1st of all, my camera is broken, so pictures have suddenly come to a halt. Sad for all involved, so you'll have to endure with the endless chatter without illustrations. If you have any suggestions on a camera I've got to start doing research and would love to hear if you like your camera and what it is...
1st I need to tell you about John. It's been a busy couple of weeks for him, not just with re-siding the house but also with the work, the RAGNAR, Dance Festival and Young Men's (YM). Last Thursday, the 24th of July-while most people who are LDS were celebrating Pioneer Day John, his sister Ashley, and a few people from work took a quick trip down to Portland to visit NIKE where they were having a SPARQ Event, My Better Challenge. I'm not very familiar with it, but to my understanding it is a challenge for High School aged kids and is about proving that one's better is better than another's better. (Did you follow that? If not you're pry on the same page as I am.) They came home pretty excited about what they'd seen and being able to be on the Beaverton NIKE Campus and was pretty impressed with the set up they have going on there.
Friday morning John woke up, got the IPod all loaded up and headed to the Ragnar Relay Race. I guess they have these in quite a few states, this one was from Blaine to Langley a total of 189 miles. There were 12 people on the team-most of them were health care providers and they finished the race in 21 hours. Not too shabby if you ask me. John did particularly well-his results being: Leg #1: 4.5 miles in 25 minutes (this included a HUGE hill with a 500 ft elevation gain, Leg #2: 8.5 miles in 62 minutes (which he started at 10:30 at night) and Leg #3: 6.6 miles in 50 minutes. His legs were pretty tired by the end but he came home in high spirits doning a nice medal. (Pictures to come soon :)).
John is the Young Men's president so Saturday night we packed the kids up in the truck and headed to the Tacoma Dome to see the Youth of our ward perform in the Dance Festival. This was a Multi-Stake performance that involved 2500 kids around the area including Graham, Lakewood & Olympia just to name a few. The kids did a great job and it was a lot of fun to see. McKenna loved it and on more than one occassion was up dancing and asking John and I to join her. I'm thinking we've really got to get her involved in some dance classes-not for the skill just because she loves it so much.
4 comments:
Wow he sounds busy! I def. say he deserved that medal! Way to go John!
oops I also forgot to say that i'm sorry your camera broke. What happened to it?
I don't really know any new cameras because i've had mine for years, but my parents bought me a Canon after tons of research. I actually have two Canon cameras and it's a very good brand. Simple to use with lots of cool features. They're the best. That's what I recommend.
Wow sounds like you guys have been having fun! On the note of the camera I have a SONY Cybershot 7.2 megapixels! And I LOVE it! Bryce got it for me about 2 years ago and it has been so great!
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