First 5K Run...

So at the beginning of the summer (May)  my family was talking and decided we would all work towards running the Centerville 5K on the 4th of July.  We were all excited and pumped to do it.  Well Travis and I were planning on going running and getting ourselves ready to go and back into shape.  We kind of slacked and didn't get serious about it until a month before.  We ran every other night at 10pm.  That was the only time we could both do it when it wasn't 100 degrees outside.  We had a lot of fun spending time together and excersising. It was nice to have a running buddy because whoever was feeling better that night helped push the other and we gave eachother encouragement. By the time the race came we had already ran the distance of a 5K three times.  

On the day of the race, we were all ready to go.  We were all axious and excited because none of us had ever ran a 5K before.  We started out and the first thing we had to run on was a nice LONG uphill slope. By the time I got to the top I wasn't sure that I was going to make it without walking (my goal had been to make sure I jogged the whole way) and to add to my stress my ipod wasn't working right and I couldn't figure out which button to push because it was in an armband around my arm and I was bouncing up and down so I just gave up.  So I was breathing deep and I could hear myself and it was making it a lot more difficult to keep going.  But I definitely was determined to make it.  I rolled in at about 31.06 seconds.  It was my best time and I was happy.  It was by no means a winning time, but it was for my personal goal.

After the race we took a pictures with our numbers and our red faces.  I wasn't on the winners board, but my dad and Amanda (the ones on the right) were on their for the age groups.  Good Job to all 6 of us that took this challange on!

Labor Day Golf Party

Sometimes I think my family is a little crazy, but I have to admit that we're alot of fun!!!  So we have an Annual Labor Day Party at my G & G Ford's house.  It always has a theme.  We play a lot of games and there are always prizes to be won.  This year we decided to do a golf theme.  Each family had to come up with their own homemade mini golf hole idea.  We ended up having 9 different holes.  We also had a chipping competition and a ladder golf competition. 

This was our hole.  It was called the "Cotton Candy Castle".  There were two places you could hit your ball.  Either in the middle or on one of the sides.  Now you can't see them but there were two tubes that came off the back of the castle.  If you  hit your ball in the middle then you got to put your ball down the tube that led to the hole.  If you hit your ball on the sides then you would  have to place your ball down the other tube which led you to a little longer route to the hole.  My mom and I made the castle one night while Travis, my dad, Shane, and Josh went golfing.  It took us a good 4 hours, but we had fun while we worked on it.

This hole was called "The Big Flush"  You had to start your putt at the hanging toilet paper.  The ball would either be hit straight and go through the green tube and somewhat launch into the air towards the hole, or you were stuck with going around the toilet paper obstacles.  The hole was the toilet seat.  This was the Ford's hole creation.  Way Creative!!

This was the Tidwell's hole.  It was called the "Rock 'n' Roll Hole".  You putted from the start where the picture of my dad playing the saxaphone is.  The pictures are of my mom, dad, bother, and sister being rock stars.  They are actually pretty hilarious.  Once you got past the picture obstacles, you had to make it through the swinging song note.  The note at the end of the rope would be swinging as you putted it down the path and it would sometimes hit your ball backwards.  Once you passed that you just had to make it in the hole.

This was the Wilson's hole and oddly enough they wanted to call theirs the "Big Flush" as well.  It is crazy that two families picked the exact same name for their hole.  This hole began at the very end of those long pipes.  You had to try to shoot it straight down the middle of the green thing which led it down a pipe to the green.  Because Kevin does sprinklers during the summer, this seemed very fitting because it was all made out of sprinkler materials. 

I didn't get a picture of all the holes, but they were all very creative and unique in their own ways.  We had a ton of fun and played in teams of 4 but were scored individually.  Jason took first place and Travis and Austin tied for second place.  Trav has golfed all his life so it was no suprise that he was one of the winners!

We had a great dinner and I always enjoy spending time with my extended family.  Thank you Kathy, Sheri and Grandma Ford for all the hard work you put in to make this a unforgettable memory every year!