Adding to the family...............: An Active Kind of Day

On Sunday October 24, Dad participated in his 3rd and last triathlon of 2010 at the Katy Triathlon at Firethorne. The good news was that it was close! The girls and I got up pretty early and headed out to Katy to first pick up Granny and then drive out to the triathlon. Apparently they feel that the athletes and participants needed to get in a warm up as we had to park and then walk about a mile from the start. Luckily they were running a little behind and we were able to see Dad for a minute before he took off. The girls and I headed down to the water edge to watch Dad take off, with a breakfast of Cheerios in hand of course:

We were able to see him get into the water and take off and we got to see him run right past us to the transition (he's wearing a gray shirt if you couldn't figure it out):

And then it was off to the bike(and a little playing while we waited):

And then in he came and we waited for him to transition to his run. He ran right past us and the girls were yelling for him and they even got a little wave much to their delight:

And then we moved over to the finish line because we knew the run wouldn't take him too long :

He did a great job!

We went and had breakfast and then went home to rest a bit. Later that afternoon we all got back into the car and headed out to the Light the Night Walk in The Woodlands. I'm always up for any type of walk/run for charity but this one held a very special place in the heart of my dear friend Crissy so it has a special place in my heart as well. There were all kinds of attractions for the kiddos including people dressed up as various things, on stilts, Junction Jack, etc. And there was music and they got awesome balloons taht were lit when it got dark and we all walked about 2 miles. It was really amazing.