Walk To Afghanistan 5K Kick-Off

Today was the kick-off event to an exciting project designed for family members to show support to our deployed soldiers!  Our brigade has challenged the families to collectively walk the distance from the center of Fort Campbell's airfield to Afghanistan--10,644 miles!  Just for fun, there has been a friendly little competition set up between the battalions.  Because the new battalion that we are now attached to is, um, non-participatory, I am considering this to be a competition between our company and other battalions...We are the Free-Lancers!! (Of course I won't be using this new name around any of my superiors because that's a pretty quick way to get myself black listed.) I have been laying down the peer pressure BIG TIME!  So far we have probably about 50 Lancer family members "walking" to Afghanistan!  Team Horn alone has enlisted every eligible participant-Nick's parents and my own are joining the effort! We don't mess around...

Today was our 5K Kick-Off!  It wasn't anything fancy (whenever a car was coming, the person in the back would yell, "CAR!!!") but it was special all the same.  Lots of mommies and strollers out to walk the course.  I had decorated an old t-shirt (I very well might still be high from all the sharpie fumes that had permeated my pores) and stroller to show our team pride! Emmy, as usual, was the model trooper and slept for the duration of the walk...but she woke up with a smile on her face!  How could she not being that it was sunny, with blue skies, a light breeze and the birds were chirping?  I can't think of a better way to start our trek to Afghanistan!

Two minutes in--on the verge of sleep...

We've logged 13.2 miles since Wednesday! Emmy's stroller miles count!

Walking for Daddy!