My Hero.

My Husband is UH-MAZE-ING! Today he completed his first triathalon. I could not be more proud of him. He is such an inspiration. When I got pregnant with Noah-Shannon was the most supportive husband ever. He took care of me, started using a body pillow (not kidding and still uses it), and he even gained weight with me. :) Shannon literally gained about 50 pounds. What a guy:) He weighed about 240 at his heaviest and now he weighs under 175. Once Noah was born and the weight wasn't leaving Shannon started biking. Now many of you know that Shannon is not calm, chill or even mellow. Whatever Shannon does he goes at it with full force! Well all of a sudden I was married to Richard Simmons-minus the glitter, 80's Reeboks, and man love. Seriously.

Our friends Bryan and Christine are super awesome. We love hanging out with them. We have known them for years and they are such a blessing to us. We attended each others weddings, they come over and cook for us at our house (you seriously need friends like this) and they are athletes that inspired Shannon. I tend to be less inspired by athletecism as you can see from my BMI. We watched them do the Solana Beach triathalon in July and Shannon was set. He decided that day that he was going to be a triathlete. Shannon and Bryan trained and prepped, we bought some spandex, and I cooked a carb fest last night. Fast forward 9 weeks to today and Shannon and Bryan are competing in the Mission Bay triathalon. Shannon did the whole thing in one hour and eleven minutes!!!!

This is Shannon at o'dark thirty getting the bike ready in the parking lot.

Noah was extremely happy for 5:30 am.

Shannon's mom and cousin Janessa came out to support Shannon in his big race.

Shannon was so excited before the race.

Bryan and Shannon before the swim.

We got Noah to hold the sign and cheer for Shannon for about ten seconds.

The athletes started in the water in the Bay. It was crazy. Christine and I ran down the beach in order to catch Shannon coming out of the water. It was exhausting.

Then we ran to the bike path to cheer on Bryan and Shannon!

This is the end of the race where Shannon was crossing the finish line. He was so inspirational.

After the race Shannon was ready for more:)

He was so pumped up.

The boys in all their spandex glory!

Shannon is the most amazing husband ever!

Here is a comparison picture of Shannon from one year ago. He really is awesome. We are so thankful for the Crosby's. They rock!!