10K

I have been wanting to run a half marathon for a long time. But around here they are all on Sundays, so I decided to sign up for a 10K. I ran the 10K last Saturday with a couple of friends and had a lot of fun.

Here is the group of us that ran the 10K. They were also my running partners when we were training too.


Here I am running my guts out. There was about 800 meters left of the race.


After the 10K was over, they have a pancake breakfast for everyone, then a 1 mile fun run for the kids. Aiden was so excited that he got to have his own race. He ended up riding his bike, but came in 2nd. He got a ribbon for it too. Caleb ran with Aiden, while I pushed Cruiz along in the stroller.



The 10K race was smaller than usual, but I was still surprised to come in 2nd place out of all the girls. My next goal is a half marathon.

Touch-a-Truck

Here in Topeka, the city has this cool thing called Touch-a-Truck every year. This is where the kids come to see and climb in all sorts of big trucks and rigs. Aiden had so much fun going around to all the different trucks and getting inside them. He continually asked the person at each truck what kind of truck it was, and what it did. He was able to climb in the trucks, sit in the driver's seat, and push buttons, along with honking the horns. We had to make sure that we saw and climbed in every single truck that was there.
They gave away a lot of fun free stuff too. We got chips from the frito lay truck, gatorade from the pepsi truck, ice cream from the old ice cream truck, candy, stickers, pencils, and tons of other junk (I mean stuff).

This guy was making dog balloons for the kids. They loved it!




The book mobile was kind of fun. The kids got to take home a little craft to work on later.

Some of Cruiz's many faces

Cruiz can pull some of the best faces. He can also pull some of the best scowls. He is a man of many faces. We love it!