Sunday, August 24, 2008

Yay for Lance!!

Congratulations, Lance! This weekend Lance completed an Olympic triathlon. Due to a series of unexpected delays and troubles (more on that later), mama, Mikey, and Luke arrived a little late so we did not get shots of him diving into the water or jumping on his bike. But we did get the bike-to-running moment.

Here's Lance rolling in on the bike.
Getting ready to start the final leg
And off he runs! (I had the camera zoomed in so I could get the previous shots and then suddenly he was running at me so this shot was a little close up)
And he crosses the finish lineAll done. Yay! It's all over! (Thank goodness)

As adorable as this picture is, it is here to actually show the burn on my face from unexpectedly being in the sun for 4 hours on Saturday, of which at least 1 1/2 was spent walking to and from the shuttle and standing in line waiting for the shuttle. The circumstances were not quite as we thought they would be for the spectators at the triathlon. What we thought to be an easy shuttle ride to a shady, grassy park area to wait (and quite kid friendly), actually was a shuttle ride to a spot on the road a mile away from the starting point. The trek to the starting point was partially along the race track which left me pushing a double stroller and a big bag of toys for Mikey to play with in grass, half on asphalt, half on gravel dropping off the side down into the lake. Luckily I (barely) made it without falling off the edge, but then we found it was not a grassy area where we all waited and watched, but gravel on the side of the road. No playing for Mikey and sitting in gravel to nurse Luke wasn't ideal. It was a little rough, but the boys were surprisingly good considering the circumstances and it was so fun to see daddy. (Next time I may leave the kids at home, though.) Way to go Lance! We're so proud of you!

Happy Anniversary to us!

That's right, folks. We've made it 4 whole years. It was actually a month ago now, but like I said earlier, I'm playing catch up right now.

So we took ourselves up to the beautiful Park City to celebrate. You may notice that we had our kids with us. And that is true. We stayed there for two nights so we had Mikey for one night and then took him to my sister's for the second night. (Thanks, Heath!) Luke, of course, stayed with us the whole time (since he's nursing and all.)
Mikey got to ride the Alpine slide with each of us and loved it both times.
Luke enjoyed just hanging out
Finally (almost) alone (you can see little Luke peeking out back there), we went out to celebrate Lance learning to love sushi, I mean our Anniversary by getting sushi. It was some of the best sushi we've had. (I worked on him for 3 1/2 years and now he loves it as much a I do!)


Being Clean...

Takes a lot of work with two boys, one of which is two (and yes, I know it will only get worse). But we try to have fun getting there. Luke pretty much smiles any time he gets attention. Bath time is no exception.




I know, he's getting huge!



Did you know that ham is spelled M-I-K-E-Y? At least when the camera is on.

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And I don't know what it is, but I just love this picture.