Pony Express Days Parade

Adam and I remembered about the Pony Express Days parade the morning of.  We decided that it would be fun to do a family bike ride to the parade route.  We left a little late, but were still able to make it to the beginning of the parade.  The bad thing is that we weren't completely prepared.  We had water to drink and we had the diaper bag... but we didn't have sun screen, and it ended up being the hottest day up to that point.  Oops!  So the whole parade ended up being a game to see how we could keep the boys from getting completely fried.  Oh, we also saw some cool floats and got TONS of candy along the way.

This is how we started out...

We put Mason under the tree in the shade for a bit...

But he got fussy and ended up being with us...

Us enjoying the parade and some of the "give-aways".

The coolest float they had...

This is how Brody ended up... we actually did pretty good getting him covered up and he didn't end up having a burn!

One video clip from the parade...

Goal Accomplished...

Since having Mason, I have been working out a lot more than I ever did after having Brody.  A friend in my ward invited me to do a Triathlon sprint with her.  At first I basically laughed at her, and then as I thought about it more, I knew it would be really good for me to set a goal of finishing the race and not completely making a fool of myself.  Well... I FINISHED (not quite sure if I made a fool of myself though ;) )

In all honesty, I didn't do a whole lot of preparation the last month...  I wish I would have.

Our race started off with a 300 yd swim, then we transitioned to a 11.5 mile bike ride, and then to a 5k jog.  My swim was slower than I had once practiced, then the bike ride seemed to be a bit harder/slower than I had practiced, and by the end I felt like I was jogging in jello.... but I FINISHED!!  I have a number to beat the next time I decide to do a triathlon... :)

Here are my stats:

Swim: 9:14

Bike: 54:55

Jog: 38:50

Overall 1:46:51

Not very impressive times, but I am still glad I did it.  I plan to work harder and try it again... Thanks for getting me to do it, Leah!!!  You rocked it!!  

Summer fun...

I have already posted two posts of us going to Trafalga and using our Pass of all Passes... but we went with some friends in our ward, so I thought I would post some of those fun pics.

We have also gone to Seven Peaks four times this season.  We LOVE it!!!  We have so much fun!

Mason has some FUNKY hair when we get done swimming... here is a few shots of it:

On top of all of these other fun things we get to do, we also get in free to the Orem Owlz games.  We went to our first game for family night on Monday.  It was a lot of fun!  We totally weren't prepared with blankies or anything to sit on, so next time we will be better prepared.

Thank you PASS OF ALL PASSES!!!  You are making our summer so enjoyable!!

Funny sleepy kid...

While this is the normal sleeping pose for Mason:

We have caught him sleeping a few other ways:

It seems he'll sleep anywhere... and here is just a funny little thing that he's been doing a lot lately.  Yummy toes!

Quickest, spur of the moment road trip!

There is a girl in our ward, Vanessa, who is an exchange student from Germany.  She goes home next Monday, and she hadn't been down to see any of our beautiful National Parks yet.  After taking her up to see the Kennicot Copper Mine on Saturday morning, Adam and I started making plans to do a quick Utah road trip so that she could see our beauties.

We called up Vanessa and made sure that she would be able to take a quick trip.  We went and picked up Vanessa and Cassie at 6:00 pm.  We made it down to Cedar City.  My sister, Teresa, let us stay at her house for the night while she was up here visiting family. (It was a terrible night with Brody... he screamed and cried for hours.  I think it was just the difference it atmosphere that was hard for him).  We headed out the next morning for Zion's National Park.  It didn't take too long to get there.  We decided that we had enough time to do the scenic drive on the shuttle bus.  It had been years since I had gone.  It was so beautiful!  We were all in complete and utter awe.

We left after enjoying the beautiful scenery.  We headed North planning on just going to the hotel in Salina for the night.  On the way, we pulled up a map and realized that we could take a short detour off SR89 and go see Bryce Canyon and still make it to the hotel with some time left for relaxing before bed.  We were SOOO glad we took that detour.  I had never been to Bryce Canyon before and it was absolutely incredible!!

I can't believe that I had never been to Bryce Canyon before (at least, I don't remember going there before).  It was absolutely amazing!

We headed to our hotel for the night.  We got there and checked in.  I went back to the lobby to find out if we could get a roll away bed... and I heard people speaking Italian.  There was a couple from Italy doing a cross-country trip on a motorcycle.  It was fun to talk to them.  The night was a lot better, but with some difficulties still.

We woke up early Monday morning to get to Moab early.  We got there and got some breakfast and then headed into Arches National Park.  We drove in to Delicate Arch, but saw some pretty cool things on the way.  We hiked up to Delicate Arch with Mason on my back and Adam helping Brody.  It was an easy hike, but still a little more difficult than normal, because we had extra weight. Then we saw a few more arches close to the road and headed out.  We drove by way of Manti, so Vanessa could see the temple.  We stopped for dinner with Adam's parents and headed home.  Needless to say we were all tired from our quick whirlwind trip.