Pics from the Washington IronMan

On our way to Washington we took just the baby - talk about traveling light... It was amazing how "free" we felt with just 1 little kiddo. I think that the baby really enjoyed the one on one time too.




The race started early and the water - according to those foolish enough to jump in was COLD! Rich had a great swim time - just over an hour for 2.4 miles

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The bike portion was full of hills but beautiful. Rich biked 112 miles and climbed over 4,400 miles in hills.


The run was a full 26.2 mile marathon and it was the only part that I was worried about but Rich did great. He was chipper and joking the whole way.

He did it!

Congratulations to my wonderful man - He just finished a full iron distance triathlon - 2 mile swim, 112 mile bike and a 26.2 mile marathon. Way to go baby!

So...

So we are entering a new chapter in our lives - Rich and I left all the kids except the baby home so that we could go on a road trip. How cool is that. We drove up to Washington and the views were amazing. So different from the lush green of Oregon. It is also just so cool that after 15 and a half years of marriage we didn't run out of things to talk about our entire trip. We didn't even turn on the raidio
I'll post pics later.

Ugggh!

So I bravely took 7 kids to the pool yesterday where I sat for two hours in the kiddie pool - aka the "pee pool" - with about 20 toddlers.
This morning 4 kids are sick.
I really need a maid and a nanny.
Oh and I could use my own personal trainer...