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Colorathon 2015

My daughter's school put on a fundraiser this year through SchoolAThon called Colorathon. This is basically a Color Me Rad-type run for kids to raise money for their schools. It's such a really cool idea!! 

Maddie has been literally begging to do Color Me Rad with me this year, so when this fundraiser came home, I knew we had to do it!! So we enlisted all our family to donate money so that we could reach the $150 family level. At this level, we would all be able to run the 1 mile race together! We raised that and more and Maddie was able to get some really cool prizes for the run. She got a wig, headband, glasses, backpack, and tons of color packs to throw at the end of the race. 

Maddie had to try out her wig, glasses, and headband as soon as she got them from school! She's such a goofball!!

We got to the school early so we could park and get ourselves ready to run!!

Pre-race clean picture!!! This is hubby's first official race!! The kids have done other races but Daddy has not! We were all super excited that he would be participating with us!! I'm secretly hoping this sparks a little something in him and he'll want to run more!! 



The race course was 2 laps around Maddie's  school for roughly a mile. There were color stations with parent and student volunteers throwing color on you!! It was so much fun!!!

Daddy and EJ's finish!!! They did awesome!!!

Our finish picture before the final throw!!! If you think we are covered in color now, just wait until after the final group color throw!!!

At the end of the race, we all gathered in a circle for the group throw, but first a few students got to throw color on the principal! She totally got it right in the face!!! Too funny!!

After that we counted down and threw all our color packets all over each other!!! 


Don't we look awesome!!! We had so much fun!! We hung out at the school and danced to some music and swung on the swings!! Such an awesome way to spend a Friday night!!






I seriously hope they put on this fundraiser again next year!! It was a blast!!!

And as always, my running friends, 

RUN ON!!!

Laura 

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