Our day of service was doing a 5k family fun run to gather food for the NC Food Bank and clothes for several different charities in our area! To register for the fun run you had to donate 10 cans of food per person. We also were donating clothing at each of our church buildings! We got started at 8:30 am on Saturday at the Wake Forest Building! If any on you know anything about Wake Forest, NC then you know that it is extremely hilly! We started and ended our 5k run at the church after going up and thru the neighborhood behind the church! It was full of hills! There were over 1000 people registered for the event and we all lined up according to speed! It was super hot so everyone carried water bottles and we all took off! What a great time we had! I was among the slowest walkers but I finished with a sprint and then fell over in the grass..hahahaha! Emily did great and breezed past me from the beginning! Momma and Nathan came in very last but you would have thought they had won if you had listened to the cheering crowd! Everyone was so excited for them to cross the finish line and everyone was cheering with music playing...it was great fun and a great way to do service! We were all hot, tired and sore by the end of the day but it felt great to join with the other 98 stakes participating in the day of service and give to our community! We had a ball and are looking forward already to next year! It gives me a goal to shoot for...I will be jogging in next years race! What a load of fun!!!!
Momma and Nathan before the race
Emily and Bishop Tiek before the race
Emily running across the finish line
Jean running across the finish line!
Jean smiling because she had FINISHED!!
And then there were two....crossing to the sound of the cheering crowd!
Emily and Bishop Tiek before the race 
Emily running across the finish line
4 comments:
Way to GO!! What a fun day ya'll had. Nice start to a good exercise program. I love the t-shirts.
Aw - they're crossing arm in arm! That's so sweet! (I participated in the donating part prior to the day of service in our stake, but we were out of town Saturday and I missed being able to participate in the day's events.) Seth would have loved the 'fun run'!
Sis. Ard looks so cute in her floppy hat. She looks like she is headed off to garden or a little tea party, not a 5k. :)
Way to go Jean & Emily!
Thankfully, our stake cleaned up the big river here, no running involved.
Count me in for next year if you are not planning too much of a jog. Way too go - I am proud of you all!!!!!
Jewel
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