Color Me Rad and 11 More Years

We've celebrated our 11th "family anniversary" this month.  Eleven years ago our family was sealed in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple.  It's been fun celebrating this special day as a family.  This year it just happened that the Color Me Rad run was in St. George on our anniversary.  What better way to celebrate than running/walking 3.2 miles, getting blasted with color, and having great fun with the ones you love and look forward to spending eternity with?

 

Miki and Jill on the drive to St. George

 

The kids were all excited and missing school made it all the better. 

 

Is she trying to stay warm, or is she excited?

 

St. George was the perfect temperature all week, until the day we got there.  The morning of the race it was COLD!!  I was wishing for warmer clothes for sure. 

 

This is us before..

Kamill, Jaxon, Easton, Samantha, Sam, Jenny, Jill, and Miki

 

Miki and Jill held onto the blanket for as long as they possibly could.

 

They started people in about 6 minute increments, but while we waited it was not boring.  We were colored before we ever made it to the first color station.



Jenny, Jill, the tippy top of Miki and our stylin yellow shades.

 

And we're off!!

Jenny, Jill, and Kamill

 At one point in the run we lost Sam and Jill.  But the camera people found them.  Once we spotted them they were a dirt patch away from us.  So, we cut the corner just a tad and caught up to them.

 

 

And we'd finally made it!!  All of the kids did so good.  It was cold, windy, and in those conditions 3 miles can seem very long.  The finish line was a welcome sight.

 

Kamill and Jaxon

Sammi

Miki, Jill and Easton

Jenny

 

This is us After...

Jill, Sam, Miki, Jenny, Kamill, Easton, Jaxon

 

Sam modeling her newly acquired tye dyed shirt.



Miki

 

We were all covered from head to ankle, inside of our ears, and even up our noses.

 

But it really was RAD!!

Jaxon, Kamill, Easton

 Once the girls were warm inside the truck again, they all wanted to run another color run... when it's warm.

 

 

There were 5000+ people there, and the traffic was crazy!  It took awhile to get out of there, but our view of St. George was great.

 

 

After cleaning up we picked up Troy from his daycare and went to Kamill's house were we visited, and the kids played. 

 

Miki, Jaxon, Easton, Troy, Jill

 Allie had changed so much from the last time we'd seen her.  Not too much longer and she'll be right there with the rest of the kids.

 

Kamill and Allie