Hello Dorothy

(Just a couple of my crazy, cute boys. They didn't want to be left out of the picture action)
Just wanted to do a funny post about our goldfish-Dorothy. You may ask yourself "Isn't that the name of Elmo's goldfish??" yes. Yes it is. Connor thought of the name. We won Dorothy last June (yes, I did say last June) at Peyton's school carnival. In fact each of the boys won goldfish, unfortunately Peyton's goldfish died within a day or so as most goldfish do. Dorothy however is a bit crazy and is still going strong even after a new fishbowl, and being changed from hardwater to reverse osmosis water. She (we really don't know if it's a boy or girl, but since it has a girl name we refer to our fish as a she) is very crazy and swims really fast in her bowl every time you walk up to it. Pretty funny. Thanks Dorothy for being a good fish. Our kids love to feed her and get a kick out of having a pet. **warning the photo is a bit blurry because Dorothy won't hold still**

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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really. Was there ever any doubt?

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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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!