Mom, Dad, and Lori Visit

We rented a pontoon when my parents and Lori came to visit last weekend. I really enjoy riding up and down the Inland Waterway. The Indian River was closed for some races, but that was ok becuase just doing the Crooked River gave us time to get back to Petoskey for the Craft Fair in the park. And we saw the Lipizzaner Stalions (http://www.lipizzaner.com/) that night too. Can you tell my family likes to go, go, go on vacations??!!

Here is Diesel getting loving at the very beginning of the trip.

And a little bit later on checking out the Lock.

Lori decided that after spending as much time on the water as she does, it was about time she tried to actually drive a boat. She did great! And Lori got a good picture of the Clock Tower. I'm kinda gonna miss pictures like this even though I feel like I see a million of the right now!!

Triathlon

My parents and Lori came up last weekend for a visit and stayed long enough to watch my first triathlon! It was actually really fun and I did well. Lori took some great pictures. The first one show us all milling around near the start of the swim.

The next one shows us swimming. Don't ask me which one is me. I have no idea. I think I finished 5th in the swim, but I passed a number of people, so I wasn't 5th at this point.

And here is me running. My best event, but definately the most tiring!

I got second overall for the women, which was really fun ... but I can't say the competition was all that stiff! Still, it was nice to get a plaque for my first attempt!

House for Sale

Our house was listed for sale on Monday, and I already had one showing (yeah!!!). Turns out we didn't have enough trees for them, but they liked the house, so I felt good about that. Tanner and I (and several other very nice friends!) worked long and hard to get it looking this great. Check out our hard work at http://www.realtor.com/realestate/petoskey-mi-49770-1102237394/

And our realtor put together a virtual tour: http://www.visualtour.com/shownp.asp?T=1644439

Tanner still has the camera, but our realtor took great pictures!!

Almost Alone

I don't have any pictures this time because Tanner took the camera (I think accidentally?). So I will keep this short, but wanted you to know that if I had a camera, I would show you how awesome our house looks. New paint, spotlessly clean basement, new stepping stones to the front door, new gutters, even a new deck!
It is already feeling very quiet here. Honestly, I was kinda looking forward to Tanner leaving so I could really get the place clean (and keep it clean!) and things have been tense with the stress of getting everything ready. But he's barely been gone a day and it is weird with just me and the dogs. So this morning, right over the farmer's field was a huge, bright, complete arched, double rainbow. It kinda felt like God was reminding me that he would take care of me. So between the dogs and God, I'm being watched over!
The good news is Tanner is coming back this weekend. Then you will get pictures!