Happy Halloween!

The Matrix

Roller Derby Girl and.....Girl

Happy Halloween everyone! My first Halloween down south! How exciting (well, technically my 2nd since I was down here visiting Tom last Halloween). Anyways the Halloween festivities have started and will continue through the weekend! Working in a children's hospital on Halloween is like the best way to spend the day. There are A TON of activities set up for the kids (including trick-or-treating!) and they really all enjoy themselves. Plus all the little ones are dressed up in those little full body costumes like dragons or lions or turtles and they are so cute!

Tom and I are going to a Halloween party tonight and are dressing up like Neo and Trinity from The Matrix. I'll post pictures as soon as I get them up (which reminds me, Kansas pics are now up http://community.webshots.com/user/awesomeanne Page 3, "Kansas and Joe & Laura's Wedding). And we're having a "Post-Halloween" Halloween Party on Friday night. I'm going to be a roller derby girl and Tom's going to be a girl. Should be a good time.

My running has been going pretty well. I guess it's decided that I'm going to do the full marathon because I ran a half-marathon (we ran 13 miles) on this past Sunday! I didn't know if I was going to finish or not around mile 6-7, but I felt great when I finished! We drop back to 11 miles this weekend so that will be nice to look forward to!

Hope everyone has a great Halloween!

We're not in Kansas anymore!

Actually....we are. Our flight was delayed 3 hours (grrr!) so I'm blogging live from the KCI airport. Tom's best friend from home (Joe-who now lives in Kansas) got married this weekend and Tom was in the wedding. We had an absolute blast. We all stayed at this ranch (Circle S...highly recommend if you're ever in Kansas!). Anyways it was like a giant farmhouse with probably about 10-12 rooms and the wedding party, Joe & Laura, and their immediate families all stayed there. The guy that owned it was like a real cowboy too. And they cooked all of our meals there and there was an awesome hot tub in the back of the house. It was also in the middle of nowhere with no tv's and no one got cell phone reception (Imagine us trying to find out the score to the PSU game on Saturday!) Ohh yeah and they had a herd of buffalo! Apparently there was a peacock too but we didn't see him. The wedding itself was beautiful (even though it POURED rain the whole day) and the reception was a blast. The whole weekend was just amazing. The travel was (is) a pain in the butt but well worth it!

Since I missed my team run this weekend, I had to run when we got out to Kansas on Friday. I did 10 miles! Ok, also, I always hear how flat Kansas is and in my head pictured absolutely no hills, so I was pretty mad when I decided to run through Kansas University only to discover that it was ON A GIANT HILL and I almost died twice trying to run up those stupid hills! Haha, enough complaining. The university was actually really pretty and the town of Lawrence seemed pretty cool too.

As always I took a ton of pictures and I will post them on my webshots as soon as Tom and I get home and unpack and settle in(which at this point I'm not even sure we'll get home today!)

Whirlwind travel!

So Penn State on Saturday was an absolute blast (would have been better if we won, but considering the facts that 1) we were down to our 3rd string quarterback, 2) We held michigan to 17 points when they're averaging 30+, and 3) we only lost by a touchdown, not too shabby).

Saturday was my cousin Andrew's 21st birthday, so we started off downtown at a few bars before we headed up to tailgate. Let me just tell you that having a bloody mary on the trip up to PSU from my parents house and 3 beers without eating breakfast isn't such a good idea! Happy Birthday Andrew! Then we went up to tailgate and were able to see a lot of our friends that we haven't seen since the wedding...so that was really fun to see everyone and hang out before the game.

The traveling on the other hand was absolutely horrible. Never again will we drive 3 hours to Nashville, fly to Philadelphia, & drive 3 hours to Lewisburg....no matter how cheap the flights are out of Nashville. Waaay too much of a hassle! Anyways here are a few pics from the game! This weekend Tom's best friend Joe is getting married! Tom's in the wedding so it should be a good time! Hope everyone has a great week and weekend!

The Girls!

Game

Getting all bundled up for the game!

Slacker

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't blogged in so long!!! Running and fundraising is like having a second full time job! My running has been going pretty well. 9 miles on Sunday! That was pretty exciting for me. Fundraising is going ok too...although I'm a little concerned about reaching my goal of $4000....but there is still some time left. The Jim 'N Nick's fundraiser went pretty well I think. I still don't know how much money they are going to donate (I tried calling the manager on Monday, he didn't have the totals then, I didn't want to seem pushy so I didn't call him back until Wednesday...he wasn't at the office). Hopefully I'll know by tomorrow! I raised $120 with just the raffle!


So, I have to blog about this one Sonic commercial that is on down here. If you don't have Sonic near you, you probably haven't seen it....Sonic is like a fast-food restaurant that is famous for their desserts/milkshakes. So anyways, there is this guy and girl in a car and they are drinking some milkshake and talking about how good it is and the conversation goes as follows:
guy: "I think I'm going to have to blog about this so all of my loyal readers can know about it!" girl: "all of your loyal readers? So you mean like, your mom?"
guy: "My mom's neighbor reads my blog too"
girl: "Score! Your mom's neighbor!"

Haha, I guess that doesn't really do it justice...you kinda have to see it. But it's pretty funny and it reminds me of me and my blogging.


We're going back up to PA this weekend for the PSU-Michigan game. We were able to get an unbelievable deal on flights out of nashville, and we have tickets to the game, so we couldn't turn it down! Plus it's PSU vs. Michigan and it's a NIGHT GAME :D If you're gonna be up there, let me know! Can't wait to be back in Happy Valley!

Fundraiser

Hi everyone. In order to raise more money for Team in Training/Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, I decided to see if a local bar/restaurant would donate a portion of their proceeds from Happy Hour one night to LLS. So Jim 'N Nick's, a really yummy bar-b-q restaurant/bar down here agreed to help me out. I have been soooo busy trying to promote this event and advertise for it. I could never do this full time! It is stressing me out like crazy. I'm sure it will be fine, but I'm just worried that no one will show! One of the radio stations agreed to help me out, and my Team in Training coach sent an email out to everyone on his list-serv......so I feel like at least 500 people have to know about this by now.....I'm just praying that enough will show so Jim 'N Nicks will generously donate a big portion of their proceeds to LLS!
I'm also holding a raffle at the happy hour.....so far I have a $45 gift card to Outback Steakhouse, a $20 gift card to Locos Restaurant & Bar, a $15 gift card to McAlister's, some gift cards to Planet Smoothie, & 5 free cone certificates to Ben & Jerry's. I'm only going to sell the raffle tickets for $1 each so hopefully people will buy a lot! So if you randomly happen to know anyone in Birmingham, send them to Jim 'N Nick's in Five Points this friday from 4-7!
Anyways keep your fingers crossed for me that this goes well! I'll keep you posted and let you know how the happy hour goes!