THE MONSTER DASH

This year for Halloween, we dressed up as Paul Bunyan, Paul's wife, and BABE the blue ox. My friend Tana made this darling hat for Will and it totally completed the outfit. She saved me from spray painting devil horns!!!

Yesterday, we ran the "Monster Dash" 5K. It was SO much fun, we can't wait for next year. Everyone was so festive and dressed up, and there were lots of families there. I loved seeing all the families out together and encouraging each other and having fun together. It seems like you don't see that all too often these days... The race was held at Lk. Harriett here in Minneapolis, it was a gorgeous sunny day, but only about 40 degrees.

We were glad we had our flannel shirts on!

Here's our determined little OX who has to WALK everywhere by himself and won't hold hands... ever! We were glad we finally got him to wear his gloves. We had to tell him it was like "Nemo" and then he put them on (he has finger puppets that are fish like Nemo that he puts on his fingers at church)
The Bunyan Family (someone told us we would look more like the Bunyans if Scott was on stilts and could grow a beard....)
The bribe: crackers, just so he would get in the stroller - who ever said not to bribe with food?
Our big finish - this is how Will spent the race
Whew - the other finishers, wide awake!It was such a fun day as a family. We got to enjoy lunch at the lake afterwards, enjoy all our little freebies, and eat our candy that we got from "trick-or-treating" along the race course (what a fun idea!). So... Until next year... maybe we'll be ambitious and run (or walk) the Monster HALF marathon???