Seth Runs His First 5K

Seth has been practicing with his school's running club every Friday after school in preparation for his 1st 5K race. He was the first in his group to cross the finish line with a time of 38:52 and he said he could of come in quicker, but he chose to stay with his teacher and one other kid that needed to walk in-between runs. I think he did pretty good for his first race!

With his 2 running coaches before the race.

Waiting to start the race

Running to the finish line

The 66er Mascot came up to him and started kissing his head and then posed for a picture

Seth tripped once during the race, but that didn't slow him down.  Since we were going to the rodeo and not home, we had the paramedic bandage up his knee.

Locks of Love

Elsie had 10 inches of her hair cut off and decided to donate it to Locks of Love.  Locks of Love makes wigs out of human hair for children suffering from medical hair loss, such as Cancer.  I am so proud of her and hope that her hair will help make another child feel good about herself.

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After

Cousins & Sea World

We kicked off Spring break by meeting my parents and brother's family down at Sea World. We had lots of fun hanging out together and then ending the day with dinner.  We arrived about 20 minutes before everyone else, so we too advantage of having our picture taken with this sign and then played in Sesame Street area until they showed up. 

We stopped at Dolphin Point and enjoyed the very active young dolphins play.  At one point, a dolphin even went up on the slide out and the kids almost got to touch it.

Most everyone waiting for the killer whale show to begin

After the show we went down below to watch the two mama whales with their calves. 

Grace and Elsie posing with a whale statue

We ended up breaking up into three groups for about an hour or so, as we all wanted to do different things.  The ride we wanted to go on had way to long of a wait time, so we headed over to see the penguins instead.  Kya was bummed she wasn't with us, but I promised that we would go there next time.

No one is brave enough to go on the ride, but posing for a picture in a raft is doable!

We are already looking forward to June when we can go back and play some more!