Life lately

Apparently the name of the game lately has been working out and eating. Oh wait. Who am I kidding? That is always the name of the game. So yeah, clearly things haven't been too different.

But what was different was that I finally took advantage of the free (yes, free!) aerobics classes at Railroad Park recently. Joy and I went to yoga one Thursday evening, while Ashley and I opted to get "crunk" on a Monday night. Both were enjoyable, but the Crunk class was definitely harder. I was a sweaty girl afterward and I probably definitely looked ridiculous while trying to do these dance moves, but it was fun.

A couple of weekends ago I went with J to Mississippi to see/meet some of his friends. It was a super good time, but unfortch the only pic I was able to get was the one he took of the Bell Tower at Ole Miss—which is his alma mater. I wish we had made it to Oxford earlier on Saturday so I could've seen campus in the daylight. But we did at least get there in time to drive around town and visit Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home, before sundown. Our next priority was obviously food so we headed directly to the square and ate at Boure, which was pretty good stuff. This meant the campus walking tour had to be taken at night, but it was still a nice experience to walk around and hear his and Hannah's stories about the good ole college days.

This past holiday weekend was kind of insanely busy with visiting both of our families on the actual  Fourth of July. We ate more than our fair share of bbq, hamburgers, hotdogs and homemade ice cream. (Ok, maybe that was just me!) Friday was spent mostly with my mom as we shopped and got a few projects done around the house and then my dad came in that afternoon. I left them to hang with some of the girls from the climbing gym and we ended up grabbing food from the Off the Hook food truck...love their shrimp po boy..it's delish!

Saturday was a busy workout/errand/chore day followed by an evening Barons game in my company's suite with J and my officemate Leslie and her family. Then Sunday afternoon I went back to Regions Field for another Barons game, but this time the Triumph Services junior board was hosting a special event for the participants of Triumph. We ended up getting upgraded to a rather large suite and it was such a good time, even though the Barons ended up (barely) losing. Follow that with a "see ya later" dinner to Kyle at Slice (the 'wing and a prayer' pizza just might be my fav) and it was one exhausting, but fun filled weekend.

Life lately

The best of life lately seems to have included a good bit of family time. I drove up to my parents house last Tuesday and then caught a ride with them to see my nephew Cade play tee ball. It was my first time to watch him play.

I think the cutest thing was watching him in warm ups. He was more focused that I thought he would be....however that changed once he was on the field :) He was a pretty good batter though and was all about running the bases and coming across home plate. I guess that would be my second fav memory that night—watching him do a silly victory dance when he scored. He's a goofball. Which means he's soooo related to me.

My niece Callie wouldn't have too much to do with me this night. She was busy either playing in the dirt or climbing the fence. Yeah, we might have a tomboy on our hands! I did manage to get this adorable pic of her wearing my hat though. And yes, I know she looks cuter in it than I do..I'm ok with that!

More family time was spent this past Saturday at Cade's 5th birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. I am still in shock that he is five years old (today, officially!). The cliche is true, time flies. I feel like I might blink and he'll be driving. I once asked him what I was going to do when he got to be so big that I couldn't pick him up anymore. His response? "Uh, I guess I'll just have to pick you up instead." I couldn't have asked for a better answer.

Otherwise, time has been spent with friend activities—a dinner at Rojo one Friday night with Joy where we had one of our famous whirlwind conversations, seeing the Red Mountain Theater performance of The Wedding Singer with Torry, Nicole, Dana and Heather, (btw, if you're in Bham, go see it! it's hilarious) and celebrating several friends' birthdays with dinners and cookouts. Throw in a good catch up veg sesh at Cassidy's new place for the ladies of the Bham Fram and it's pretty a busy, but good two weeks.

Oh and I should mention that I worked my last track meet of the season last weekend. Woohoo! Hello free Saturdays.