Taper week again (third times a charm)

Why hello third taper week.  This race has me so excited.  The swag looks awesome, the shirts look super fancy and the race course looks mostly flat!  I am so ready to try yet again for a 2:10!  The weather at this point looks perfect with highs in the 80s and lows in the upper 50s.  Perfect running weather for sure!  We had a wonderful short, long run this weekend.  The weather is starting to heat up but it wasn't too bad for our sunday morning run.  This is the course that the half/full runs on for the wicked marathon.  Lots of hills for sure, none too step, just lots of long climbs.  I can see why a lot of people hit the wall at mile 18.  That hill goes on forever.  It's fun to run down but never fun to run back up.  This weekend was also the Kansas Sampler Festival in our little town.  Can you believe we had almost 12,000 visitors to our tiny town this weekend?  We went both days.  Bascially it is tents and tents of stuff to do in Kansas.  The tents are divided up into sections of kansas and the individual cities have booths.  There were also tents full of Kansas made products.  Most of these tents had tons of samples for us to try and andrew and tony were in heaven.  Here are a few pictures from the fun we had.  So glad we only live a block away and don't have to worry about parking!   We only had one toddler melt down and it was pretty bad.  I think that was probably our first public meltdown.  He let a goat lick his sucker so I threw it away.  Logical right?  Not to a two year old.  Man oh man.  You would have thought I was skinning him.  I had to laugh because it was so freaking dramatic.  Ignore the behavior you don't like right?  Anyway, we had a ton of fun and we will be back next year when it is in the park again!  Here are some pics from the weekend, enjoy!