Father's Day Weekend 2015

We had yet another busy weekend, but got to spend it with family.

Bobby had signed up to do the Eagle Creek Sprint Tri on Saturday morning, so we stayed at Matt and Amanda's house for one last time (they will be moving to Michigan next weekend) on Friday night. Then, got up bright and early on Saturday morning to head to the race at 6:30a which didn't start until 8a. Last year when Bobby did the race, he did not have a road bike, so this year he got a little faster and with little training, I think he did great!  This will never be on my radar of things to accomplish because I can't stand swimming or biking...I'll just stick with runs!  Dave and his daughter, Emily participated as well, but Dave did the duathlon which didn't require the swimming portion. The girls did great watching because there is always something going on to watch.

Bobby's official results:

137 (overall)  16 (for age group)

500m Swim  11:10.1 (88th)   

Transition from swim to bike 02:29.9 (232nd)   

10 mile bike 0:36:53.0 (16.3 mph/226th)   

Transition from bike to run 01:15.9 (49th)   

5K run 0:24:40.0 (08:13.3/104th)          

TOTAL TIME 1:16:28.8

Here are his results from last year:

SWIM 11:13.5 (161) TRANSITION 03:03.2 (359) 
BIKE  0:40:49.0 (14.7 mph/358) 
TRANSITION  01:42.1 (184) 

RUN   0:24:29.0 (08:09.7/141)          
OVERALL TIME 1:21:16.7

The girls had fun using this stump as their stage while dancing to the music! 

After the race, we got cleaned up and heading up north to go to Bobby's 2nd cousin's high school graduation party where we saw some of his family.

On Father's Day, we headed to church, then split up so Bobby went to spend time with his dad and the girls and I spent the day with my dad at my parent's house with swimming and a cookout. It was a nice relaxing day.

I couldn't ask for a better dad for the girls!  Bobby loves the girls unconditionally and plays with them any time he gets! Even when he's trying to work on something, he let's them "help" him!  He's so patient with them and works hard to provide for our family. I can't wait to see how he is with his son...hopefully, he's not too hard on him!

I haven't spent Father's Day with my dad in awhile...so it was nice to be able to spend time with him on Father's Day. He is such a great dad and grandpa and I have great memories growing up (and even now). He's always been a hard worker and would do anything for us and loves us unconditionally. It's been so much fun seeing him with the girls!  It will be interesting to see him with a grandson since he's so used to having girls around all the time!

I just realized as I was writing this that I never wrote anything for Mother's Day, so I'll have to do that soon!

Summer Fun!

For Aubrey's birthday, she got a big girl pool! A 12ft diameter, 30" pool, which is perfect for the girls and perfect for an adult or two to just float around in.  It will definitely be nice for this pregnant girl! It was a little more involved than we expected only because Bobby had to make the are level so that the pool would last longer. He worked hard using a sod cutter, digging and raking to make it just right!  However, due to renting a sod cutter, he decided to use it to cut the grass around the house where we are planning to place rocks for landscaping. A few months ago, we wrote down a list of things we wanted to get done around the house and their priority...the rocks were the LAST priority, but we also didn't have the pool on there at the time either. Oh well.

The girls have been in the pool every single day that we've been able to since we got it up and running this weekend!  I think I may be raising fish instead of humans!  Haha!

Auntie Amanda came down this week to watch the girls and today the water was finally warm enough for her to get in the pool, too!

Another thing marked off the to-do list before baby #3 comes is bunk beds for the girls, so the baby can have Aubrey's crib. Thanks to Amanda, while Bobby worked outside on his project, she helped me put up the bunk beds!  The girls love them!  Natalie is on the top and Aubrey is on the bottom. Natalie already hurt herself on the ladder, but hopefully she learned her lesson this time, even though we had a serious talk with her about what not to do on the top bunk!  I just hope we won't have to make a trip to the ER for a broken bone anytime soon!!!

Now, I can tackle the toy room and convert it to a nursery! The girls have gotten their toy room locked a lot lately and now that we practically live outside, they don't seem to mind.  They get it locked either because they don't listen, behave badly, or just decide to not clean up after themselves.  I would be happy to get rid of all of their toys, but I'm not that mean...yet! :)

I joked after we had the bunk bed set-up that their room is actually big enough that we could keep all 3 kids in the same room and keep the toy room, but I am not about to have a newborn plus the girls all awake at one time!  So, baby brother will get his own room and the girls will continue to share.

I still need to decorate and I still don't really like the orange walls, but Bobby said no painting, so we're stuck with it.  I do like the flowery bedding Aubrey chose for her bed. She's not into characters and I'm glad about that!

Strawberry Picking

I haven't gone strawberry picking since I was a kid!  The girls had a lot of fun and did great at picking good sized berries and leaving the small ones to grow for the most part!  We picked about 4 pounds in no time, but it sure was hot outside, even though it was barely in the 80's (possibly even still in the high 70's). Afterwards, we ate lunch together at DQ. It was a great little outing with friends and we hope to do a weekly outing this summer!

Aubrey ate a few :)

Natalie refused to be in the picture!