Weekend Update

Friday was Katharoo's birthday! Yes, my dear roomie is now living in the South and we're hopefully going to meet up sometime soon. Hope you had a great day, Kath!

It's been a wonderful weekend... working, Halloween party (meow), working some more, hanging with the girls, making homemade soup and Halloween cookies, job possibilities, football watching and cheering on NYC marathoners from the Queen City because we all know that is one of my most favorite events in the fall.

November is here which means it's a brand new month and Thanksgiving is right around the corner, yippee! I also better start seriously running since my sisters thought it would be fun to sign ALL of us up for a 5K on Tgiving morning. Awesome. I would say that running 3 miles on the biggest eating holiday of the year wouldn't be a bad thing... except that I don't especially like Thanksgiving food. Does anyone else??

Good 'ole days

I was going through a few pictures today and found this classic of all of us from the Boat Basin, Summer 2008. Gosh I miss those fun times in NYC! And if you're in this picture, I miss you and hope to see you in 3 weeks!

App State Reunion

Last night I had a little dinner party for some of my ASU friends in Charlotte. It was so fun to see everyone! That's what I love about being back in the South- I can reconnect with friends I haven't seen in years!

Oh baby!

Today I went over to the hospital to visit with the Anderson family. My dear friends Katie and Seth had a baby! Seth Alden Anderson was born on 10.21.09 weighing in at a whopping 9lbs 14oz. I was so excited to meet this little guy.

Congratulations, Seth & Katie and welcome to the world, Alden!

Happy Birthday Brian!

After spending the weekend with the Parkers, I realized that I've known B-Dawg for as long as Al has (since we all met on a mission trip in Jamaica 8 years ago) and that he feels like a big brother to me. He would always call the HL girls on our birthdays which was very thoughtful.

One thing I really appreciate about Brian is how good he is to Al. I was telling Michelle yesterday how sweet it is to visit your best friend and see that she has a wonderful husband who loves her tremendously. That's the best thing you can hope for your friends.

Brian, I hope you enjoy your quiche, homemade bday cake, get to play enough video games to your hearts content and enjoy the cabin with Al this weekend (Beam's Chinese food, haha!). Happy Birthday!

photo taken by me a very long time ago

Transition

It's been interesting as I've made the transition from NYC to Charlotte. I will most likely expound upon this more in blog posts, but tonight was fun and special because it felt like a normal NYC night. And as Warren Harding once campaigned, any kind of "return to normalcy" is really good for me right now. Here goes:

1. An awesome Bible study tonight with 7 new friends

2. Driving by the amazing Charlotte skyline all lit up

3. I saw a yellow taxicab

4. Peach Snapple

5. Hearing that Pam got the pr job we've been praying for all year!! Yay!!

6. Trader Joes


it's just the little things in life...

The tradition continues

Fall + friends + banana pancakes + Mario Kart + wedding quilt + mimosas + Labyrinth/Steel Magnolias + Chinese w the Neel's + a drive-by + the happiest man at Publix + homemade pizzas + park + pumpkins + good talks + painting nails + Trigger + sleeping in + (500) Days of Summer soundtrack + changing leaves = wonderful Fall weekend with friends