Saturday, September 8, 2012

9/11 Heroes Run and Tackleboxes

This weekend, Aunt Jess invited us to join her for the 9/11 Heroes Run in our area.  Actually, she invited us to walk the 5K with her.  I decided that not only was it for a great cause, but that we would have a great time.  So early this morning, I dressed the littles up in red, white, and blue (if I've failed to mention that I love all things patriotic before on this blog, forgive me), packed up the littles and our double stroller, and we headed off to the race.

We had a little trouble locating it, but once we got there, we were all set.  The weather was beautiful, and we had so much fun.  We did, however, only end up walking the mile, but it was perfect just the same.  And probably a good call since the littles probably wouldn't have made it through a 5k:)







{note: the roads were closed down except for race traffic, so I was not just letting Jack run wild in the open streets}






{last photo: courtesy of the volunteer fire department}

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This is for Daddy: Tonight, Brad gave Jack some tackle boxes to organize his tiny toys so that Hannah can't get ahold of them and put them in her mouth.  It started because Jack opened a lego toy that he got for his birthday with lots of little pieces.  They went off to the basement, and the next thing I know, Jack has three tackleboxes: one for his super hero Squinkies, one for other Squinkies, and one for rocks.  Jack collects rocks.  But his rocks didn't go in the tackle box, Brad let Jack go through his own rock collection and choose more rocks for his new tackle box.  Jack was so excited about these boxes.  He sorted for at least an hour.  And then just carried them around.  Brad said he'd remember this night for the rest of his life.  That seems blog-worthy:)  I love those boys.

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