Muddy Buddies!

By far the most fun race I have participated in to date! Have fun checking out the photos but as a quick recap here are the details:

Race length: 10K (6.1 miles)

Race course: climbing the ski hills at Afton alps on foot and on bike (ok pushing the bike) THREE times! ugh.
THEN finishing by army crawling through a very thick, kind of painful (rocky) mud pit! awesome.

Race transitions: four switches = five legs.  Anna did: bike, run, bike, run, bike.  I did the opposite.  At the switches were obstacles. 1) a climbing wall with a net to climb down on the other side 2) ropes you had to crawl under 3) a balance beam and 4) well...you'll see in the pictures below :)


Our look: The Awesome A's were Bees! :) You'll see that too...

Smile!!  (because we're clean!)

BEE Happy :)

My fans! Such great sports for leaving Eau Claire at 5AM!

The starting line...there were 900 teams!

Go Anna! Go!

That's me, the bee!

This was the last obstacle...how fun!! That's Anna's little Bee Behind.

Can you see me running with the bike? I was so happy to be done with that leg, until I realized the next one was just the same...only opposite, meaning the huge hill I'd just come down I now how to go BACK UP!

I didn't know I made this facial expression until I saw the picture, however, this is just before crouching to crawl through the mud...I'm guessing my thought was something like this "um...REALLY!?"

MUD!

So happy to be done! :) Time to rinse off and start planning for next year!

Summer time!

I've been horrible lately at writing updates on our blog here.  Our summer has flown by so fast.  Mostly we spend our week-days hanging out at the Nohelty home.  I nanny the Nohelty's two youngest, two boys ages 12 and 14.  To say its the perfect job would be quite the understatement.  Anyways, our mornings are filled with the usual house-hold duties (dishes, laundry, vacuum, pick up toys, nap keller...) then off to the N house for the majority of the day.  I mainly spend time with the 12 year old since his older brother is pretty self-sufficient.  Besides the occasional drop off and pick up at the local YMCA, S (the 14 yr old) doesn't really need me.  So C and I hang out, with Keller of course, and sometimes hit up the pool, sometimes work on yard projects, and recently I helped their family organize and run and two day garage sale to get rid of a bunch of things they no longer needed.  It was a very successful sale! :) I got a lot of good ideas for whenever Broghan and I decided we have too many things and need to sell some off.  Anyways, the summer is almost to an end and I know I just a few photos worth posting.  So here they are!

my noisy little boy

Here is Keller "talking" with his 'da da da's' and 'ba ba ba's'...and a little whining too!

Keller tackling the stairs -- VIDEO

BALLOONS!

Fun pictures and video of Keller discovering the wonderment of helium balloons.  He chased these suckers around my parents living room for nearly a half hour. They were from my sister Ali's 16th birthday last Wednesday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL!).

Keller & Marvin morning photoshoot

We were up at 6:00AM Sunday and were hanging out on my parents front steps.  I took some snapshots of my two boys :).  They LOVE each other!

Valley Fair - FUN AND ONLY! -- RIDE WARRIORS!

Ok, so if you aren't from around this area (MN & WI)...1) you probably have no clue what and where Valley Fair is and 2) you probably haven't seen the stupid Valley Fair commercials with the tune "valley fair...fun & only!"  I searched online and on Youtube.com but can't seem to find it.  Oh well, maybe if I am quick I can video tape it when it's on t.v. or something! haha.

Anyways, for those that don't know, Valley Fair is Minnesota's very own amusement park (roller coasters, water rides, water park, etc.).  I haven't been able to go to one of these places in a very long time due to the whole "do not ride if you are pregnant" ordeal.  But this past Saturday I was! finally! able to go!  Whahoo!

The crew that made it out for the day were ALL OF MY SISTERS (this never happens), my mom, Keller and a friend of Anna's visiting from Arkansas.  Broghan was in MN too but celebrating a bachelor party with for his cousin.

Here are some pictures we captured during the day.

The start of the day. Keller in the car, Ready to go!

Now entering VALLEY FAIR!

In line for the first ride we could get to! Enterprise!  It spins in a circle then lifts so you go upside down.

Ashley, such a scardie cat (spelling??).  She had to sit with me since she was freaking out about going upside down.

Auntie Ashley hanging with the Keller-man.

Ride #2: STEEL VENOM! This was hilarious because it's an awesome ride, but starts VERY quickly...and I was definitely NOT prepared for it when it took off.  It made it even better. :)

Classic: Tilt-A-World.  It worked really well with the four of us sisters squished into it.  Although I will admit, I did feel a little queasy afterwards...(no getting sick though..promise)

Fast-forward to the LAST ride of the day: THE WAVE!  As you can tell, we look like wet rats...haha, we were drenched! It felt great though after being in the hot weather all afternoon.

AHH! we got tattooed! ok ok airbrush..mine is already worn off :/ They look cool though :)