Triathlon Day

My triathlon race was on Saturday and I had so much fun. I did it with my friend Rachel and my aunt Amber. This was my first triathlon and I wanted to do it in under 2 hours. My final race time was one hour and fifty minutes. I am a little disappointed in my transition times (the time between swimming and biking, and then biking and running) I took way too long during that time and it really brought my final time up. But for my first race I guess I shouldn't get too down.
Tony and the girls were there cheering me on. Jared and Heather came during the swim. I was so grateful for all their support and cheers!

The swim was the first leg. I was a little worried because I have only been training in a swimming pool, and it is totally different in open water. You can't see because it is lake water, so I got kicked a lot, and people swim into you because there is no lanes! The swimming was 750 meters and I swam that in 29 minutes. I was pretty proud of myself! I just learned how to swim at the SUU pool 3 weeks ago, and I was incredibly nervous.



This is the transition point. I am taking off my wet suit and getting ready to bike. Amber is on the left she has her helmet on.

The second leg of the race was the bike. It was 13 miles and my time on that was 43 minutes.

Finally the 5K. My legs felt like rubber, and it was hard to transition from biking to running. I felt like I was running in slow motion. It was like my legs wouldn't move. I ran it in 25 minutes

"We did it!" Me, and Rachel, and Amber after the race! You girls rock, and I am glad that we did it together!

Benson Family Reunion

This last weekend we went to my family reunion. My parents were in charge of it this year, and they decided to do a "Survivor" theme reunion. It was amazing! The first night we had a "luau" in my parents backyard. We broke up into "tribes," and had our first challenge where we had to come up with a name for our tribe and make a flag to represent us. Our tribe won with the best flag! During this challenge my mom got Polynesian dancers to entertain us! My favorite was the "fire dancers!"

The second day we went up Provo canyon, and continued to dominate in the challenges! :) I don't have pictures of everything that my parents did for these challenges, but it was incredible. First, they had huge puzzle pieces that my dad had cut out of plywood. These were scattered around the Provo river trail and we had to gather all of them by using clues that my mom had made. Once we gathered all the bundles of pieces the kids had to put the 4 foot x 4 foot puzzle together. The other challenge was just as amazing, but hard to describe, I really should have gotten more pictures! Basically it was a memory game using tiles, and one person had to ride their bike 3 miles round trip to a legend that had 16 different tiles, memorize it, then put it together on a wooden frame. My uncle Mark is an animal, and totally won this challenge for us! Mark, you are our hero!
That night we went to Rock canyon and my parents had set up this huge slip n' slide. It was a blast! Unfortunately, there was a few injuries, but it is bound to happen when you have a 100 ft slip n' slide!

Tony and Sophie

My dad, Tony, and my brother Jared

I love Maddie's' face in this picture of her and my dad going down the slide!

Me, my mom, and Heather getting ready to go down the slide


This picture of us girls at the bottom of the hill makes me laugh!

Madilynn with some of our cousins.

It was a wonderful weekend, and I am so grateful for my parents and all the work they put into it. We will never forget the memories that we made. We love you!

Sophie is doing a new trick that she learned!

Kenny Chesney

Last Friday tONY surprised me by taking me to lAS vEGAS to the kENNY cHESNEY concert!



We went with our friends who also surprised their wives with tickets. We left home early enough to go to "The Cheesecake Factory." I have never eaten there before, and I thought it was amazing. The menu was making me have anxiety because it is like a novel!

kRISTEN and jASON ordered Fried Macaroni balls that were so good, and I have been craving them since! (thanks a lot, you guys!)


The concert was a lot of fun too. I actually don't know any of kENNY cHESNEY songs, so I wasn't able to sing the lyrics. But I still had fun, and of course, I love to dance like a nut bar! Then uNCLE cRACKER came out and sang some songs that I knew. In fact I think I knew the songs better than he did because he was totally wasted! It was his birthday that day, and he looked like he was struggling to just stand up!

kYLE and aSHLEY were really the only couple who listen to kENNY cHESNEY. They knew every song, so they were rockin' out. I'm just glad that Ashley didn't go into labor!

Here is a pic of just the girls! oh, and tONY!

I don't even know?!

So, I am running a triathlon on Saturday and the other night I came out wearing the whole get up that I have to wear when I do the swimming portion of the race. Tony and I were laughing so hard, and without my knowledge as I was "air swimming" Tony was recording me. Don't ask me why I am posting this picture of me for everyone to see, but every time I see this picture I start laughing again!
The other thing that happened when I was wearing this stuff was at the pool where I train. One morning I was doing laps and another swimmer told me that I looked familiar!! What!? Apparently I looked like someone else. I seriously hope that nobody recognizes me when I am wearing a swim cap and goggles!

Check out my band!

For Mother's day all my mom wanted was Playstation 3 and "Rockband!" So here is my fam rockin' out! It was a lot of fun!
I wonder if there is a way to get other songs. If there was then I would be all for Flo Rida "apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur.....Shawty got low, low ,low!!

Too much fun!

We have so much fun when we get together with our friends! The other night we had a barbecue at our house and after dinner we played games. We were right in the middle of an intense game of cards when we heard a cry. Our friend Lacey went in to check on the kids, and what she found was our bath tub filled to the rim with water and items from my cabinet and drawers!
While the adults were oblivious this is what was going on! Luckily the only thing that was ruined was a box of tampons and maxi pads! (which are surprisingly much more absorbent than you would think!!)