It's official. Ben signed up for the Ironman.
His brother Jeff and Rob from the Tri club sent out an email today that they had and so Ben came home and signed up too. He couldn't have Jeff be the first one in the family to be an Ironman. (They are not competitive at all.) Morgen was teasing him about how much he gets injured now just doing sprint triathlons, and then he said you are going to be "Icy Man instead of Iron Man". He said he will just have to go around in a body bag filled with ice and poke his head out of it. Morgen just wrote these new words to the Ironman song. Here it is:
His brother Jeff and Rob from the Tri club sent out an email today that they had and so Ben came home and signed up too. He couldn't have Jeff be the first one in the family to be an Ironman. (They are not competitive at all.) Morgen was teasing him about how much he gets injured now just doing sprint triathlons, and then he said you are going to be "Icy Man instead of Iron Man". He said he will just have to go around in a body bag filled with ice and poke his head out of it. Morgen just wrote these new words to the Ironman song. Here it is: ICY MAN!!!
I am Icy Man!
I am Icy Man!
Has he frozen his mind?
Can he feel cold or are his senses blind?
Can he move his joints at all
Or will his painfulness make him fall?
Is he in pain or maybe dead?
With all those ice packs on his head?
Look at all the ice in there
Does his skin feel slightly bare?
He was turned to frozen steel
In the transition and resting field
Where he would freeze time
For the pain of iron-mankind
For the pain of iron-mankind
Nobody melts him
He just freezes his wounds
Planning his races
That he will soon try to do
Now the frosty time is near
For Icy Man to spread pain and fear
Sending pain out of his grave
Freezing the racers he once portrayed
Nobody melts him
He just freezes his wounds
Nobody heals him
They just keep racing again
Frozen boots of lead
Fills the racers full of cold dread
Racing as warm as they can
Icy Man is freezing again!
All three boys were in the no-cavities club today at the dentist. They got a prize, their picture taken again and tickets to the movie Wall-E for Saturday. Sweet, I love it when they go to the dentist! I get to go to the movie with them as well. Last time they gave us tickets to see Enchanted. They actually rent out the theater for their patients and have a prize drawing before the show starts.
Since we were out, Morgen wanted to sign up for the summer reading club at the library. Max & Markus already had last week. So we went to the library and checked out some more books.
My run this morning felt great. The farm is such a fun place to run on the dirt trails, with the stream and the ducks. The later time works much better for me as well. I hope that Shawna doens't mind. Speaking of, it is her 40th birthday tomorrow and a few of the girls from the ward are coming with me to pick her up at 6 a.m. in our p.j.'s and take her to breakfast. I think it is kind of a tradition or some thing now whenever someone turns 40. Should be fun.
I made marinated flank steak for dinner. I didn't marinate it overnight, just since this morning, but I think it still turned out all right. Here is the recipe:
1/2 c. oil
3/4 c. soy sauce
1/4 c. worchestshire sauce
2 T. dry mustard
2 1/4 t. garlic salt
1 T. black pepper
1/2 c. white wine vinegar
1 1/2 t. parsley
1/3 c. lemon juice
3 lbs. flank steak
Blend and marinate steak overnight (or all day in my case!). Grill 7-8 min. @ side over medium heat. Slice thin across the grain.
