All the girls

My oldest sister Stefanie came for a visit recently from Idaho with her five kids. This is the first time we have all gotten together since we have had our babies this year. Here are all the sisters lined up oldest to youngest. Stef is holding Pryce 3mo, Cindy with Kate 2mo, me with Carson 7mo, and Jackie with Tessa 6mo. It was so much fun to be together while all the cousins played. We even attempted getting JC Penney pictures taken with all 11 kids. It was a pretty crazy morning if you can imagine.

Here are the babies lined up. Carson, Tessa, Pryce, and Kate.

Last Tuesday we took a day trip to the beach in Pacifica. We watched Jeff surf a little and Carson loved crawling around in the sand...as did Taylor!



I was a little nervous at first to let Carson loose in the sand, but fortunately we only had one face-plant into the sand.

And of course we had many days of swimming at our house.

Triathlon

On Saturday Jeff and I competed in a Sprint Triathlon at Rancho Seco, which was .5 mile swim, 16 mile bike, and 3 mile run. It's actually the same tri we did together three years ago for our official first date. They start the race in waves of five minute increments, going through the men first. Our plan was to have Jeff wait for me in the transition area after the swim so we could do the bike and run together. After I got to the trans. area after my swim, Jeff had discovered that his bike had a flat, so he was fixing it and was almost done by the time I was ready to go. I thought he would be right behind me so I went ahead, but it took him longer to put the tire back on than we thought and he never caught up. I feel really bad that I didn't wait since that was our plan in the first place. Anyhow, low and behold, I won first place in the group I was racing with, which was Athena. For any of you unfamiliar with what that is...I call it the fat girl club! Really. It's a category for women over 150lbs. We decided to stick around for the awards ceremony just because, and next thing you know I've got a first place plaque in my hand. We had a fun day doing something together that reminded us of that first date. We both finished in under 2 hours. Sorry for the blurry picture, when a stranger so kindly takes your picture you can't really ask them for a redo after looking at it, can you?

Come to Momma

This is my attempt at trying to capture Carson crawling. Last Saturday he figured out how to move his knees along with his arms instead of just pulling himself along. He's only done it a few times since then, but we think the time to baby proof the house has arrived. Thus the time to do a little more vacuuming as well.