4th of July

 

on the morning of the 4th we ran a road race in Tipton

then Ean had to go to work, so the kids and I swam and played outside until firework time!

Ean ran the 5k and the kids ran around the track while we waited

 Ean got 2nd overall and ran his fastest time since graduating from college!
Chasen finished with him and got many comments on how "fast that kid was"

 

Chasen was registered in the one mile

Ean ran with him and Dash and I were along to take pictures.

It is the only race we've been too that had awards for top 3 finishers in the little kids age group. Chasen was in the 4 and under age group.

 starting the One Mile

 good form!!

 it was an out and back one mile and on the way out it was mostly uphill, I saw a kid in front of chasen and i was pretty sure he was his age, well chasen wanted to stop because he was tired and I told him he had to catch that kid to get a prize, he took off and never looked back!
I debated for a second weather I should tell him because I like him to run because its fun not for medals, because some day he will get beat!

 finishing with dad

Turns out Chasen did get first place!

But I was most proud of him for walking up all on his own (and you know how shy he is) to the kid he passed and he said to him "hey kid, good job!" :) 

Accepting His first, first place medal!! 

later that night Brad and Julie came over to grill and we went to the Mechanicsville fireworks

Chasens face is priceless in this photo.

It was Dashtyns first fireworks that he was old enough to know what was going on and he was scared sitting in my lap pointing and whining and looking around at all of us like why are you just sitting here, at one point he got off my lap and tried to hide :( 

then he saw Brad and sat on his lap, then he was ok, and started pointing saying ohhhh

 The next morning we headed to Nebraska for more festivities