Monday, May 25, 2009

Finley's New Favorite Thing

Finley LOVES dogs. She loves balls, especially basketballs. She will spot a basketball from far, far away. She loves to dance. She loves to imitate her big brother she loves oh so much! She loves to give kisses. She loves to suck her thumb, and loves her soft pink blankie. She loves to eat. She loves to sing songs with us. She loves to clap. She loves to be tickled. She LOVES to read books. And, she LOVES, LOVES, LOVES shoes. She brings us a new pair at least 3 times a day to change into. She is a true sweetheart, but out of all of these things, her most favorite thing to do lately is throw a tennis ball for Gunner (our yellow lab) and have him fetch, just to do it all over again. She wears him out!

Muddy Buddy 2009

Last week Mike competed in the local Muddy Buddy with his friend Ken. Its a 5 mile run/bike race where you compete as a team using just one bike. There are 5 legs that are a mile each. At the end of each mile, there was an obstacle to complete. A rock wall, inflatable slide, cargo net to climb, etc. At the beginning, I started off on the bike and Ken ran.

At the end of 1 mile, I did the obstacle, left the bike for Ken and took off running. After completing the second obstacle, Ken showed up with the bike. I rode away to the third obstacle, etc. I made it to the very end about 3 minutes ahead of Ken. At the very end, you finish the race together. We had to make it through a 100' mudpit, then run across the finish line.

We finished in 48 minutes which made it 214 out of about 900 teams, so we were pretty pleased. Here are the pictures below.







Schlotzky's Bun Run 5K

On Sunday, May 3rd we ran in the Schlotzky's Bun Run 5K here in Austin. The day before the race we went down to pick up our packets and we walked around a bit around Lady Bird Lake, and then we went to dinner and took the kids to get ice cream. It was so nice outside, so we tried to make the most of it!

The day before:








The next morning we all woke up bright and early and headed down to the race. We ran about 2.75 miles of the course taking a few walking breaks in between. We let Bryson get out and run across the finish line with us when we were almost there. When we were done both kids got to run around a bit before we loaded up and headed back home. We all had a great time!

Day of the race: