Mother's Day Weekend

We had a very eventful Mother's Day weekend a couple of weeks ago. Friday morning we met up with a homeschool group we are a part of for a little field day fun!

The kids were broken up into two groups: 6 and younger and 7 and older. The first event was a fun run and the younger group was up first!

So the kids ran quite a ways. Especially for Ally and Finn, who really do not run much. I was so proud of Ally for running the whole way and finishing! And do you see Jase running back to be with Finn?

Jase went to cheer Finn on and to help him finish. Jase told me after the race that he wanted to go and run with him so he would not finish last. He is really becoming quite the big brother with him. This really touched my heart and made me tear up!

Now the big kids turn. The older kids had to run even farther. We are not talking miles, but I bet they ran over .25 of a mile. Jase started off in the back of the pack. Some of those kids took off super fast.

Jase hung in there and ended up finishing the race in 3rd. When all of the other kids lost their energy, he kicked it up in high gear and finished strong. I was super proud of him.

All of the Moms chose an event and spearheaded it. I chose the 3 legged race! It was super fun to watch the kids do it! Here is Jase again helping Finn out!

The girls were all laughs!

After the older kids ran a couple of races, I switched things up on them. One person had to turn around, so now they were looking in opposite directions. They really liked this one!

And the bean bag toss finished it up for field day. It was a relaxed morning with some exercise and the weather could not have been any nicer.

A month or two ago a friend asked if I wanted to run a 5K. It benefited Woman to Woman Pregnancy Resource Center in Denton, a great cause. I looked at my calendar and Jase had a game later that afternoon, so I decided to do it! This was the first official 5K race for me. I've ran over 3 miles at once, but never in an official race. I was pretty excited about it.

I ended up asking Jase if he wanted to run it with me, I thought this was something fun we could do together on Mother's Day weekend, our first 5K and it would be together! We practiced only once at home and ran a little over a mile and he kept up with me just fine.

On the morning of the race, we get there and he starts telling me his stomach hurts. I tell him it is probably because he is nervous. I'm in limbo on what to do. Do I make him run or let him sit it out? Shawn, the other kids and his parents aren't there at this point, so he would be left by himself when I took off. I ended up not giving him an option and we started the race.

My goal was not to stop at all. To just keep on going, even at a snail's pace. Well less than 30 seconds into it he stops and tells me he is about to puke. People are passing us left and right. Here we go. I stop with him as he is hunched over trying to throw up, nothing. I finally tell him that I'm going to start jogging and as long as he can see me, he will be fine. He got all nervous when I said that and I think he couldn't believe that I was actually going to run and not stay with him! Ha. I must have stopped with him a couple more times when he thought he was going to throw up. Nothing. I finally decided to keep on going. Jase would stop and then sprint up to me, stop and sprint up to me. This is basically how he ran the entire race, which isn't a terrible method.

On the last leg of the race I told him that we weren't going to stop anymore, we were running to the end. At that point in time, we probably had less than .5 mile to go. And with that he was off. I guess with all those breaks he took he had tons of energy, because it was a full on sprint to the finish line for him. Forget about Mom, who stopped with you the first mile of the race and kept encouraging you to push through and finish!! Haha!

He really did great and I was super proud of him! He finished 5th in his age category (Male, 1-12 years) at 38:59.

2 minutes later I finished up! The tank was on empty for sure! My clock time was 40:46 and I finished 7th in my category (Female 30-39). My original plan was to finish under 30 minutes! Ha! I have a little work to do before I reach that goal.

After the race, they were doing a 1 mile fun run and Jase asked if he could do it! LOL! I guess he was finally warmed up. Again, so proud of him for pushing through and finishing. Although, if I do another one in the future, I might do that one solo.

Daddy and his baby girls on Sunday morning.

Shawn's parents were in town that weekend, so we took a few pics before church that morning.

All dressed up in our Sunday best.

Smiles with Grandma and Grandpa on Mother's Day!