A Color Me RAD kind of day!

We have anticipated this 5k race for a couple of months now. In fact it was on my mind so much I almost forgot to pick up our race packets!!!  The kids and I had gone out to eat and we were sitting there when I realized we hadn't gone to pick up our stuff!  We had exactly 30 minutes to drive into downtown Raleigh on a Friday night.  Thanks to no help from the GPS taking us to the wrong address, we made it right at 7pm.  We were the 3rd to last people in line, but we made out with race bibs and some loot.

This morning we picked up Aunt Katie and cousin Ginger who were also running.  They had on these awesome tattoos that we didn't realize were in our race bag.  Derek and Mason applied them in the car since we had tons of time as the traffic getting off the highway was backed up 2 miles.

Derek put his tattoo on his leg

Ginger pre race.  It was a little chilly.

Derek was so excited he could hardly stand it!  He decided to run last minute.

Mason all jazzed up.

Mason's tattoo on his neck.

Walking in to the start line.  

Pre race cleanliness.  

First color bomb station.  There were 5 along the whole route and then a huge finally at the finish line.  We couldn't take pictures at the end because there was just a cloud of color.

Katie and Ginger

Derek thought he needed to be carried 10 minutes into the run and Sadie changed her mind and  decided she really wanted to run with us.  Notice her flip flops!

He decided he could do it!  He made it the rest of the way on his own.  I'm so proud of him!

After the yellow color bomb station.  They had paint sprayers at this one.

Hold your breath!

Mason near the finish.

What a fun morning!  I don't know how I managed to keep my face clean, but Mason had enough for the both of us.

Awesome!  What a colorful morning!

A special thanks to Dad, our photographer, who looked so official, racers were waiting in line to have their pictures taken by him!