BIAU Race '09 and Lagoon

I feel really close to the other families with disabled children we've come to know over the years. I don't know if those other parents share in this sentiment but, for me, I truly feel an immediate kinship and love for them. It takes one to know one. And while I have wonderful friends and family who are immensely supportive and just plain wonderful, I tend to feel a bit apart from them because they can't understand what my day to day life is like with Hunter. It is so comforting to be with other people who just get it. The gut-wrenching, amazing, exhausting, rollar coaster-ness of the whole experience. We met Charlie via the blog while he was at Primary Children's fighting for his life two winters ago. We met him, his big brother and his awesome parents in real life at the BIAU race last year. It was great to see them at the race again this year. We only spent a couple of minutes together, but it was worth the effort we made to get our butts out of bed that early on a Saturday. Charlie is an angel, just like Hunter.
How do you like those matching expressions? I think both of them are mad the sun is right in their eyeballs.
This is how Eleyna spent most of the "race".
Jocey, Jon, Janeen and Sarah (Jon's fiance) all came out to support too. Thanks guys!
After we got the "hard" work of racing out of the way, it was off to Lagoon!!!
This was Bryson's Mother's Day gift to me. I've been after him to take me to Lagoon since we got married. Come to find out, my husband is scared of amusement park rides! He giggled like a little girl on the Spider ride. It was hilarious and adorable. Kind of like Jocey's face in this picture. :)
Awwww, daddy daughter! I have such a great husband.
Hunter and Eleyna did great considering the longness of the day. They were absolutely exhausted by the end.