Altamont Longhorn Days!

Every year Altamont (Where Mac is from) puts on a parade and other fun festivities celebrating Pioneer Day! This year we hit the tail end of it all. We started off early Saturday morning running in a 5k race. We even convinced Coy, Mac's youngest brother, to run with us. After our run we hurried home to get Connor and the grandparents to head off to the parade! Connor loved all the people watching, but he did get a little jumpy when the fire trucks hooted their horns. I think his favorite part was being carried in Grandma's arms though because they seemed to always be in the line of fire of candy being thrown at them from the floats! After a very hot couple of hours in the sun we headed home for a nap and then had a delicious picnic, courtesy of Grandma. We ended our day with picking fresh veggies from Uncle Lynn and Aunt Cheryl's flourishing garden to bring home with us! Thank you so much! It's amazing the quality difference picking fresh veggies from the garden opposed to picking them up at the grocery store. We had a fun-filled weekend and are now getting ready for our big vacation to Alaska coming up this weekend! We can't wait to see G'ma and G'pa Burgan!!!

Xango Echo Triathlon

What a beautiful perfect day we had for our first Triathlon! After months and months of training--oh wait, more like 3 weeks of good hard training we finished our first triathlon. It started off very cold when we arrived around 5:45am. Once we got in the water it had warmed up and the water felt great especially having wetsuits. Mac started 5 mins before I did in his heat @ 7:40am and then I went at 7:45am. We both had a rough swim not used to the open/murky water, but got through it around 21 minutes. Mac had a great bike at 43 mins and I took my sweet ole time in transition-not having a clue at how much time I had wasted,which ended up being 7 minutes! My bike took about 50 mins which I attribute to the constant up-climb at the end. Mac and I both took our time on the run portion and did it around 29 mins. It was great though because we passed each other 3 times throughout the race and were able to cheer each other on.
Grandma Burton, Uncle Jared, and Connor were there cheering us on! It really meant a lot to us. So, overall Mac finished in 1 hour and 40mins while I was 1 hour and 50 mins. We were really happy with how everything went and hope to do more in the future!
P.S. For those who saw the picture of Mac in his wetsuit, he made me take it off the blog. He didn't think it was the most attractive picture of him. I told him wetsuits aren't the most flattering piece of clothing.

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This past weekend we had the PRCA Rodeo in town! This was only my second rodeo and I loved it! I think Connor liked it so much because of all the music they played...he was a dancing/head bopping machine! It was really cute to watch him. Our little family even got some air time when they showed us up on the big screen. Mac and I both agreed it was our cute little Con-man who stole the show! The announcer man who tells all the jokes with the clown got a kick out of Mac feeding Connor a bottle while I was relaxing and made a spectacle out of it. I think we both got a little red, but it was a fun time!

Happy 4th of July!

For not having any plans for the 4th we sure partied hard! Mac's family came into town, so we got a picnic together and drove up Dry Fork Canyon to eat at a park and then found some hiking trails that took us up to see some petroglyphs (sp?). We were so full from lunch that is was good the hike wasn't too long because otherwise I don't think we would've made it. As you can see Connor was pooped out sitting in his car seat on our way home. After a nice lunch and hike we all crashed out on the floor watching The Italian Job and took a little nap. Mac and I took Coy to see the new rec center and go swimming! We're down to just 1 week til Mac and I do the Xango Echo Triathlon here!! We went to lap swim earlier today and I asked the lifeguard if we looked okay or had any advice and she said we're looking good, so I guess we're on our way! We're pretty excited...we'll let you know how it goes.

Our Picnic

This past weekend we went to stay with Mac's parents in Talmage. Mac and Colton got up early Saturday morning to go fly fishing at Moon Lake and the rest of us met up with them for lunch and had a wonderful picnic. It was the perfect day-not too hot, not too cold! Connor's getting lots of practice walking with Grandma! Oh on a side note Mac and Colton didn't exactly provide us with fresh fish for lunch, but they did catch 4 fish (supposedly) but said they threw them back in.

Finally....

We are finally back on-line!!! As of this morning the internet guys came and hooked us up! I will have no more excuses for not keeping everyone updated and I couldn't be more happy. These are pictures from our first little hiking trip as a family here in Vernal, Utah! Red Fleet State Park was beautiful and you can see by the scenic picuture why it's called Red Fleet...the mountains look like big ships (can you see it?).