Our Sprint Triathlon

We did a sprint triathlon on June 14th in Pleasant Grove. It was awesome! Aaron had already done one in Salt Lake but this was my first one. We ran a 5K, biked 8.5 miles then swam 500m. Aaron was on a relay with his mom. He ran and biked and she finished off with the swim. I did all the events and am thankfully still alive to write this post! No really, it was fun and I'm looking forward to our next one we're planning in September. Come join us!!!

Here we are before it all began.
















Here are the triathletes! It was so fun having Aaron's mom with us. She was amazing! She trained hard for it and did great, so I hear anyway. She was done and out of the pool before I even started swimming. Excellent!
Here I am during the swim. It was so nice that they had it last. It felt good to jump in the cool water after running and biking. Pretty gross to think of all the sweat in there!! Blah, but that was the last thing on my mind at the time. I was only trying to "just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."Aaron and I right after I finished.
Aaron and his Mom with their awards. They took 2nd place out of all the relays. I couldn't be more proud of both of them!
Out of approximately 200 people Aaron and his mom came in 70th and I came in 145th. I accomplished both of my goals, to finish and not to be last. Yahoo!!

Lake Powell

Olivia's Kindergarten Graduation

FHE in the Emergency Room.

These first two are before the stitches, after the bleeding stopped.


These two were taken when Aaron brought her home. The cut went all the way through! Aaron said that when they cleaned it with a stream of salt-water he could see it spraying through on the inside too. She ended up getting 4 stitches on the outside and one inside. They didn't have to sedate her but they had to put both her arms behind her in a pillow case then lay her on a board and strap across her arms and legs. She got 4 shots inside the wound to numb it. Aaron said she complained a bit but did a good job of keeping her head still. The fourth stitch must have hit a part that wasn't numb because she cried and kept saying "Ow hurt, owie hurt". He said the inside stitch hurt her as well. It took about 5 minutes to stitch her up and we go back in 5 days to have them removed. She's acting normal today and slept great last night. Poor baby!

Jocelyn's trip to the emergency room.

So it's 12:12 am and I'm sitting here waiting for Aaron to call me from the emergency room to tell me what's happening with Jocelyn. She split her face open on the coffee table tonight while we were having family-home-evening. She was just dancing around and tripped. I saw her face bounce off the corner and knew it was going to be bad. The blood was dripping down her neck by the time I got her to the bathroom. Sorry about the graphic details but I'm sure she'll want to know them when she reads this later. She has a huge gaping hole. I've never seen anything so gross before. I can't tell if it goes all the way through to the other side or not though. I just knew she'd have to have stitches. We loaded everyone up in the van then decided to leave the other 3 girls with a neighbor.
First we stopped at the urgent care who informed us that they usually can do stitches but she would need sedation and plastic surgery to repair it. Our second stop was at my parents house for a blessing (they live about 2 blocks from the hospital) then off to the emergency room we went. If you've ever been to an emergency room you already know that it takes FOREVER to actually see a doctor. Good thing the bleeding had stopped already. They just take their sweet time there. Anyway, after about 20 minutes they called us in and got some info and then sent us back out to wait another 25 minutes. We decided that I should come home and get the girls and Aaron would stay with Joci. She cried for me when I left, it was heart breaking. Aaron's cell phone is dead so I can't call him to see what's going on and I'm a worry wart so I can't sleep either. We were told that the doctor at the American Fork hospital would take a look at it then if he didn't feel confident enough then they'd send us up to Salt Lake City to Primary Children's Hospital. I guess it's a pretty serious laceration because it goes from the skin on her face into the lip-color part so they have to be sure to sew it just right so her lip line will still look normal. Poor baby. She didn't cry too much considering the severity and was getting ready to fall asleep at the hospital when I left. She's a trooper. I'm worried about her being sedated. I've never even been "put under" before so it makes me real nervous to think of a 2 year old going through that. I hope everything will be alright and that Aaron will call soon. It's past 12:30 now and still nothing. I'll update as soon as I know.

Triathlon/5K at the U of U on April 26th

Here are a few pics of Aaron's triathlon he did and the 5K I did with my friend Kyra. We had a great time.

Aaron started out with a 300 meter swim.

In this picture he had just finished the swim and was running to get his bike. He saw me and winked, can you see it? That's my man!


Next he did an 8 mile mountain-bike ride in the hills where he got 2 flat tires. He changed them quickly and still finished that strong and fast.

He finished running a 5K (3.1 miles). His over all time was just over an hour. Good job babe! I'm so proud of him, he's an inspiration!

Here's my friend Kyra and me. I hope she doesn't mind me putting a picture on here of her. We ran the 5K together. She recently had knee surgery and still kicked butt!

I ended up running it in 30 min. I was happy with 10 minute miles considering this is the first time I've ran since middle school and only trained for 3 weeks.

Here we are after our races. Aaron and I are looking forward to the next triathlon we're doing together on June 14th. I'm going to attempt it so tune in for more pics then and wish me luck!

My Macey Moo

I went into her room and found that she had fallen asleep hugging her bear.

I gave her a few ramen noodles and she loved them. She'd get a little in her mouth and then suck in the rest. It was so funny.

Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point

A friend of mine invited me to Thanksgiving Point last week. I in turn invited April who invited my mom. We had so much fun and took a LOT of pictures. See for yourself...