Shark Attack sprint tri

At the end of July Robert and I are doing the Spudman Triathlon in Idaho. It will be a mile swim (downstream in the Snake River), 24 mile bike, and 6 mile run. I wanted to do a sprint tri for practice so I signed up for this one in Riverton at the South Valley Rec Center. This one was 300 swim, 11 mile bike and 3 mile run. It was small- about 150 racers total. I loved it! And guess what...I came in first! ok ok so I came in first in the Athena division (only for those over 150 lbs)...ok ok there were only 10 people in the division. haha I'll take it anyway I can get it :)

************************* ATHENA *************************

Place Bib Name Swim T1 Bike T2 Run Official
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1 194 Karin Smith 7:45 2:41 45:02 0:48 27:55 1:24:09.8

To remember

Loves of Late

**Doing/discovering things that make me feel young...bike rides, playing racquetball, listening to non-kid music in the car
**Mountain High yogurt (just the right amount of tang to sweet)
**Short hair (mine and the girls. Gotta admit I love B's super short do)(QUESTION: SHOULD I CUT BANGS??)
**Baked sweet potatoes. In microwave for <5 minutes. With butter, s&p. Me and Char love them. No one else will touch them.
**Swimming- the exercise kind
**Design and food blogs
**Adele's Rolling in the Deep
**Sleeping all night long
**Summer Fun Chart http://thecraftingchicks.com/2011/05/summer-fun-chart-and-photo-journal.html
**My google calendar. I just love that thing.
**8 year anniversary coming up and hubs and I still make a great team.

St. George avec Sutherlands

A great time was had by all.

Sweet Sis

After Brooklyn got in trouble for her self inflicted hair cut, she was crying her head off. Mackenzie wanted to make her feel better so she went and found a balloon, tied a ribbon onto it, and used tape to attach a cookie cutter. This is what we get when we go to Cookie Cutters (a kids salon here). She went to all that trouble to make Brooklyn feel like she was supposed to have that hair cut! I thought it was so thoughtful.

And she is also a great babysitter as you see above :)

Brooklyn's Jokes

Brooklyn (while I was patting her leg): "My leg is not a drum."
Me: Oh! It's not, what is it? (expecting her to say it's my leg)
Brooklyn: It's a tuba

When we went into the giant walk in fridge at Costco, Brooklyn said "Are we going to turn into food? Some giant people are going to come and eat us!"

I just love her little sense of humor.

Soon she'll be asking for the keys

I'm afraid to blink. My baby is turning into a big girl right before my very eyes.
Tricks include...
6 months- sitting up
7 months- 2 bottom teeth
8 months- goes from laying to sitting (she's all over the place rolling style)
8.5 moths- scooting on toes and elbows (soon it'll be a full blown crawl and I'm in trouble)

Those two bottom teeth are coming in nicely. I'm worried she'll be upside down beaver if the the top two don't start growing.


Charlotte had noodles for dinner the other night and it was cracking me up how she was literally shoveling them into her mouth.


AND the video.