I wish I was a good nighttime photographer (anytime for that matter), but seriously it was so pretty. The food was soooo good! If you are ever in Kauai-go to this restaurant. Very pricey but worth the money. We didn't go there last time we were in Kauai and after hearing about it from Craig and Kim and Jeff and Rachel, we regretted not going. It's consistenly rated the #1 restaurant in Kauai year after year-so go if you ever get the chance and call ahead for a sunset reservation.
The next picture is of us at the "Fantasy Island" waterfall where they go over it and yell "da plane, da plane!". It wasn't very far from Lihue (where the airport is) and it was very pretty.
The next one is of us at the top of Wiamea Canyon. That was a really good day! We went up there with our friends Bruce and Holly (who were on the island at the same time) and Holly (aka hollakala) took some amazing photos (this is not one of them) I will post those when I get them. The view was amazing. We drove further into the island from this lookout to another lookout where you can see the NaPali coast from 4000 feet up. It was another breath taking moment because when we got to the top there was all this fog rolling over the trail into Wiamea Canyon from the NaPali coast so we couldn't see down to the bottom of the NaPali where the ocean was. We were kind of bummed at first but it was cool because it was so green and lush and it looked like gorilla's in the mist. After we had been there about 30 mins or so the fog cleared in like 60 seconds and we could see the NaPali coast 4000 feet below us through this lush green valley and the blue ocean. It was amazing! Probably my favorite view of the trip. I will post pictures of that when I get them from Holly.
The last picture that I posted is one of the sunsets that I caught with my camera. I was down on the beach by myself at around 6:00 PM enjoying the weather when I noticed all these people coming down with their cameras and sitting right where I was. It took a minute for me to realize that I was sitting facing the sunset and that I had about 10 mins to run back to our room and grab our camera to capture an amazing Kauai sunset. It was so pretty! Well worth my haul back up to our room!
Ahhh-Kauai, I miss it terribly already, and my tan has faded. If not for pictures it wouldn't seem like we really went. I seriously love it there!