Our summer of biking!

One of the joys of living in Colorado!! Mountain biking!

My biggest little fan!

One of the best parts of doing the triathlon was Punkin's support. She was my biggest fan.

She went with me to the event the day before where we picked up our packets and got marked with our numbers for the race. If you look very closely on her leg, you can see the black marker on her leg where the volunteers put my numbers on her leg and arm too.

And she asked me to help her paint her fingernails G-O M-O-M-M-Y G-O-!

2010 Tri For the Cure

So, the craziest thing I did this summer was join almost 3,000 other women at Tri For the Cure.

This is the transition area for Waves 1-5. I was in Wave 12, so there were at least 2 other sections that looked exactly like this.

The swim area was beautiful, especially early in the morning before the race started. The swim portion was 1/2 of a mile. There were 5 of those big triangle buoys and we swam 3 sides of a rectangle around them.The bike portion was 11.2 miles. Here I am crossing the bike finish.

The run portion was a 5K. I struggle with the run portion so I was very glad to finish!!I received a medal for finishing!

I was so proud of my time. My official goal was 3 hours and I was really hoping to finish in 2 1/2. I ended up finishing in 1 hour, 55 minutes. I was very proud of myself, and amazed at the difference adrenaline and not liking being passed made! I finished the swim and bike faster than I ever dreamed, and did the fastest time possible for me on the run.

It was quite a high to finish and finish well. If you have ever thought about doing one, I say go for it! It was worth the effort. Even if I did gain 6 pounds while training - which was totally not fair.

My next fitness goal is to run a 5K without stopping in under 35 minutes before the end of the year. Hold me to it!!

New Soccer Season

or, alternatively titled, Reason Number 1056 that I'm glad I married my husband.

Reason #1056: He remembers to take pictures.

This, on the other hand, is the ONLY picture I thought to take during Little Man's first soccer game of the season. Little Man is on the left in case you didn't recognize him without the green mohawk.

Go, Red Rockets!!!

First Day of School

These pictures kinda says it all.

Punkin all dressed up in her uniform
with a nervous smile of anticipation:

Little Man during afternoon car pool:

New Haircut

OR, How to age 2 years (in a good way) in 1 hour

Before:

After:

The Last Days of Summer

Hi! Remember me? Wondering if I still remember how to blog? Me, too! Let's find out!

We had a great summer filled with days of sunshine, a camping trip, lots of trips to the pool, more weeding than usual in Colorado due to more rain than usual, and getting ready for Punkin's first day at "regular" school.

The week before school started we went to one of those cheesy family fun places and had a great day. We actually planned to go for Little Man's fourth birthday and it was rained out. We've been promising that "someday" we would go, and someday finally arrived. Two and a half years later, but who's counting??

The cheesy family fun place is all about race cars. For some reason this trip required a mohawk. A green mohawk. Seems it was inspired by a monster truck driver. I figured a cheesy family fun place that is all about race cars was a much better place to go sporting a green mohawk than say .... church, so Dad painted up the mohawk

and off we went.
The racecars were as fun as he dreamed they would be:

And girl child had a great time too. Love this face of pure joy.
And cooling off by squirting each other with water was big fun too.

The carefree days of childhood summers. The. best.