Avery's Race

Some video of Avery's race!

The Monster Tri

Sunday Nana completed her 3rd triathlon of the season. What a great first racing season she has had! I am so proud of what she has accomplished.

This tri was a 300 yard pool swim (both of her other races were open water swims), a 15 mile bike and a 5k run. This is a very popular race because it is a really fun event and it sold out at 400 athletes, but on race morning there were 520 bikes in the transition area. I guess the race director just couldn't say no. With a pool swim, it is not a mass start; they send out swimmers every 10-15 seconds. That means that as some people are finishing the race, others are just coming out of the water. You don't know who the winner is until it is all over.

She had an awesome race and took 2nd in her age group! Wow! 3 races and 3 medals. Can't beat that. Congratulations, Nana, on another great race.

ready on the wall for her cue to go!

a cold transition to the bike!

Nana's look of surprise/excitement as she gets called out as the second place winner!

Three generations...

Granddad and Zach took first place at the championship tournament on Ray Roberts sunday. They have had a great season. Avery even got a little trophy for fishing a wednesday night tournament. She took it to "show and tell" at school today. Thanks to Graddad for fishing with my hubby and daughter. I like this one because Avery looks like a pirate.
Too sweet...

Just because she's so darn cute and you can actually see the wind blowing her hair.

Florida vacation

Charles and I were in Orlando, Florida last week, mostly relaxing and unwinding. We didn't do any of the theme parks, but instead went to the beach twice. One really cool thing we did was take an air boat tour on Cypress Lake. Wow!! I highly recommend it. I could've done that all day. We saw lots of alligators, bald eagles, egrets and other birds with really long legs. Our guide took us through marshes and down rivers and out on the deep part of the lake. Here are some photos:

This is the biggest gator we saw. It was approx. 12 feet. The guide was pretty excited about seeing it.

Tennessee

Took about 1300 mile trip this week to Tennessee. If you want to see some color it's about to happen. I saw some red in the leaves but I would assume the real colors will burst out in a couple of weeks or so. Long trip by myself. Got home expecting some hugs and kisses.......wrong!! All I got was, mow the grass and pucky wife.....

It's still good to be home in my own bed.......another subject........my wife decided to buy a bed while I was gone. It should be here on the 15th......I wonder ........ penny for my thoughts?