Iron Girls!

So I swam, biked and ran my first sprint triathlon two weeks ago and it was so much fun that I am going to do it again...in June! I am going to train a little harder and see if I can't improve my time. We started out swimming 600 meters in wet suits at Lake Las Vegas. Swimming is not my strength, but it was over quickly. Then we biked 12.6 miles and finished running 3.1 miles. I've always loved running but I have developed a new love for biking. I just rode an old mountain bike we had lying around for the race, but I have my eye on an inexpensive road bike and am considering getting it! Triathlon's are addicting. Crossing the finish line was such a good feeling. I'll tell you how the next one goes!!


The day before the race...at registration!!


Me and my sister Natalie setting up our bikes the day before the race. My brother Nate is lugging around Natalie's baby, he was such a trooper. He gets the best husband/brother award for running around the course on race day taking tons of pictures (he got a picture of each of us at every stage of the race), helping us get set up for the race, fixing our bikes, packing around all of our stuff while we raced, studying for school in the waiting room while we got massages after the race and I could go on. Sarah what can I say you pretty much have the best husband a girl could ask for, can't do any better than Nate! Love you Nate!



Before the race in our wet suits!


After the race...showing off our muscles and numbers


Alot of ladies from my ward did the tri too! Here is most of us.

The Chicken Dance

So I realize that Easter was a long time ago, but I got some cute pictures of Noah that I just had to post. We had such a fun Easter. We colored eggs, had an egg hunt in the backyard and Noah loved finding his Easter basket on Sunday morning. Especially when he realized there was candy in it!! His two favorite things in his Easter basket were, the duck that his grandma gave him. It sings the Chicken Dance Song and flaps its wings and Noah thought it was hilarous. He carried it around the house for a few days. And of course his nerf gun. He says, "shoot the mommy," then shoots me and laughs when I play dead. This is the funnest age!

Our Weekend at the Cabin

Noah and I spent the weekend at the cabin in Brian Head with the fam. I took him tubeing which he was extremely excited about at first. As he was pulled up the hill, he clapped and waved at me all stoked. However he soon became terrified, as he was pushed down one of the really steep, really long tubeing hills. The staff at the tubeing hills won't allow you to ride more than one person in a tube, even with little ones. So Noah was all alone in his tube, screaming as it went down the hill. By the time he made it to the bottom he was looking at me like, why would you do that to me, and saying, "mom, help me!" I felt really bad! Anyways he loves the snow and will play in it for hours regardless of how cold it is. Such a tough guy! I can only hope he forgets the traumatic tubeing incident as there will surely be many more trips to the cabin this year! We love the cabin and I can hardly wait for him to get big enough to get on a snowboard!

Blonder!

So it is getting warmer outside and blonder sounded fun! Not too drastic, but blonder.-Carrie

Training For IRON GIRL!!

So I have signed up for a sprint triathlon! It is called the Iron Girl and it is on April 12th out at Lake Las Vegas. A sprint triathlon is a about half of everything you would do in a normal triathlon. So it is about a 1/2 mile swim, 12 mile bike ride and 3 mile run, in that order. My sister Natalie and Nate's wife Sarah are doing it with me! I am pretty excited about it but a little nervous as well. The swim is in Lake Mead and it is going to be pretty cold so I will be wearing a wet suit. Hopefully I won't freeze to death! My goal with the swim is to not sustain any injuries, I have heard that people can get crazy at the start and I can totally see myself getting kicked in the face within the first two minutes of this thing! So I am going to try and not let that happen. I have been taking spin classes at the gym, which has been really fun actually, to prepare for the biking part and I am borrowing a road bike that I plan to start training on within the next week. And as for the run, I just hope I have enough energy to make it to the finish line! Just after the race is over Nat, Sarah and I have foot massages and pedicures scheduled at the spa! I totally think we deserve it. So I should have lots of pictures coming soon from the Iron Girl. Wish me luck!-Carrie

The Drums, Happy Helper and Phrase of the Week!!

THE DRUMS!!!
We went to a friend's house for dinner the other night and they have a drum set. Noah fell in love with the drums and was actually really good at them. It was so funny to watch him go crazy playing them. I am not going to lie, I am not thrilled that this is his instrument of choice. I would prefer something a little less loud. Noah on the other hand thinks the louder the better.

SUCH THE HAPPY HELPER
Noah is such a happy little helper! He loves to be busy, so he likes to help me and his grandma around the house. Some of his favorite chores are vacuuming, sweeping, watering the plants and helping with the dishes (he has his very own stool for this as you can see in the picture above). He ran away from me while I was changing his diaper, got up on his stool and proceeded to help grandma wash the dishes. Thus the bare butt shot!:) He is such a busy child.

PHRASE OF THE WEEK
I stubbed my toe on the door frame and other day and while is was hopping around saying ouch...Noah came over to me, looked at my toe and said, "Oh hunny," in a very sympathetic voice. It was so funny. I love this stage, he is talking so much and copies everything..I have to watch myself!!

Noah's First Haircut!

Here is the latest family picture of me and Noah...you likely?? I thought it would be so cute if we took a picture on my mom's front porch swing! After several attempts...this was as good as it gets. No really..in the other pictures Noah is not even in them because he is trying to escape! So just disregard the fact that Noah looks like he is possessed. We really need to get a new professional picture of the two of us.:)
So I still haven't changed my hair...don't hate!! I appreciate those who voted and have taken your comments into thoughtful consideration.:) I am making plans, so pics will be coming soon. Noah on the other hand got his first real haircut about a week ago. I figured I could just take him to Great Clips, give him a sucker(bribery), let him sit on my lap and he would do okay. Well I was mistaken. He screamed bloody murder the whole time while sitting on my lap. There was hair all over the both of us and the sucker by the time we were done!! Gross! Anywho...here is Noah's new look!!