Hurricane Monster Mile

Yesterday we went to Hurricane in the am to run in 'The Monster Mile'. My friend Shani lives in Hurricane and told me about the fun race for kids. I signed Bradyn and Austin up because I thought they would enjoy it. They both did great! Bradyn came in first in his age group and 2nd overall for the boys. He ran a 7:36 mile which isn't bad for a 7 year old! He won a movie ticket because of his 1st place win. I ran with Austin and we did a 16 minute mile:) Austin ran the whole time which is hard for a little Tyke like him! We decided that next year Bradyn will run in the 5k with either Nate or I. He is a good little runner. I am going to buy him a nice pair of running shoes and start running with him regularly because who knows, he could be the next Nate Lund! Ty even got to run in the 'Spooky Sprints'. They had everything set up so cute for the kids, it was a fun morning!

Austins stitches

I guess sitting still through church and an 'after church movie' was too much for my kids because they immediately started jumping off the couch and wrestling. Needless to say, the wrestling match went a little too far and Austin got shoved into the coffee table. His head was bleeding so bad, we couldn't tell how deep the cut was. We had to press a rag on it for quite a while. When the bleeding slowed down a little, we saw that the cut was very deep. Usually we would just have super glued and butterflied, but not this time. Nate ran Austin to the Dr. and the Dr. stitched him up. 3 stitches on the inside, and 8 on the outside = 11 stitches. We were blessed though because the Dr. said that if the cut was any deeper, he would have cut into the membrane that surrounds his skull and that would have been 3 layers of stitches instead of 2. He was also close to severing some nerves that run through is forehead, so we really were lucky that he didn't! The week before, the neighbor girls were doing a face painting stand and they painted Austins face like Frakenstein with fake stitches on his cheek and forehead. After his stitches, I told him that now he didn't have to get his face painted because he had the real thing!
His stitches are out now and he will have a pretty good scar but the Dr. did a great job of stitching it!