The End of Summer........

Well Summer has finally come to an end with all of activities! I will try and sum up the last few weeks in as little words as possible. The end of July was celebrated with Haylea receiving the Most Improved Swimmer from her swim team. She did amazing! Earning a spot on the winning relay team in the 200m freestyle relay! With it being her very first year of swimming, we are looking forward to much of the same success next season (which actually starts back up in 2 weeks)!

The week after the state swim meet we headed to Spokane, WA to meet Cam, Erik and Reece. But the main reason was for my friend Bridget and I to participate in our fire Half Ironman! If you are unfamiliar with what that is: 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike and 13.1 run. We had been training since spring and were excited but very nervous. Spokane is only 4 hours or so for Cam and Erik so it was a great opportunity to see them as well, so they made the trip down! Here are some pictures of the trip!


Reece and Haylea!




Reece's famous facial expression!


I thought this was such a cute picture of Tate, Erik and Haylea! Good thing they all three have nice legs!!!


Cam and Reece!


Reece, Mee Mee and Haylea...


This is such a great pic of Tate doing Reece's hair. I believe this is when they are just waiting for me to finish on the bike...


Erik and Mee Mee

Just before taking the plunge into the water, Bridget and I talk about how "crazy and insane" we are!!! But we are sooooo glad we did it!



The start of the swim!


I am finishing up the swim 40 minutes!! Better than I thought!! Feeling great here!


Asking if Bridget had made it out yet! She was right behind me...

Here is Bridget...she did awesome!




Getting ready for the 56 mile bike...


Here we go!!!




Bridget getting ready for the bike!






I am just coming in after the bike in downtown Spokane...boy was I ready to get OFF!!! By the way it was 100 degrees!! Now the 13 mile run....




Bridget was just a few minutes behind me!


Yeah Bridget is finishing just under 7 hours!! GREAT JOB!! She is so happy!!!!


Not so with me...I ended up having to walk almost the whole 13.1 miles...I had some cramping in my abdominals and that would not go away! It was awful..but Ty came looking for me and walked the last 2-21/2 miles with me. Very disappointing, but I will definitely do another next year!! Finished just under 8 hours!!




Tate is in Might Mite Football this year. 8-9 year olds playing full tacke. pads, helmet and all! He plays WR and he is doing great. These pictures are from his scrimmage last week. He is the WR in silver pants and white jersey. They had their first game yesterday. He caught one pass, and ran another. They lost 22-28! But their defense did not allow a TD in the 2nd half. They did very well for their first game. We will have more pics every weekend!



Our last HOORAY for the summer was last weekend in Denver. We went down for 3 Rockies games. The game on sunday was not planned, but we decided to stay and watch Lincicum for the Giants pitch! I am so glad we did, we had great seats and we won!! We did some school clothes shopping and had a great time just being with each other!








I love this picture of Tate looking up to Ty!! I couldn't resist!!


Troy Tulowitzki is our favorite player! SS for Rockies!





And of course we had to get a picture for the first day of school for the 2009-2010 school year! I hope everyone had a grea summer and we love and miss you all! Keep in touch and I will do my best to keep everyone updated on our lives. God bless and love, Elkins!