More from the 4th

7/4/08:

Our 4th of July started nice and early as I prepared to run my first race in over a year. It's called "Butte to Butte", it's a 10K (6.2 miles), it's as bad as it sounds, and it's a community tradition.  If you're a runner in Eugene, you do it. Last year was so hard for me as I watched from the sidelines due to my injury. This year, I was in the thick of it, and loved every second (even those last few seconds when I really thought I was going to die)! I did better than I would have ever thought given half my training runs were done pushing a jogging stroller, and at the end I was very happy with my finish time! (Sorry, no pictures from that, it wasn't a pretty sight anyway)

After the race, I rushed home where J and K were ready and waiting to drive to Harrisburg for some good old fashioned 4th of July festivities. After a lightning quick shower, we were back in the car and headed to Kai's first parade! As you will see in the pictures, he was not too sure about the whole thing. He didn't crack a smile the whole parade and looked very concerned. He wasn't in distress or upset, he was just very serious and took everything in. Joe ended up taking him away from the parade for a while during the never ending line of fire trucks, all sounding their sirens, of course. After the parade, we checked out the street fair going on and played in the park for a while with some friends. We were on our way home by 2pm, all thoroughly exhausted and pretty much done for the day. We spent the rest of the day just hanging out at home, and Kai went to bed pretty early since he didn't manage to get a nap. We were shocked and amazed that K slept through almost 4 hours of LOUD fireworks in our neighborhood that night. Guess we wore him out enough!

7/5/08:

Grandma Sue and Grandpa Tom came to visit!! And they brought an ultra-fun froggy pool for Kai to play in. He just loves this thing. They agreed to let us keep it until we go to P-town next, since he'll be too big for it next year, they wanted it to get all the use it could. And it has so far. We also ventured to dinner at a restaurant (which we don't do very often anymore), and Kai did so great! We went to Mucho Gusto (thought of you, Kim) and it was yum yummy as always.  

7/6/08:

By the time Sunday rolled around, we were pretty much spent. We tried to lay low, but when you've played all weekend, there must be a time to get some work done. 

Here is one of Joe's famous picture slideshows of our Holiday weekend fun!

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