The Giesekes: Use Your Feet

Our church with the long name (Vineyard Christian Fellowship of the Peninsula) sponsored a 5k run to raise money for human trafficking victims in our area and we really enjoyed participating. I wasn't planning to post about this event, but I just got a hold of a ton of pictures of us taking part. There are so few pictures of all of us doing something together since I'm always behind the camera, so here we go.

Kids are strapped into the double BOB and ready to rock

Had to bring dinos along for the ride

Time for a little warm up

Lunges and stretching

Ready at the starting line. Did I mention that neither of us trained for this at all and have not run in months. At this point we were thinking that we'd jog and then walk when we got tired.

We are off. Dan is head and shoulders above the crowd.

Started at the back of the pack

Since we started so far back, we got to pass a lot of people. That was kind of fun.

In the middle of the pack. Really running now. We decided about 1/2 way through just to try to run the whole thing. I was pretty tired and wanted to stop, but just kept going.

Really sucking air and trying to keep a fast pace.

It felt worse than it looks. Running is one of those things that's just miserable unless you do it all of the time, then it's kind of ok.

Coming around the final bend.

Making the brilliant decision to sprint.

Going for it. Coco is trying to claw her way out.

Almost there

So happy to stop

Mommy gets really red.

Silly girl

Jack's scoping the post-race snacks.

Next the adorable kiddie race. Jack and Coco both ran in the 2's and 3's age bracket.

Girl loves to run

The guys are competing for first place

Everyone's a winner

Very nice event

While we're on the topic of our church, our small group for the past 3 years is winding down and new groups are starting. Can't believe how far we've come. We started out all brand new parents with Emeline, Josh, Noah, Jackson, Grace, and Jonah on the way.