This year we were able to participate in the kids fun run. It's sponsored by one of the local hospitals and Meijer. Everyone had a great time and we saw a lot of our friends there too. It is definitely going to be a yearly tradition for us, we had such a great time! It's a great time for the kids, they get t-shirts, food, baloons, freebies, ribbons, and of course get to run. They run a one mile course and the best part is its not a competition, just time for the kids to have fun.
Carter was fast, he and John ran it in under 10 minutes. Ash, Hannah and I were about 18 minutes. We walked some of it, and I didn't know that parents could go with the kids so I wasn't dressed for running,(I was wearing jeans, and a few layers up top, talk up over heating) and I was pushing Hannah in the jogger stroller that had almost flat wheels. Also we were with a few of our friends who had a 3 year old that was running, and we obviously needed to stay with her. Although, there were a few times that 3 year old was pushing us to go faster! So with all that our time was not too bad!
Here's the kids right before the run started (Carter looks so thrilled!)
Ashleigh and Ashleigh (that's right they spell it the same, so cool!) taking a walking break, they decided they would stick together. I think they were a little overwhelmed at times, there were over 1600 kids participating plus their parents.
Looks like fun. Maybe one of these years we will have to try it.
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