As the title suggests, we spent the majority of our weekend partaking in my favorite fall activity, festivals! I love fall almost as much as I love Christmas. Almost. Candy corn, colored leaves, pumpkins and cooler weather. What’s not to love? The festivals began Friday night at the Cougar Fun Fest which is held at a local elementary school which just happens to be the elementary school I attended. They have games, food, and the Great Pumpkin Drop and besides being lots of fun, it’s also a fundraiser for the school’s PTA. The Great Pumpkin Toss Saturday was spent hanging out around the house and then Sunday we headed to Hartsburg, MO…
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Birthday Weekend
I got lucky enough to celebrate my 26th birthday all weekend long. Saturday was my actual birthday and we went to lunch with J’s family at a local Mexican restaurant. We also celebrated J’s brother’s birthday since his is a few days after mine. Ben went home with his grandparents so J and I celebrated that night at our favorite steak place and then grabbed drinks with some friends after. J got me this Cannon Powershot and it’s very similar to our big Cannon DSLR camera, but small enough it fits in my pocket. On Sunday we went to dinner with my parents, sister, and her family and we also…
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Things I’m Loving Lately
I’ve been slightly obsessed with new nail polishes lately. In the past 2 weeks I’ve worn both of these colors. I was getting a little burnt out on the ole fat free strawberry and strawberry banana yogurt so I picked up some of Yoplait’s new flavor, Red Velvet Cake. Now, I knew this wasn’t going to taste like actual red velvet cake, but… It was quite delicious and you can’t beat it at 100 calories and 0 grams of fat. Sticking with food here, did you know 3 Vlasic Sweet pickles (the little gherkin ones) are only 30 calories? 30!!! You could eat 9 whole pickles for only 90 calories!…
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Training for a Half Marathon
If you’ve been reading lately then you know I have 19 days until the St. Louis Rock n Roll Half Marathon. Oh man. To help with the training process I traded in my sad old shoes for these new boys. This is my first pair of Asics, but I’ve heard great reviews about them from other runners. They, whoever they are, say that you should get a new pair of running shoes every 400 miles and considering I’ve had my tennis shoes since high school and have been everywhere in them from New York to the UK, I think I’ve hit well over the 400 mile mark. I mean, look…
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4AM On A Monday
I keep telling myself this considering… 4:00am J woke up at four in the morning with a horrible stomach ache and after scouring the house for the Pepto Bismol I was sure we had I asked him if he would like me to run to the store and get some. He said no and crawled back into bed. 4:30am I hear Ben calling for me and go in to find he had peed the bed. I change him and the sheets and I manage to lay down for half an hour before the alarm goes off for gym. 5:15am Get my workout on. 6:30am I open the door and hear…