Mutilating MS, Breast Cancer and Marching

Two weekends ago, Zachary, Keri, me and bunch of others walked in the MS Walk Savannah to raise money and awareness.  A friend and coworker’s wife was diagnosed with MS about 6 months ago.  She is about 28 with 2 babies (1 Zach’s age and the other almost 4) so we walked on her team. 

Part of the team waiting for the others to finish after the race.

She made us each shirts to wear that have the MS Mutilators (the team name she chose) on the back and a unique name across the front.  Zachary was Zealous Zachary and I was Ruthless Rabe. 

Ready to walk (well ride). 

It was a nice overcast cool morning and the MS Mutilators raised over $5,000, more than any other team involved. 

Then on Monday Z fell at daycare and busted up his lip so we had to spend the night (almost literally) in the ER to make sure it didn’t need stiches and would heal correctly. 

He did ok for the early portion of the night, but as bedtime came and went he got very grumpy.  They ended up just letting it heal naturally but we had to wait for 3 different doctors to look at it and make the decision. 

Last weekend was the Savannah Race for the Cure.  GP’s Quilted Northern Brand is a Brand sponsor of Susan G Komen and the Race for the Cure so we all ran on the Mill’s Team sponsored by GP. 

Prior to the race at the Quilted Northern Booth.

After the race enjoying the free kegs at 9:00 am (only in Savannah). 

The fam at Clairy’s (From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) having breakfast with a group of friends after the race.  I would not recommend going here, our normal spot was too busy with all the racers so we went further away and it was not good.  But Z looks sweet in his race headband. 

And I can’t remember if I posted these ones already or not.  We did the Shamrock run about a month ago for March of Dimes in Downtown Savannah.  It rained but was warm so even Zach didn’t mind. 

As you can see it is the 5k season here in Savannah but I think they are all over until the Fall.  We missed the Beach Run 5k, which would be fun but we had something else that weekend.