Triathlon

Tracy and I completed the Gater Grinder Triathlon on May 10th. It was my second year. I enjoyed it a lot more and was not quite so nervous. Tracy did a great job for his first time. He worked really hard at improving his swimming and I think he did a great job.

Tracy's swim time for 500 meters was 13 min 21 seconds.

His bike time for 12 miles was 46:45 min/sec., and his 5k run was 32:21 min/sec.

His overall time was 1:38:16 hr/min/sec.

Heather's times were:

swim 9:17 min/sec, bike 46:27 min/sec, run 39:07 min/sec

overall time 1:40:20 hr/min/sec

I added a few minutes from last year, but like I said, I had a lot more fun:)

Joshua's Activities

Josh turned 11 years old on April 4th. We had a wild party for him and his buddies at Safari Sam's. Here are a few pics of the party.

He also received his Arrow of light award in Cub Scouts and advanced to Boy Scouts. Josh is an awesome son and a very honest Boy Scout. We are very proud to be his parents.

Erica's spring activities

Erica has been just as busy as the rest of us. She is playing soccor, had a violin recital, and school music concert. She is also in the Hansel and Gretal ballet with Megan.

Here is a video of Erica singing her duet with her friend for the school music concert.

She also had fun at soccer. Her favorite position is goalie.

She also had a violin recital and did a great job. This is Erica with her violin teacher Anna Rapp. She is an amazaing woman and I hope I have as much energy and enthusiasm for life as she does when I am her age. She will definitly be somene we will miss when we move.

I will add a video of the recital when I get it downloaded to my computer.

We found a new house.

We are happy to announce we found a wonderful home in Gig Harbor. It is a few blocks from both the schools the kids will be attending and walking distance to Kopichuck State park for hiking and exploring. We went up last Friday for the home inspection and everything looks great. It was built in 1993, but totally remodeled last year. It has beautiful full length windows in the living room and kitchen that have a full view of Mt. Rainer(when the clouds are absent).


Here are a few pics.

This is the view of the living room as you walk in the front door.

This is the kitchen.

Here is the view of the basement great room as you come down the stairs. It has a bar area with a fridge and a sink. The office is the door you see in the middle of the picture.

The kids are most excited to have their own rooms.

Try this link for a video tour.

http://tours.tourfactory.com/tours/tour.asp?t=364554