what's new honey dew?

stuff!  lots of fun going on!
on june 15 i did the dilettante women's triathlon.  ok, not the whole thing, but i did the bike and run as a race buddy for a woman completing her first triathlon.  it was SO MUCH FUN.

other things:

 big fat narwhal stuffy.  ??

 I love the Rock.  and here he is looking teeny tiny.  keep in kind he is 6'5" and i think he said 260lbs in this photo. 

 

fussy had an accident and needed an emergency bath first thing in the morning.  he was actually quite agreeable during the whole thing

 we bundled him all up and seamus cuddled him for a while.  he was actually purring!

 i did the flying wheels 45 miler which was actually only 41 miles.  i asked this guy to take a look at my front end because it was feeling wobbly.  it was all messed up. too complicated to explain especially since what happened was something he hadn't ever seen before, but it does explain partially what was going on way back HERE when i thought i was having a brain tumor moment.  and i need a new drive train. sigh.

 i took the kids to grasslawn park.  they love that park.  they could be there all day long if i let them.

 sirus made this lego rock concert.  i like the drummer.  the fans are actually quite entertaining, there is one girl in the front row who is totally rocking out.

 eric took the kids mountain biking and then later took them swimming.  those kids do not get tired.  they keep going and going.  we have found the problem with trying to tire the kids out with physical activity is that if you do it too often, they just gain endurance. 

 i took the kids to yo plateau.  not because they wanted to go, but because i am an addict.

 this bald eagle and its little friend were flying over head on our way home.

 if we walk to get the frozen yogurt, then it cancels out the 4 cups of mini M&Ms that i put on top of mine.

 i got another tattoo.  at lunch time.  on tuesday.  i got the kids names done in their hand writing.  i got it done in white ink, like the E i got for our anniversary.  this wasn't the very best thought out - right after, when it was still red and swollen, it reminded me of in the exorcist when her belly has the words Help Me on it.  i was going to put a link to a picture of that scene in the movie, but it is too horrifying.  now that the swelling and redness is mostly gone, it just looks like the kids carved their names into my belly while i was sleeping.  might have to have them go over it with a color someday.  we'll have to see.

 we took the kids mountain biking at duthie hill.  eric takes them all the time.  he runs, they ride.  but i haven't ever gone with them.  seamus is taking a class there, too.  she got a new grown up bike with 26" wheels and an adult size frame in XS and ever since then, she is a mountain biking maniac!  she is amazing!  she dropped me on a few of the descents and even gapped me a few times on some of the short uphills.  what is that about?

 and then she had enough energy to climb a random tree.

 sirus is a pretty good mountain biker too.  its hard when your bike weighs almost as much as you do, but he love to bomb down the hills.  now if we can only get him to stop wearing blue jeans to ride in when it is 70 degrees out.

 my wonderful friend jody sent me these flowers.  i made her some necklaces for her son's teachers and she sent these to me.  they are so pretty and they make my office smell amazing!  every time i leave my office i forget that they are in there, so when i return it is always a surprise!

 

eric took this photo of me running the other day.  wasnt' thinking much of it until we looked at it later and saw my quads!!  

 lets zoom in on those quads!!  there is some flab there on the inside and some blurring since it is an iphone picture, but who knew there were muscles like that in my legs!!  WOWzers.  WOW.