Weekend Wrap-Up

How is it Monday already?

Do you ever have weekends where its just go-go-go-go and then all of a sudden you look up and you realize its Sunday night at 10pm and your to-do list is STILL a mile long?

As much as I shake my head at my crazy day-to-day schedule, I wouldn’t want it any other way.

 

Saturday I had two 30^th birthday parties to attend.

(nothing like realizing you are the “old” friend in the group when people are still having 30^th birthday parties and you have since move on from 30 and are now the ripe age of 31.)

 

Both were catered with Mexican flare, one by Arepazo, a local latin restaurant, and one by Chipotle.  If you know me well enough, you know I can’t get enough rice, beans and guacamole in my life!

 

 

 

 

Love these girls!

 Sunday morning, I woke up (not quite early enough) to run a 15k at a local Lifestyle Mall, Easton.  I literally arrived at 8:07 and the race started at 8. 

I ran to the start line, and started running, with my arm band still in my hand, head phones around my neck and my shoes barely tied tight enough.  I get to the end of the first street to turn right, and the officer on the corner looked at me and had a short little embarrassing conversation:

Officer: Are you running in this?

L: Yes, I’m just a little tardy. (To his defense, I had on a running sweatshirt overtop of my running tank that had my bib safety pinned to it)

Officer: Okay, I’ll let them know that you are the tail

Let me tell you, I realize that there has to be a winner and someone that comes in last place in every event, and I also realize that I will never be the fastest runner at ANY event.. but I did not want to be the tail for the duration of this 15K.  That certainly motivated me to run a lot faster!

This race is the second one in this series that I have participated in.. and you can choose to run a 5K, 10K or a 15K.  Thankfully the 10 and the 15K are pretty much in line with the training schedule for the half marathon in a few weeks.   The only bad part about the race is you stay on the same course either 1, 2 or 3 times.  The WORST part about this race was running by Kate Spade.. not once, twice but THREE times and not being able to shop.  Pretty much torture if you ask me!

 Since we were already at Easton, we decided to stop and have breakfast at one of my FAVORITE  local places, Northstar.  It is all organic food and absolutely delicious.  Thankfully my sister was there to cheer me on, but also take my order as I was rounding the last corner.  I mean what more could you ask for.. a sister, cheerleader and a waitress! It was a perfect way to end the morning.

The rest of the day was spent at home working on some Easter decorations/crafts/DIY stuff!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I know I certainly did!

 

Weekend Recap [Times 2]

You know whats better than a weekend recap.... the past 2 weekends recap wrapped up in one blog post!

Because that's what happens when you have a crazy busy week but an even more eventful weekend!

Last weekend I was invited over to one of my friend's houses from college for a craft day. I had SO much fun getting together. On our way to the Flower Factory to pick up last minute supplies we passed a Sonic and I shared with the girls how much I was obsessed with the Route 44 Diet Coke, with easy ice in their styrofoam cup, and most of the girls we were with had never had Sonic before so on our way home we had to stop and show them what pure deliciousness tasted like!

The girls ordering

Traci and Kimmie ordering at the car hops

We made magnets for our crafts, I will blog post about them later this week [when I finish my craft - ha!] I can't wait for more craft days.

Saturday night we met up with a group of friends for the Jason Aldean and Eric Church concert. I had been looking forward to this night for a long time! Our friends Jimmy and Jess invited us to go to the concert. Unfortunately Jess was terribly ill and was not able to make it to the concert :(

All night long Jimmy was begging Lauren to show him the concert tickets.... and Lauren wouldn't let him see them until after we reached the front doors of the arena. Of course I had to make it a kodak moment
All of us in the nose bleeds
My dates for the night
Mikey, Jimmy, and Justin
J and I

The concert was amazing. Justin and I have like Eric Church for a while now and we haven't had a chance to see him in concert so I think we were both looking forward to seeing him more than Jason Aldean. However, after seeing Jason Aldean in concert we realized how amazing of a performer he really is and I now know what all the hype is about in regards to his concerts. All I have to say is that Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley need to watch out because there is an upcoming Entertainer of the Year nominee in my opinion! He put on an amazing concert.

This past weekend we got together Saturday night with some of my best friend's from college. The Arnold Classic was in town this weekend and our friends always get together and go to the show, and Justin and I watch Molly [truthfully I think we get the better end of the deal ;)] however plans changed at last minute last year as well as this year when Katie stayed home with Molly and the rest of the group went to the Arnold.

Its tradition when we all get together to revert back to our old college days and hang out in the garage [and potentially play a little flip cup and or beer pong! ], listen to music and just catch up with one another. With some of us living in Columbus, some in Lexington, Kentucky and some still in Toledo, its nice to get us all together a few times a year.

Steven's 30th bday is later this week - so we all celebrated last night
Love this kid
Please notice that Ryan is wearing an OSU hat! this is kind of a big deal!
and this picture just makes me laugh
It has been an amazing last few weekends!
Its no wonder why on Sundays I'm looking for a weekend from the weekend! ha!

I hope you all had a great weekend [or past 2 weekends] as well!

hello there....

Hello there!

I have missed you all and I'm sorry that I've been in a blogging funk lately. I don't quite know what has gotten into me...

well I guess I do know a little bit what has gotten into me

#1 work has been crazy busy, and I do use my lunch time occasionally to blog/catch up on blogs/relax my brain... and so that hasn't been happening lately

#2 twitter : yes that lovely little site that I have taken a fond liking to, well it keeps me up to date with some of my favorite bloggers, but not everyone, so I feel like I'm 1/2 up to date with what is going on... well sorta

#3 i'm gotten into a routine when I get home from work: gym, dinner, shower, reading in bed. yes you read that correctly - i'm skipping right over the reality tv and going straight to bed. its much more relaxing. this doesn't mean that i don't use my dvr'd shows to keep me entertained while i'm cooking/eating dinner, or that i don't occasionally watch one here or there.. but lately i would prefer to read over watching reality TV! [hell might have frozen over!]

And now that I'm on a reading kick I desperately need new authors. I am finishing up my last Nicholas Sparks book right now Safe Haven, I have Emily Griffin Something Borrowed [which I haven't started yet] and I also bought In a Heartbeat by Leigh Ann and Sean Tuohy [the real story of the Blindside]. Any other suggestions!?!?!

But in the meantime I thought I would catch you up on what we have been doing when I'm not in a routine mode [i.e. the weekends]:

Friday I got a special delivery from Justin in the office
Aren't the just beautiful? I've never had flowers delivered to the office before and I was completely shocked, and even had tears in my eyes when they were brought to me! I'm one lucky girl!

Saturday we had a surprise birthday party for Justin's cousin's 40th. Jennifer [his cousin] is someone who always does something for everyone else, and she was so touched a party was thrown in her honor, she started crying when we sang happy birthday to her when she walked in, and didn't stop crying the entire time. She is just too sweet.

Saturday night we watched this little chunk munk! Its a little hard to take pictures of her nowadays because she is on the MOVE! I had just got her out of her bumbo after dinner.. and she was walking over to me

and after we changed her into her PJ's. She had a ton of toys, but the only thing she would grab for off of the coffee table was Justin's wallet - too funny [smart girl!]!
[i also love these footed pj's - her feet are so small they stop on the right foot at the end of the red polka dot! so cute! they just kinda flop around]

Sunday Justin and I were all ready to cheer on the buckeyes in a victory of Minnesota in basketball and then head to a friend' s house to watch the Super Bowl. Well our plans were quickly changed when we lost power for about 3 hours [not so sure how we made it through the ice storm ALL last week without losing power - but this weekend was a different story]. Thankfully we live close enough to my parent's that we were able to head over there and make my dishes to bring to the game:

Football shaped veggie pizza

and chocolate covered strawberries

I was so happy that the Packers won. My friends joke around that because I'm a browns fan that I'm able to choose a different team during the playoffs since we will never make it :( so i chose my second favorite team the saints... and they were knocked out after the first week - so then i picked up green bay to cheer for for the rest of the playoffs!

I love Aaron Rodger's story, his patience and how he still has the love for football every time he plays. Its like watching someone who is playing for the right reason [if that makes sense?] It was a great game! I'm glad that Steelers came back with a little pep in their step in the 2nd half to make it more of a game, but in the end I was VERY thankful the Packers pulled off the win over the Steelers!

So that's our weekend wrapped up in pictures as well as an excuse as to why i have been absent lately!

What did you do this weekend? Is anyone else in a comment/blogging rut - or is it just me? Perhaps I can blame it on the winter blues :) come on sunny weather!

Weekend Recap - Martini Party and BDay Party

This weekend has been jammed packed with girlfriends! Sometimes that is just what the doctor ordered [or maybe not when you have bronchitis and a sinus infection! but it was a good way to get my lazy a$$ sick a$$ off the couch!]

Friday night I had my annual girls martini party. I look forward to this every year.

I set up the bar and food prior to the girls arrival
My martini glass veggie pizza - thanks Kelly for inspiring me!

This year instead of a martini glass exchange we chose to do a $20 gift card to any store. There were some good cards floating around... iTunes, Sephora, Express, Crate and Barrel, Amazon...

and apparently i was too wrapped up in conversation with the girls because that was the end of my pictures for the night.

Saturday Aly and I had plans to go out for one of our mutual friend's birthday downtown Columbus.

We started our night at the hotel... [felt like i was in formal again back in the sorority! ha!] we met up, some of the girls got ready, they pre-gamed, and we took lots of pictures [like i said - i felt like formal!]

Aly and I
Nicole, Kush - the birthday girl and Laurie
all the Toledo girls before going out
after we left the hotel we went to the dueling piano bar called big bang
I had never been to a piano bar and it was a lot of fun!
Laurie, myself and Aly
Aly sporting the "mom camera look" - love it! [love the strap around the neck even more! ha!]
the birthday girl and myself
at one point throughout the night they played hang on sloopy [an OSU theme song] and Laurie... one of the biggest Michigan fans that I know [who happens to be dating a buckeye fan] started singing the words without realizing what she was doing. i told her that she had to finish the song complete with the O-H-I-O at the end! [and of course i had to text her bf and let him know the small miracle that had just occurred!]
After an eventful Friday and Saturday night we had a pretty low key Sunday consisting of taking down most of the XMas decorations and went to my parents to watch football and for dinner.

I hope y'all had a wonderful weekend as well!

I will have a bachelor post up around noon for the predictions to begin for who won't be getting a rose week 2! Make sure to come back and visit!

Weekend Recap

This weekend was all about friends - which I LOVE! Justin and I feel so fortunate that we have such awesome friends that are able to come and visit us so frequently.

Friday night Aly came in town. One of our friends from college had a girls night in party. Jenna did an amazing job planning and her house is absolutely gorgeous!



There was a station for spray tanning, a jewelry rep and a manicurist.

My nails definitely needed a little lovin....
I'm kinda loving this color
You don't know Jacque
Some of the girls
Aly and I
After the GNI party we stopped by a party thrown for another friend who just got a job as a lawyer at a local winery called the wine guy
Congrats Joe - we are so excited for you!
All of the Tri Deltas [and Aly - an honorary member!]
you would think after 4 years of being in a sorority we would all know to be ready at any moment for a picture - but i'm pretty sure that this picture proves that we surely weren't ready
[well maybe Molly was!]

Unfortunately Aly had to go home Saturday afternoon, however before she left - we made a trip to sonic so she could experience what all of our fellow blogger friends always talk about.. so she is no longer wondering why Sonic is so delish!

Saturday night there were 8 of us that all went out to dinner. For some reason I didn't even think to bring out my camera once.. whoops! We then went out to see the UFC fight [well the guys wanted to see the fight -that is not my cup of tea]

Today was spent at work but I was cheering on my browns over the saints [the saints are my #2 team - but the browns need a win anyway we can get one! even if it is over last years super bowl team!]
Go Browns!!

Its hard to believe the weekend is already over... why is it that the weekends go so fast and the week takes so long???

I hope y'all had a great weekend

Remember - only a few more days for the CSN give-a-way - it closes on Wednesday of this week!

miscellany on monday

[1]
i hope ya'll had a wonderful weekend!
ours was pretty uneventful but very productive :)
friday- JM and I golfed and then went out to dinner
saturday - i watched my friends baby beckett and cleaned the house
sunday - we celebrated JM's grandma's 89th bday and watched the PGA championship

[2]
all the TLC that i have given my tomato plant this summer has finally started to pay off - i picked all of these little guys this weekend and I can't wait to make a meal out of them today

[3]
i got my first silly band today from Michaela [justin's cousin] and i'm kinda excited... thanks Michaela!

[4]
i'm still a little bitter about the ending of the PGA championship... i feel badly for dustin johnson [i don't agree with the call regarding him grounding his club] and bubba watson [that he put his 2nd shot into the water on the final playoff hole]... oh well there is always next year!

[5]
we have some new residents living with us.. ANTS.... i totally understand that it is 90+ degrees outside, and my air conditioned condo is much more comfortable to live in - but srrsly - its time for them to get out of here!

[6]
i made a new meal this past week that was delicious! i forgot to take pictures while making the dinner - but here is the recipe from real simple - it was delicious!
sauteed chicken with peanut dipping sauce

[7]
big brother has totally sucked me in - however i still have questions after every show - and yesterday's show is no different
**can matt use the diamond power of veto to put brendan on the block?**

alright now head on over to lowercase letters by carissa and link up to her blog on your randomness for a monday!