10k in Richmond, Easter in Connecticut

After a long absence, Heather and I felt that a couple of new blog entries were long overdue. Sorry to those of our blog fans who are feeling neglected. My advice to you: if you’re addicted to our blog, then you are in serious need of help.

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Despite our lack of blogging, there have been plenty of blog-worthy things over the past few months. So I’ll try to catch up on all of them.

First, we repeated the Richmond 10k this year. It was the 10^th anniversary, and I heard that there were over 60,000 people running this year. The route goes down one of the main streets of Richmond and bends back on itself after three miles. So the finish and start of the race are not that far apart. When I was finishing the race, there was still a very steady stream of runners just starting. So yes, there were a lot of runners this year. And just like last time, we had a great time.

The best part of the Richmond 10k, though, is that we get to spend the weekend with Alyson and Nate (which is the reason we run the race in the first place). They have the cutest kids, as you will see in the following pictures.

The second big trip we made recently was to Connecticut to spend Easter with my other sister, Sarena, and her family. It has been years, and I mean since high school, since I decorated eggs and had an egg hunt on Easter. It’s been that long for Heather, too. So we were excited to do all that with Makenzie, Trevor, Jared, Karinn, Sarena and Adam. When Sarena said that they had 6 dozen eggs, my initial thought was that 72 eggs is a bit much. But we got through decorating them all in no time flat. I wished there were more. And then the egg hunt the next day was great. That Easter Bunny sure knows how to find good hiding spaces.

Heather and I felt really fortunate that we were able to get up there in time to be a part of one of Trevor’s Cub Scout activities. Heather got to run some science experiments and I got to run the water rockets. We had a blast. Adam and Sarena did a fantastic job with this activity. We also got to see Trevor play lacrosse in a scrimmage. He is quite the aggressive player. Makenzie showed us her fan dance that she is performing with her group for a talent show at school. He did a great job. Jared and I had some intense nerf wars downstairs. He’s a tough opponent; he got me about twice as much as I got him. And little Karinny and I had a great time climbing trees and playing on the trampoline. In fact, she and I came up with a new little trick. If you’re ever up in CT when we are too, then we’ll show you!

I wish we had pics of our Easter trip. As soon as Sarena sends some to us, we’ll post them.