See Jane Run

In September I did my first triathlon. It was so great! My friend Kristin talked me into it about a month and a half before it was to happen. I worked my butt off, literally, in that month and didn't die so I felt pretty good about it. I can't wait to do my next one. My family is awesome. Geoff, the kids and my sister Christine and Taylor got up at 5:00 a.m. to come support me. It was so great having them there. So here's some pictures from that plus a few extra, as always.

My transition area.

Just before the swim. I'll admit I was pretty nervous at this point. They had to haul a lady out of the water just prior to our start and it wasn't pretty. She made it through ok after being rushed to the hospital, but it didn't make for very calm nerves, at least on my part.

Ryan all ready to go for the swim.

I thought this picture was funny. The girl to my left looks like she's just playing in the water.

My friend Kristin, her mom Connie and myself after finishing. Kristin's mom rocks! I hope I'm still doing triathlons when I'm in my 50's!

Celebrating at In-N-Out after the race. We deserved it.

Now for the others. Here's Em's soccer team, the Shiny Strikers.

And Katie all dressed up in Nate's jacket. She's so funny!

Ryan's First Day of School

Ryan started preschool just after Labor day. He has just loved it. In fact he likes it almost too much. He wants to go everyday of the week and cries when I say we can't go. I'm not sure if I should be glad or offended. Either way, I'm glad that he is having a good time. Something funny I need to add, they had the kids all paint a picture to hang in the window. They then wrote what the kids said about their picture or what it was. So there were cute things like this is my bike or my family. Just before they hung these up Ryan's teacher came up to me and asked me to have Ryan describe what his picture was. She couldn't understand what Ryan was saying. So I get Ry and ask him about his picture and he say's it's a lackey.
"A what?"
"A lackey."
"What's a lackey?"
"That!"
Ok, so I give up. I hope the teacher doesn't get too frustrated with him this year. He's always been a little hard to understand, but I think part of it is he's just making stuff up.

Here he is as he just got to school. He looks a little nervous.

And here he is when I picked him up, I think he enjoyed the day!