THE TWIN'S 9TH BIRTHDAY!
Had a fab day in the park with family & friends, as well as a big 'jol' with schoolfriends at Strike Bowling. Funniest moment - Tara's leg coming off in the wheelbarrow race...
CROSS COUNTRY
As Jade mentioned below - she made it into the Andrews' Cup (inter-school team) which was fantastic...except that the competition got rained out. Tara also did so well on the day - running the 1.5km without stopping once. And Cas was a real hero - running with a broken arm that she held the whole way AND she stopped halfway to help a friend.
TARA MET THE QUEENSLAND MINISTER OF HEALTH
The Minister, Mr Paul Lucas, came to Tara's school for a chat and photo ops to announce that Queensland Health is sponsoring the Junior Dash this year.
MOTHER'S DAY WALK
We all did the 4km Mother's Day Walk to raise funds for breast cancer research. Alec was a very supportive cousin to Tarakie!
TARA FEATURED ON MARATHON WEBSITE
Queensland Event's newsletter featured Tara as the Runner Profile and it's on the website too - if you click here and then scroll down to where there's a pic of her on crutches - you'll see the piece. (There's actually another little pic of her higher up too.)
TARA PAINTED 10 TOENAILS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE
OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE 2009 GOLD COAST MARATHON
The whole family and Tara's teacher were invited to the event - fantastic. Tara went up on stage and answered some questions, in her role as Junior Ambassador. Very sweet. Lots of TV cameras etc. The girls giggled lots and had heaps of fun posing with the Premier Anna Bligh - who yet again was so inspiring.
TARA TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHILDREN'S WARD
Tara's decided to raise money for the sick kids at the Gold Coast Hospital (where she stayed when she had the initial infection) and for a proper running leg for herself - and is gonna be selling red wrist bands inscribed with "If I can do it, you can do it" - www.GoGCKids.com. She's sent out a letter to all the girls at her school about it and has pre-recorded an interview on the local radio station about it. And coincidentally, Premier Anna Bligh mentioned in her speech at the Launch that when wakes up in the morning and it's too cold to run, she always thinks "if Tara can do it, I can do it" and she uses that as inspiration to get her up and running...so quite apt that those are similar to the words Tara chose to use on the band.
So that was some of the merry month of May! There were other things of course - like our wedding anniversary, Johnny Clegg concert etc. etc.
Hope you all had a fab month too! And am gonna make concerted effort to update the blog more than once a month in the future!!!
