Triathlon

Jace saw pictures of our friends' kids on Instagram doing a toddler triathlon.  He said he wanted to do one also.  We signed him up for one.  The kids swam 50 yards, biked 1/2 mile, and ran 1/4 mile. He practice his swimming, biking, and running.  He had to use his puddle jumper and training wheels, but he was so cute.  He seemed to be a couple years younger than the next youngest kid (the age group went from age 0-11).  The younger kids got a 5 minute head start.  He was the last one in the pool while the older kids were waiting to go, and they started cheering for him.  It was very sweet.  I was proud of him because he didn't stop in any of the sections.  At the end, one race organizer commented that he smiled the whole time. He got a shirt and a free breakfast after (which he didn't eat). He also won a free race entry to any other race this next year. I think it is awesome that he set a goal and worked to meet it.

Illinois

My mom and I went to Illinois in August.  We arrived on Saturday and went to a nice restaurant for Henry's birthday dinner.  On Sunday, we celebrated Henry's actual birthday with a Harry Potter family party.  We got to see baby Adeline get blessed at church, and Chris was the high council speaker in sacrament meeting so that was a bonus.  We played with Jane and held Adeline while the big kids went to school on Monday. We also got to see the solar eclipse at 90% in Illinois.  Back in Utah, Jace went with Grandma Mayne, Lucian, Kolten, and Talan to see the eclipse in totality.  It took hours for them to get back to Utah- not until 1:00 in the morning! On Monday night we did Henry's birthday piñata. On Tuesday Chris took the day off.  We went to lunch at a wood fire pizza place and on a walk at a nature reserve. On Wednesday we came back home.  Our connecting plane in Chicago got delayed 3.5 hours so we got home much later than expected.  I was very glad we got to go see Chris, his family, and especially the new baby. I am also posting a few pictures of Jace and Violet playing around at home around those same dates.