Labor Day Weekend

Our Labor Day weekend was packed full of fun!!!

Scott was already in Colorado deer hunting so the boys headed to Lake Powell with my dad on Friday afternoon.  Saturday morning I got up at the butt crack of dawn... literally and ran the Nebo Half Marathon.  It was almost all down hill and I loved the weather and the course.  After I got home and had a quick shower, Reese and I headed to meet Scott and meet everyone at Lake Powell for a quick overnighter before I had to get back for work.

This was Reese's first Lake Powell adventure and she did great for the most part.  She loved everything about the boat and lake and was awesome about wearing a life jacket the whole time.  The one down side was that she would not sleep and after my early half marathon, I was exhausted! She was still the highlight of the trip for everyone and was so cute.  Another highlight was that we were able to get Dakota up on a wakeboard!!!  He only took a few tries to get up and then had it down.  His last time, he had a body slamming crash and decided that he was done for the trip!

Reese loved this stuffed dog that was on the boat!!!

Sunday night Bridger, Reese and I headed home while Dakota and Scott headed to Colorado to go deer hunting.  Monday morning they saw a deer and while Scott set up his bow, he let Dakota drive the 4-Wheeler over so Scott could take the shot.  It was a definite team effort and a fun memory for Dakota and Scott.

Aspen, CO

For our Anniversary this year (the big 11!) we went to Aspen.  Scott wanted to go there because he had a hunting tag for later in the month and wanted to scout things out and I wanted to go because the 

US Pro Challenge bike race was going on in Colorado.  So it was win, win for everyone.

The week before going, Scott came down with pneumonia.... like the real chest x-ray, fluid in lungs kind....  so our trip was pretty mellow, but we still made the most of it!!!

Aspen was gorgeous!!!!  There were huge green pine trees everywhere.  We stayed at a ski resort just outside of town called Snow Mass at an amazing hotel.  My favorite part of the trip was riding the gondola up and down hill mountain biking.  I was super nervous, especially when I saw people heading up with full body armor, but I only crashed a couple of times and it was super fun!

For someone who lives and breaths professional cycling there is nothing better than seeing some of the riders from the Tour De France up close.  

We were horrible with timing things and completely missed the end of the race one day, but I felt like it was a good practice for some day when we go to France ;-)

End of Summer/ 1st day of School

Summer flew by this year and to end things with a bang we decided to have an end of summer party!!

I rented a bounce slide and then let each boy have 2 hours with their friends. 

Surprisingly, Bridger's group of friends got bored of our awesome Wild Rapids and the 2 hours dragged on forever.  We filled the time with water baloons and side walk chalk.

Dakota's friends spent the entire 2 hours on the slide until the minute the company came to pick up the slide!!!!  Everyone seemed to have a fun time and I think we will have to make it a tradition.

 

Dakota started 4th grade this year!



 

Bridger started 1st!!!!!



Jr Triathlon

Over the summer the boys participated in a Jr. triathlon at Ivory Ridge.  Dakota took the whole thing very serious!!!  He trained by either running over biking every morning for a week :-).  We even got him special laces so he would be able to slip his shoes right on and not waste time with laces.  

Bridger on the other hand was very nervous and wasn't sure that he even wanted to do it, but with some convincing, he was in! It was pure chaos with so many little kids running around and somehow Bridger got lost during the bike portion and I am pretty sure he never ran (even though he swears other wise).  Plus during all of the craziness, Autumn stole some kids bike accidentally thinking it was Dakota's, causing some random mom to have a panic attack!!!!  

But, the boys did great and I loved seeing them compete!!!!!