Jason's Parents are Coming

So, I think that we have finally recovered from the Triathlon last weekend. I might even go running tonight. Now that I've done one I want to see if I can do more. My true goal is to finish a full Olympic Triathlon (1 mile swim, 25 mile bike, 6.4 mile run). It is going to take some work, but I think it's worth it.

My parents are coming into town on Saturday and staying through Labor Day. We'll have to take some pictures to add to the blog. We have a friend that would give them tickets to the BYU Football Game (Box Seats!!!) but they don't know what time they will get here. Either way, Adrienne and I are going to the game (GO COUGARS!!!). Hopefully we'll get to catch up with my sister, Sarah, too. We still haven't seen her since she got back from Australia.

We are still working on some adoption stuff. There's a new policy with the financial forms, so we have to fill that out again. Also, we have to finish our online profile so that can be posted. Everything takes time, but we'll get it done.

WE FINISHED!!!

Saturday was the Share-A-Smile Triathlon. We were able to finish and had a great experience. Our friends Dan and Kim sacrificed sleep so that we could have some pictures to share with everyone. It takes true friends to get up at the crack of dawn for a 7 AM race start just to take pictures. Afterwards we took them out to breakfast at Cracker Barrel as a thank you.

Adrienne was 14th or 15th out of all the Women's Novice Division. It took her 1 hour and 34 seconds to swim 1/8 mile, bike 5 miles and run 1.6 miles.

I was in the Sprint Division and they broke it up by age groups. I took 8th in the 30-39 year old men and 30th overall for men. My total time was 1 hour 22 minutes and 46 seconds. The Sprint distances were 1/4 mile swim, 10 mile bike and 3.2 mile run.

Fun Times

Yesterday was a pretty good day. Right after work Adrienne and I both went running to train for the Triathlon. I'm glad we are starting with this shorter one to get into the whole swing of things. I was really excited because I was able to finish a 5K without walking or stopping for the first time...in fact it took less than 31 minutes.

After we ran it was time to go to my company's summer party. It's always fun to get together with everyone's families. We kicked around a soccer ball for a while and later played volleyball. Of course there was a potluck. The food was great.

Adrienne is coming to my office after lunch to start our picture collage. We have a bunch of photos picked out and one of the graphics designers at my office is going to help us put it together. Also, we get to do our home inspection with our Case Worker at 4:30 this afternoon. I'm excited to find out what we need to do to get our home ready. We've already bought door handle covers, outlet covers, a safety gate and a fire extinguisher.

Updates

We finally began our birth parent letter for the adoption papers. It's a strange thing to write a letter to tons of people you've never met before. We're about halfway through the first draft. Hopefully we can finish that draft tonight and get it emailed over to our case worker so she can give some insight on how to edit it further.

Tuesday night I went to the Orem Rec Center to start training for the Triathlon. My plan was to run at least a mile and swim some. I ended up doing the distances for all three stages of the triathlon in opposite order. It took 1 hour and 17 minutes total to do all three parts. That makes me excited for the actual race. I'll be going down to the Rec center again tonight to do some more...wish me luck.

Last night was Heidi's 21st birthday (Adrienne's youngest sister). We met for dinner at California Pizza Kitchen and had a great time catching up with Heidi and her boyfriend.