Emmi's 1/2 marathon!

The Des Moines half marathon was quite the event. This year Emmi decided to enter and was determined to run the whole thing. We did our best to support and got there early. It was chilly so I packed coats, blankeys things to keep kenna busy and fed.

We waited at the starting line to send her off, then hurried to the next meeting point. Then, we got in the car and hurried to another meeting point, and then waited for her at the finish line. Josh had the idea of wearing my cat in the hat hat so she saw us from a mile away..literally! Was fun to watch all the runners..I couldn't believe how many people participated!

--starting point....Go EM!--

--off they go! 45 degrees and most are half naked...brrr!--

--we stopped and waited somewhere between mile 7-8--

Some crazy people were shouting the whole 30 minutes we were there and gave me a splitting headache. I also found it ironic that many people were eating doughnuts while watching people run....

--Em running towards the finish...she finished it almost 2 hours!--

I am glad we got to go support her! We went to breakfast at Perkins where Emmi had some giant waffles and immediately threw them up :( Well, she did just run 13 miles!!!!