the many faces of Oakley

Oakley is a wiggle worm! She has a chapter book full of facial expressions. I love to just sit and let her entertain me with her cuteness. Here's a sampling of the many faces of Oakley.

Because I'm a genius

I had a pretty awesome summer and I have actually been documenting it. But most of that documentation has been via dad's film camera and those pictures, though awesome, do not turn out so good once put through a scanner and digitalized. But the other day I just learned how to get pictures from my fancy pants phone to a computer. So here are some pictures from my summer.

Waking Oakley Divine

There's a movie called Waking Ned Divine...... hence the wierd title. But it really has nothing to do with this post.

Anyway...... Oakley loves to stretch when she wakes up. It is soooooo cute. Here's a pretty great video of her doing just that.... including the famous "face scrunch." :) Maybe you'll get to watch it...... if it ever finishes uploading!!

Well, it's not going to work.... so you'll just have to click on this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKcQXQDZBGQ

We "Tried"!

Color Country Triathlon (Cedar City, UT) 400 meter swim start. Rocky and I decided to wait until the crowd took off before entering the murky water. Bill is standing with his hands on his hips. I'm in the blue top and black shorts at the edge of the picture. Thanks to Gabe our photographer for the day. Thoughts going through my head during the first 100 meters of the swim were; "I don't think I'm going to survive this swim." "What if I have to signal one of the kayaks to save me." How am I going to explain to everyone that I whimped out 50 meters into the race." "Could those kayaks even get to me before I go down?" "Why is this guy next to me flailing his arms and hyperventilating?" "He is really freaking me out!" "Oh my gosh, this seaweed is dragging me to the bottom of the lake!" After the first 100 meters I finally got into a rhythm and decided that I was going to survive the swim. By the way, the guy who was flailing his arms and freaking out also finished the swim. Turns out, he was one of Rocky's friends from Ely.

Bill emerges from the water and runs down the carpeted runway to the transition area to get his bike.
This is one of Gabe's "artsy" photos of me leaving the swim for the bike.
Pre race set up of the transition area. This was a total learning experience. We practiced our transitions at home many times even deciding which socks were the fastest to put on. Believe me, transitions are a science. We borrowed some smoking fast road bikes from friends.
Yeah! It's the finish line!
We are now triathletes!
Showing off our beautiful triathlon tatoos. We also had a number on both arms.
Our triathlon group, Bill and I, Rocky, and her nurse friends from Ely.
Bill finishing his triathlon. This was actually a minor miracle. Bill had seriously injured his calf on Thursday in P.E. class. I'm talking a calf muscle tear. He wasn't sure he would be able to run at all let alone do as well has he did. He wrapped it good that morning and felt okay to run so off he went. Swim=400 meters Bike=10.5 miles Run =5k. Bill finished in 1:16 I finished in 1:31. It was a pretty tough course with a serious climb in both the bike and run. I would describe a sprint triathlon in one word. FRANTIC You swim as fast as you can, you transition to bike as fast as you can, you ride as fast as you can, you transition again as fast as you can, you run as fast as you can without passing out. And then it's over. It's totally crazy. I was wiped out the rest of the day. Would I "tri" it again? You bet!