The Super Smithsons!

It has become an annual tradition... The Ka-POW Superhero Adventure Run.  The first year, Melanie and I ran together and Melanie was dressed up as super girl.  In fact, that year, so was Noelle.  Brandon was Captain America and I had a Superman shirt on (Oliver was wearing red, white, and blue, but was just little).  The next year, we were super, but Melanie was Super Melanie, Noelle was Super Noelle, and so on.  This year we were a super team.  The Super Smithsons.  For fun, we made matching shirts.  We decided to try this tie dye spray and made an activity out of it.

 I made a stencil of an "S" so we could add that to the front.

 On race day, it was the girls that participated in the event while the boys cheered us on.  Here we are pre-race.  This was Noelle's first race, ever!

 Here I am with my ultimate super hero husband.  I love him!

 This year, we talked some of our favorite people to join us!  Liz signed her daughter, Morgan, up.  Then, during packet pickup, was informed that she would need to participate too.  At 38 weeks pregnant, it was definitely proof of her super mom powers!  Ethan had super powers of his own... he sneaked into the race and had fun with us!

 And we are off!

 The event had several obstacles to prove our super-ness.  We had to go through a room that looked like it was rotating (we all agreed that was the worst), through some bounce houses, down a water slide, through "dangerous" foaming bubbles, over and under, and pretty much everything you could think of.  It was 2 miles of crazy adventure... and we loved it!  All to protect Gilbert from danger, of course.

  The very last obstacle was a water slide in the form of a bounce house.  It really sent me flying...  then I hit the mats, feet first.  My feet stopped instantly (rubbing on the rubber), my top half did not.  This super girl crashed!  Thankfully, I barely missed taking Noelle out.

 We got WET!

 Running through the finish together!

 It's the Super Smithsons to the rescue!