Cinco de Mayo on May 3rd

After the Ironman dinner we went over to Jillyn's for a Cinco de Mayo celebration that Laurie and James were doing.  It was awesome!  James had pinata that the kids loved.  Spencer loved to hold the pinata and swing it so that it hit right into the kid that was trying to hit it. Sophie was the good little helper that she always is.

 

Shana was having a great time on this bouncy thing.  It's like a pogo stick without the stick.  Kyle was at the party but just sitting down enjoying the show.  He was still pretty pooped but doing 80% better that earlier.  We absolutely LOVE to spend time with the Wells clan.  The kids too.  David asks all the time when the next time he gets to hang out with Jack is.  Spencer and Shana are going to Hawaii to visit JoEllen and Kyle.  I wish we could stow away in their bags.

IRONMAN 2014

On Saturday May 3rd Joel, Kyle and John ran the Ironman again.  We picked Kyle up and I dropped them both off at the buses that take them out to Sand Hollow to start the race.  They looked happy and ready.

Josh, Ben and I were stationed at mile marker 9 on the bike path.  It was the 2nd area needed for pointers.  Sophie and Brycen were at the first one up the road 5 miles before us.  Both areas had city workers there too so it was so super easy to help out.  We just basically stood there and cheered everyone on.  From where Sophie was she could hear the cannon go off to start the race and all the music and excitement.   4 hours after that we were done.  It was perfect!  We could see that they survived the water and then we could go home watch the last half of David's soccer game and all of Ben's game.  These games were important because they were the FINALS.  Each of them were playing for 1st place plaques and they were excited.  David didn't help out because his game started at 10 that morning and he didn't want to risk missing it.  He is their #1 goalie and scorer but that'll be the next post.  We were right next the Hurricane airport and we got to see 2 differnt airplanes take off and land.  I didn't get a picture of the first one but he was much closer to the ground and looked like he was going to run over a biker.  It was crazy.

John, of course, was the first one to pass us.  He was smiling the entire way.  You could tell he was enjoying every second of the race.

 

Then my friends Sterling Cabana and Tiffany Gust came by.  Both we looking good.

 
 Then came Joel. Here are a couple from the lake that Jolene Ispson took before the swim and as Joel was getting started on his bike. In this group picture if you look right in the middle to the right of the tall guy you'll see Joel and John is in between the front guys fingers.

 

Joel had learned the hard way from last year that he had better stop and let me take a picture or he'd be in BIG trouble.

 

 What a great picture!  And it only took 20 seconds and then he was off.

 Shayne- This is the church right behind Three Falls.  Just so you get some sort of idea of where this all is.  This is also the same road that curves and leads up to Mason's office.

 
Not to far behind was Kyle.  He was doing great but he said that as he was going up Snow Canyon, he hit a wall.  He hadn't been training a whole lot in Hawaii and needed a bit more bike riding.

When we went to see Joel finish I sent Sophie and the little boys over to the bleachers with JoEllen and I stood on the Round-a-bout because I was in official volunteer garb and they weren't letting anyone else stand there.  Josh had run up the street to see if he could find him and came running back yelling at me that Joel was right there.  Needless to say, I wasn't ready and these pictures are kind of blurry.  We were pleasantly surprised to see him because last year we waited for over an hour for him to finish.

 He had knocked 2 hours and 3 minutes off of his time of last year!  It was awesome!  The guitar is the new sculpture that is right in the center of the round-a-bout.  It's really cool.  It's about 20 feet tall.

 

We were so proud of him.  All of his hard work had paid off. 

 John had finished an hour and a half earlier and we were mid soccer at that point so we didn't see him finish but here are some of him that I took off of others people's Facebook pages.

 Next came my friend Wally Brown and I ran into Lance Hiemelright while we were waiting for Kyle.  Matty and Evan decided to keep cool in the fountain.  It was 90 degrees and we were starting to get worried about Kyle.

I decided to go back to the Round-a-bout to see if he was coming and then out of nowhere came KYLE!  We were so relieved.  He looked spent and happy to be done. 

 

I went to the finish to see how he was doing and they were already leaving.  George was helping walk to the van and I called JoEllen to check on them right as he passed out.  I told her that I'd run and get an IV and meet him at their house.

 Two bags of saline later he finally felt better.  He was nauseous and out of it when we started, the bowl was in case he needed to throw up, but was up and walking around a couple hours later.  Thank goodness.
 

Josh took this picture for Sophie.  I swear that girl cannot take a bad photo.  I think I'll start being in photo's with her because all of the ones with her in it even work out.  Later Joel got an IV and was doing great.  We all went to the after race volunteer dinner at the Ironman Village on main street.  It was a fun way to end the race.

Gun Class

May 1st Dr. LaRowe closed the clinic and took us all out to the shooting range.  We had the best time!  It was Kalo's first time ever holding a gun and using a port-a-potty.  It was hilarious.  I have to say that before we went I was a little nervous that someone was going to get shot.  But, Dr. LaRowe and Amy were both going to be there so if you were to get hurt this would be the best time to do it.  Megin and I traded off guns.  I was using Deb LaRowe's 22 caliber pisstol and Meg was using Dr. LaRowes 9mm handgun.  Now don't get me wrong, I love to shoot and have shot my share of clay pidgeons in my life but never before have I shot a handgun.  But, by the end of the day I was ready to take the 22 home with me.  It was a beautiful machine. 

When we first got there they made sure we had out ear and eye protection and then we laid out guns out to see what everyone had.  Sue came up with a backpack that had 3 different guns in it.  It was hiliarious.  And she wore this shirt to make her feel more confident and less scared.  She was super nervous.  The guns belonged to her son and she's been wanting to do this for awhile now and get her concealed weapons permit because she is 71 and lives alone.

 

These were our instructors.  Aaron and Brett.  Later Rowdy (Owner of Rowdy's Range and a UHP Officer) came out to help us and see how well we were doing.    He mainly stayed over by me and Megin.  It was great having him there to give us tips.  I wish I would have gotten a picture of him.  Kalo on the other hand wanted me to take a picture of her every 5 minutes. 

                 

Megin and Dr. LaRowe go shooting a lot.  So naturally they both did a great job.   I am left eye dominate and because of my wacky gene's I do a lot of stuff left handed even though I'm not.  However it paid off  because I am right handed and left eye dominate I have a better aim because the 2 things counter balance each other.  I did a great job.  I dare say that I was the best one there.  Rowdy told me that I was in the wrong kind of work.  I have to admit that there is something very calming to shooting a handgun.  I was able to relieve a lot of tension that day that had been building up over that last month.

Here are more picture's a Kalo.  

 This first one is of Kalo pointing out the name of the Port-a-potty that she had just used.  YUCCA.  The second one is of her being shown by Brett how to shoot "Gansta" style.  It was super funny.

This was as close as I got to a group picture.  Dr. LaRowe had to leave early to go take care of his patients at the care center and for some reason we just didn't think about it until it was too late.

One things for sure...you don't want to mess with the River View Medical Staff.