Happy Bday Kate!

This past weekend was Kate's official birthday weekend. A small gaggle of us went out for some thai food to start the celebration but the real party began when we met up with the whole flock at Charlie Peppers later on. The Miller Lite Crew came out to celebrate Kate's birthday too! They brought tons of crap and I got at least one of each, my favorites being my new Miller Lite hat and armband.









She got a lot of cool gifts like: an awesome tshirt and garden gnome doormat (that'd be me), a bunch of flamingo Christmas ornaments (Holly), a bunch of beer and wine (that'd be mom and Lisa), and a bunch of other cool stuff but I think her favorite had to be her cool new camera (Spencer).


We all went down to Chattanooga Saturday and the whole fam came over for Kate's bday and bbq. Dad got Kate a really great cake!

Cousins get to play

This past Saturday we headed down to Chatt-town for a little family bonding. Mom made a HUGE spread of food (that I did not stop eating all day, oh and the cornbread was my favorite). Dad had the game on the radio, since for some reason it wasn't on TV. Andy and Allison came and brought Owen and Kate drove down and eventually Spencer. Mike had to stay in Knoxville and work the shuttle train.

Kate and I also spent a good deal of time trying to teach Simon to walk, using wheat thins as bait. He can stand, he can cruise, and I am pretty sure that if he felt like it he could walk, he just chooses not to. Anyways, our little trick didn't work.

Boot Camp Month One, Over!

I officially survived my first month of Boot camp! That means, for exactly one month I dragged myself out of bed, drove 20 minutes across town and did a lot of exercise at 5:45 am. That's big-time, so obviously we needed to celebrate. We had a little graduation party at Tai restaurant.
My food came in a pineapple! How special is that?!

After my delicious pineapple dinner, and sharing 3 tequila shots with the boot camp girls, and a couple of glasses of wine, three of us hotties made out way out to Cotton Eyed Joes to start the real celebration. Cow roping and bull-riding were involved but mostly dancing for me. After a few long sweaty hours at the Joe, we headed out to go home. When we got outside we remembered that we actually didn't drive there, we took a cab, so we were temporarily stuck. Luckily we befriended a limo driver whose client was in the Joe, indefinitely. Through my powers of persuasion I convinced him to let us come play in this birthday girl's limo. Then I convinced him to let us drink her beer. Then, the four of us girls convinced him to drive us to waffle house.

It was a most excellent time!

Halloween was so much fun!

Halloween started for me at 5:45 am this year. I went to bootcamp and worked my butt off, IN COSTUME! I was a football player that morning, and all of the instructors dressed up like Richard Simmons.

During the day Mike, Simon and I went to pick out pumpkins. Simon wasn't really that interested in the pumpkins but we were really interested in how cute he looked amongst them.


Later in the day on Halloween I headed down to the Runner's Market for the track club's Wednesday Night HALLOWEEN run! Great fun!

I dressed Mike up like a Leprechaun! He loved it, and was so excited about his costume....NOT! HHAHAHAHAHAAHA

After a long fun day I think we were a pretty crazy looking family...but wouldn't you expect that?

Oh, and Simon was more interested in a banana than any of the candy.

South Carolina Tailgate

Simon got to come tailgate for the South Carolina game! He got to play on dad's train, SO COOL!