Bang Bang, I am the Warrior!

(Did you know the lyrics right before that are Shooting at the Walls of Heartache? Me neither!)
Andrew and Travis signed up for the The Warrior Dash in Crawfordsville this weekend.  It's basically a 3-mile race with obstacles all throughout. It was quite a party.  It was the first year for it and they had 8300 registrations.  It was awesome!

 It was very hot that day.  Katie and I brought the little boys to watch the big boys run.  They look like they are having a good time.

 We watched the runners near the finish line.  The runners are encouraged to wear costumes. Can you tell what this guy is? (Long hair, long beard, loin cloth, carrying a fed ex package? Get it? Get it? Tom Hanks from Castaway)

 There goes Travis! At this point in the race, they had just jumped over a fire.  They kept stoking it so it looked pretty scary.

 Andrew isn't far behind.

 Then came the mud.  You can see Andrew DOVE in head first.  He seems to be the only one that did that in this picture.

It was extremely hard to move in this mud.  He fell down 3 different times.

 Here he is falling for the third time.

 VICTORIOUS!

Like I said before, only Andrew put his whole head under.  There was so much mud.  They had a rinse-off pond and Andrew went in twice but he still didn't get all the mud off.

 Here are three disgusting super heros that ran the race in these costumes.  Blech.

When you finished the race, you got a fuzzy horned helmet hat as part of the participation package.  Wyatt wasn't really sure what to think about his dad wearing that hat.  

 Check out Andrew, Travis and Tommy dancing and rapping to the DJ that was playing music.  I think it was Black Eyed Peas.  Feel free to make fun of them at will.  :)

 Oh look! Here's Andrew winning the parent of the year award. :)

 Looking at this picture it makes me think... my, how our lives have changed.

We came back to Brookston that night and spent the night at the Neals.  Andrew and Travis worked on their podcast.  More to come on that later.

 The next morning the boys played with toys.  Wyatt showed 'Nommy' (that's what he kept calling him) how to play the drums.

Then 'Nommy' played the bongos while Wyatt danced.

It was a super fun weekend.  I can't wait for the Warrior Dash next year.  Katie and I are going to wear our kimonos! Who knows what Andrew and Travis will wear.  They better start working on it now. (And I think I better start training immediately. :)