Salem Springs Tri

We haven't been training but it was a lot of fun to go down and do the race
(Allen & Noreen)

Some of the Timp Tri Club women
(Brooke, Carrie, Natalie, Noreen, Lindsey & Kim)

Here are some pictures during and after the race. I'll post more later when I get them from the others. Kim & I decided to do the race together. We spent a lot of time taking pictures of each other doing silly things on the coarse instead of pushing ourselves for time. If you can't have fun, why TRI!
(Johnny, Shane, Allen, Natalie, Lindsey, Kim & Noreen)

While the cat's away the mice will play.....

That's what my mom use to tell me and it looks like it's true. While the Bushman's were out of town a couple of us got bored so we decided to play a little trick on them. Last time they were out of town we replaced most of their family pictures with pictures of us. This time we decided that we would fill their bathtubs and toilets with gold fish. It's amazing how many fish you can get for $5.

(Noreen, Lindsey, Natalie, Allen & Chad)

After we got the fish we took them over and let the family dog (sax) check them out, Lindsey even put them in their bed for a while.

It was so much fun for us. We love when the Bushman's go on long vactions!
(with or without us)

Casper family photos

The Casper's had family in town and we tagged along and took some family photos.

Kim & Brion Casper

The Casper family

The hole

We spent all day digging holes in the front yard installing pressurized irrigation.
We may have gotten a little dirty.

Pulled from the archives

My dad has been giving us kids C.D.'s of pictures he's scanned from old slides. These are a few that I found.

Freak Snow Storm

After working out we looked out the back window and noticed that the neighbors tree had split in two and fell over into our yard.

(side view)

(view from the neighbors yard towards our house)

With the help of our wonderful neighbors (The Wildes) we were able to cut up and clean up the mess in record time.

Motorcycle chick

Yesterday we had my brother-in-laws motorcycle for a while so we decided to take advantage of having it. First we borrowed Bret's motorcycle and Allen and I went on a couples cruse around the neighborhood. I only killed it once when I was stopped at a stop sign and used my left hand to wave at a neighbor girl. Other then that, I did great. I remembered that I prefer turning left and that you have to push the blinker button in to turn it off.
After our cruse we went back to the Bushman's and we went on a couples cruse around town. It was a lot of fun and made me miss our motorcycle.

I've been tagged

Thanks Cheryl! These are the rules:

1. Go to your My Documents/My Pictures
2. Go to your sixth file
3. Go to your sixth picture
4. Blog about it
5. Tag 6 people

Allen had to come into the room to see why I was laughing. When I looked at the sixth file, sixth picture it wasn't even of Allen or me, it's of our friend Bret. Here is the story behind the picture:
Our friend Bret Earl Bushman bought this motorcycle last August. One Sunday (August 24th, 2008) the Bushman family invited Allen and me to go up to Cascade Springs with them, taking turns riding on the motorcycle. In the picture before this, his son Wyatt was riding on the back, in the picture after this one his cute daughter Abbey is getting ready for her turn with a large smile and helmet on. But lucky Bret got this blog picture dedicated just to him.
Just today, Bret came over on his motorcycle and Allen and I took it out for a spin. I love riding on back of a motorcycle and take advantage of it every chance I can.
Thanks Bret, thanks Bushman's for being our friends! We love you!

So who to tag next: Shauna B, Lindsey H, Melinda L, Marri A, Aubry M, Jamie P.

Jakes Baptism

Today was my nephew Jake's baptism.
Jake & Karra (my sister)

Jake, Karra & Camaron

This is his happy face.

We had a great time hanging out and playing games.

Noreen & Allen

Who says we are posers?

Da Sistas
Karra, Noreen, Marri & Jen

Florida Trip

Allen had a convention in Florida. As much fun as conventions are, I thought it would be more fun it I took some friends with me. That way I could play during the day with the girls and then all of us could hang out in the evenings.

The first night we got there we found a grocery store and bought the essentials...ice-cream being top on the list.
Lindsey H, Natalie R, Noreen M, Allen M.

The second day the weather was colder then normal so we decided to do a little shopping.
Noreen M, Lindsey H, Natalie R.

That night Natalie taught us how to do her "Crazy" smile. We laughed and laughed and laughed. I had a hard time getting it down. It may have been because I was laughing so hard.
Allen M, Lindsey H, Natalie R, Noreen M.

The third day was a buys day. We went rented canoes and went on a self guided alligator hunt.
Natalie R, Lindsey H. Noreen M.

We found one!
Alligator and Noreen M.

Lindsey was excited to find a cute turtle.

We had so much fun going up and down the river. We had to go under many fallen trees.
Lindsey H, Natalie R.

Noreen M, Lindsey H, Natalie R.

Natalie R. & Lindsey H. were in a canoe together and Allen and I were in a canoe together.

After canoeing, we took Allen back to his convention and the girls went to Clearwater beach.

Natalie R. & Lindsey H.

Natalie R. & Noreen M.Noreen M. & Natalie R.We got some Henna tattoo's. The fourth day I had my camera but Allen had the disk so I wasn't able to take any pictures. But we went to a Pirates Parade. It was Tampa's city days. It was so much fun. Everyone on the street was dressed up as pirates, every float was a pirate ship, and there were beads being thrown everywhere. We had a blast!
Natalie R, Noreen M, Lindsey H.

Once we got back to the hotel Allen had a dinner for the convention where they were handing out awards. Allen received two awards and his father received two awards.
Allen M. & Noreen M.

The fifth day was our last day there. We went back to Clearwater beach and enjoyed what we could of our last day.
We all did different things. I went around taking pictures, Natalie and Lindsey caught some rays and did some reading and Allen picked up a game or two of beach volleyball.
Allen M.

Lindsey H, Noreen M, Natalie R.

Noreen M. & Allen M.

We had already checked out of our hotel so we took turns changing in the car. Once we were changed we jumped in the car and drove straight to the airport with sandy feet and all. We got back to Utah where it was snowing.

It was a great trip. I miss the warmth and the sun.