Pink Pacer Community Fun Run 2017

Our neighborhood elementary school where Sadie will start Kindergarten next year had their first community fun run last night sponsored by their running club, the Pink Pacers:

I registered our family since most of our neighbors would be there & I knew Sadie would have fun getting to experience one of her first events at Pink. It was also a fundraiser for the school. As soon as we got there, we saw the Baird family:

I didn't register Sophie because she is still pretty young & I didn't think she could make it 2.2 miles so we let her bring her scooter :) Sadie loves to run & has done races with us before so she was excited:

We lined up at the back of the starting line because most of the kids were older & Sophie had her scooter:

And then we took off! Sadie started strong so I ran with her while Bryan stayed behind with Sophie. After the first half mile, another neighbor, Hadley met up with us. Hadley is in the 1st grade at Pink & Sadie idolizes her. So from this point on, Sadie no longer wanted to run with me but do whatever Hadley was doing, which mostly included walking, talking & cutting corners:

She was too cool to run with me anymore :( Finally at the end, I encouraged her to sprint to the finish line & she finished strong:

I was so proud of her for finishing 2.2 miles & not giving up! Everyone got a ribbon when they crossed the finish line but later during the awards ceremony, they had medals for the top 3 boys & girls in each grade & she was bummed she didn't win anything. But her competitive spirit must have kicked in because she said next year she was going to run the entire thing & win!

We stayed for a while celebrating at the carnival with food, games & sno cones. We even ran into the spirit guy:

This guy lives on our side of town & we see him ALL the time! He is always running around West Frisco in these crazy outfits with these crazy colorful signs that read positive messages. He has became famous in Frisco for being such a positive example to the community. Everyone waves & honks at him and he has even been on the news several times.

I think we were one of the last families to leave while they were cleaning up (the girls were determined to bounce as long as they could in the bounce house before they kicked them out!) so while we were walking to our car, Bahama Bucks dumped all of their left over ice & we had a snow ball fight:

The perfect way to end our night, especially after our race. We are looking forward to many more events at Pink Elementary when Sadie starts in the fall!