Just Because: 2010

With school ending on June 23rd, 2 birthdays, baptism, triathlon, Father's Day and a trip to Utah, it was a busy month! The school classes sure packed in lots and lots of projects into June, blah! School projects are evil. :)

Hold on, there is going to be lots of pictures.

Kennedi getting some kind of doodad for her teeth 6/2

Carter wanted pumpkin pie for his Birthday. I told him that Pumpkin
Pie isn't really sold in June. He said, "Can't you make one?"
Oh ya, duh, I can make pumpkin pie. 6/5
My first field trip with Carter to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
School buses are NOISY! 6/8

Carter's class doing a musical presentation. He got to be one
of the storytellers. Cute. 6/12

My boys looking a little bit scary/dirty/rough after the
ward Father and Son Campout. 6/13

My Birthday candles were crazy. We would light them and the
wick would fall over and go out. No wishes for me! 6/17

Kennedi's Celebration of Learning. She is in a play here as the mother in
"The Worst Thanksgiving Ever" She loved using crutches in it. 6/17

Brayden portraying Steve Young for the 6th grade Decades Project. 6/17

Carter got to portray Benjamin Franklin in his class Biographies. 6/18

Annual Car Show in Highlands Ranch. We went to this to celebrate Father's Day
a few day early. 6/20
Cool little car. Cool little Ellie. 6/20

Father's Day Dinner. Steak. Yum. 6/21

We went to Utah to a little park pond by Grandma's and Grandpa's.
Tiny little fish, but fun for the kids to catch something! 6/29

Kennedi's little fishy.

Carter's little fish too!

Ellie was more interested in playing with all the worms.

Temple Square visit. 6/30

Oquirrh Temple Open House. It was beautiful. I loved the star shaped
chandeliers. I remembered going to the Jordan River Temple as a little girl
and was excited to have to the chance to take our kids to a Temple Open House. 6/30

Whoa, I have a lot to catch up on. It all happened because 2 big events happened on the same day back in the summer of 2009. They were too important to just skip but then I never got back to really blogging. So this is my attempt to go back and run through the highlights of life and get back to updated blogging! Dang monkey on my back. I want him off already!
June 6, 2009

Carter's Baptism=more family around! Yippee!
My first (and only so far) Sprint Triathlon

I love that Carter got baptized the day after his birthday. What a great weekend. Things were busy but wonderful. We loved having Grandma Babbitt, Grandma & Grandpa Pugsley, Patrea, Chad and the kiddos, Todd, Kat and their kiddos here to be part of the fun.
The sweetest part of the whole baptism was after Carter was baptized and dressed and sitting back in the chair, he looked up to Taft and with a sweet look and voice said, "Dad, thank you for baptizing me." It just about melted my heart. It still does. He was grateful and it was so sweet to hear it from him.

It was also Abby Lovejoy's baptism day in our ward. I had to get a picture of them together in case they get married someday. She is a cutie.

Earlier that morning was my long awaited HRCA Tune Up Sprint Triathlon. It had been a long 6 months of training. I have never been a "real" swimmer, so I had to basically just jump in and learn how to properly swim. I don't know what I do is really the proper way to swim but I was actually putting my face in the water and breathing to the side. I was happy that I made myself grow and learn something new. I knew how to ride a bike but hadn't spent much time as an adult on a bike so I started going to spinning classes (seeing as it was winter during training) and getting stronger. Running was my thing I felt really comfortable in. I started running 3 miles regularly back in 2006 so I could feel confident in that at least! I pretty much trained by myself but was happy to know that Kat and other ladies from the ward were training too.

So in the early morning of the 6th after not much sleep (too nervous!), it was time to get this done! I was ready to actually get it over with so I could stop thinking about it. Ha! I managed to do it and it was great! I felt so happy to have accomplished it.

Self Portrait before the race

Getting Ready

At the beginning with the swim I didn't know if I was going to be able to finish. I was panicking and breathing so fast that when I put my face in the water I would suck in water. I felt like I was drowning and I had to basically doggie paddle to the side of the pool. I was freaked out. After all that training I was feeling like I might have to just stop. You can't doggie paddle 20 laps with 3 other people in the lane with you. I calmed myself at the side of the pool and strangers on the side were trying to calm me down too. I finally gained some composure and went for it. It took a couple of laps but I got to a point where I thought I could do it. I was never so happy and when I got to my last lap! I had practiced and had gotten my swim down to around 10 minutes and 30 seconds but during the tri I got 14:23. I was disappointed but just dang happy that I actually got to go and finish.

The biking portion was good and spread out. It was nice a nice 12 mile course after jamming us in the pool with lots of people. I was wasn't use to swimming with waves, but with all those bodies, trust me, there were waves. Anyway, the worst part of the biking was when I passed an old man (who wasn't even in the tri). He didn't know I was coming and all of the sudden he put up his finger to one side of his nose and blew out his snot on me. SICK! I was thinking, "ooh ooh, I just got snotted on!) I got over it and finished. The best part was being able to bike past our neighborhood and having Taft, Patrea, Chad, Brayden, Kennedi, Carter, Ellie, Jace, Callie and Rhett yelling and cheering me on. I loved it! My bike time was 52:45 and I was happy with that time since I was on a heavy mountain bike.

Waving at the fans (aka family)

Man oh man, did I ever have heavy legs when I got off the bike to go for the 5k run. But I wanted be strong. After a little tripping/shuffling I got my legs under control. It was fun to see other friends out on the course and encouraging each other and getting that extra energy from them. 27:07 time with 8:45 run pace was awesome.