Firecracker 5K

As mentioned in a previous post, our ward has been fasting and praying for little Emma. She has been diagnosed with Neuroblastoma and has just completed her first chemo treatment. On July 3rd Comcast hosted the 10th annual Firecracker walk/run for St. Jude and so a bunch of us who know Emma (and even some who don't) decided to run in her behalf. It was a lot of fun!

Here is our group picture taken before the race. You will notice that I am not actually in this picture because my son decided to wake up and start dancing on my bladder! The line to the lovely port-a-potty was FOREVER long so needless to say, I missed the picture.

After hearing about Emma, my Aunt Cristine was moved to join the race as well. Isn't she a babe? For those of you who don't know her, when I start off a sentence with..."Well, my Aunt says..." this is the Aunt. She is a baby whisperer if I have ever met one, I usually refer to her as Dr. Thomas- she's that good!

Here we are after the race with a couple of 4th of July enthusiasts!

When the race started the "itch" to run started too and so we started the race running. Same thing happened at the end (when I usually push myself harder than I feel physically possible to finish the race with the best time). When we knew we were getting close to the end we finished strong and running! What a blast! I can't wait to start running again, although if anyone knows of an AWESOME sports bra let me know...yikes!