Let’s race

I just signed up for the Icebreaker Triathlon. It’s a short race and I am throwing down the challenge to my brothers and their teenage sons.

Join me for a little swim, bike and run on March 28 at the American Fork Rec Center.

If you finish, I’ll buy lunch.

It’s not that long of a race, actually.

A 300 meter pool swim is followed by a 12 mile bike and 5K run.

If you can swim and ride a bike, you can do this — anyone can go 5k, even if you walk it.

If you’re feeling a little crazy, we can ride our bikes back to my house after the race and get another 25 miles in.

Bring it on.

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Update on Emily’s to-do list

I took a picture of her master plan to get some snacks.

Check it out here.

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B’bye pink potty from the 1980s

Hello stuff we’re not ashamed to sit our naked bums on.

As mentioned before, we finally got around to ripping out the old 1980s-decor bathroom stuff and replaced it with modern updates.

Here’s the old stuff:

 

 

As you can see, the previous owners of the house had a thing for pink bathroom fixtures.

Here is something a little less pink:

     

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The suite life

Nope, Zach and Cody aren’t around, but we’re living the suite life at a hotel.

We’ve been kicked out of our house for a few days while we have our bathrooms remodeled. It’s not super easy living — despite the breakfast buffet and indoor pool.

We’ve got our hands full trying to get homework, taxi service and all the other stuff done in pretty tight quarters.

But when we get to go home Saturday, we’ll have nice and modern bathrooms.

B’bye pink toilet.

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The To Do List

Emily Grace knows how to plan her work and work her plan.  I found the following To Do list a couple of days ago:

1. wait until Dad goes
2. sneak in
3. get m&m’s
4. get more
5. get less
6. get out
7. share with others
8. eat (whatever’s left)

I am so proud that she shared her ill-gotten gains.

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Mandi the Bird Girl

This weekend Mandi was in the school musical — or rather, Seussical the Musical.

She was one of the ‘Bird Girls’ and that means she was basically a backup singer for pretty much every song and every act. She’s been staying after school every day for almost two months to practice her songs, dances and the routines and she did a great job.

     

Several of her close friends were in the play, too. McKay (probably her best guy friend( was JoJo. Whitney was Maisy and MaKayla was Gertrude. Jared (another guy friend) was the Mayor of Whoville. Also among the Bird Girls were Amy, Rilley, Lindsey and Rachel who have been good friends of hers for three years now.

     

Anyhow, it was really nice. Other than a few technical difficulties with the wireless microphones it was a really good show and Mandi has a lot of talent.

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Now I lay me down to sleep

While tucking the girls into bed Melissa, as she often does, insisted on saying the prayer:

“Please bless that no robbers come. And please bless that our house doesn’t burn down. And please bless than we’ll have a great breakfast tomorrow. And please the homeless that they will find a home.”

Sounds like she’s got all her bases covered.

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The Daily Sam

Sam: “Mom, I need to tell you something.”

Mom: “What?”

Sam: “Um, I need to drink some muscle milk.  Because if a room needs to be vacuumed, and you and Dad are too tired, I can just drink the muscle milk, and then I will just pick up the vacuum and carry it and vacuum the room.”

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Sam = a smart dude

I was asking Sam to do something — get in his carseat — and using the ‘I’m an adult’ tone of voice and Sam, rather calmly and politely, let me know he was in charge of himself.

Rather than give me the ‘You’re not the boss of me’ line, he spelled it out in a perfect way.

“Dad, there are no kids and no grownups here,’ he said. “Just dudes.”

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