Wow, hard to believe it's that time again...We have been doing the March for Babies Walk now for 5 years!
This year I was honored to be asked to be the California State Family Teams Co-chair!
If you would like to walk with us or donate money to our team, here is the link to do so: McCarthy Family Team
I created this video for the walk 2 years ago, every time I go back and watch it I remember how amazing my daughter is and how much she has been through.
(and still going through). Last night she want to the hospital to have a chest xray as her crappy lungs just can't handle getting sick. and she has walking pneumonia...
Well this has nothing to do with our kids...except to show where daddy has been for the last few years..
I'm so proud of my husband I had to share:
For all of you who know that Brian’s “hobby” has been building a 4x4 Rock Buggy, well, after 2 years… it’s done!
He entered in the “Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ)” for the big King of the Hammers Race in Johnson Valley (down in the LA desert)… and lo and behold he did great and finished…Well he not only finished but he finished #8 out of 120 entrants, VERY IMPRESSIVE…. so he got himself a space in the King of the Hammers race which is Friday.
He built the entire buggy by hand (with a lot of help from his friend Shawn Heywood) but without any sponsors…
This is a REALLY BIG deal.
His brand new-just finished buggy has only been out of the shop 2 times….In all of Brian’s rock crawling “career” he’s probably driven 50 miles (if that…)
His co-pilot for the race (who has also sacrificed a lot of time with his family) is Shawn Heywood…
The King of the Hammers 2011 (2/11/11) is a grueling 120 mile fast race over dessert sand as well as major rocks, boulders, hills… There are exactly 100 entrants in the race. They will leave 2 at a time in 2 minute intervals, one after another and the first over the finish lines wins. Brian’s starting time in the cue is actually quite good (In the top 40 - based on his impressive finish in the LCQ).
It will take them about 12 hours…his goal is to finish, many buggy's tip over, break or any other number of things….be safe boys.
This video clip from the last 2 days of of the LCQ race was just posted and I thought I had to share (it doesn’t include brian in the clip, but it’s worth watching). This video REALLY shows how amazing this race is:
I did attach a few pictures that were taken of Brian’s #415 buggy during yesterday’s LCQ that I found online (I’m home with the kids).
Well Brian is home safe and sound, (he was tired and DIRTY), but made it home safely. Heres a picture of hte buggy parked in front of our house.
During the race, Brian's engine cooling fans (even the back up one) both seized up (maybe do to the amazing dust?) so he only made it to mile 18 (of 120). Of the 100 racers, only 44 finished the race. THis is ONE tough race.
The cool thing is that someone took and posted a video of part of his qualifying run, here is the video:
Last year I posted Corinne's name to be "written" in the sand in Australia by a wonderful, amazing woman who lost a child and gives back to all of us by writing our children's names in the sand.
Of course tears sprang to my eyes.
I thought you might like to see Corinne's name with a beautiful sunset:
