Aunt Kris and Molly's Visit!

Sorry I'm just getting around to posting... this was from last weekend!

Aunt Kris and Molly came to visit for an extended weekend and we had so much fun! On Friday we went and visited Destin and ate at The Back Porch, a seafood place right on the water.

Saturday morning we braved the INTENSE heat to do a 5K on Pensacola Beach! Dad and Kevin finished first among us, with Molly and me, and then David following behind. Aunt Kris and Mom participated in the walking division and somehow came in at the same time as David!! Hmm? LOL. They are speedy walkers!!! ;)

Other than that we basically spent our time lounging in the pool and doing lots of EATING!! What we do best! ;)

Princess especially enjoyed the visit and fell in love with her new girlfriends!

What WONT Princess eat?

So I know I said I would probably be talking about the antics of Princess a lot, so this blog will be devoted to her. haha.

I started thinking about all the things she's gotten into and eaten/chewed up, and I think the list would be shorter of what she HASN'T eaten! haha. No, but in all seriousness, we are grateful as she USUALLY goes for trash or fairly cheap things that are pretty meaningless. It's not like she knaws on our couch or coffee table or anything. lol.

The one exception would be when she chewed up David's XBox 360 headset but she did that with purpose... haha, everytime he put those on he would ignore her! So now he knows better and puts the controllers away. ;)

So for the latest destructions....

-I had tried TWICE to try out the Cliff Shot Bloks (they are eaten for energy in long distance runs) and both times Princess got to the package and devoured them before I got a chance to try them.

- Last week Princess discovered a bag of mix to make biscuits and carried it over to our couch (her favorite demolition location) and ripped it apart all over the couch so we had a nice powder colored couch. The mixture of her spit and the powder made it all harden to our couch-lovely! I'm really kicking myself for not getting a picture of this. lol.

- and the winner for this post... yesterday I came home and David says "I have some bad news." Well yesterday Princess decided to eat an entire bag of fishing bait (the sylacone material kind) that had about 6 pretty large bait in it. The vet said she should be okay and then she probably chewed it up into small enough pieces that it would "pass" okay. Lucky us! Now David knows to put his fishing stuff away in his box.

Around 5:30am I woke up to the sound of Princess puking and got up to clean it and guess what I see? 6 completely whole fish baits! She had swallowed them completely whole.

So needless to say, I've built up a pretty strong stomach having Princess around! haha.

I know some people couldn't handle having her, but despite all of her crazyness, I love that dog silly!!! :-) Plus, as much as I write about her crazy ways, she really is pretty well behaved and relaxed most of the time... but that's no fun to write about! ;)

Oh and if you're wondering "How well do Princess and Starla get along?" Here's a picture to show you:

haha. That was actually a rare occassion for them, but a hilarious picture nonetheless! For the most part, they have a pretty neutral relationship.

In other news... Aunt Kris and cousin Molly are coming in tonight and I am picking them up from the airport. I am SO excited to have a fun weekend! We are running a 5K race this Saturday, which I am actually pretty nervous about because I haven't ran in like a week. The heat has been SO terrible lately it's hard to want to even move from the apartment.

I will definitely post pictures from our weekend visit, stay tuned for that! I hope everyone has a great weekend! :)

New Orleans!

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted an update. I really wanted to keep this going...

This past weekend I went to New Orleans to meet up with some girlfriends. I've been to New Orleans a lot so that wasn't new to me, but I was excited to meet up with my friends because believe it or not, we had never met in real life before! When I was planning my wedding at Disney I

stumbled upon an online forum for people getting married or honeymooning at Disney and ultimately made some GREAT friends who I've been talking to for years. This weekend a few of us met up and had a blast!

As you can probably tell from the pictures, we had such a great time! We of course had beignets and frozen cafe au lait at the Cafe du Monde, and just walked around for a while... it was HOT! Afterwards we headed to one of the girls parents house and had a fun girls night of games and lots of yummy junk food- woohoo!

On the way back home, however, I had a pretty scary near-death experience!! I was driving on I-10 in Alabama, and I was in the left lane and in the right lane a little bit ahead of me was this big truck that was towing a car. It was just tied with some rope it looked like, not very secure. So then the back left tire of the car being towed blew out and the pieces of tire were hitting my car so I hurried and sped up real fast and got around it and in front of it.

Well right after I did that I look in my rearview mirror and the truck tried to pull over without slowing down and because the towed car wasn't attached well, it totally lost control and was flailing around all over the road and almost hit like 5 cars... I thought for sure it was going to be a pile up. It was SO scary to see, I was literally screaming in the car!! This car was just like a rag doll!! It didn't hit me until a few minutes later that had I not sped up around it when I did I would have been RIGHT in the impact zone!!! It was so scary!!!!!

So needless to say, I was happy when I made it home!!! :) I was missing my family... Princess and Starla... oh and David too. Haha! ;)

Now we have even MORE fun to look forward to this coming weekend... Aunt Kris and Molly are coming into town! We cannot wait to lay in the sun with drinks in hand! ;) We are all doing the Sandshaker 5K on Saturday together as well, so that will make for a fun time! I will definitely post an update with pictures afterwards. David is excited to make a good time, he has been improving in his speed considerably every week! I'm just a little jealous! :)

Nice Weekend!

This weekend was so nice! On Saturday I met a friend from my apartment complex by the pool and we had some yummy drinks. There were delicious!! I only had one... err.. three. haha! We just enjoyed the beautiful weather and lounged around for a little bit. It was gorgeous and to be totally honest- the first time I had gone to the pool at our apartment complex. We have lived there almost a year! I just always would go home to my parents pool typically, but it was a nice change of pace.



Afterwards, I enjoyed my newly renovated patio (thanks Ashley! ;)) and sat outside with the furbabies while I finished the book Angels & Demons... now I'm dying to see the movie! Tom Hanks is by far my favorite actor so I'm sure anything he does couldn't be bad. I also am really wanting to see Up as I've heard it's very good, but also really sad.

That night, David and I went to the track and did some speedwork... not too much but still a good workout. When we got home we were sitting on the patio and heard fireworks going off- it was from the Pensacola Pelican's baseball game nearby. It was really nice to sit and watch it from the patio- while I sang the tune to Disney's Wishes fireworks show along with it, much to David's enjoyment. :) We both agreed it reeeeeeeally made us want to go to Disney for our anniversary, even if only for a night or two.

Today David and I were able to go to my parents for dinner which was nice. I also got in a run with my Dad and did 4 miles without walking! First time I've done that in a WHILE so I'm really excited! I had been stuck at 3 for so long it was making me pretty nervous about the Half-Marathon coming up. For dinner we had yummy steak, rice pilaf and corn on the cob! mmm....

While we were hanging outside Princess made a great excape by crawling underneath the fence and we got to go chase her around the neighborhood for a little bit- always fun... not! This is really becoming a habit with her. Makes us wonder what we did to her to make her want to escape us so badly. lol. I think she's just too curious for her own good.

Well that concludes the weekend for us- hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed te beautiful weather! Thanks to anyone who is reading along. :)

David's first pair of REAL running shoes!

David got his first pair of real running shoes today- he's officially a "runner!" He had a pair of cheap asics, but today we went to the local running store "Running Wild" and he got fitted appropriately to find the right shoe for him. In the picture to the left (which Princess is trying to sneak into) he's wearing his old shoes, but below are the shoes he ended up with:

They are Brooks Adrenaline. He got to try them out tonight too! On Thursday nights a group of people meet at Running Wild to do a 3 or 5 mile loop around town. We did the 3 mile loop tonight (thank god!) and David was close behind my heels... I'll admit, I'm a little jealous that he's almost as fast as I am with under 2 weeks of running under his belt while I've been working at it for over a year. LOL

The people were SO nice though and the guy who helped David find the right shoe actually ran with us and was asking him how he felt afterwards and just genuinely cared about if they were a good fit for him. Which is important when you're spending $100+ on shoes!!! (eek!)

I'm excited though.... we now plan to do our McGuires Running Club run on Tuesday nights and the Running Club group on Thursdays. Hopefully sometime soon I'll be ready to do the Saturday 8 miler run with the group they do... right now... not so much.

In other news... I got a ticket today... :-( for yielding instead of stopping at a stop sign... $151! I know it's my fault, but jeez that seems like some major overkill! To top it off, the cop did the SAME thing he just fined me for when he left the parking lot we were parked in. Lovely!

Well I'm already up way too late, but thanks for anyone who is following along and reading this... it's a lot more fun than I thought it would be! :-)

Hello- First post!

Hello to our family and friends!

I thought this could be a fun way to keep everyone posted on David and I... or maybe it'll be really boring, who knows... lol, you be the judge!

So what are we up to? I'm working at Career Services at UWF still as a graduate assistant while working on my Masters of Education in College Student Personnel Administration (CSPA)... basically a long name for wanting to work with college students in the student affairs aspect of higher education! I'm doing an internship this summer as well- working with the SGA coordinator putting on a Summer Leadership Series for the executive student members of SGA. It's been a lot of fun!

David is working with Waffle House and doing great! He got #1 store in the district 3 times in a row!! When he's not working he's probably playing on the xBox360 battling it out on Call of Duty...

Recently David has started running with me and I'm SO excited! We joined the McGuires Running Club and go every Tuesday night and run a 5K with the group- there's hundreds of people there, it's great motivation! I'm hoping he'll do his first 5K race with me next month.

Lastly... there is our furbabies. They are really the center of our world, or at least mine! haha. In fact, not too long ago we just got back from a trip to the "big" dog park and PetsMart! Princess (our dog) is now passed out beside me. Princess is about 3 years old and we've heard she's a border collie/husky mix, australian shepherd mix, etc. We're not too sure what exactly she is, exept adorable! We adopted her in November from the local Junior Humane Socity and she was already housebroken and pretty well trained. Woohoo! Although we think she's perfect, we do acknowledge she has a few... weaknesses. Haha. Lets just say she one time ate over 80 hershey kisses and it made for a really fun evening!!! I'm sure there will be many blogs about her adventures.

Then there is Starla (or Starla Warla Bear as I refer to her). She is our 9 year old kitty! I adopted her about 2 years ago from a kitty shelter. She is the sweetest and most well behaved cat! We can't understand why anyone would have given her up, but their loss! I think her and Princess are destined to someday be best friends, but they beg to differ. haha. Although last night I did catch Starla given Princess a lick like she was grooming her! That's a big step from the normal sniff and then run away. They definitely have laid down ground rules for each other.

David and I can't believe our one year anniversary is coming up in 3 months... feels like we were just at Walt Disney World saying "I do!" (as most of you probably know, we are HUGE Disney fans!). We are seeing if there's anyway to squeeze in a short trip to Disney for our anniversary... we shall see. We will be heading to "the world" in January where I will be running the Disney Half Marathon, along with my Dad, brother, and some of my friends! I'm sure my struggles throughout training will be another big topic on this blog. ;)

Anyways, sorry to make this first blog SO long, but it was more fun than I thought! Feel free to comment and I hope this will be fun for everyone!

And just because I CAN, I'm going to end with a wedding picture, because now I miss our wedding! lol!