Race for the Cure and Halloween

Last Saturday was a long and busy day. We started out early in the morning at the Race for the Cure in Germantown. Our team, Sherrye's Supporters in honor of my mom, was out in full force to do more of a slow walk for the cure. My mom passed out pink roses to everyone on the team before the race started and Drew had fun swinging his around as you can see below. We brought his Darth Vader mask because we figured since it was Halloween that some of the kids there might have costumes on and the mask was easier to handle than the whole Thomas costume. While we were walking we passed a man who happened to be carrying a light saber and he heard us telling Drew to look at it and the man just gave it to Drew. So the rest of the race and afterward we were chasing each other around with it.

The light saber also gave me the chance to be a better Darth Vader later in that evening when we went trick-or-treating. We were probably the strangest combination people saw all night, the Darth Vader and Thomas the Train father and son duo. But Drew insisted that I had to be Darth Vader even though his mask was way too small and hurt my face. Drew had a whole parade of family going around from house to house with him. We probably weren't even gone thirty minutes when he announced he was ready to go home. We've been letting him eat a little bit more candy this year than we did last year, but mom and dad are still enjoying most of it.

Although I don't really want to talk about the game last night and my score prediction was not that close to the actual score, I must point out that I nailed the differential exactly. It was just a different type of game than I expected. Either way it was still embarrassing. As soon as the Vols ran the opening kickoff back 70 yards I knew it was going to be a long night. The first Tigers snap, which went over the quarterback's head for a 12 yard loss, erased any doubts that this would be a drubbing. It was a long night to say the least.