Last weekend, the Stien Mountain Triathlon Team traveled to Macon for the Rock N Rollman. John, Donovan and Steve competed in the Half Ironman and Ann and Ann H., the sprint. It was another strong showing for Stien Mountain, as Ann was 3rd overall Masters (5th overall), Ann H. was 3rd in her age group, John was 1st in his age group (11th overall despite being injured) and Steve and Donovan finished their first Half Ironman in respectable time with limited training.
Ann H. is zipping up Stiv's wetsuit before the 1.2 mile swim. The Stien's were their usual speedy swimmers, as Ann was the second woman out of the water and John was top ten. Steve had his best swim ever and was only about a minute behind Donovan.
The "Anns" holding the latest hardware for the Stien Mountain Triathlon Team! 
Here is Stiv pretending to look strong near the finish of the 13.1 mile run in 90 degree heat and 5:44 of racing.
Check out the new uniforms that John had made for everyone...very cool! Notice the deer in the headlights look on Steve's face.
As usual, the kids had fun running around the event grounds during the race as Grandma and Grandpa Stien kept watch. We are convinced that someday soon, they are going to disappear and not return until the kids are old enough to watch themselves! This was a long hot day and we have to say THANKS for the help! 
We've had a set of geese spending part of the year in our neighborhood, and last week they decided to spend the week crapping all over our yard! So we did the only thing a good neighbor would do... we started to feed them in our neighbor Rich's yard! The genius plan worked perfectly!!!
Sarah and Catie playing dress-up in the basement... It looks like Catie is outgrowing her dress-up clothes!
The Wilsons had a great new slide setup for Landon's 1st birthday party. Everyone had a great time playing in the pool and eating several helpings of cake and ice cream! We can't believe Landon is already one... it's about time for number three!
Jackson finally throwing caution to the wind and sliding down head first. 
Abigail is showing off her new swimwear... pink is her color.
Catie is starting to gain confidence in the pool and is just about ready to start swimming by herself. When she accidentally swallows pool water, she lets out the loudest burp you have ever heard. Seriously, several times we have had the entire pool stop and look around at what made such a sound.
A serious game of chicken between the Voelzkes and Schwartzs (or is it Schwartzes?). Unfortunately, Dan's "tonnage" makes such a solid foundation it was no contest.
Catie started swimming on the Junior Penguins swim team this summer. As a four year old, she was the youngest one on the team. She started out only "torpedo-ing" five or six feet off the wall. After a couple of weeks on the team, she was ready to participate in the year-end Junior Penguin Mini Meet. She swam the entire length of the pool freestyle (with some doggy paddle) and had only slight assistance during the backstroke. 
Catie is extremely excited by her fourth place ribbons! She is so proud to earn ribbons one year before her big brother!
