Great Grandma Clyde

A few weeks ago, we stopped by to visit Rich's grandma. Isn't she cute! I wish I had gotten a better picture, but Sophia lost it after this one.

 

Bear Lake Brawl

Rich and I did a sprint triathlon at Bear Lake last month. It was such a fun race! We plan on doing it again next year, so if anyone wants to join us, let me know!

We got a really cheap hotel room that had a "kitchenette" but no microwave. That put a damper on my great idea to eat in that night. I packed stuff to heat up spaghetti, but it was pretty gross cold.

 

Mmmmm! Cold spaghetti. Bleh!



Sophia is pretty happy to eat anything. Please notice how gross our hotel room is.

Here we are, trying on our wetsuits the night before. Wahoo! 

Bright and early on race day... waiting for the race to start. It was FREEZING cold. Next year I'll be packing a jacket for sure!

 

The beautiful Bear Lake.



Brrr! Once we got in the water, it was actually much better, but waiting on the beach... oh my! We both did OK in the race. The swim was hardest for us both, but the rest was great!

Here is Sophia, happy to go play in the water. (It looks like she's screaming, but that is her SUUUUPER excited face.)

 

 

 

I didn't want to put her swim suit on so we just stripped her down. She was a bit hesitant, but then she started having fun. 

She mostly liked trying to eat the sand. Yikes!

Dad, burying her feet.

That was pretty much our time there. We had a famous raspberry shake (best in the world!) and headed home. 

Feeding the ducks

One day we went to the park and feed the ducks. It was a nice outing and it's fun to watch Sophia with animals because she loves them so much. If she was able to, she'd give anything soft, a great big Elmira squeeze! (Do any of you remember Elmira? I think she was a character on Animaniacs.)