Its been a busy weekend!! We've had a water leak at our place in Roosevelt! When LaVerl turned off the main water meter, the meter was still running which would mean--another high water bill! So Tonto Basin Water Co. had to come put in a new meter.
He worked hard all weekend, fixing water leaks, cutting and burning lots of over growth of trees, painting fences and general cleaning! We haven't spent much time there in the last few years!
I left him there and went to Queen Creek. Lisa & I painted two bedrooms on Friday. Getting ready for babies!
Mark & family arrived late Friday. Saturday we all headed out to Fort McDowell for the big Spartan event. I went to help watch kids. Mark's oldest 4 and Bret's oldest 3 all participated in events. They set up a course over hills and have obstacles like mud holes, tires, walls, etc they have to go through. Its an endurance test of strength and stamina.
The younger kids did a one mile course. Their Dad's ran with them.
Carrying Daxxon around all day was a strength test for both Mark and Holly. He's a chunk!!
I think its so good for kids to learn that they can do hard things!
Their shirts said, "Finisher. Earned not given."
They all got really nice shirts and super cool medals!
Mark & Bret did a 10 mile obstacle course. It was tough! It took them over two hours!!
A 'before' picture when they were still nice a clean!
The starting line-up for the 12 o'clock run. Lots of people come to these events- its amazing!
Kingston (looking very determined!) and Kaemon getting ready for their 2 miler.
Mark's & Bret's race ended here in the arena where the people in the stands could watch some of the events. This was after they'd already ran 10 miles through lots of other strength tests.
This is Bret, he's pretty wiped out at this point! I missed Mark, he came in earlier when we were at the kids' run.
These bars were tough, very few made it across to ring the bell.
Mark was one of the few!!
Here they had to pull a heavy (200 lb)? sand bag up about 20 feet.
Kaemon came in first in this division! Good job!
Milea lost one of her shoes in the second mud bog!
What a day! Everyone was exhausted but feeling good about what they had accomplished!! They all headed home and I headed to Roosevelt to pick up LaVerl.
