We had a great Johnson family reunion at the lake house! We skied, tubed, surfed, played ping pong, watched movies and ate delicious food (that I made. HA). The cousins always love being together. There is never a dull moment with them! It is so fun to see my sisters and brother but we missed the rest of you that didn't make it. The weather turned out great and we didn't have any accidents this year! YAH!!! A few of us biked the Haiwatha trail again this year. Only a few crashes. If you want to see more pictures check out Shannons blog - she is the picture taking queen!
Boston, Shae and Savannah right before heading into the 2 mile tunnel!
My big brother and I
The whole crew - My sister Shannon brought all her kids - 2 buggies full! There was a point on the ride where Grace wished she could be in a buggy!
Grace learned how to water ski this year!
Savannah learned how to Wake board
This is what happens when we leave Aunt Jill in charge of the crazies!
feeling a little white trashy!
Here are the little tubers
Here are the Middle size tubers
Here are the Crazy tubers that love to have Uncle Cory Drive
Yes it has produced a few injuries
Good ol' boat driver - with the famous Vacation shirt
Well Lauren and I ran in a 185 mile relay this last weekend from Spokane to Sandpoint. We were on a team of 12 people and each person ran 3 legs that equaled a half marathon or more. We were asked last minute and so only had about 2 weeks to prepare. I had been running and biking all summer but Lauren had just been working. So our training was pretty limited! Laurens legs were 7.8 mile which she ran in 72 minutes, a 4 mile and a 3 mile which ended up being at 3:00 in the morning! CRAZY! I ran a 6 mile, 2.5 mile and a 5.3 mile. We were pretty happy with our times - we ran 10 minute miles at our slowest! Which is pretty good for me - my short run was actually a 9 1/2 min mile which is really fast for this old woman! It was a unique race where your team ran through silverwood (local theme park) and rode the rollercoaster together as part of the race. But the race was crazy and dangerous. Our first leg a women got hit by a car crossing a 4 lane highway and was taken to the hospital for a broken leg and bruised hip and then our last leg two people got hit by a drunk driver only about 30 minutes behind us and were life flighted to the hospital and one died. The other is in critical condition! CRAZY! So the race was shut down! We ended up finishing all our legs but the second van on our team didn't get to finish theirs so we all just went home! It was dissappointing and shocking all at the same time! You didn't know how to feel! We are not too sore today and are thinking of running a real 1/2 marathon where you show up to run - run the race and then go home - no more middle of the night stuff for me! I am too old for that! We are keeping those poor families who were affected by the accidents in our thoughts and prayers!
Lauren and I running - she was giving me water
riding the rollercoaster with our team
