When I dressed Tripp for church this morning I thought he looked like a cowboy. So I put on his hat and then realized I left the camera in the car overnight. So the camera was cold and it was warm inside, what does that equal? Foggy pics! I actually think they turned out pretty neat, even though it wasn't the intended outcome. So if you're trying to find new effects for pics, just leave your camera in your car during a cold night!
Yeah, he really wasn't in the mood for his picture to be taken, hence the sad/mad face.
Yeah, he really wasn't in the mood for his picture to be taken, hence the sad/mad face.
Now we'll see if he'll leave our cell phone alone.
We weren't feeling as ambitious as we were last year when Randy and I ran the half marathon. We ran the relay marathon which consisted of 6 legs of 4 to 4.5 miles each leg. Randy got us rolling with the first leg. He had to run up a hill and back down. (He's in the yellow shirt and blue socks, nice combo)
Tera (my sis) had the second leg. Which I think is the most beautiful one to run because it goes right through a park and along the river.
I hit up the third leg-the shortest leg at only 4 miles. We had a wrist sweatband as a baton to pass off to each other and after it had been on two sweaty arms I put it in my hair. Randy took this pic right as I was taking it out to pass it to Nick.
We were very glad Nick came at the last minute to run with us so we wouldn't have to run multiple legs. He ran the fourth leg which is the same hill Randy had to run (we went around the same course twice). Nick wanted to beat Randy's time so he started sprinting at the end and beat his time by a minute.
My mom, the birthday girl, ran the fifth leg (pretty one through the park). And we were so busy cheering for her that we forgot to get a pic of her running. so we took a pic of her at the aid station right after.
Joann (mom's friend) finished us off with the sixth leg. Here's a pic of her with our finishing time.
And of course we had to take a pic of all of us at the end. Tripp and Brielle were our mini-marathon support team. Way to go Team CHAOS!
Randy was able to talk Nick into trying the super hot sauce at the pretzel shop. This was the result: 
Another Ice cream shop 
We also decided we needed to eat some brats. Nick and Randy are sporting the jackets we got from the race.
We stayed in a cabin that had this awesome large chess set.
There were also farm animals there to look at. Tripp actually said "bock, bock" to the chickens. -first time he's ever said that. 
and the non-photogenic llama.
Tripp and Brielle ready for bed at the cabin
The only mistake we made was putting him in the wagon. Now we can't seem to get him out of it.
He had his farewell on Sunday that we were able to go and listen to him speak. I think you are going to be an awesome missionary, the Brazilians won't know what hit them!
And I got a new nephew! Born on Friday, here's Titan with his grandpa.
Lyle warming up
Tash,Tripp and Randy sporting Mariner Garbs(with T-Lo's big lips behind us)
Our group took up four rows and about 50 seats
His finale was juggling the flaming torches on top of the enormous unicycle. Randy really wanted to ride this. Randy learned how to ride unicylces when he was in college.
We also watched the hypnotist, and when I say we I mean Randy, I was chasing Tripp around the whole time. One of the participants was supposed to by Bruce Lee and he spoke Chinese to us -pretty entertaining. We also watched a comedy act by the Brothers from other Mothers. They were fun to watch and are actually Guiness World Record holders. Tripp was yelling when they were on stage and one of them pointed at him and said, "Ya, I yell like that when I have poopy diapers too." We loved the Diabolo act. Randy learned how to do diabolo in college too and wanted to show them up. A Diabolo is known as a chinese yo-yo and is pretty fun to play with. I'm not very good at it but Randy could do most of their tricks. Here's a short video of them at the end of their routine: