WOW we have been busy!!!

We had a Back to School Party with our Catholic Women of the Chapel group. It's a small group, but was even smaller due to some bad weather. We started off with decent weather--a few sprinkles and the kids ran relays, played on the playground and just ran around with their friends. The pictures are of the relays. Then it started just absolutely pouring!!!!!!!!!!!! The kids continued to play--got soaked and muddy and had a wonderful time!!! (no pictures of that though--sorry)


Our next news was having a new nephew!!! Baby Grant was born on Friday night!! We are so excited!!! My kids are finally not the only ones! They have a cousin and we have someone else's baby to spoil!

On Saturday, Brendan ran his first Triathlon! He ran 1/2 mile, biked 2 miles, and then swam 75 meters. His time was 19:33. He finished 4th for his age group and 6th overall. We had a technicality and if it wasn't for his mother he would have finished 3rd.--He was really hurting on the biking portion so I insisted upon him wearing a life belt for the swim portion. I wanted to make sure he could finish. Any way, he wore the belt for the 1st 2 laps, on the third he took it off and tossed it up on the side of the pool. Had he not worn the belt, he would have been quicker. The other problem with it was that they were adjusting times for the kids who wore the belts by 10 seconds to account for the time putting it on and the slowing up in the pool--well since Brendan took his off 1/2 way through they didn't realize he wore one when he got out of the pool for the official time so he was not credited--the 3rd place winner didn't wear a belt and finished 9 seconds ahead of Brendan--so if he would have gotten that credit he would have placed 3rd. Oh well, whatever, he did his best--had a great time and can't wait to do another one next summer!!!

Stretching before the race and resting with the 3rd place winner after the race.

Following the Triathlon there was a Back to School BBQ on post. We socialized with everyone!! It's a small post. Then we had hotdogs, the kids got their faces painted, Brendan played in a Dodge ball tournament and they did other various games. It was fun, but following the race, it made for a really long day!

Today, we are just relaxing--we might go to the pool--and not doing much of anything. School starts tomorrow so we are going to enjoy our last day of summer and get to bed early. We really have had a good summer, but we are ready to get back into our routine. We've got one week to adjust to school and then Soccer starts!!! OH JOY!!!!--seriously, I love watching the kids play and they have a great time, but with 3 kids on 3 different teams--it's a bit on the chaotic side. Oh well, just like my blog is titled--Happy Chaos right??!