Christmas Visitors

We spent Christmas at the Cozzas in Ashland Oregon as usual. As often happens we had a few visitors pass through the back yard.

Early Small Xmas

It turned out brother-in-law Doug had to be in town for a corporate thingy and was able to bring sister Sheryl and the rest of the family over, so we decided to make it an early Small Xmas get-together. We took the opportunity to take Mom & Dad Small to Canlis, who came up from CA, for an early celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary which is coming up the end of the month. Pictures will be up soon.

Triathlon Season Wrapup

This turned out to be a big triathlon summer for the Smallzzas.  These pictures are from Aaron's last triathlon of the year (for a total of four) on Labor Day and Noah's first ever.   Cynthia also did the grownups race and Steve was a spectator and athletic supporter. Noah finished the whole race including the one mile bike ride on his own and insisted on not having any help.  

Steve finished a bunch of races over the summer including two half ironman distance races.   The longer races have been a bit of a learning experience.  Here's a race report Steve wrote up for the Seattle Triathlon Club on his first attempt at the half iron distance at the Troika Triathlon in Spokane. Despite a run leg that needs some improvement, Steve ended up 3rd in his age group in the Best Overall Triathlete category for 2007 in the TriNW rankings.