Sunday, February 28, 2010

Cowtown

This weekend, the three of us went to Fort Worth to participate in the 2010 Cowtown.

Friday evening, we had dinner at the Spiral Diner with Kara, Kellen, and Kenny & Coco. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed the food - especially dessert!

Saturday morning, it was FREEZING! I had a short-sleeve t-shirt, long-sleeve t-shirt, sweatshirt, and jacket on, but I was still SO cold! Of course, Mira was well bundled, but she didn't like her mittens because she soon realized she couldn't sign to us with them on! Fortunately, she didn't have to stay outside too long; Aunt Coco and Mira hung out in the nice, warm Barnes & Noble that overlooks downtown Fort Worth. Apparently, they had fun looking at loads of books and handing out small stuffed animals to complete strangers.

Kenny, Kara, and I were doing the 5K while my brother Kenny was running his first 1/2 Marathon!! Kenny (my hubby) finished the 5K 8th in his age group with a time of 20 minutes 44 seconds, and my brother Kenny finished the half marathon 147th in his age group with a time of 2 hours 3 minutes - both of them did great!  Kara and I kept up a nice jog the whole way and finished 350th with a time of 45 minutes and 25 seconds - we were pretty pleased with ourselves!

Mira made her Uncle Kenny a sign to cheer him on! It originally said "Go Uncle Kenny! 13.1 is your lucky number!" but it some how lost a few characters...he wondered why 31 was his lucky number for a second, but he eventually got the idea!

Good Job, Guys!!!

Mmmmmm...free chips and guac from Wholly Guacamole after the race! Yum!

It warmed up nicely by the end of the race and turned out to be a beautiful day. Too bad we needed to head back home after lunch. We thought about making a spontaneous trip to the FTW Zoo, but it was prime napping time for Mira, so we decided to take advantage of that and get on the road. If only we knew then what we know now...Mira didn't sleep a wink the entire drive home!! Argh!


So proud of both of my Kenny's! Kara, I had fun trying to keep up with you - I totally would have walked if it weren't for you!! And a great big Thank You to Aunt Coco for hanging out with Mirabelle and keeping her nice and warm and entertained!




2 comments:

Cheryl said...

awesome job, teresa! way to go on jogging it the whole way! at first when you said that you did the cowtown race, i thought you did all 26.2 miles and was wondering why i never knew you were a marathon runner!!!! =) i didn't realize there were other intervals you could do! ha! i had no idea you would be there!! we saw lots of runners while i was there....maybe we passed you and didn't even know it! =) i'll have to check out the pictures i took to see if you are in them...lol! =) oh, and btw....just wanted you to know that brody has said mira's name at least 5-10 times every day since thursday!!! ;-)

Cheryl said...

oh, and i love that picture of mira with the chip....how adorable!!!! =)