The Strawberry Festival!

When Nathan was out of town last week I took the kids over to the Lebanon Strawberry Festival. It was a lot of fun. First Nick and I ran in the 1 mile "fun run" race. Nick did awesome! We were still pinning on his number and didn't realize the time when they blew the start horn. We (I ran it with him for support) took off and were able to catch up to about the middle of the pack even though we started almost a minute late. He was a great sport about it! I am very proud of him!

Then I ran in the 5K race. I finished in 30 minutes and 17 seconds. Not my best race, but not bad. It was fun to run along a parade route. There were hundreds of people lined up on the street ready for the parade to begin and they would cheer us on, give us high fives, and blow bubbles for us to run through. It was pretty neat.

Immediately after the race we watched to parade. Here is Sara with the kids. Since Nathan was out of town and I wanted to run the race, Sara came along to help watch the kids while I ran and then she stayed for part of the parade and enjoyed it with us.



The "World's Largest Strawberry Shortcake" is under there! It started off the parade.

Andrew wasn't sure what to think. He sure was cute.

Nick and Tatiana waiting for more candy.

Ben was very excited to see the fire engines!

We were going to go to the carnival afterwards, but there was a THREE MILE line of card waiting to get in. So we decided to skip it and go rent Wii games instead. It was a fun day!