Trader Joe's?

So Trader Joe's is a big commercial health food store.
Something Des Moines may be in the market for? What do you think?
Check out my other blog and if you agree, send a message to the company to try and get one in DM!

Decorah and Waverly

Kyle's first race this year was the Decorah time trials. This has been his favorite race from year to year. Kyle headed up on Saturday with Taylor to pre-ride the course and just have a little fun. These pictures are from the pre-ride as they didn't have anyone to take pictures during their race. Full results here. He got 1st in his age group and 11th overall. Pictures taken by Taylor.

Rounding the corner

Limbo on the bike!

Water crossing!

The very next weekend it was back to NE IA for the Waverly cross country race at Camp Ingawanis. Alexa and I stayed home again so no pictures of Kyle. Kurt rode along and had his first go at a Mt. Bike race. I think he's hooked!
The Reese family camped the night before in one of the cabins...we may have to look into that next year!

Kurt making his way up the big hill

Kristin making her way up the hill

Taylor was a little tired on the way home.
Kurt also fell asleep leaving Kyle to drive "all by himself"

Bedtime Prayers

Each night I've been reading a Prayer book as our last book of the night. The other day I found her in her room "reading" the prayer book. She has the whole thing memorized. So lately at night she has been "reading" me the book. This night she needed a little prompting toward the end.
It just amazes me that a 2 1/2 yr old can memorize a whole prayer!

Goals and Challenges

This new year I set some goals and challenges and have been tracking progress along with my friend Julie; as her goals are along the same lines as mine.

I have officially signed up for the Pigman Sprint Triathlon on June 1st. Now that tax season is over I've stepped up the training a bit and am really getting excited for it!

I got a race report today. It is capped out at 800 participants and they are predicting the water temps to be 65 degrees! YIKES! Good thing I bought a wetsuit on ebay a couple weeks ago.

I bought the wetsuit mainly so Julie and I could start some open water training here soon. I am doing the Hy-Vee Triathlon as part of a team and to swim 1 mile in open water will need a little practicing. She is doing the whole Hy-Vee tri and you can see her training progress on our blog as well. So once May 1st hits we are going to plan some training in the COLD open water!

My first "challenge" will be the PRC duathlon on May 1st. Need to work on my running and I figured this would be a good way to get some practice in.

Check out my progress and feel free to leave any comments/suggestions!!

Tiny Tumblers

This past winter Alexa participated in Tiny Tumblers at the YMCA. She loved it and I have to say, it really did help with some of her "play" skills. She can know jump with both feet off the ground and can do somersaults!
Here are some pics from her last class:

Jumping on the trampoline...couldn't get a good picture as she was moving too fast!

Walking on the balance beam...

Playing "red light, green light" with Daddy...the hula hoop is so we can help them stop and go!

Singing the "Bean Bag song"....she LOVES this song!

Next January she'll be able to do the Tumble Tots.....Mom and Dad can work out during this one....maybe I'll run around the track that encircles the gym, that way I can still watch but get a workout in too!