Leaves

Austin enjoyed riding his bike into the leaves more than running and jumping in them

Austin enjoying the leaves

La La taking her turn in the leaves

While the rest of the country is dealing with record cold temperatures, we were raking leaves in tee-shirts--that still amazes me. Jeremiah and I spent some hours in the yard this weekend, finally picking up the leaves. It was fun while it lasted! Austin and I started to rake the leaves on Monday and by Saturday they were gone. He seemed to enjoy riding his bike into the leaves more than running and jumping in them.

Austin picture documentary

This is going to be a series because I can't get him to stop! Every time we download pictures to the computer there are always pictures from Austin. He is very sneaky. I think he was trying to tell me that he loved me.....what do you think?

Family Christmas Pictures

My mom hired a photographer to take some family group pictures. . We would like to see all of the pictures that were taken that day. My mom got 15 incredible group shots hand picked by the photgrapher. By far; the best picture is of Makenzie and me.

Jeremiah's Elk

Jeremiah went hunting two weeks ago and shot a huge elk. His size was 6 X 6 (which I'm told is the spread of the antlers). The hunting crew was lucky this year and shot 5 Elk out of 6 tags. This is the picture Jeremiah sent me from his cell phone. It isn't the best picture, but considering it was taken with a old cell phone it looks amazing.

Iron Man Support Group

Here are a few pictures of our Iron Man support group. I regret that I didn't take more pictures of everyone that came out to support Jeremiah during the iron man. He was appreciative of everyone that came out. My dad traveled from Iowa and Jennifer traveled from Utah to be there

Iron Man

Jeremiah right before the start of the race.

Jeremiah running to his bike after the swim!
If you look closely you can see Austin holding up his sign behind the johns.

Results

Swim 2.4 miles Time: 1:22:50

1st lap on the bike


The kids were happy to cheer on Iron Daddy.

This is a picture I took of Jeremiah right before he changed his cloths to run.

Results:

Bike: 112 miles Time: 7:14:15

Jeremiah started to look exhausted by this point.

Results

Run 26.2 miles Time: 6:27:15

Jeremiah Johnson, you are an IRON MAN

Overall Time: 15:31:21

To See the Arizona Iron Man Video click: http://www.ironmancenter.com/index.php?dir=RaceVids/imarz&vidname=RaceVid-2009-ARZ-high&playtype=mov&w=480&h=400

Pre-Iron Man

Kids Iron Man 1-Mile Run

Dry Canning at Home

Last week we finally got around to dry canning and believe it or not, we nearly finished. Austin can barely write, but here he is giving his best effort. All the cans Kenzie helped label were dazzled with flowers and smiley faces.

Happy Halloween 2009

We had a good Halloween in 2009. The family went to the neighborhood party and afterwords went door to door trick-or-treating. We ended the night around 8:00 and headed home for movies. We never got around to carving pumpkins but I did manage to make Kenzie's Mermaid costume and that was a huge accomplishment this year. Austin wouldn't want to be anyone but Spiderman and Jeremiah accompanied him by dressing up as the green goblin.