Splash and Dash

Ash and I did a splash and dash in Santa Cruz as a prep for the Santa Cruz Sprint that I'm doing in August. It was really exciting to swim in the ocean. That totally different way to swim. It is very challenging. The salt water is very salty,hence the name salt water.Well it was great.

Mikensie's kids dash

We also went to Hayward to go visit my brother. I ran in a 5k run benfiting the Eden Trama center in San Leandro. I did okay. Mikensie ran in the 50 yard kids dash. She had a great time and enjoyed running,getting a shirt and a goody bag filled with suprises. It was really fun
when pictures go on line I'll add them

Grandma Marcia's 71st Birthday

Teagan in the pool Megan and Noah Amie and Zach and Molly(baby)


Audre and Ada and Kirk Mikensie Amber Kelty Page Marcia and Oliver

Kelty Amber Ash and Page and Kelty Page and Grandma

We went to Ada's house on Saturday for a family reunion/birthday party for grandma Marcia

We had so much fun playing at the pool and having scrumptious food. It was so nice to see Amie's new baby Molly who is about one month old. We were able to meet Marcia's nephew and his girls, who were visiting from Washington.

Danskin Tri at California Adventure Park

Well let me say this was very fun ( a little frustrating though) I did this tri with Page (who did not train, hence the frustration) Page did finish and it was fun to support her on her first Tri. While down there we had fun at Disney and Cal. with Marshall and Ash Lee.
I did not have my digital camera so no pictures form there yet. I will add them later.

Pictures from the Triathlon

In case anyone was interested here are some of the pictures from the event that were posted today

Happy Hollow Park

At the Zoo


Here is the leopard and the meerkats and lastly the wallaby


This is Scarlet (she is 9 days younger than Kelty)



Kelty figured she was older so she would lead Scarlet around and show her the park. The second picture is Mike pleading for Scarlet's help so he would not fall into the darkness below.

Today we went to Happy Hollow with Mike and Katie and their daughter Scarlet who are visiting and with Ada. We had a blast! It was fun seeing the park after about 9 years since our last visit. It was a first for Mikensie, Teagan and Kelty. They rode on Danny the Dragon. Also the carousals and the police cars and fire trucks. We also visited the zoo area, where we saw a leopard and lemurs . Teagan liked the Wallaby. They all enjoyed the petting zoo with the goats.

It was so nice to visit with Mike, Katie and Scarlet.

I did it!

Well I have been neglecting to blog lately. But I do have a great excuse. I have been training for a sprint Triathlon that Page and I are going to do next weekend. Well I got the Tri bug and found out about a sprint at Lake Almaden in San Jose so I siezed the moment and thought it would be great to try one at the place I bike at with my dad. Oh My Gosh it was amazing. Okay I could not breath for the first part of the swim all the woman went out at the same time and boy so they bumb and hit and cram into you but I caught my breath at the second half and blew past about 6 woman and 5 men. Then it was off to the bike. That was crazy they took us on parts of the trail I have never seen and up a huge hill that was a KILLER by the top I was going only 2.4 mile an hour the bike was barely staying up. Then it was down hill and onto a small dirt path through a creek and up hills and everything else. Then put the bike away and hit the road after a quick bathroom stop. 3.1 miles later it is over the finish line at an amazing 1:42 I was very pleased that I finished and did so under 2 hours which was what I was hopeing for. Anyways it was great everyone out there is cheering you on it was AMAZING!!

Happy Birthday Tiffany

When I woke up this morning Kirk had on the table this waiting for me!

Happy Mothers day

Happy Mothers Day

Kirk took me out tonight to P.F. Changs

(We thought it was great from the reviews we had been given, but it is not a very good place to eat)

Anyways Ash Lee watched all the little ones for us so we could spend some Mom and Dad time. When we got back at 10:45 Atlas was here to great me with this special message.

I thought that was very cute. Ash Lee also cleaned up after she made me Chocolate chip cookies and even cleaned the living room and the bathroom , it was so great to come home to a clean house and the kids all safe. So special to get this message and cards from Mikensie and Teagan as well. Thank you Ash!

I hope you all have a wonderful Mothers day as well!

P.S.

We woke at 4:00 am to Kelty crying. Kirk went in and found her in throw up and she also got the other girls when she got sick. Guess she had too many cookies before we got home last night. Ash said that she had found her pilaging the cookies all by her self (naughty little girl)

Marshall's Wizard Party

Today for Marshall's 11 th we had a wizard party.We had a great time with potion making and games and a wizard hat cake.