Saturday, February 19, 2011

Shopping with the girls


Last week, my good friend Cathy was in town visiting and it was great to see her and her kids. Cathy, her 3 cute kids, and I had a fun lunch of Dim Sum one day. Another day, I met Cathy and her daughter, Berkeley, at the mall for some shopping and then dinner, where Matt joined us. Berkeley is definitely a girl after my own heart- she was all about anything girly, pink, or twirly as we walked through stores. Here's a photo of her trying on about 10 necklaces at Urban Outfitters. I love her thought process here- if one looks cute, 10 will be even better! What a fun time!

This weather....

is awesome! We've had a great last week or so of weather (in the 60s and sunny most days), which has really done wonders to my mood and allowed me to really get more serious about training for the half marathon that is coming up very soon (!) Matt has joined me on some of the longer runs. Last weekend we did almost 8 miles around our 'hood and into Freedom Park, which we love running through (it ends at the MLK Memorial Site, overlooking the city- maybe my favorite view in Atlanta). Today, we did a little less (long story), along the same route, ending at our favorite burger spot, Grindhouse Burger. Guess we kind of negated the run we had just completed...but oh well.

Happy Weekend!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Updates

(photo retrieved Feb. 1, 2011 from http://www.world-city-photos.org/Paris/photos/Eiffel_Tower/Eiffel_Tower_orange/)

I try to refrain from not posting for awhile and then the post being a list of everything that's happened since then- but I'm not doing so well so far this year! But, to quickly recap-

We went to CA for Matt's Grandpa's funeral service a couple of weeks ago. It was a lovely service and great to visit with family that we don't often see. We also managed to squeeze in a couple of trips to In N Out and Coffee Bean, of course. We were also introduced to a dance game on Matt's cousin's XBox, which started something....more on that in a minute. It also happened that were home for Matt's mom's birthday, so we got to celebrate it with her.

School is keeping me busy! I thought things would slow down since I graduated, but some of my newer job duties are keeping me on my toes. But, I haven't been working on the weekends so far, which has been awesome. I've been spending a lot of time with Matt, friends, and family- which keeps the weekends pretty full, but in a good way:)

Dancing- So, we (I'm including Matt here, he may not like that) loved playing this XBox dancing game in CA, where you have to dance along to a song and follow the moves of the dancer. We don't have an Xbox, but there's a similar game for a Wii...so, we got that this weekend and we are enjoying it so far:) It's a great workout and lots of fun. I have to say that I'm happy to finally have a video game that I can actually beat Matt at:)

Europe!!!: We're starting to plan more for our trip early this summer. Originally, we were thinking we'd go to Belgium too, but the more we thought about it, the more we realized that we'd rather take our time in Paris and do some day trips there, and add an extra night to Heidelberg too. The 'Castle Lighting' there happens to be the weekend we're there, which is cool because it only happens a few times a year. We booked our hotels for Paris and Heidelberg, and we've just started looking for some great restaurants to try in Paris. I get excited every time I look at my Delta app and it tells me how many days until the trip. Definitely something to look forward to at this time of year....


Next up: I'm helping to throw a baby shower for a friend this weekend, we're going to a concert and to a nice dinner the following weekend (thanks Lindsay!), and crossing our fingers that this weather improves!