Halloween Treats Please!

Guess who deserved a BUNCH of Halloween treats after allowing mom to stuff them into their costumes?

Bailey the Pirate and Lacy the Lizard!

Halloween Costume Contest

I'm very fortunate to work for a company who lets their employees come up with and participate in so many fun events all year round. For Halloween this week we're holding a spirit week, haunted house, food days and much more! I decided to put together a little fun game for the department this year also. It entailed of people bringing in pictures from their youth dressed up in Halloween Costumes and having the rest of the department guess who the individual was.

Not realizing that some of the pictures were hard to tell even what gender it was, it ended up being a humorous time scoring the answer sheets! Luckily - only one co-worker thought that I was a boy in my picture.

See below for my childhood Halloween Costume!

2009 Girls Weekend

"Friends are the sunshine of life." - John Hay (1871)

This past weekend, I was so lucky to have two of my very best friends fly up and stay for the weekend! On top of that, we were able to eat, drink and laugh with other great friends. The timing couldn't have been more perfect for such a happy, fun-filled weekend with people I love. I feel very luck to have these wonderful friends who make me smile.

The funniest moment? We were enjoying some drinks at JP's Wine Bar and Barry Williams walked in and sat at the booth next to us. After a good hour of figuring out who had to do the "asking" for a picture, somehow I lost and had to do it. Fortunately, he was VERY friendly and didn't mind at all!


Here are just a few pics from the weekend -

New camera!

Our old digital camera pooped out so we were in definite need of a new one! We decided to just get something to get us by for a few years as we plan on purchasing a bigger, sweet camera for when we have children.

So, after researching digital cameras under $500, this one came up on almost every report. It's the Canon - PowerShot 12.1-Megapixel Digital ELPH Camera. We've had about three Canon's and loved them all so we were definitely staying with that brand. This was a decent price and tiny so it's perfect for the pictures we take.

Stay tuned as hopefully we'll have something to take pictures of and post soon!

What Half Marathon?

So I decided to pull the trigger on Friday and head to the doctor. I had broken the fever days prior and the chills/body aches were completely gone. Overall, I felt much better, but my cough was sounding worse than ever and my ribs/lungs hurt constantly. The Half Marathon was Saturday morning and I just needed some professional reassurance that I could make it through the race despite some hacking. Or at least some fast-acting, heavy-duty drugs to numb my body for just over 2 hours!

The verdict = Bronchitis. (And actually a bad enough case that they x-rayed me for pneumonia and lung damage!)

When I asked my doc about running the next morning, she definitely gave me the stink eye with a face that said "do I need to check you into a mental hospital?". Needless to say, I was given four prescriptions and approval to pout all weekend. I had trained so hard and was going to knock of TONS of time from my score last year. I know there will be more races, it was just a small setback for something I was counting down the days for.

Sick as a Dog

Thank GOODNESS that Derek and I had nothing planned this weekend. I was completely overcome with a sickness on Friday night and am still fighting the darn thing. I'm really praying that I get well by Thursday or Friday latest. Saturday morning is the Half Marathon again and I have a new goal! I've been running really strong all year and it's so much easier to jog 6 or 8 miles than it was last year before the race.

Last year, I completed it in 2 hours and 29 minutes.
New goals:
Still sick goal = Under 2 hours 20 minutes
All healed goal = Under 2 hours 15 minutes

Fingers crossed that this sickness gets OUT of my body soon! My friends Nyquil, Sudafed, Mucinex and Naproxen are all helping me fight fight fight!

Oh yeah, sorry for no pictures from this weekend, but since we really didn't do much, we really didn't snap any pictures! Exciting news though - since our old camera died on us, we ordered a new camera that should be arriving this week.

Sweet Surprise

I absolutely love getting roses from my wonderful husband for "no reason at all" other than he just wants to send me something beautiful. I had an email first thing this morning from our receptionist saying I had a package. 9 times out of 10, it's newspapers that we run in from around the country, but this morning, I walked down to find these!

They are currently adorning my desk here at work and Derek might have to fend off some jealous girls here around the office. It was a perfect surprise for this extremely stressful time!!

Bone Lovers

I had all the bones and toys neatly put up yesterday and only 2 minutes later found this. Apparently our baby likes her bones scattered about instead of in their basket.

Is it basketball season yet?

I saw this video today on Betsy's blog and definitely had to post it on mine too. I LOVE that they put the "Any Given Sunday" words with the video! It's videos like this that just make my day and also make me SUPER pumped for basketball season. ESPECIALLY when we're going to be awesome this year! And yes.... I still get choked up at these videos along with mild goosebumps!



ROCK CHALK!