May Randomness

We have a lot of these kinds of posts where we just look back at our photos and try and figure out what was happening.

Dad is the most popular during church...

Snapchat is how we last during sacrament meeting.

Sleepy time with Mom

Mom started teaching a strength class that is on Stand Up Paddleboards. She tried to do a headstand on them...

This was an awesome moment from Iva. She was SUPER upset and dejected because she "didn't stay on the dots"...see next picture.

Mothers' Day was fun because we got matching skirts!

We attempted two different attempts at photos...before and after church..

The ladies!

St.George 70.3

Dad did it again. He signed up for the half Ironman. Which meant we got to do the IronKids run the night before. Iva got to participate for the first time.

We made sure she carb loaded....

Oh and of course lets throw in our Super Hero pictures from school. Because we looked AWESOME

Aha! Gearing up for the race!

Iva got to start first since she was the shorter distance.

Finished! She did it in jelly shoes to boot!

Here I come! I had to run the mile and I was HOT!

Cara was not to far behind me.

HOOOOOOTTTTT

That's better!

Our school was holding a swim party for the teachers to say "thank you" and we rushed over to help at the end. We didn't have swimsuits, but did I mention we were hot?

The next morning....we sent Dad out for his race at a crazy early time....especially because he was one of the last waves that got to start the swim. The day was expected to have crazy winds and so they luckily bumped up start times almost a half an hour!

We made it downtown with enough time to watch the winners cross (which is always fun) and then we began our wait.

We filled our time with splash pad fun and walking to get to lunch at Iceberg!

And then we waited.

And waited.

And waited.

We had seen Dad transition from bike to run at a pretty decent time, not his best, but not bad. But he just wasn't coming back!

We kept waiting and Mom started stressing. We started getting whiney. Finally a random number called Mom's phone and she knew it couldn't be good. Gratefully it was actual Dad calling. He was a couple miles away from the finish line and he was spent. He was calling to apologize for how long it was taking him, but the way he phrased it made it sound like he was done and Mom was just trying to convince him to keep moving. It turns out he was just calling to let us know he was alive,  he didn't mean to make it sound like he was quitting. Laughable moment now, but then, Mom made us all run up the course to meet him and drag his butt to the finish.

So that's what this photo is. Us running along in our flip flops trying to kick our Dad's butt.

He gained some momentum and beat us to the finish, but barely. (Just kidding.)

Even though it was his roughest finish and most definitely his slowest time, he was the most coherent and movable after this race. He was smiling and talking and walking.

We are still crazy proud of him. He went 70.3 miles with wind making the downhill not a downhill. GO DAD!

FROZEN FEVER

The one bane of Mom's side in the blogging world is her inability to post videos...she can't quite figure out the Youtube thing. She tried with Sam's videos and something went wrong. This next post though almost demands a link!

Back in February, Mom signed up Cara and me to take part in a drama camp. It was being run by a girl that mom knew (with the help of her mom). We had to audition for our parts and then each week we practiced and played fun improv games.

Our final show was a production of Frozen Fever (the Disney short!). I played the lead role of Elsa and Cara got to be one of the village girls. It meant a lot of singing for me, but I was REALLY excited!

It was a little hard because I had to carry a microphone around which left me a bit distracted, but overall I loved EVERY MINUTE.

We had scene changes and we sent out the village girls one at a time to tell jokes. Cara did a whole bunch of cow jokes. It started to get funny because the scene changes took so long and they would run out of material.

We were so lucky because we had so much support come for us. Even Cara's teacher, Mrs. Seegmiller was there. She brought us candy and flowers.

We hope they do another one!

May...you know because it's almost August

Seriously. Four kids has done us in. But recently Cara and I discovered the print version of this blog (which is only published through 2013) and we can't get enough. So we are trying to reinvigorate ourselves and possibly print 2014. We will see.

Luckily we have Instagram and Facebook with Mom's stuff so life IS actually being documented.

But let's start with how how May feels like summer is here and we start spending lots more time in swimsuits!

BUT FIRST....a moment with Sam stuck in our ottoman...

May is the time we hit splash pads because pools aren't open yet, but it's so hot during the day. 

My mom forgot Iva's suit so she had to make due with what was left in the swim bag from last year!

Mom also plays at the splash pads while we are still in school

Sam has begun to figure out the magic of a paddle jumper! 

Back at the end of April, Aunt Angie sold her house and bought a bigger one that has a pool! We OF COURSE spent much time over there, but you will see from the photos...most of the time I was in school. Lame.

Okay at this point Sam wasn't actually sold on the puddle jumper idea

But he LOVES basketballs

Ooo! We snuck in a photo of my mom with Grandma. They teach together sometimes and a selfie is a requirement.

Back to the pool and a very cute naked butt Sam.

Hurray! I'm actually at the pool this time!

Aunt Becca was given this AWESOME float for her birthday!

Back to the splash pad with Mr. Cutie Face

Sam loves a good selfie..

Op! Back to the pool!

SHARK BABY!

Iva and her goggles and no puddle jumper! She's a swimming machine...

One of the twins is trying to help her pull the float...