Santa Cruz Half Marathon, April 11, 2010

Sugar Daddy's were one of my dad's favorite candies so when we found this we had to get a pic of mom with it!

Tiff puking her guts out just 10 min before our race!!

The Start line

The Finish Line!

Mom is so cute, she waited in the wind and rain just to get a pic of us as we were finishing the race! She was so wet and frozen....Thanks Mom!!

She had so much sand on her little feet she had to just go bare foot cause they were getting rubbed raw!

Part of the coast we ran along.

According to mom this is all I did the entire trip! ha ha

All along the highway was just beautiful rolling green hills and fields of strawberries.

Mom was the lucky one to get searched!

Tiff had this idea about three months ago to run a half marathon in Santa Cruz, CA. So we invited Mom to go with us ( Amber couldn't go because of little Nixon, and we missed her tons, it wasn't the same without the full ring of fire!) and we had so much fun there. It rained the entire time, and was colder than Utah, but we made the most of it! We loved the farmers markets, the strawberries and tangerines were so yummy, we ate an entire crate of them while we were there! We stayed at the Intercontinental on Cannery Row. We had fun shopping at all of the little shops around there and ate at a restaurant called the Fish Hopper that had the best clam chowder ever! We went to the Aquarium which made us miss the kids, they would have loved it so much! Tiff ended up in the Er until 1:30 in the morning the night before the race, and then she threw up the entire way to the race...I felt so bad for her. Don't ask me how she did it but she went out there and busted out 13.1 miles like it was nothing!! The race was so amazing....the route we ran was beautiful, I wish I could have ran with a camera to take pics of all of it! I am so glad that Tiff motivated me to do this, I had so much fun and got to go somewhere that I probably would never have went if we hadn't signed up! I am addicted now and can't wait to run another one.... Thanks for going with us Mom and being our little support team!