Father's Day and AC Challenge Half

Since I was so happy with our new garden, I invited my family to come to Philly for Father's Day last weekend. The whole crew came in from Kutztown and brought a whole DIY pizza picnic. The garden was a hit and I loved having the family to spend time at our house.

I even got Timmy a "Come with me kitty" leash so he can now go outside with us! He doesn't love it but he does love being outside!

After dinner we headed to the Vynamic office to show my family my new office and celebrate my Grandma's 85th birthday on the roofdeck. On Friday I was very surprised to find out that I was promoted, so my family brought champagne to celebrate as well! My Grandma told me it was the "best birthday she has ever had," so I would call that a success!

This year Andrew has really dedicated his time to training for triathlons, so we kicked off the season with the AC Challenge Half Ironman this weekend. His friends from Penn State tri club came into town and we loaded the Civic up with lots of bikes and headed to Atlantic City to get ready for the race.

When the boys signed up for the race months ago, we had hoped for a beautiful day on the beach on Saturday and a potentially sunny, hot day on race day. The weather on Saturday was horrendous, 70 and very rainy, but we made the best of it and spent Saturday afternoon on the boardwalk.

We were up early on Sunday morning (3:30am, yikes!) to find that the weather had finally cleared up. All the rain cooled off the water so the boys lucked out with a wetsuit swim in the bay.

We didn't see the boys on the bike at all so the next time I saw Andrew was on the run. To my surprise, he was in 1st place! I was totally not expecting to see him winning the race and hoped he would be able to hold on - and he did! He won the entire race, it was crazy!

The rest of the boys did awesome as well! Dan got 1st in his age group and 7th overall, Buda got 3rd in his age group, and Marc got 5th in his age group! Our Air BnB house killed it!

We spent the afternoon hanging out on the boardwalk, watching the racers come in, and waiting for the awards ceremony. The race medals up to 5 places so all the boys got to stand on the podium!

It was a really fun weekend and a great way to start off the tri season. I was especially happy to get home and show Mer Mer my new shirt! Only 4 more weeks until we are in Sonoma for the Vineman full Ironman!