Walk, then Run

This past Saturday we all participated in our local Walk to End Alzheimer's. Needless to say, it's a little more personal this year. If you are not familiar, they have these flower spinners, and the colors signify different relations to Alzheimer's disease. Purple = lost someone to it, Yellow = know someone with it, Orange = not personally affected, but want to cure it, and Blue = have Alzheimer's.

They had a 3 mile course marked out, and while the adults walked all of it, the kids ran most of it with some walk breaks interspersed. The kids said they were the first to finish, never mind that it is a "Walk to End..," not a race. They even had a drumline and lots of cheerleaders lining the route, which was fun, but a little awkward to be cheered on while you are just walking. 😅 It was a very humid morning, so we were all sweaty by the end. 

In football news, the Bobcats are 3-1, and we had some special guests at the last game! Uncky Dan, Aunty Jenn, Addie and Will all came to see O play, plus his youth pastor, Chad.

 

Luckily, Owen had a great game! On offense, he lines up to the right of the QB (pic below). He had a few runs and even scored the first touchdown (video below) to lead his team to a 18-0 win over their rival Eagles. On defense, he had several tackles for loss, including a sack on the quarterback. I think he played nearly every down, until we were comfortably in the lead near the end of the game when he came out for some water. 

O was surprised to see everyone after the game. I think he forgot he'd have an audience, and he got lots of praise and pats on the back. Even his sister was impressed with his game! He ended up getting a second "Player of the Week" honor the next day!

In other news, I regularly meet up with these ladies for lunch every couple of months or so. We all live in "Houston," although we are each in different outlying suburbs no less than half an hour apart, so it's no small feat to coordinate schedules. This last meeting it struck me how awesome it was that I just had lunch with my bridesmaids a little more than 20 years after my wedding! So I snapped a photo to commemorate. Love them!

And with a couple of random school holidays, H and I finished up a 1000-piece beauty that Oma left behind. So glad to have another puzzler in the family! O will do some, too, but not quite as diligently as H!