Ireland Family: Forrest Spence 5K 8-28-10

Last Saturday was the Forrest Spence 5K which benefits the Forrest Spence Fund. The Forrest Spence Fund provides non-medical resources for patients and their families at Le Bonheur. It is a very dear cause to our family. Forrest Spence was born the September before Lillie was born and because of infection died the week before she was born. In Forrest's honor, his family set up this fund and the race is their main fundraiser. Check out their website for more information: www.forrestspencefund.com.

I volunteered to help with t-shirts which meant we had to be there pretty early. Lillie was so excited to go to the race. This is a picture of her at 6am in the car on the way. Luckily, her excitement helped us to wake up too! :) Lillie was finally big enough this year to get a t-shirt which she is sporting under her seat belt! She was so excited to have t-shirt to wear to the race.

Daddy and Lillie eating a little breakfast - Daddy drinking a little coffee - before all the festivities got under way. It is between 6:30 and 7am here. They are sitting on the gazebo steps.

Someone turned some music on after 7am and Lillie couldn't stand to sit any longer. She started dancing! I wish I could have half of the energy she had at that hour! :)

Caught dancing... stopped for about the length it took to take this picture then she was back at it!

Lydia and Mikey walking in the race. Lillie and I were cheering them on! We missed Daddy and Mark run by earlier. I wasn't quite on the ball for the two of them. This is a little into the mile 2!

That was all the race day pictures. After grabbing a little breakfast with everyone and heading to the kid station/100 yard dash area Lillie's knee ate some concrete. We had to quickly deal with her bloody knee so she could play. However, Lillie decided she would be inconsolably afraid or in fear of BAND AIDS! That's right BAND AIDS - every 2 year olds dream. It was a crazy scene she was screaming and crying and climbing all over me. We did eventually get one on her - it was bleeding after all but we could not get her to calm down. We finally decided to go assuming she was just tired and that is why she was freaking out the way she was but a couple days later we found out that wasn't the case. She fell down again, scraping the other knee, thus starting all over when the word BAND AID was mentioned! Hopefully she will quickly grow out of this phase... or at least pay attention to what she is doing so she stops falling down! :)

The rest of the pictures were taken at home because I wanted to get their outfits. Plus Annie was so cute here, how could I resist getting the camera out!?! :) This was actually Lillie's onesie from when she was little and then I made her some bloomers to match last week for the race.

This was probably after 10am, everyone was a bit worn out at this time. We decided to put a movie in and "rest" for a little bit. There was also still a little calming down going on from the knee - our little drama queen decided she couldn't walk for a bit because it hurt. This was her idea of relaxing and getting under control!