Our little runners and "who's laughing now?"

Ok so this is old news, but earlier this month, the girls ran in the Carlsbad Junior kids' run.  This was Madie's 3rd year doing the run.  She's had so much fun doing it each year and she's always so proud of herself after she finishes...BUT, as you can see here, she gets really nervous before the race and always stresses out that we are going to be late and miss it! 

Here's our little worried runner--she did AWESOME and was among the first set of kids to finish...

After they run, the kids get a medal and some free samples of healthy foods--like Jamba Juice!  Madie was super happy after she finished her run and was so eager to go cheer on Avery!  This was Avery's FIRST year running...

Here are the girls running together cause Madie was worried that we wouldn't be able to find Avery when she was done (they hold the younger ones in a big pen until their parent shows up with the matching race number).  It was so sweet of Madie to run another 1/2 mile with her little sister after already running 1 mile pumped full of adrenaline!  Owen and I ran half the way with them (Owen was strapped in of course), then Marcus met them at the half point and cheered them on.

Here's little Avery running with the five-year-olds (before she even turned 5).  As you can see, lots of the kids were much bigger than she was!  Marcus and Madie let her run the last 200 yards by herself.  We're so proud of you--way to go Avery!

It was so fun watching you at the finish line Madie...Great job for running the whole way!

Avery loved participating this year like she's watched her big sister do these last few years.  I know she felt good about finishing on her own...AND she also RAN THE WHOLE WAY (surprised us all).  But I think her favorite part was probably the Jamba Juice and cookies!

After the race we drove up to OC to meet some old friends and we stopped at our favorite burger joint--A's Burger!  They have the YUMMIEST fried zucchini!

Owen of course ate a whole meal of ketchup with a side of fries!

Marcus dared Madie to eat a whole jalapeno pepper and promised to take her to the movies if she did!

Poor thing--here she is with the whole thing in her mouth...She'll do anything her Daddy asks her to!

And here's sympathetic little Avery laughing her head off that Madie's mouth is on fire! 

Owen doesn't have a CLUE what they're laughing about, but it sure was hilarious...

Then it was Avery's turn--she was only motivated by the movie and didn't want to miss out--nothin' to do with pleasing her Daddy! 

Not so funny now, eh?

After A's burger, we drove through the car wash...guess my kids haven't experienced that one too often.  They were soooo excited and Owen still begs to go to the car wash every time we go under a freeway overpass or anything that  resembles a tunnel...

That was a really FUN day!