Betsy's Birthday

Tuesday we spent the afternoon at Provo Rec pool to celebrate Betsy's and Conner's birthdays. We love it there and it's always hard to get my kids to leave at the end of the day. Since it was Charlie's families last day we enjoyed every last minute with them. 

We've been going to this pool every summer as a family since my kids James and Lynnlee were toddlers. It's fun to see the progression since then. I used to spend the whole time in the kiddie pool. Now that everyone can swim and are tall enough for the slides I spent most of the time visiting with my siblings in the shade.

Jarvis Family Extravaganza

The beginning of July is one of the most fun times of the year and also the busiest. We had our second annual Jarvis Extravaganza Monday celebrating America and family birthdays in July, Betsy's and Conner's birthdays Tuesday, the Minis birthday's Wednesday, and Kade's birthday Thursday. It was so much fun and also so exhausting at the same time. 

The Jarvis Extravaganza is pretty much our family reunion for the year. For the past two years all of my siblings have been there and most nieces and nephews. Lily is working in Moab for the summer so she wasn't there this year but otherwise everyone was there. 

It was a fun filled day starting with a pancake breakfast. Throughout the day there was a inflatable water slide for the kids, nine square,  ladder golf, and socializing. That night we had BBQ and talent show. We also took a family picture-not formal or anything but something to remember we were all together. 

At the talent show James played the french horn with my dad accompanying him on the accordian, Lynnlee played the ukelele with Lydia and also did magic tricks throughout, Kade danced to Hamster Dance, Taggart did a mini hot dog eating contest, and Sienna danced to the Muppets.

 

 

My mom got out her cotton candy machine, snow cones maker, and popcorn popper - all previous Mother's Day, Christmas and birthday presents from us kids. So it's fun to use them all. The nieces had a blast making snow cones, cotton candy and popcorn for everyone. 

 

Early that morning the boys went fishing with Grandpa Lowry. They said it was one of the best fishing days ever. The caught twenty fish within a few hours.

I enjoyed a run through Midway that morning.

Family

It’s not very often my siblings are all at the same place and at the same time. When it happens a picture is a must!

Training: Week 6

The beginning of the week started off with a little frustration. I had a ride where my toes kept going numb and then my foot started cramping so bad it was almost immobilizing. I hadn't done anything different. I'm still not sure why my foot cramped but I got some tips on what to do for numb toes and that helped  training the rest of the week. I bought a wet suit so I'm really excited to start practicing open water swim.  

I was really happy with how training went Saturday with combining all three. 

Swim: 1.2 miles - 37 minutes

Bike: 39.3 - 2 hours 3 minutes

Run: 9 miles - 1 hour 23 minutes

My swim time improved, I didn't have any numbness in my toes while biking, and I didn't run in my bike shorts so no chafing. I would say it was a win all around. 

 

The sky was amazing Friday morning.

 

More Summer Fun

We filled the week with more cousin time. Lynnlee did tie dye with her class this year so she thought it would be really fun to do tie dye with cousins.

We went swimming to the Wasatch Aquatic Center and raced down the Wibit.

 

The most favorite activity of the week was the bake sale at my parent's house. Lynnlee helped me make cookies, peanut butter bars, and suckers. It was busy getting ready for it but worth it. They sold out of everything and split the money between all of the cousins.

We ended the week with a picnic, playing at the park, and going to see Peter Rabbit 2.

 

French Horn Recital

James had his first French horn recital. They played three songs. He is making fast progress for only playing since January.

It was suppose to be outside but had to be moved inside because of a storm that came in at the same time.

Training: Week 5

Week 5

Swim: 1.2 miles

Bike: 18.38 miles

Run: 8 miles 

We had a busy morning so I started my swim when the pool opened but it would have been nice to start earlier so I could have had time for a longer bike ride. That is one nice thing about marathon training. I can start as early as I need to. During my last marathong training there were a few times Marshall dropped me off at the top of Suncrest at 3:30 am so I could get a 21 mile run in by 7:30 am. With triathlon training I'm bound by the pool hours. I did a 30 mile bike during the week so I figure it is ok if I biked shorter today.

This week I focused on bike speed swim speed. I did some speed workouts Tuesday and Thursday in the pool and that helped in my overall time today. When I rode Tuesday and Friday I tried to go at a faster speed for the majority of the ride.

Things that went well this week was that I felt like I had plenty of energy, and nutrition was good. The one thing that didn't go well was chaffing while running with my bike shorts but that will be an easy fix. 

View from my ride:

Summer Fun

Charlie's family is in town we filled up every free second spending time with them this week. 

We spent the afternoon at Deer Creek.

We had dinner at my parents and hung out.

Chewie and Rex get along sometimes. This time they both wanted to come inside and I liked how they had the same look on their faces.

 

We spent a day at Splash Summit.

It was a lot of fun at the Lehi parade.

 We are looking forward to more cousin time with everyone else coming to visit next week!