Tri, tri, again

Jensen and I competed in our second triathlon this weekend. Jensen did a kid's triathlon and Noelle and I did a sprint triathlon.

Noelle, Jensen, and I waiting for the triathlon to start.

Jensen trying to stay warm.

Jensen passed all of the other swimmer and was the first one out of the water.

Jensen finishing the triathlon.

Jensen took first in the kids tri, even beating out the boys. That's my girl!

Me climbing out of the pool. They wouldn't let the spectators inside the fence by the pool so it was kind of hard to get decent pics.

T1

Finishing the bike portion.

Hopefully some Powerade will help me make it through the run.

I finished!

Jensen

They were giving free massages for the competitors after the race. HEAVEN!

So happy to be done.

School starts and a ward pool party!

Summer is over and it's back to school. I love the summer and am so sad when it's over. Even though it's still hot out it's not the same. I think I'm one of the few moms who doesn't look forward to school starting. I hate having to worry about bedtime and homework. I think it's a bigger pain for moms than kids. The kids were excited to start school (okay, maybe not Kolton so much but everyone else was).Jensen waiting for the school bus. She was so excited to not go to C.S. Lewis Academy this year and go back to Spring Lake. She's in 6th grade this year in Mrs. Poulson's class.

Oakley waiting for the school bus. He's in 1st grade, in Ms Montgomery's class.

The Friday after school started we had a ward party at the swimming pool. It was a lot of fun but the air was freezing cold. Luckily the water was warm so as long as you stayed in the water it wasn't too bad.

Oakley and Matt

Makadie and Jensen

Matt and Addi

Bro. Alviso, our neighbor and ward activities committee person who planned the ward party. Someone smashed a cupcake in his face.

Jensen and Lexi swam all the way around the lazy river backwards. It was a really good workout.

Colorado cabin

The first week in Aug. we invited our neighbors, Jory and Janice and their kids Jade and Liam, to go to the Colorado cabin with us. We left on Wed. around noon.

Lexi and her friend Danielle were so excited to go and find horny toads. When we got there we had to stop a little ways before the cabin to drop the trailer. They took off walking toward the cabin to look for horny toads. In less than 10 minutes Danielle found their first one. The next morning they got up and first thing went outside to try to find one for Lexi. Not more than 30 minutes later they found a second one. Later that day they went out to try to find one for Jensen and they found a little tiny one.

This is the only one I got a picture of. It was so tiny and cute. Janice wasn't so fond of the horny toads. Whenever the girls got near her with one of them she kind of freaked out. I tried to convince her they were cute but she never bought it.

Oakley, Addi, and Jade playing with some prizes Janice brought for them.

Oakley

Addi with her jewelry and makeup on. All ready to go out on the town in her pjs.

Oakley and Addi

Jade and Liam

Addi and Jade

Kolton and Jensen

Addi and Matt

Addi, ready to go fishing. The only thing we ended up catching was crawdads.

Oreo

Kolton decided to take a little swim and left Jensen to row the boat in.

Oakley, going fishing.

Addi

Addi

Matt grilling dinner.

The bat that visited every night.

On Friday we went to Ouray and went swimming in the hot springs swimming pool.

Jensen, Danielle, Lexi, and Addi

Kolton

Oakley

Addi and Kolton

Janice, Liam, Jory, and Jade

Jensen

Addi

Jory and Liam

Lexi

Liam, Jory, Janice, and Jade's arms

Lexi doing handstands

Marilyn

Janice and Jade

Jensen

Oakley

Addi

After we were done swimming we found a park to have a picnic.

Kolton

After lunch we went to Box Canyon Falls.

There were tons of little chipmunks.

Jensen on the walkway to the falls.

The river

Kolton, Lexi, Oakley, Jensen, and Addi by the river

Jensen

Jensen and Kolton

Addi

Janice, Jory, and Liam

Jory and Liam

Lexi and Kolton
On Saturday afternoon we headed to Monticello to go to the Jr. Rodeo. Jensen and Camryn were both competing in it.

Oakley was pretty worn out and fell asleep on Danielle's shoulder.

Jensen doing the poles. She also did the barrels. It was her first Rodeo and she did awesome. It was a lot of fun to watch her and Camryn.

Lexi watching the rodeo with cute balloon wings.