2009 Start! Heart Walk!

I think the walk wore Tony out! 3 miles will do that to a boy.
Tons of people on the walk, it was a beautiful walk along the white river. What a great place to hold this event!

Tony and his girlfriends

Tony and Riley dancing, we were trying to get him to loosen up.

"Dogie" Ooohhh look!

Grandma's helper

Tony's new BFF!

"Mascots"

The finish line about to take Tony's head off at the mascot race

Start of the mascot race!

Saturday we had a blast at the Heart Walk in Downtown Indianapolis. Tony had to be there early because he got to participate in the "mascot" race! He won the race, let me just say he SMOKED the competition :) Tony hung out with all the mascots after the race and let's just say the boy needs to learn to dance. He just stood there like a log, I don't think he liked all the attention just he was getting. I would of never of thought I would write a sentence like that about Tony because we all know he loves attention but he was just a bit uncomfortable out there. He did get warmed up to Rowdy, the Indians mascot. They played with each other, at one point Rowdy had him upside down. After it was over though, it was another one of those really cool moments that he knows it was special to be apart of it. As Steve said he has gotten more exposure with that suit this year than ever, definitely worth the money! Riley helped hand out J.D. Byrider water bottles, well actually she threw them at people! She has no issue with the attention she was getting :)

It was neat to be apart of something that was bigger than us. With so many people in this country affected by heart disease it was nice to know we had a small part in hopefully one day finding better medicines and treatment for our future.