My Sister's Bachelorette Party: Peacock Themed

This weekend, I had the honor of co-hosting my sister's bachelorette party. I asked her to pick a theme for the evening and I would run with it!

When she decided on peacocks I couldn't be more excited about the theme..

Peacocktails


All of her goodies
{the boa under the mantle was all of the girls pins to wear out for the night to show we were all together}


Alli had requested all of the girls to wear black, and she would wear white.

We all met at my parents house for appetizers, drinks and games.



After all the fun at my parent's house, we headed downtown to a dueling piano bar in the Arena District.

we finally got Alli up on stage to celebrate with the rest of the bachelorette's and birthday girls!
This fiddle player was simply AMAZING!

T-26 days until her big day!

Redemption 1/2 marathon - I did it!!!

After the Cap City 1/2 marathon in May where I hurt myself, I knew that I needed to redeem myself by completing a run

and that time came this past weekend at the Emerald City Marathon

The conditions weren't ideal....

I hadn't trained as well as I had for the Cap City in May
I had worked a wedding the night before and didn't get to bed until after midnight
it had rained during the night resulting in debris all over the course
and I only trained indoors

... I pretty much had plenty of odds against me

However, it was not going to prevent me from trying my absolute hardest at this race!

I met up with my sister and her fiance right before the race began.
It was not the most ideal running conditions
humid and warm at 7am
however when the gun sounded we started out of the gate.

I never really get my pace until the first 3-4 miles on the road
Once we split 1/4 marathon and 1/2 marathon I knew that I had to complete it
I broke down the course by one 5k
a 1/4 marathon... which was much more tough than I realized
[the 1/4 path we ran last year was COMPLETELY flat, so I assumed the same for the 1/2 - ha!]
as soon as we got on the path for the 1/2 marathon and we were a mile in there was a sign
for a steep hill
GREAT! what in the world did I sign up for and didn't know!
I realized I just needed to push through this 1/4 of a marathon
after that, we met back up with the 1/4 marathon track and I knew I only had a little over a 5k
I just kept pushing as long as I could

I owe a lot to the MIT [Marathon In Training] 10:40 pace setter who saw me start walking around mile 10.5 {i felt like i was all out of steam} she looked at me, looked at my bib and said "Lindsey, what are you doing walking, lets go"
Holy motivational! Thats all I needed and I kicked it into high gear and headed towards the finish line

At mile marker 11.5, Justin, my parents and sister were there
[I'm pretty sure I was yelling at them "Woohoo... I'm still running!" ha!]

And just as I thought I was going to run out of gas again where I could see the finish line
I looked up and saw my Goddaughter and her whole family out there to cheer me on
{which is a TOTAL surprise!}

I finally am able to say that I successfully completed a 1/2 marathon in my best time yet!
2 hours and 20 minutes!
[I'm fully aware this isn't lightening speed, however, I set out to run a race to finish it, not to be the first person to cross the finish line]
My goal in May was to finish in 2 hours 30 minutes
so I take this as an accomplishment:)

After the race

Molly's adorable sign

I am so thankful Jason and Katie came out!

I am so thankful this run went well, I re-gained my own confidence back in running.
I'm excited for my next half marathon.... because I know I can do it!

things that i HATE...

cancer

people who don’t use turn signals

losing

diet pepsi

people who laugh at themselves ALL the time {Rachel from BB}

not being in control of a situation

crappy internet connections

chicken

bad hair cuts

traffic

crinkled paper

not being in control {ha!}

alarm clocks

technology when it doesn’t work

pulled meats {chicken, pork}

the “situation”

scent of cotton

knock of purses

carnations

jamey johnson and patsy cline

liars

the pittsburg steelers {minus mike tomlin}

folding and putting away laundry

mystery movies

when plans are altered

fake fruit flavors – banana and peach

bbq sauce

car rides {short or long, to me they are unproductive time}

I loved hearing from you and what we have in common about our favorite things we LOVE!

Do any of these items align with your items you hate?!

Sweet Caroline followed by C'Mon Irene

This past weekend we visited our besties, Stacey and Ryan in Boston, Irene may have interfered with some of our plans but it certainly didn't ruin our good time!

We made the best of the situation

We went out to eat

Hung out by the pool
{yes the kiddie pool!}

We lived it up at the Bo Sox game

we drank several renditions of hurricanes
we hung out at the local bars

we prepared for the nasty weather by watching LOTS of the weather channel and looking at the radar

as well as stocking up on water and other essentials

and just hung out and relaxed on Sunday, waiting for Irene to arrive.

Luckily for us the weather was much further west of us
but I'm fully aware of the damage that was done to the East coast and inland.
I hope you and your families were not affected by this nasty storm, and if you were, I hope that things get back to normal soon for you and your family!

Although the weekend didn't go as we originally hoped it to, we still had a blast!
Sometimes its not all in the planning but who you are with, and I can truly say we had a blast regardless of Irene!