half marathon and best friends

this past weekend jack and our friends mac and libby barksdale and kimberly lucier ran the corporate cup half marathon. jack has run one marathon way back when and this was libby and kimberly's first. they all trained and did an amazing job!! i was literally so proud of all of them, i couldn't stop talking about it all day!

the race started at 8, and jack told me that he would be running by my parents street at around 9:30. so, we all got there at 8:55 to watch the runners go by and cheer them on!

sus and pap and lawton
enter best friend. when you ask lawton who his best friend is, it is his pap. he loves this man with all his heart and soul. every time he has something he wants to show someone, "show pap!", or call, "call pap!" or "let's go to pap's house!"....this relationship is so special and just fills my heart because my dad and i are so close and i am so thankful that he can spend time with lawton. i had my own "pap" growing up, so seeing them is so cool.
here they are playing guns ;-)

got em!! typical boys!

okay, so heeere comes mac at about 9:05--an UNBELIEVABLE PACE

this is him saying "how much farther ahead is jack?" oh shit. did we miss him? no way.

oh no. really? there is no way i could miss him. he told me 9:30. was he really running that fast?? oh lord!! is he injured?

then comes libby, AMAZING!! she screamed my name and lawton and i held up the poster we made for her and kimberly, SO fun seeing your friends accomplish such an amazing feat!

next came kimberly not far behind libby!

yep. we missed him. wife FAIL. i took this picture as we were walking back to turn the corner on my parents street. my dad was holding lawton and decided to take him to talk to the police officer and then....

here comes daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i scrambled to find my camera, the poster and do our much practiced chant "go daddy go!!". he came by at 9:35. when am i going to learn to trust my husband?? he did a 9 minute pace and ran with some clients...whew!!! we saw him!! thank god because that would NOT have been good

bye daddy!!!!!!!!

after the race we went to TOAST (which if you live in charlotte, is AMAZING) and toasted to daddy on his first half marathon. congrats honey, i am so proud of you!!

he has now signed up for one in april. this time, i will trust him ;-)