Kokopelli

I'm so grateful that my dad is willing to do these races with me. If not, I would end up doing a lot of them by myself. This race we flopped what we'd signed up for. I did the sprint, while he did the olympic. It was his first olympic race, and he is amazing for doing it! I'm so proud of him.

We actually had good weather this time so none of the race got cancelled. While we were there we spent some of the time at the lake and played. Bryant found himself a new snorkel mask under the water. He tried to find an owner, but no luck. Actually it is lucky because we were thinking of getting him one anyways to take on the cruise. The girls loved it. I think the best, cheapest activity for the kids is at the lake. They could play all day and not get bored.

Share a Smile Tri

Here's just a few pics from the Shareasmile Tri at the Scera. Heather did this with me. It was her first triathlon! Yay Heather!!

Grandpa's Birthday

We went down to Arizona at the end of August to surprise my dad for his 60th birthday. My parents were just getting home from Hawaii and were staying with my sister so they would be in town. My mom had to end up telling my dad, however, that we were there because he didn't see why they wouldn't go home to Yuma the next day. So he knew we were there, but I still think it was pretty much a surprise anyway. We went to Marc and Natalie's to hang out and set up for the party till my parents and Jessica got there. The kids loved decorating and coloring posters! It was almost like a birthday party for all of us, because my parents had a big bag of goodies that they brought from Hawaii.

While we were there we did the slip-n-slide, went to Old Tucson, went to Big Surf, and went to a Sun Devil's game. We were going going going! We had lots of fun and Pyper especially liked playing with her cousins.

6 Things About Me

My cousin Amy tagged me to post 6 random things about myself. So here goes...... The first 3 are things that most of you probably already know. The next 3 are things some people may know, but might not.

1. My sweet husband and my wonderful girls. I just had to put something about my family. I love them so much. My husband is soooo good to me, I don't deserve him. My girls can be little rascals sometimes, but are so sweet most of the time. My mother told me several times when we were growing up that she wished I could have two girls of my own so I could see what she went through. (My sister and I would fight every now and then, okay..., alot.) The girls sometimes fight, but they have a way, though, of making me go from steaming mad to giggly in no time.
2. I am a swimmer. Surprise, surprise. I have been on swim teams since I was 4, and when I got older, I taught and coached it. Now I still love swimming and have started triathlons just so I could keep competing in it.
3. I love crafty things. I scrapbook, sew, make jewelry, make hair bows, make home decor, and anything else I get the urge to do. Recently my sister got me to sell premade scrapbooks on ebay. I don't work on it very often, but it does put some money in my paypal to shop with.
4. I competed in synchronize swimming for like 9 years. I mentioned that I was a swimmer, but they don't really have synchro here in Utah so some wouldn't guess it. They had it at BYU for a little while, but it didn't last, and I tried to start it up at the fitness center, but it didn't seem like there was enough interest in it to keep it. If they had it here, my girls would be in it for sure.
5. Lots of you probably know that I was on the country western dance team at UVSC for a few years, but did you know that I was also on their racquetball team for a year? Just before I got pregnant with Pyper they started a women's team. I saw the flyer so I went to the meeting and joined. My dad has been a major racquetball player for years and years and he had taught me a little bit so I thought it might be fun and it really was. Of course, I couldn't play and be pregnant, (although, I was pregnant at the state championships,) so I was done after a year.
6. I miss Arizona. I lived in Mesa till I was 12 and I hated Utah for years and years after we moved. Utah has grown on me now, but I still hate the cold. Now the rest of my family has moved back down there and I'm still here. I was telling my sister-in-law that it's too hot down there and that I didn't know if I could live there, but she mentioned that in Utah the kids can go outside to play whenever they want like 3-4 months out of the year, but down there, there's only like 3 months when they can't play outside, cause it's too hot. The rest of the year they can go out whenever. I like it here, but if there was any where else I'd like to live it would be there.

So, there you have it. Six things about me.

Now I'm tagging, (DON'T HATE ME PLEASE,) Jessica (whom I totally get along with now that we're older), Heather, Jen Ford, Rachel, Linsey, and Kelli.

The rules:1.Link the person who tagged you.2.Post the rules on your blog.3.Write 6 random things about yourself.4.Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them.5.Let the person know you tagged them on their blog6.Let the tagger know when you've posted.

Tiffany!

I have been hounding Tiffany to come visit me the next time she was in town so we decided to take the kids swimming when she came this last week. We both forgot to take pics while we were at the pool so we took some right before she left. It was lots of fun to see and catch up with her and Kaden again.

MY GARDEN

So I got started early on the garden band wagon this year. Last year I was discouraged due to the Japanese Beetle thing, but this year we were told we could harvest even with the spray, we just had to wait a certain number of days after the spray to harvest certain foods.

When my parents lived in this house my dad had put railroad ties around the west edge of the house for the garden. It makes it nice and organized and easy to reach everything.

This year we are growing corn, beans, peas, peppers, squash, zuchini, honeydew, cantaloupe, tomatoes, pumpkins, watermelon, cucumbers, and we even have one artichoke plant, (it doesn't have anything on it yet, so we'll see.)

I admit I don't take care of it as much as I probably should, but it still does pretty well.

Camping @ Payson Lakes

I'm still trying to do some catch up posts if you haven't noticed.

A few weeks ago we decided to go camping so Grandpa drove down to Payson Lakes to find a spot. Since it was Friday and it was so late in the day, there were not spots left, but he drove up a little further and found a place that just does group camping. I think it's mainly for horses and you have to reserve all three spots in that site. The guy at the booth told him he could have them for $45, (normally $75 I think.) So he paid for them and then a little while later a family came by and asked if he could pay to use one of the sites, so Grandpa got some of his money back. Anyway, so we ended up getting a really good deal, because the sites were way nice. It was our family, Grandpa, Brookie, and Jorgen's boys. It was mainly nice to just get away, sit by a fire, and do all those camping things. Unfortunately, our tent was not exactly on flat ground and we couldn't get a mattress pumped up, so we didn't get any sleep. Still lots of fun!