Wednesday, September 1, 2010

august in review

calendar quotes:
"give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for anything less than a temple marriage, and i will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity." -President Ezra Taft Benson

Be still, and know that I am God...Psalms 46:10
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koy played soccer for the first time this year, i have been happily impressed with his attitude-he has been quick to listen and really tries to hustle. he is still learning how to play but is improving and loving it, exactly as it should be at this age and he even scored a goal in his last game...
he has a fun little team and has a few of his buddies on his team: russell and jake. he has loved being able to play against his other buddies too, connor and braxton.
we also went to lake powel for 5 days right about here, but i'm going to do a separate post when i get some pictures from my friend...but it was so much fun, makes me smile just thinking about it :)
then i came home just in time to do the triathlon again, well i actually just did a biathlon because all i did was the bike and run, my friends son-brock swam for me. i think that is why it was so enjoyable, i didn't have to swim. i finished with a time of 1:44 (29 minutes faster than last year) and i improved on my bike by 10 minutes and on my run by 1 minute. i was thinking it would be my last one (again) but i know it won't be-if anyone does it next year, i won't want to be left out...plus it really is a whole lot of fun. i trained with kris again this year and another friend jenny...
that's the best part, training and sharing the end with friends. look at this finish-kris and jenny at the same time, my favorite part...
and this year my sister kara joined in on all the fun-she did fantastic-with mono and very little training, she's amazing and i hope to see her next year as well...
the rest of the month was spent catching up on my garden and getting ready for school to start. my garden was a little off at the start but is looking so fabulous right now, i love this...
and this...
my favorite part of my garden this year, yummy raspberries!
we headed to the back to school carnival the night before school started, the kids always look forward to this: all kinds of fun games, free books, bags, cotton candy, popcorn, creamies, rock climbing, bouncies and to enjoy it all with our friends...
their favorite activity this year was the body boppers, they were hilarious to watch them all bump into each other and try to get up after they fell over, so silly...
and then it was off to school the next morning...
and off to work for me :(

2 comments:

Diane said...

Love all the pictures! Once again, you amaze me with your love to run/bike. Pretty sure the ambulance would have to haul me off. Your garden looks wonderful and the kids look great on their
1st day of school. I can hardly wait to see all the Lake Powell pictures!

AndersonGR8 said...

Wish there was a way to slow all this down and make it possible for Grandma and g'pa to be there for so much adventure and fun. Thanks for the great updates - keeps us in tune.
Love, pops