Happy Birthday to ME!

My birthday was this weekend and what a great weekend it was!! Friday morning I woke up to pink streamers thrown all over my hallway and front room with one of the cutest birthday cards from Brady. He spoiled me and got me a pair of jeans, 2 new shirts and a running jacket to wear for the marathon that was on Saturday (pictures for that are coming later today, as I need to get the pics off of Missy's camera). I went to work like normal and got a couple really sweet cards from my co-workers and then Shauna, my boss, gave me the balloon boquet you see in the picture below, how sweet, huh?! I left work early and Brady and I went out to eat and loaded up on carbohydrates for the race the next day. I guess the rule of thumb is that when you are running in an event, you need to eat as many carbs and as much pasta the week before as you can; I don't need to be told twice, so we went to Olive Garden and shared Chicken Alfredo and had a great time!!

Thanks to all of you for calling or texting me on my birthday, it really meant a lot to me and I really appreciate it! I love you all!!

Party at Nickelcade!

After Brady and I had stocked up on our carbs for the day, we went home and I fell asleep on the couch till about 9:30 pm. Brady woke me up and said we had to leave to go somewhere. I'll be honest, I was pretty tired and really ornery because I knew we had to wake up really early (5:00 am) for the 1/2 marathon the next day, but I gave in and went along with it. We ended up going to Nickelcade where we had a BLAST! Can I just tell you how much I LOVE Nickelcade? Some of our friends were there, which was a total surprise to me, and we had a great time! There was even a room set aside just for us to eat my birthday cake! My friends collected almost 3,000 tickets and got me some really sweet birthday presents...press-on tattoos, a play dolphin, nunchucks, handcuffs, silver chains, a flag with a unicorn on it....all sorts of random things that I'll probably never use, but Brady on the other hand, has already played with the handcuffs, used all the press-on tattoos and worn one of the silver chains...I guess it's the thought the counts, right??

Playing some basketball...

Jake and Belle

Cory, Kristie and cute little Talon. (Talon belongs to Jake and Belle, not Cory and Kristie)

Jumping on the bandwagon & going PRIVATE!

Just wanted to let you know that after thinking about it, Brady and I have decided to make our blog private, we feel it's good to do so for safety reasons. I think I have most all of your email addresses and if I don't, I think Mindy has most everybody, but please leave me a comment with your email so I can add it just in case she doesn't have yours. I'll probably make the transition at the beginning of next week. Thanks!!

Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

Brady was at TJ Maxx the other day and saw these "HIM" and "HER" boxing gloves and just couldn't pass them up. I was so excited when he brought them home...they're pink!! We like to act as if we're in a boxing ring boxing each other. We wanted to get you in on all the action and bring you into the ring with us. I think these pictures pretty much do the explaining...

WARNING: This video contains violent content!!

It may look and sound as if I'm hitting Brady really hard, but it wasn't THAT hard. I just get really in-the-zone when I'm in the ring. And in his defense, Brady knows better than to hit a girl, especially his wife, so he goes easy on me. And no, I didn't really hit him where it counts, I was just fakin' him out!!

Random post, random pictures

Nothing too exciting has been going on lately, but I knew it was time for me to update the blog so, sorry this isn't too exciting; at least it's something new for you to read, right?! The picture of me by myself was taken today because I got my hair done last night and wanted to show you all. It's nothing too drastic, but it's still different. This picture doesn't do it too much justice because the lighting isn't very good, but I did color it with 3 different colors: dark brown, lighter brown and blonde and cut my bangs and she also razored it in the back and on the sides so it's really layered.



Here are some random pictures of Brady and I from the past week. This one is from last weekend when we celebrated our friend, Shauna Wright's, birthday at Olive Garden. We LOVE Olive Garden, it's not too good on the waistline, but it's sure good for the tastebuds! We loved the breadsticks and salad and shared the asiago cheese steak entree, we highly recommend it, it's awesome!




This picture was taken in the car today when Brady met me at work and we went to lunch, it was so fun! It's always nice to get out of the office for an hour or so and break up the work day; especially when I can leave with my hubby! I swear we don't eat out all the time. We haven't eaten out in FOREVER, but for some reason in the past couple weeks we've already gone out twice!

Will the real Brady please stand up?

This is in response to Alesha's post that she did about 'Brady's twin' a couple weeks ago. She and my brother were in D.C. and saw this guy on the train and had to take a picture because they thought it looked just like Brady! Brady and I wanted to see how much alike they really are so we tried to reinact the picture...black earring, furry hood, glasses and all!! Also, Brady didn't even shave for a week in hopes that he could get the same facial hair effect as this guy and, as you can tell, he doesn't grow much hair! I can definitely see some small similarites, but I'll take my handsome handsome over anyone any day of the week!

Swimming Lessons??

I turned on our camera today to take some pictures and came across these of Brady, I was cracking up!! He wants to do a "sprint" triathlon (a smaller version of a normal triathlon) by the end of the summer. He's comfortable with running and biking, but when it comes to swimming, he feels like a fish out of water. He's been going to the gym at nights to swim laps, but finds that he still has no technique and has to plug his nose and keep his eyes closed the whole time. So, he went to the store the other day and bought these goggles and this nose clip in hopes that it would help him. I just had to post these because I thought they were really funny! Hopefully he doesn't get mad at me!! I can just picture him in the bathroom taking these pictures of himself...Wow, what a character!!! Mom, I'm thinking of buying you one of these nose clips for when we come over and Brady farts...it happens often enough that I think you could benefit from it!