Lieze and I joined my Mom and Dad for a trip north to Parkersburg, West Virginia… where my parents are originally from. A large part of my Dad’s family lives up there, including my awesome Grandmother. For her 75th birthday, she asked that we come up and run the annual 2-mile race with her. We started running this race with her back in 1995, and even though we can’t always make it… she runs it every year! I always love going to Parkersburg, because even though I didn’t live there very long… it brings back so many childhood memories.In the airport… we just happened to run into this guy! My badass brother Jamie was headed to Manhattan for a wedding.

This was our old house. I was very young when we lived here… but I remember learning to ride my bike in this very front yard.

My Dad is the man. We all ran the 2-miler… while my Dad took on the half-marathon. Peep his medal… so awesome!

My Grandmother won 1st place in her age division! She is 75… and no joke… passed Lieze and I during the race!

Here are her trophies from over the years.

We wound up on the front page of the paper for having the most family participating in the race at the same time. This race has sorta become a family reunion of sorts for us. You can kinda make out the t-shirts I designed for the race, which I posted about here.