So Long to Summer 10K

Hello all!  This week went by pretty fast!  Things are going great around here, and I hope you are all doing well too.  Most of the adventures this week came around the weekend.  We ran in the town So Long to Summer race yesterday morning, and later in the day as we checked items off our to-do list we found the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile!!  They even had sweet cut-outs for pictures!

Anyway, let's get back to the week and not spoil all the good ending bits.  (Blue) Jelly has been doing great!  She's definitely one of the family now and loves to be around us all the time!  She really likes playing with Brooke, and is always so nice to her (even when Brooke isn't nice back).  She likes to go in Brooke's room while she's sleeping and sleep under her crib, but we've had to put an end to that because sometimes Brooke sticks a foot out of the crib and Jelly jumps up and swats it.  In such an occasion as being swatted by Jelly, Brooke must stand up and scream and cry until we get her, so Jelly doesn't get to go in anymore while Brooke is asleep.  One night recently I was in Brooke's room putting her to bed, and she stuck out her foot.  I thought it would be funny to grab her toes, and as soon as I touched her she woke up and said "Jelly... Jelly?"  I told her it was just me, and she immediately went back to sleep... sigh.  Anyway, here's Jelly stretched out on the couch!  I should try to get a picture of her curled around one of our heads while we sleep at night...

To celebrate the new Despicable Me movie they had stickers attached to bunches of bananas so you could make a minion banana.  I found the stickers and put them on a banana for Brooke.  She hasn't gotten it yet, but hopefully she loves it!

So as mentioned at the start we participated in a town race on Saturday.  I ran the 10K, and Monica and Brooke did the family fun trek (1.3 miles, untimed).  Here's Brooke getting psyched up in her stroller before her debut!

And here I am at the start of the 10K.  The 10K starts first, and then 5 minutes later the 5k, and then 5 minutes after that the Family Trek.  It's a pretty good plan because Brooke and Monica finished up their trek just 10 minutes or so before I finished my race.

Here I am coming into the finish.  You may remember that last year I was first overall male finisher, so I had to defend my title... and I lost it.  But I still finished 1st in my age group.  I was 6th overall, and 3rd male.  I had a really hard kick at the end (sub 4 min/mile pace) and passed 2 other men a little before the finish line!

After the race I almost threw up twice, and then we went over to the pancake breakfast!  They always have this same place do breakfast after each race.  Sadly, they're just a food trailer thing for events, and there is no actual restaurant.  They probably make the best pancakes I've ever eaten in my life, and I wish they'd open a restaurant!!  Anyway, we had a fun time together after the race and even got a picture together at the finish line!

Brooke really liked my medal and wore it around for a while after we got home!

Also as mentioned at the start, we went to King Soopers and the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile was there!  They had a corn hole game you could play, which Brooke totally aced, and won these awesome stickers!

Back to Jelly, she sure loves to lay in bins.  She likes to climb into Brooke's toy bin and take a nap.  She even shifts herself around and buries down into the toys!

Saturday night Monica was having Brooke try on all her dresses to find out which ones had gotten too small.  Brooke was having a fun time with it, and when we finished she decided it was time to spin...

Also, in game company news my Kickstarter is almost ready to start!!  I just need a tripod so I can shoot a video for it, and once the video is cut together I'll kick it off!  I'm hoping to start it sometime this week, so watch for a post on Facebook!

I think that's all the highlights around here for the past week!  I hope everyone is doing great!