Big Baby

Kim will blog later, but she had Zane around midnight last night!! Weighing in at 9lbs 2oz. We wish her well, and hope she gets lots of rest in the hospital
Mom

camping food assignments

pat - sat. dinner

rich/buffy - sun. breakfast

sunday lunch- west yellowstone

val/todd - sunday dinner

trent/kylie - monday breakfast

rich/buffy - monday lunch

we are bringing our camp chef - it has a burner for pots or pans and a griddle for pancakes/french toast - all are welcome to use it.

we are doing - pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch.

Birthdays?

How were mom and Todd's birthday's? We left a message on Val's phone for Todd and tried to call mom yesterday with no luck! Any birthday miracles or mishaps?

Camping Labor Day weekend

For those of you coming camping with us over Labor Day weekend here is a link to the camp site so you can see the place we will be staying. The sites have been reserved for Sat. and Sun. night. check in is at 1pm and check out is at 11am. Start thinking about meal ideas and how and what we want to do there. We have our camp chef we will take. Hopefully the weather is good for us.
We are very excited!

www.madisonarmresort.com

Top of Utah Half Marathon

Rich, Buffy, Valerie and I all ran in the Top of Utah Half Marathon this morning. Rich got the gold star with a time of 1:55:43, while I finished in 2:04:50, Buffy in 2:05:43 and Valerie in 2:12:42. Everyone did awesome and we had a great time doing it, even though right now my knees aren't very happy with me. There were roughly 1200 runners, which made for an interesting start to the race. Thanks to Trent and Kylie for letting us stay with them and for taking care of Charlotte while we ran. As you can see from the pictures, getting bloody nipples from running is not a myth. The funny thing is that I have no idea when the bleeding started. I didn't even know that I had what looked like a bullet wound until Valerie finished the race and was the first one to be honest with me. Trent assured me that I wasn't the first or the worst bloody nipple martyr. Apparently a man finished in front of me with TWO bloody nipples and a stream of blood flowing down his shirt from each (sorry for the gory details, but I suppose it goes along with Brad's last post.)

They must be stopped

Alison actually accused me and Rich. One thing is sure, this must end! Also, this might be taken off the blog soon, so enjoy it before I think better of it.

Ty's riding on 2 wheels

On Monday Ty was riding the exercise bike while I was running on the treadmill - he can pedal pretty fast on it.  The rest of the day he kept asking for a bigger bike to ride, his is so tiny and has training wheels that are worn down to almost nothing.  So Tuesday evening we went over to the church parking lot and took off the training wheels.  After about 30 minutes he was riding up and down the side walk in front of our house.  He is still a little shaky and when he gets nervous he puts his feet down but he does pretty good.  Today he was learning to start on his own with out me holding the bike, he did it a few times.  

Triathlon

Some pictures of the triathlon that Riley and Kade did on Saturday. Riley took third in her age division for girls and I believe Kade took second in his age group. Apparently it isn't clear how many participants there were, but we like to hope there were at least four girls in Riley's division. We also had to throw in a picture of Macie after she completed roughly 20 swan dives in our backyard pool!

No one can dispute impact of first week.

"my car needs a band-aid"

"With or Without the Rope"

I'll try and get the videos posted on the Madsen Family Web-Site but for now all those wanting to see Todd's adventures at Palisades can watch the three part video extravaganza on our blog. (trentandkylie@blogspot.com) we had some issues with the video, I'll try and get it up tomorrow after work on this blog.

video of Johnson Family

We were happy that Val and Todd and girls were able to come over and play on the slide.


Riley was so brave and would do anything she saw Kade doing.

THE SLIDE

I couldn't get any more pictures to upload for some reason - but I think I got a few videos to upload. This was a surprise for our friends. They drove up from Utah on Friday morning and we had this set up and waiting for them in our backyard. I think the adults played on it more than the kids - it was SO fun! I am sure we broke every rule that came with it - but luckily no one got hurt. What a great day!