Blue Bell 5K Fun Run

Yesterday, I (David) took the kids to Brenham to run the 32nd Annual Blue Bell 5k Fun Run. That's 5 kilometers, 3 toddlers, 1 triple stroller, and at least a dozen Blue Bell ice cream novelties between the four of us. Great way to spend a morning.

For those interested, I finished 339th overall (out of 1164), 202nd in my gender (out of 421), 46th in my age group (out of 93), and 1st in the triple-stroller category (out of 1, based on personal observation) with a chip time of 30:36.

Here we are enjoying ice cream sandwiches after the race.

Hazel made such a mess that strangers asked to take her picture, just to document it. Here's our dainty little girl after  a full Strawberry Fruit Bar and 2/3 of a Cookies 'n' Cream Sandwich. She clearly feels the same way that I do about all-you-can-eat ice cream sandwiches.

drainage work!

landscapers were here all day putting catch basins in the low spots of our back yard with pipe between, and running it out the curb in the front. Tomorrow, they fill the holes and re-sod where necessary. Hopefully this will eliminate the standing water problem we've had in our back yard.



our neighbor's water line, which goes through our yard, and was repaired after it got knicked by a shovel today. oops!

silly kid painted her forehead with ketchup at lunch

baskets

After an initial investigation, Jono settled into playing with trains and the babies got busy eating the contents of their eggs.

Easter pic!

This was in the church foyer, which has terrible lighting for photographs, but at least you can see everyone's springy looks.

I think the Easter bunny did well this year!

contents include their bathing suit for this summer, a Thomas train, markers or colored pencils, eggs with Fruit Loops, s'mores Goldfish, and jellybeans, and a flower. Oh, and Hazel has a new hair bow. ;-)

bluebonnets!

we dyed eggs!

I have video of the process, but blogger is not cooperating on video uploading at the moment. I'll work on that, though.