The kids started school a couple days before labor day. Nojah is in 6th grade and Lex in 4th. It's amazing how time flies. It hardly seems fair that they can already be this old. They are great kids and lots of fun to watch grow. Nojah is playing his first year of football and enjoying every moment of it. Lex is playing soccer again and is quite the speed demon. She is becoming more coordinated and turning into quite the athlete. I thought for a moment I had gotten out of coaching this year but the team was too big so now I am committed to helping one of the other mom's again this year. It's always fun to coach as long as I get to see Nojah's games as well. I don't want to miss out on anything!
In between homework, sports, school, and chores the kids have been training for their first big triathlon. They signed up with one of our friends kiddo's, Logan who is on the high school swim team and Nojah committed to the biking portion and Lex to running.
Well, the race was today and it was a success. Nojah biked 13 miles and Lex ran 3 both in record time for them. Tob went along side of them due to traffic and it being their first "adult" race and he said they "jibber jabbered" the whole way. After the race I was convinced if they knew how to swim they could have done the whole thing, due to the abundance of energy they each still had. I also did the race and placed 1st in my age group and one of my best friends Sandy placed first overall. She's such a rock-star. It was only 31 degree's on our way up to the lake so I was a little nervous but all turned out well and my feet were almost thawed out at the end of the run! I may consider it again next year, and I think my little rug rats feel the same :-)
(Nojah, Logan, & Lex (team 5) at the Wallowa Lake Triathon)
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