Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Girls of the Family

Today Emma and I met up with Angie and Crystal to support our former student, Sarah Crawley, who was diagnosed with AML leukemia on August 19.
Our prayers are already being answered.  Her diagnosis now is myelodysplasia!!!!
We went out this morning to walk a 5K as a fundraiser for Sarah.  I had Emma with me because Drew had a soccer game this morning and since Daddy is the coach, he couldn't watch her.
I packed the stroller ready to introduce Emma to her first race.
Well, upon arrival is was really quick that I figured out that this race was not made for strollers AT ALL!
Uh oh.  Well, Emma, get ready because you are really going to participate in a 5K!
Needless to say, we didn't finish (not because of our lack of discipline, but because we didn't want to hold everyone up.
So with Emma on my hip for most of the time, we walked about a 3K this morning.
It was fun and now she can always say that she participated in her first organized race at 20 months old!
This is a picture of Emma and I last night out at dinner.

4 comments:

Andrea said...

Good for YOU! I can't imagine even walking 3K with a baby on my hip... of course my baby-lugging muscles haven't been used in awhile!

FYI-Monday is St. Jude Day at Chili's and 100% of their profits will be donated to the hospital. AND we will be wearing our awesome Fight Like A TIger tshirts that came in last week! :D

Mary Beth said...

hahaha. My baby-lugging muscles are in the best shape of my life after today. haha.
That is so awesome that Chili's is doing that and even more awesome that you'll be wearing the Fight Like a Tiger t-shirts.
They've been a big hit!
Oh, holy cow! I just looked it up about Chili's. I thought it was something that your local Chili's was doing. This is everywhere! That's so exciting! I know what we're eating on Monday!!!!
Thanks and I'll get the word out. I'll wear my t-shirt too!

Andrea said...

Send me a picture of you at Chli's-I'm going to post them all on my blog.

Mary Beth said...

will do!