happenings

So 20 days without a blog post is normal, right? Yeesh, I just have been so bad at this. BUT my reasonings are legit. I mean, how can you blog with a computer that only works 45% of the time? YOU CAN'T. You can try but trust me, you will just get frustrated.

But life has been happening and here are some photos to prove it.

First of all we can just get a collective "AW" about this little gentleman? He is the quite frankly the only baby that has given my uterus all the sparkles to want a baby.

Dan and I also participated in the Sandy Sprint 5K for ovarian cancer this weekend in honor of our friend Matt's late mother. I ran it of course and this year they had a color run option.

 

See? Color!

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Today Dan and I did some spring cleaning. Which was must needed, I must say. I cannot believe how much dust accumulated on my ceiling fan and my GOSH, comet smells disgusting. As much as I hate cleaning, a clean and bright apartment makes me happy.

Friends, expect some posts on the reg.

Really, I promise.

Zombies!

I have a fear of zombies.


Or rather, a fear that one day the zombie apocalypse WILL happen. Why do you think I started running? (Just kidding. Sort of).

While Dan spent the entire weekend in North Jersey at Wrestlemania I faced my fears and ran from some zombies in Philadelphia.

This was not your normal 5K.

You literally run from zombies in the zombie apocalypse.

You get a belt, 3 balloons (your "organs"), and the whole point is to run as fast as you can so the zombies (well, humans dressed zombies) can't catch and pop your balloons. If all your organs (balloons) are taken, you're dead.

But you can still finish the course, which is pretty cool.

My friend Laura and I decided to take our chances and run the course as humans.

 
We did not survive. The zombies stole all our balloons.

But we still had fun! We ran and walked the course while dodging some zombies. I almost fell down a hill but that's not important.

And the best part? My other friend Marissa volunteered as a zombie.

She looked pretty awesome and her makeup was really realistic.


I think finding these themed 5Ks is one of my new favorite things to do... just to say I did it. I mean, how many people can say they did a zombie run? There is also an undie run. But I can't seem to find anyone to do that one with me...

happy april!

April means showers (you know, for those May flowers) and warmer weather right? Well I could do without the showers but please, please, PLEASE let's see some WARM weather!

Life has been busy. I officially began training for my half marathon so my life has been run, eat, sleep, repeat! We celebrated Dan's 29th birthday together (though I was sick so our idea of celebrating was take out & tv), along with other special peoples birthdays and got ready to celebrate new babies, had Easter with the in-laws, and basically just working, hanging out with Max, and making plans to visit friends who live in other states and trying to stay active.

Birthday celebrations for the lovely Miss Laura! :)

 

I really enjoy each one of these beautiful ladies!

 A beautiful baby shower for a wonderful cousin! Cannot wait to meet the little guy!

Happy first birthday to the sweetest babies around, Riley (in the picture) & Logan!

Bonding with my favorite golden...

Early morning walks on the beach...

And a day date trip to the boardwalk... much needed.

I'm looking forward to April ! And I promise... more posts each week! :)

it's a good day to have a good day

Life has been beautiful this weekend.

A baby shower for a cousin, knowing that she truly loved the gift I gave her (custom scrapbook), and seeing my family... if only weekends could always be like this.

Though it's Saint Patrick's Day, I only celebrated by tossing some green out of my wallet in the form of fun, polka dot jeans (they are very cute & stylish, trust me!), some spring shirts that can double for work & play (always a must!), and a couple home decor items that I've been coveting from etsy.

Oh etsy.. you do me so bad (and good).

I have some thoughts in my head on starting my own business but to be honest, I am not quite sure where to start so perhaps I will spend my summer researching & preparing some things. Life can be so exciting if you let it.


I want so badly to fill this blog with adventures & photos... and I promise I will.

But in the meantime, I will leave you with this:

has spring sprung?

I think I can *officially* say spring has sprung! And how could it not with this beautiful weather (despite that freak snow storm Friday!) and the fact that we turned the clocks back! I think losing an hour of sleep is well worth it to get some extra sunshine after work.

The spring bug hit me a little hard this weekend.

I felt the NEED to buy new nail polish and some bright pretty jewelery and these amazing light pink pants. Oh, target how you get me everytime.

And the sudden rush of 50 to 60 degree weather gave me some new housewife motivation to clean our little apartment. Dan helped (or rather, did the things he knows makes me gag. Like cleaning up food or the yucky bugs that get stuck in the windowsill) and I just HAD to add more springtime decor.

Yup. The spring bug has bit me.

This weekend was a great reminder of what wonderful ladies I am surrounded by. We went bridesmaid dress shopping and out to lunch with the bride to be Laura and it was a lovely time. Plus cocktails with the crazy bride later that night was just the cherry on the top of a fabulous weekend.

:)

friday friday gotta get down on friday

It is snowing - even though the weatherman said it would snow WEDNESDAY.

I know what I have to do this morning at work already and I am not looking forward to it.

It is a Friday during Lent, and of course that is when I crave chicken or a big juicy cheeseburger the most.

I haven't been sleeping well so my body is craving a super long nap or a morning where I sleep until noon but since I have work and tomorrow I want to run before my day starts, I get to wake up before 7 and hang out with my bed head for a while.

But it's Friday... and I have some nice things planned over the next couple days so I can deal.

Tonight, I am forcing Dan to take me to the grilled cheese restaurant (yes, we have a GRILLED CHEESE RESTAURANT. We also have a pb&j one but thats for another day. and to find someone to go with me who doesn't gag at the sight and smell of peanut butter like my lovely husband does). We are also going to get a cupcake because... cupcakes.

So Friday.. you may not be ideal but you will include cupcakes and the thought of a free 48 hours once the clock hits five.

pizza pizza!

Dan and I are not romantic in the least. Yes, we're cute and yes we have our moments in public where we hold hands or sneak a kiss but in reality, candle light dinners and expensive nights out are just not our thing.

Our thing is pizza. We sit in our stretchy pants and Dan makes cheese fries in our deep fryer and cooks the pizza (while I watch... our kitchen is way too small to have two people cooking at a time. My other job is to wrangle the dog out of the way.

Dan loves pizza, I can take it or leave it (it's gotta be good for me to love it) but we found a pizza we both love and thanks to Wegmans, we've been eating it the past couple Sunday nights.

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I apologize for the lack of blog posts. But March will be a busy month and I'll be updating a lot.