Mother's Day Weekend

Jim and I are ramping up for a 10K race in June. We were pretty good about running for 1.5 weeks... then this past week with the lack of sleep... we didn't get out. So Saturday we decided to run a charity 5K race called the Soleburner. I ran this race in 2004... and remembered the ridiculous hill at the end... but remembered how fun it was. So we got to the race at about 7:30 am and borrowed our friends running stroller. We watched the kids race, as Mandy's son Eric was running in it. Hilarious to watch all the little ones sprinting...

Then it was our turn... we lined up with the runners but in the back with some of the others with strollers. There were quite a few of us. They had the walkers line up on the other side of the park. After the starting gun, it seemed like 5 minutes before the crowd moved in front of us for us to actually start running. And about a block in... the walkers were already merging with us. It was SO crowded but at the same time motivating. I pushed the stroller for a little over a mile... and then Jim took over. We ran all the way through about 2.5 miles... and then I decided I needed to walk... so we walked the length of the bridge before the "big" hill. But we were able to run the rest of the way... Josh was passed out after about the first block... and everyone was laughing as we crossed the finish line. 34 minutes... slow and steady finishes the race! :) Not too shabby for not running all that often, pushing a stroller, and having it be super crowded!

Sunday we went to Church and breakfast... then took a two hour nap. At noon we decided to have lunch and then go to the Y for open swim. Josh LOVED it! It was a great Mother's Day...

Figure I should mention this too... as a parent for only one year... it is hilarious to me how exhausted I am on the weekends by dinner. On Saturdays and Sundays we are no longer sleeping past 6:30am... and usually by noon we have finished all the items we wanted to do... and by 5pm we are wondering why it isn't dark. Amazing how much our lives have changed!