Think Pink

Today's entry is pink, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

There are very few things that will get me out of bed before 6:30 on Saturday mornings... Day After Thanksgiving shopping, fun trips, and this morning, the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure 5K. Thousands of people participated, raising probably well over a million dollars (actual figures will be posted when they're available.) Breast Cancer is one charity and awareness campaign that I can really get behind. My grandma is a survivor, and I have two close friends who are dealing with it in their families right now. So this morning I walked for them. Since we're not in shape to run (bad us!), Christy, her sister, her mom & coworkers, and I walked the 5K. It was really fun.... like I said, there were thousands of people participating, everyone was wearing pink... including the men, the dogs, the kids, and everyone else. The survivors wore pink race shirts, and everyone else wore white with pink designs. Some of my favorite shirts had tag lines like: "Cancer Sucks A%@," "I Love Boobs," "Save the Tata's" & "Save Second Base." There's nothing quite like seeing a grown man in a black t-shirt that says "I Love Boobs all over the front of it... in public... and it be completely acceptable. After the race was over, we went to Bay Front Park and shared in the festivities... Yoplait was giving out free yogurt, there were free bananas, music. Overall, it was just a fun morning. Some pictures from the day:

Christy with her mom and sisterMe and ChristyOne of my favorite shirts... it had a bunch of different names for boobs!

Lots of people running for their moms
And to top off the fun day... Christy got a text message that she got nominated for an Emmy... make that 2 Emmy's! She won one last year for a special segment she helped produce on hurricanes. I told her that her Emmy needs some friends... this is the text message she got during the race.

Wedding Bells!

This past weekend, the entire family met in Rome, GA for Kathryn's wedding.

Alan, Stephanie, and I arrived close to the same time into Atlanta, and we spent the day adventuring in downtown. We walked through Olympic Park, went to the Coca-Cola Museum, and Underground Atlanta. We met up with everyone else later in the afternoon and drove to Rome for the rehearsal dinner. We stayed there until close to midnight- it was so much fun to see everyone. Alan has had to miss every similar gathering in the past four and a half years because of deployments, so it was great to have him there. Everyone was excited to catch up with him.

Saturday, we went out to lunch then went back to the hotel to get ready for the 3:00 wedding. The wedding went really well- it was all outside, and we had perfect weather. As always, I love weddings. The reception went well into the night, and fun was had by all. Our family had taken over the bed and breakfast for the weekend, so there was no need to monitor our noise level... which, if you've been around my family much, you know can be quite loud.

I took a ton of pictures- I put some of my favorites on Facebook. I also have the full album available on Kodak Gallery.

Fun on the weekends

I've had two back to back weekends that were both great....

OCTOBER 3-5

We're lucky enough to be friends with Mrs. Diane and Kristy any day of the week, but we're even luckier to be friends with them when Kristy has extra friends and family buddy passes for cheap airfare on the airline she works for. A handful of extra tickets resulted in a last minute trip to New York City to go see Sarah. Woohoo! We had so much fun- I hadn't spent time with Kristy in awhile, and it was fun to see her and hear all about the new business she's starting. We didn't do a whole lot while we were there- just hung out, did a lot of walking, some sightseeing, and a whole lot of hanging out. We happened to be in town the same weekend as two of our friends from London, so that was an added fun surprise. One thing we did that I've never done before was walked across the Brooklyn Bridge- it's quite the view of the city!

Mom and Daughters on the Brooklyn Bridge

Miami by sky

I've been very negligent on posting.... my bad.

So to update on something cool we did last weekend....

It's well known that I get lost everywhere I go- I'm terrible at directions, and never quite know where I'm going. I've had an OK time getting around Miami, but that's 100% due to the fact that I bought a GPS before I left Tallahassee. Anyway, for our 2 year anniversary, Jon decided to take me on a helicopter ride over Miami so I could see where everything is in relationship to everything else... it was really cool. We were in the air for 45 minutes, and saw a whole bunch of cool Miami landmarks, including coming super close to our apartment.

We're in the shorter building to the right of the tower, in the left hand corner of that building.













Although the weather was pretty crummy, it was still a cool view. I've put a few pictures from the trip below... enjoy!