1st Sprint Distance Triathlon!

On April 17th, I did my first Sprint Distance Triathlon. I ended up talking my friend Megan into coming down from Logan to do it with me (thanks for making the trip, Megan!) and also my husband and brother-in-law, Nate. It was also Ryan and Nate's first attempt at any type of Triathlon, but not to worry, they were awesome! I'm so proud of everyone! We had a great time and I can't wait to do one again!

Here we are posing for a shot. Even though you can't see our numbers, Nate, Ryan and I were 9, 10, and 11. Megan, with the last name of Richards, was somewhere around 280. They went alphabetically, at first, then according to Megan, the numbers were not in order. I wish I would have known because I would have opted to go later. I hated being the first one of 14 in the pool! I wasn't quite ready and had a little trouble getting through the swim. Luckily I was sharing a lane with my awesome husband, who had barely had time to train for the swim, and he got me through it. Thanks Ry! You're amazing!


Another fun part to this Tri, was that Zach and his friend Dawson (Megan's son) were able to do their first Kid's Triathlon also. They were simply amazing! I was so proud of them!

Here they are before it started. Show me your muscles, uh I mean numbers!



Thumbs up! They're ready to go!


Here is Zach swimming. Zach pushed really hard and did the first lap fast (shown here), but slowed down a little on the second lap :) He did really well!


Here he is finishing the whole thing. He had an amazing experience and so did we! Good job Zach! You're awesome!


Thanks to all who came to support! We have such a great family who really helped us a lot during all of the races. Thanks again!

Easter 2009

In my last blog, I said that the Fair was the last event of the week. I of course forgot about the most important event of Spring Break: Easter. What a great time of year! It's starting to get warm outside and nice, and it's also a time to remember one of the most important events of all time: the Resurrection. I'm so thankful for this amazing event and for its significance, and I'm glad that we are able to recognize it.

In our home, we also enjoy the other part of Easter: the Easter Bunny. The kids woke up to some fun stuff and had a great time eating candy and enjoying their baskets. Here's their baskets before they came to see:

Here they are with their baskets:

I forgot to get a picture of them before going to church, so they are a little bit ruffled in these pictures, taken after church:

After church (and after getting a pictures taken) we all changed clothes and headed over to Grandma Anderson-Lightman's for some Easter activity fun. We colored eggs, ate some wonderful food, and had an Easter egg hunt afterwards. The kids enjoy looking all over their grandma's yard for the eggs. Grandpa is trying to find more difficult places to hide the eggs now that some of the kids are getting older. Here are some pictures of William and Caleb enjoying the hunt:

This last picture is Caleb having a fun time dressing up like the Easter Bunny! What a cutie!

Spring Break 2009

Spring Break 2009 ended up being a really fun time and we were able to spend some time together as a family.

Besides just hanging out and loving that we didn't have to be "somewhere" at "some time," we were able to go to the fun Dinosaur Park. As you can see from the difference in lighting in the pictures, we stayed for a while.

William wanted a picture of him taken every time he saw the camera. Then he of course wanted to come around and see it right away. Here are a few pics of him in his various activities:

He was so proud of himself for "making this castle" of sand. Good job Will!

Caleb found the sand pile and was in heaven. He wanted his shoes off right away:

Zach and Kaitlyn loved climbing on top of and crawling into the concrete dinosaur egg:



Here are all of the kids posing for some fun pictures in the dinosaur egg:

Overall, it was a fun time.

We finished up Spring Break by going out to the infamous Clark County Fair. Zach and Kaitlyn were really excited to ride the rides this year and would have been over at the carnival longer if it weren't for the Rodeo. Now we know, though. They did waste (they didn't think so) a lot of time waiting in line for the Ferris Wheel. Maybe they will be able to enjoy some more rides now that they have that out of their systems. They loved it, though, so maybe there will just be more waiting:



We also ran into their cousins out with their grandparents. Supposedly this is Grandpa Craig's maiden voyage on the Ferris Wheel. What he will do for his granddaughter...

Here is C.J. enjoying some ice cream:

Here are Zach and Kaitlyn on one of the other few rides they were able to go on - another problem we had, besides the waiting, was Kaitlyn's height :(

Here are Kaitlyn and William on one of William's favorite rides, the merry-go-round:

As all of you know, it's fun to see the kids having so much fun doing something that we used to do. I love seeing my kids have such a great time!