Finishing Strong

In years past, our church's preschool has raised funds for their scholarship program by having a multi-family yard sale. Our yard was host to that sale twice. It's a lot of work!! This year, the preschool board (which EJ is on) decided to try something new. 

I am so proud of him. The event was great and lots of fun. All his hard work and the work of many others, paid off.

 EJ kicked things off. The first event was a 1-mile kid's run on a lakeside path through the park.

 

Each runner got a t-shirt and race bib. The first official race for both Owen and Mason. Fun!

This was the home stretch. Can you tell he is one determined boy?

 

He finished second, but only by 1 second (if that). His time 6:48.5

Mason did awesome and finished in 9th place with a time of 8:07.2.

 

The board received awesome donations that were handed out as prizes. 

The 1st and 3rd place boys are brothers :)

 After the 1-mile run was the 5K. 

EJ would have participated if he hadn't been needed for tracking the finish times.

Next was the preschool dash. Boy, was I glad it took place on grass :)

Ryan is the one in red shorts with LOTS of face/forearm paint.

Avery just wandered around and buckled everyone's empty strollers.

After the preschool dash was our church's annual Easter egg hunt. I did not get a single picture. It was over in the blink of an eye. All in all, it was a wonderful family event. I am fairly certain the consensus is to do it again and of course there is a growing list of improvements for next year.