1/2 way to my Ironman!

Who would have thought that these guys (above) could have helped me do this:

Utah Half Ironman in 5 hours and 9 minutes.

I swam in the disgusting and extremely stormy Utah lake, biked 56 miles in rain, wind, and hail and then ran 13.1 (my GPS watch actually said 13.6- hey if you are a runner every point whatever extra is a big deal) miles.....and LOVED every minute of it. I can't wait to do the Ironman in May!

***And yes that is Shayne running with me in the middle picture. He ran a couple of loops with me on the run and it was so great to have him there. Thanks Shayne. And thanks mom and dad for coming to watch and cheer (whistle!!) me on.

Vacations this Summer:

We got to go on a couple of vacations this summer:

Here are some pictures from our annual Pine Valley trip with Shayne's family. Lots of food, fun, and cousins!

We also got to go and visit my brother Marty and his family (Bonnie, Angie and Hyrum) at Catalina Island in California. He was working at the Cherry Hill Boy Scout Camp for the summer. The girls had a blast! We just played and played in the ocean. Parly and Clayre snorkeled for their first time. It is beautiful there. And we all got to go for a ride on the big boat, with only a few sea sick-ers.

We always go to Logan in the summer because it is so nice up there. This summer we had a surprise retirement party for my dad. He knew he was retiring, he was just surprised about the party. It was a short trip and we actually had to keep ourselves hidden from him for a night and almost a full day. (Was that really necessary or was everyone trying to just avoid the Scott Family?). But the surprise was real and it turned out to be a great party. Happy retirement Dad!

School Projects

I AM catching up. Here are some of the girls school projects they did LAST year. (No I am not getting a jump start on this year.) I always loved the big projects I did in school so it's hard not to want to take over and do them for my kids. But then I also hate it when you can tell the parents did all the work....so I just help my girls come up with something creative and let them do the rest.

This is one of Parly's book reports. They had to make a game. The book was called, "Lights, Camera, Action!" She had cute cards that mentioned parts from the book and if it was a bad thing that happened you had to go back a few spaces and if it was a good thing then you got to go forward. It turned out super cute and very clever. She said her classmates had a lot of fun playing it.

This was a big project for Parly. It was for the history fair. Parly chose to do it on the Tuskegee Airmen. She worked hard and research all the cool facts about these amazing black airmen. Clayre and I helped her some with the airplanes. We tried to get them to look like the fighter planes they flew back then. So fun!

I'm afraid Clayre is a lot like me and enjoys these projects as much as I do. She didn't get to do very many and so wanted to help Parly with hers as much as Parly would let her. But here is one she did get to do. She had to research a topic, learn about it, and then share it with the class. She decided to learn about; How to write a book. She called my brother Marty up and asked him a lot of questions about his experience with writing and publishing a book (The Evil Harbormaster). Then wrote it out on a board made to look like a book. She was happy about it but said that the kids only clapped a little when she was done and another student who did an erupting volcano got clapping and cheers. Oh, Clayre you are so cute!

Stop copying me!

So the other day before school started, Parly and Clayre were fighting. I know crazy! Parly was mad because Clayre was wearing something similar to her outfit and had her hair done the same way. Pretty much Clayre was a copycat-er. So Parly became the tattletale-er and I sent them out of my room (where I was busy reading my book) and on their way so I wouldn't have to be bothered. They came in a little later with this little diddy. Pretty cute!