Ironman Weekend

What a crazy, busy weekend we have just finished! It started on Thursday evening when Cam and LaRane brought Collin here while they headed off to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho for Cam's first ever full on IRONMAN! What does that entail, you ask... 2.5 miles swim, 112 mile bicycle ride and a full on marathon! Let me not keep you in suspense! Cam aced it! He did the swim in 1 hour 22 minutes 17 seconds and was in the 1036 position exiting the water. Then he did the bike ride in 5 hours 36 minutes and 47 seconds (averaging 19.95 mph) and shot up to the 323 position. Then he finished the marathon in 3 hours 52 minutes and 47 seconds (averaging 8:53 minute miles) and finished the race in a total of 11 hours 6 minutes and 50 seconds and was in 253 place --- fantastic!! We are so happy and excited for him! We were able to watch portions of the race on the live coverage feed on the ironman website. We saw him on camera at about mile 3 and then LaRane called us when he crossed the finish line and since the webcam had about a 30 second delay we were able to catch him just as he was approaching the finish line. He had a great big smile and he didn't look the least beat up or exhausted. Whewwwwwww.... what a relief! Collin could see Cam and he was jumping up and down yelling "daddy, daddy"... almost as good as being there! Way to go Cam. We are so proud of you and happy for you. What a great example of setting a goal and taking it to the bank!!! Amazing what you can do when you truly put your mind to it.

Our weekend here on the home front has included swimming (sprinklers), biking (with brief stops to check out the swam of ants along the sidewalk) and definately lots of running (mostly done by Grma and Grpa trying to keep up with a 4 year old!). We all went to see "Surf's Up" on Friday afternoon and we thought it was a great movie. It was very entertaining, had a good message and the animation was very impressive -- we recommend it highly. We played with "flying discs" in the park Saturday morning and Collin played with his buddy Jason from this neighborhood Saturday afternoon and we had a slushie date Saturday evening. Today we went to Primary and Sacrament meeting and made it through the whole 3 hours without any tears (way to go Grma & Grpa!), played in the sprinklers, took a nap and made chocolate chip cookies. Bedtimes have been easy and after a few tickling and scratching sessions, Collin has gone right to sleep -- us too-- we are all sleeping like babies (exhausted babies). We're so glad we could have Collin all to ourselves for all this time and that Cam and LaRane could have this great get away. Drive safe... see you soon.