Catch up time...long

I know it has been way too long since I've last posted. I would love to catch up and post about everything that has happened in the last 6 weeks, but that would take forever. Instead I'll try my best to do a quick recap. I've included lots of photos.

Shortly after Jack was born Sean and I went up to Northern Virginia to play with Anna and Lucy and to meet our new nephew Jack Byrne.

Sean enjoys visiting his nieces and meeting Jack

Anna loves acting out for the camera

Lucy

Holding my new nephew

The beginning of October we took a trip to NY for Sean's 20th High School Reunion. We spent a day in the city where I got to see my friends Jess and Maria and got to hang out with Sean's parents, his sister Tara and Alana and play with our other niece and nephew Ella and Alex.

Meeting up with Jess in the City. She was my roommate during my Mercy Volunteer Corps orientation over 6 years ago!

Top of the Rock, Rockefeller in NYC

It was such a nice day

Maria met us in the city for dinner

At Sean's HS reunion, a group photo, he hid in the back somewhere.

Alex

Ella

Sean and I had our last Triathlon of the season, our third of the year and Sean was pleased that he finally beat me. I'll have to train harder so that doesn't happen again. His parent's were in town celebrating their 39th anniversary and they were able to watch our Triathlon, take photos and cheer us on.

A pre-race photo

and the swim begins!

Sean starts a few minutes behind me

Swim is done, transition time

Running to my bike

Sean runs to his bike

Sean's off with his bike

I'm back from the bike, time to transition to the run

Sean's done the bike too

Finishing the run

Sean finishes as well

Smiling for our picture with Sean's parents

Overall results:
400 meter swim/T1/20k bike/T2/5k run/Total Time
Tricia: 9:23/2:43/45:02/1:05/25:13/1:23:24
Sean: 9:05/2:40/39:46/1:27/28:48/1:21:43

We took a trip to Phoenix to visit my Sister Amie and her husband Jay. We surprised her by having my younger sister from Vermont come for the weekend as well.

So good to see you Amie!

Surprise Stacy is here!

I love surprising people especially Amie Leigh!

Sliding into the bar

Having fun hanging out with Amie

Sisters!

Brothers (in-law)

Crazy Sisters

Spa day with Amie & Stacy

Hiking up Squaw Peak

At the top of Squaw Peak

The group of us

Ouch! Sitting on a cactus

Out for Amie's birthday, picking up my new BFF

Us girls, and the last photo Stacy let us take

Happy Amie

We raced the Wicked 10K in Virginia Beach, and celebrated Halloween with friends.

Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman's sister in pink and turquoise

.You better watch out!

Sean and I before the race

It was a warm Halloween day

Go Sean, Go!

The first and last time I don't put my hair up in a ponytail

Almost finished, less than a 1/4 mile to go!

Enjoying Halloween with friends in the evening

It's a BOY!

Congratulations to Sean's sister Amy and her husband Scott on the newest arrival to their family.

Jack Byrne

Born yesterday September 22nd at 2:18pm, 8 lbs 11oz and 21" long, small in comparison to his sisters who were both over 9 lbs.   

So precious!

The proud older sisters meet their new little brother

I can't wait to meet to meet Jack!

Fun in North Carolina

Sean and I just got back from a quick weekend in North Carolina furniture shopping. We arrived at Furnitureland South a little after 10 in the morning. Sean had been here before about 8 years ago when he had bought some of the other furniture in our house. When he went before it was about 600,000 square feet of furniture, now they have expanded and claim to have 1.2 million square feet of furniture. They claim to have the largest retail furniture showcase in the world.

There was a six story dresser outside their store. Of course Sean and I both had to pose with it.

We had a long day of shopping and luckily at the end of the day (around 5 pm) we decided on and purchased a couch! The only bad news is that it's going to take until after the New Year for us to receive. Apparently the couch we chose is made in Italy, the leather comes from Brazil and it takes about 20 weeks to make/deliver. Sounds fancy. So this will be an exciting Christmas present, once it actually gets here. Actually it's a delayed wedding gift, since we decided to use the money we got from the wedding for this wonderful couch. Pictures will have to wait until it gets here.

After couch shopping we drove to Raleigh to meet up with our friend Brett. We met Brett through my sister Amie and Jay. He's one of their Westwind Arizona buddies since he used to live out in Phoenix near them, but now lives in Raleigh and NYC. Luckily he was in Raleigh this weekend so we could meet up. Brett was also kind enough to let us crash at his place so we didn't have to get a hotel.

We met Brett and his friend Wes at Fox and the Hound, a local bar that was playing the Washington and USC game. When we arrived there was only about 15 minutes left in the game. The game was pretty exciting and Brett being a huge Washington fan was pretty excited, especially after the Huskies won. Apparently they didn't win any games last year and this was a huge upset, Brett was psyched!

Taken shortly after Washington wins. Brett is psyched!

After the game we went and had delicious Sushi and then we were trying to decide what to do.

When this caught our eye...

Of course we decided to go over and check it out. I ask Sean and Brett to smile and they both do this almost immediately. It was too funny.


I believe this was the most expensive candy store known to man. I got a box of nerds for $2.79, didn't they used to be 50 cents? We all got way more candy then we needed, and Brett found flavored crickets, they were pretty gross looking, but with a sour cream and onion flavor they may be tasty.

After our candy stop we went back to Brett's watched I love You man and called it a night.

This morning we slept until almost 8 which is the latest I've slept in a long time. We got up and showered and I was delighted to find White Tea body wash in the shower. I asked Brett about this and he claims it was his girlfriend's, and that his was the "Manly" Body wash on the rack, but I'm not too sure about that. We went to a little breakfast place nearby and ate way too much food. Before heading on the road I made the boys smile for a quick photo.

Thanks Brett! We had a fun time visiting.

Triathlon Results

The results are in...

I came in 14th in my age group out of 33 (age 25-29) and out of the 213 women that participated in the Patriot Sprint Triathlon, I was number 44.

Not too bad, but I can do better.