The Running Walkers

If you have a five gallon jug, and a three gallon jug, how will you be able to fill one with exactly 4 gallons of water? No eyeballing, give it some thought…it will come to you. Try finding and filling the jug under race pressure though, after spitting twenty cherry pits toward a container while being dizzy and winded and after trying to cross a creek with a couple of buckets, 2 x 4’s, bricks, and rope without getting wet. Yes, it’s our own local version of The Amazing Race, spread out over 5 county parks and 20 challenges. A friend gave us word on the race and we opted to do it. We were curious how we would work together under pressure. I’m proud to say, we discovered we work well as a team. The time together brought back fun dating moments that reminded me why I wanted to marry that man. Ahhhh, such love. My sister Lisa and her husband Leeland also raced. Michael said we were no match for their brain power, so we favored picking the physical challenges over the mental ones. Our team, cleverly named by Michael as “The Running Walkers” took 5th overall out of 36 teams or so and had the fastest time at one of the parks. Lunch and dinner along with a gift certificate and a day with my husband made for a nice memory. Word has it our picture will be in the newspaper. So if you know you can fold origami while blindfolded being directed by a man who’s never seen origami directions before, and you know what the common word between army and water is, join the race next year!

Ander Updates

This one's for the family. I haven't made it out to Utah since I was pregnant, and Ander has not been introduced to many out there, including his Grandpa. So here are a couple of recent photos and a video clip.





We LOVE his blue eyes. We are all jealous of their awesomeness.



He squawks when he likes something- it cracks me up.

Off Nights!

Michael has been working the 6 PM (notice PM) to 8 AM (notice AM) schedule for the past month. Basically when we saw him he was asleep. Now he's done! I told him to give a smile for the record. I was picturing something with a little more enthusiasm, it's like he's holding a tiny flag that says -yeah. It is what you might expect after 14 hour night shifts I guess. When does this residency thing end again?

(So I just noticed our couches are a nice shade of scrubs.)

Father's Day

When Michael went on his mission, his home belongings didn’t fare too well. His sister totaled his car, his brother pawned his CD collection, and his dad gave away his nice golf bag he won in a father-son tournament raffle. He’s moved on from the first two, the latter I learned about just recently. For Father’s Day, I felt like I could replace his freebie 1970s bag he’s been using and upgrade him a bit. Now he’s got some style to go along with his skills. Anyone want the bag in the picture???

Leaf

If you are out on a family stroll down a nature path, and you see some beautiful large leaves, think twice before you pick one for each kid, and triple think tickling your 3-year-old son's neck with one. That eye catching leaf might turn out to be poison ivy!

GUNS- Well muscle that is...

It's another summer where I am not pregnant- wahoo! I have to take advantage of this mobile time. Michael and I are both planning on triathlons at the end of August. Michael's is a week before mine, same course. Deadlines help keep me motivated since it's easy to put off working out with all the mom business. Is it possible for that little speed bump on my arm to improve? Check back in 73 days for the after picture. I do have to hand it to Michael who has consistently worked out since the start of the year with his training for a half marathon. I got the man into endurance races- but he's still a golfer at heart.

A New Start

OK. So I've decided to blog. Strange, but true. I created this blog as just a way to put up some photos and a bit of info for the grandparents last year. But, the grandparents don't really know about the internet. (If you happen to be reading this my favorite in-law parents, much love- this site's for you.)

This blog has been getting dusty for a while, which made me start thinking, maybe I should blog, maybe I'll be a blogger. I admit I thought it a little weird in the past, but it is a way to let people check out what's going on in your life, and I figure it may be good for me to keep a little record of our happenings. Enjoy if you happen to read!