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This has been quite the busy weekend.

Saturday, we awoke at 5:00 AM and drove to Milledgeville for another 5K. I set a new personal record and was 2nd in my age group. Former UGA quarterback David Greene (second photo in black) presented the awards.

Later that evening (after a nap interrupted by a census worker), we met up with some friends at Buckner’s Family Restaurant.  It’s located at exit 201 off of I-75 behind the Pilot truck stop.  They seat your group around a lazy susan and serve the amazing food family style.  I highly recommend it!

This morning, we got up and headed up to Athens.  My sister had her first child, Elinor Grace (don’t ask about the name), on Wednesday and we went to meet her. Afterwards, we ate at Raisin’ Canes — the best chicken finger shack ever.  We discovered this place on our trip to New Orleans last year and were happy to find one in Athens.

Aside from all of that travel and fun, we have also played in the pool, went grocery shopping, and watched Avatar (which is totally not my kind of movie).  The rain has now ruined our afternoon plans, so it’s a good time to catch up on a blog post.

I hope your weekend was enjoyable as well!

Other than the title, this will be a Wordless Wednesday post.

This weekend, I participated in the inaugural Georgia State Fair 5K.  In my race packet were free admissions tickets, so later we returned to check out the festivities.  We saw a water-skiing squirrel, racing pigs, and many Maconites (which are a carnival act themselves).  Some old ladies gave us their left over ride tickets so we enjoyed a few rides as well.

The fair is not as big as the Georgia National Fair, but its also not subsidized with tax dollars.  That means I can enjoy the atmosphere without thinking about how high the student/teacher ratios at my child’s school have to rise in order to put it on.

It’s been almost 2 months since we’ve visited Farmer Jonathan.  The vegetable garden is doing well.  We added tomatoes, strawberries, eggplant, and something that I can’t remember right now to the peppers and pumpkins. Again, we don’t eat any of that stuff (except the strawberries) so I don’t know what I’m going to do with it.

From the looks of things, we are going to have a LOT of peppers. As you can see, I’m also a master at growing weeds!

Yesterday, the garden produced it’s first edible item: a strawberry. I was excited. I think it is the first thing that I’ve ever grown that is consumable.

Guess who took it from me and ate it?

Last night was Tristan’s kindergarten program/awards ceremony.  I can’t believe that Tristan has almost conquered kindergarten.  It seems like his first day was yesterday.

In case you can’t figure it out, Tristan was a cow in the Kindergarten Farm.  Now that you know that, you can crave Chick-fil-A too!

Here is a video of the short performance:

Tristan did get an award for Accelerated Reader.  But then again, about 90% of the kindergarten class got the award so perhaps they should rename it “Average Reader”.

Somehow, our Saturdays have been consumed with running and t-ball lately.  I fondly remember sleeping in on Saturdays.  This Saturday, we woke up at 5:30 to get ready for the Run4Missions 5K.

The kids participated in the one mile fun-run.  No, I’m not forcing my kids into my sport.  They WANT to do this.  I am happy that they are picking up on positive habits.  We know several kids who sit and play video games all day.

Tristan placed 3rd among boys 10 and under.  He ran the mile in just over 10 minutes.  That’s a lot faster than I was two years ago!

Mackenzie finished 4th among girls 10 and under.  She beat out girls three times her age!  She finished in about 14 minutes.

Here’s a picture with them sporting their finisher’s medals.  I regret that I didn’t get the pictures of them receiving their trophies at the awards ceremonies.  I wish I had brought my video camera so that you can hear the “AWWWWW”s when Mackenzie ran up to the stage to get her trophy.

After the fun run, it was time for my 5K.  I ran the race in 23:48 — a new personal record!  I was pleased.  Since I’m in a tough age group (30-34), I ended up 5th and didn’t get any bling bling.

Next, it was off to t-ball, which no longer has a “tee” as you can see above.  I’m still not sure what’s up with that.  I think maybe the ballpark lost all of the tees.

Here is Tristan getting tagged out on the way to first base.  It turned out to be a pretty good shot.

After lunch and a nice nap, we headed off to Downtown Macon for the Moonlight Miles 5K.  I’ve never raced twice in one day, but it worked out pretty well.  It was my first local night race and the only one I’ve done other than the Tower of Terror 13K at Disney.

Kimberlie isn’t great at getting good night shots, so you won’t see any pictures of me running at night.  My time was about 2 minutes slower because of hills and trying to avoid the Macon potholes at night.

We finally got home about 11:30 after a nice meal at the Waffle House (the only thing open).  Needless to say, we slept in this morning!