4th of July Balloonfest and Freedom 10k

 We followed our family tradition and went to the Freedom Festival Hot air balloon liftoff.  This means waking my family up at 5:30 am, and every year I try to roll them out of bed, I wonder why we do this.

 They're still not awake and happy by 6:15.

 But then we saw the Darth Vader balloon complete with storm troopers and other...random characters I didn't know!

 We always love seeing the fire as they're blowing  up the balloons.

 A lot of beautiful balloons along with the novelty ones.  I love how we can walk around between them all.

 Once the balloons lift off they do these races and games "Fox and Hares" I think, but we always leave then. The best part is lift-off.

Today we ran the Freedom Run 10K.  Tia's first 10K. I was so proud of her!  She stopped and walked for 2 second intervals before I convinced her to "just go slow".  She really did great!  I think average we were at about 11 minute miles (that's up from her 15 minute mile average when she started running :)   ).  She's training for the Hobble Creek Half marathon in August, so you'll see more of her on here.  I think we made a runner out of her.

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