This last weekend I took the boys up to Austin to my brother's house for the 5k Color Me Rad Color Run. I ended up seeing a lot of people I knew from here in San Antonio. The pictures below are in random order.
My friend Allen and me. He would run ahead and then wait at each color station while I cheered Hyrum along.
Hyrum was having a hard day during the run, he had stayed up way too late playing with his cousins the night before and was complaining that he was going to die and that his feet would fall off the e-n-t-i-r-e way. Allen told him that when he made it to the end that he would carry him across the finish line, enter exhibit A, above.
When the color run was finished, Hyrum thought it was the coolest, most difficult thing he had ever done in his entire life.
Robbie & April pushed Kaden and Maya in the stroller.
April & me at the end. I look smurfed thanks to me promising Hyrum that if he would stop complaining he could color me up as much as he wanted. I ended up with a left eye full of blue and a right eye full of green. But, we survived and I learned a lesson that I can encourage a whiney kid for 3.1 miles and still have a smile on my face and enjoy myself.
This pretty much sums up the look of death I was given during the run!
After the race, all chalked up and ready to go home.
Within minutes of loading up in the car all the kids were sound asleep!
Pre race with our clean white shirts. Quinten and Tristan stayed behind with Grandma. They were sure surprised to see us so dirty when we got home.
Noah vs Hyrum, who was the most colorful?
- Looking back, I think I still would have signed Hyrum up to do this run. He needs to know that he can do hard things and that everything in life isn't perfect while we are progressing through it, but in the end there can still be a smile and we can have made fun memories along the way.
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