My Little Cowboy

Just a short post with a few photos I recently took.  Kaleb is loving Toy Story right now so he was really excited to put on his new cowboy hat and his boots. We grabbed Bullseye and headed out to the pasture for these photos.

I had a little help from Kyle.  I set the camera and he took the next two pictures for me.

        I even got a shot of my big cowboy too!

I will be away from the blog for a week or so. We have lots of things going on around her but I will hopefully have a great big blog post by then! Thanks for looking!

Happy 4th of July

Let Freedom Ring!

                                                                  
   
                                                                       

                                                       

                                                               Happy 4th of July!

The Color Run

One of the things on my life list that I made earlier this year was to run a 5K.  I thought the Color Run would be the great first 5K to run.  The money raised was to go to the Ronald McDonald House, which is one of our favorite charities.  What a blessing the Ronald McDonald House was for our family,  both in Kansas City and in St. Louis when Kyle had to stay there waiting for his transplant.  Saturday Kyle and I went to the Color Run in Kansas City.  It was held at Arrowhead Stadium on the outer roads and parking lots. Our original plan was that I was going to run with a few girls from work and that Kyle was going to go along to watch and take pictures for me.  Several things changed our plans.  First we found out that the crowd was going to be huge.  In the two days that the race was held we heard that they had 25,000 people registered.  I had no idea how I would find Kyle in that huge crowd.  One of the girls at the last minute could not come so we talked Kyle into taking her place.  Mind you, Kyle is in pretty good shape.  He just had a treadmill stress test  last week and passed with flying colors.  But he was in no shape to RUN a 5K.  So we opted for walking.  We did run some especially through the Color Stations.  With the weather being as hot and humid as it was, many people opted to walk.  I didn't run my first 5K, but I got to spend some fun time with my boy that I am sure that neither of us will forget!

Here we are waiting in line, yes, in front of the porta potties.  We waited in line for about and hour to get to the start line. 

 This is just a small view of all of the runners ahead of us.

 Music was playing and everyone was getting in the mood.  The theme song for the day seem to be "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen.

 Some people came in wonderful, colorful attire.  We got a kick out of this wig!

Finally at the start line.  Count down from 10 and we were off and running!

Some of these people already had gotten into their color packets!

 I think this was about half way through the race in front of the K, home of the Kansas City Royals!  We had already been through a few color stations.  Kyle and I are with the girls from work that we came down with.  Most of them are ER nurses and a couple are nursing supervisors.  They were so much fun!

 These girls in the tutus took our picture for us.  Loved the tutus!

Going through the pink station!  We had to stop for more pictures!

 Things got pretty wild by the time we made it to the finish line.  I don't know if you can tell but there is a huge crowd of people behind the finish line sign.  More music here.  "We are Young" by Fun.  Love that song.  Every 15 minutes or so color was thrown up into the air in the Festival Area.

 Kyle at the end.

 And yes, here is me at the end.  I know I look kind of scary.

This great photo from the Color Run site tells it all!

And here is a great article from the Kansas City Star that I found that tells you a little more about the Color Run.
Article from Kansas City Star

The Color Run will go down as one of my favorite memories from 2012.  I am so glad I got to experience it with my son, Kyle.
Anyone game for next year?