Happy Birthday Ace!

If you are an employee or graduate of UIndy, you of course already know this, but for those of you who aren't affiliated with our college, our mascot is a greyhound.  About a year ago, around this time (Homecoming), a generous alumni donated a sculpture to our campus.  A larger than life greyhound, in which the students proceeded to name "Ace".  Well, since Homecoming has once again arrived on our campus... our Student Alumni Association decided to throw Ace a Birthday Party to celebrate his one year with us!

The party was from 12:00-2:00 today and Debbie and I decided that we had to go over there for cake and ice cream!  I was extremely excited when I discovered they had Party Cake Ice Cream!  HOLLA!  I must admit, the celebration was very festive!  Ace was decorated in his Birthday decor and he had a huge bone shaped Birthday cake (which was half gone when we arrived) but you get the picture!

Below are some pics of Ace's memorable B-day!

Ace's "bone" shaped cake... half gone... 

Ace in all his glory!

A kiss for the Birthday Boy of course...

Two crazy alumni employees in the picture (Myla and I)... and one taking the shot (Debbie)  :)

Here's all three of us!

Have a wonderful Birthday Ace!

Worthless Weekend

This weekend I had big plans to get a lot done around the house since Dan was out of town for a few days.  I planned to clean the entire house really good and do some major projects outside... but instead I ended up curled up in my PJ's cuddling with my big dog.

I had a half day off work on Friday and planned to make a new flower bed out behind our house and walk Remington... I did end up walking Remington, but that was about it.  The rest of the afternoon was spent napping...

On Saturday, I planned to clean the house up and pull out some flowers from our front flower bed before it got too cold out.  I did get the house cleaned up, but going outside did not happen as it finally rained a little bit.  The rest of the day was spent napping...

Sunday I had plans to get my homework done and spend some time with family... the homework didn't get done, but the family time did.  Dan and I even went to the gym at like 7:00 and he ran 3 miles and I ran 2.  The rest of the day was spent napping...

What can I say... I love napping... and so does Remington :)

Winter Gym Rats

As most of you already know... I HATE winter time!  I mean I hate it.  When the weather starts cooling down, I find myself coming home from work, putting on a pair of sweats and crawling in bed to get warm.  Since I have started to love running and working out... I have started to worry how I'm going to react to the cold weather.  I know how I usually react... I stop working out and instead hibernate.  Well, I refuse to do that this year!

So, Dan and I joined LA Fitness this week.  We use to be members there a while ago, but ended up canceling our membership during the summertime since we would workout outside.  Anyways, we had been getting these emails from them with a special that they were having.  No fee to join, only 26 dollars a month, and no contract!  We use to pay almost 40 a month to go there, so we thought it was a great deal!

I'm very excited to start going again!  I love the atmosphere there and they offer so many different things... weights, cardio, and different classes.  So instead of sipping hot chocolate this winter... I'll be adding some mileage on my runs... (even if it is on a treadmill).

The things I love about Fall...

You can wear sweatshirts and sweatpants!!!

 

Looking at all the pretty mums!!!

Enjoying the fall leaves.

Picking out some pumpkins!

Drinking hot apple cider!

Looking for cute Doodles in Halloween outfits!

Eating more candy than usual because it is in stores like crazy!

Oh, how I love Fall!

Rachel's Wedding Weekend!!!

After 12 + years of friendship, I had the honor of being a part of my friend, Rachel's wedding.  It is hard for me to put into words how I felt seeing her stand before her family and friends and promise her life to Ryan... all I can say is I'm so happy for them both and hope their lives are full of joy, love, and friendship. 

Here's Rach and I at her rehearsal dinner :)

Rachel's Mom helping her get her dress on :)  Doesn't she look lovely!

Here's the back of the dress!!

Dan took this picture of Rachel going down the aisle :)

Here we were waiting for the bride and groom to come out of the church!

They are so happy!

Everyone is blowing bubbles!

Here's the wedding cake!

They were very nice while feeding each other cake!

Here's my hubby and I at the reception! He is so handsome :)

 

Here's the beautiful bride and I at the end of the reception!  We had a great time!

CONGRATS RYAN AND RACHEL!!!

To see all of the wedding pictures that the photographer took, you can check this website in a few days... they should be up by then :)

http://www.dalep.photoreflect.com

Rub-a-dub-dub... 4 Big Paws in the Tub!

WOOF WOOF!  Remington Bear here!  After lucking out and not getting a bath in a few months... Mom and Dad decided that it was time for me to get one.  BUMMER!  I hate baths!  Unfortunately, it turned into even more that just a bath.  I got some of my hair trimmed, nails clipped and dremeled, and my teeth brushed!  I'm feeling like a handsome fellow now.  Below are some pictures of my night at the Rhoton salon!!!

Here are Mom and Dad's tools that they use to torture me... the clippers and the dremel!

As you can see, I'm definitely not enjoying this moment.

Here is all the hair that Mom cut off me!!!  What was she thinking!

Patiently waiting for my bath now :)

Here's Mom running my bath water :)

I like to lay down while Mom and Dad give me a bath... I get too tired standing up.

Mom says that it isn't easy giving an 82 lb goldendoodle a bath.  Maybe that is why they don't do it very often....

Mom thinks it funny to style my hair... I don't!

I was trying to dry myself off in this picture... it works better when Mom and Dad help me.

Lastly, it was time to have my teeth brushed.  I actually enjoy this because Mom and Dad use a special doggy toothpaste that taste really good!!!

Boy... getting clean sure does make me tired!!!

Hopefully it will be another 2 months before I have to do this again... longer if I'm lucky!!!

Weekend with the Rhoton's!

Dan and I had a wonderful weekend.  His Mom and Dad decided to take a day off work Friday and drive down to Indy to visit since we have not seen each other in ages.  They even surprised us by bringing Elliott with them!!!  Oh, how I love that little boy!  Here's the play by play of our weekend.

Friday... I took a half day off work because of all the comp time I had racked up from working all week with Phonathon.  So, I got to meet up with the Rhoton's for lunch.  Dan and I took our 3 visitors to Shallo's.  It is this little hole in the wall place, but it has the best food (we think).  After lunch, I stopped by the place I had taken my bridesmaid dress for my cousin's wedding to get alterations done.  It was ready to be picked up.  I was very happy with the alterations.  They did a fantastic job! After that, Dan and I decided to take everyone down to the canal for a little while.  It was such a beautiful day outside so we just couldn't pass that up. Below are some pictures...

After that was done, we came back to our house and Dan and Elliott played Wii for a long while.  It just amazes me how kids of that age know just as much about technology as people my age!!!  Later in the evening we all went Putt Putt Golfing.  Elliott had never been and he was SOOOOOO excited about it once we got started.  It was so heartwarming to see how much he was enjoying himself :)

Saturday... we all were up early except for Elliott.  He of course, was tired after a long day yesterday.  However, once he woke up he was all about going Putt Putt Golfing again!  So Uncle Dan and Bruce took him and they ending up playing 36 holes of Putt Putt Golf!  Pam and I decided to stay behind and we took Remington on a long walk.  It was nice to be with her and chat.  The Rhoton's ended up leaving a little after lunch time.  We were sad to see them go... I wish we all lived closer together.  It would make things soooo much easier.  The rest of the evening I spent working on homework.  I had a bunch due on Monday so I wanted to get it done since I was going to be with the Phonathon students on Sunday.

Sunday... was a day full of things here and there. I did laundry and picked up around the house.  At around 2:00... I went into work to see how my students were doing.  It was my cousin, Leslie's, bridal shower in P-town that day.  I was very sad that I had to miss it.  Hopefully she got lots of nice things :)  I'm sure I'll hear about all the details from my Mom.

I cannot believe it is time to start a whole other week.  BLAH!  It should be a busy one :)