Happy Birthday to me!!!!

Timothy bought me tickets to the Zac Brown Band concert for my birthday.  (Along with the book, The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts).  Turns out he had to work.  (Think $3.99 all you can eat pizza buffet.  Kind of requires all hands on deck).

So one of my best girls, Carolyn, came down to be my date to the concert!

AND brought my favorite cookie (with extra frosting) and a pink Mike's Hard Lemonade.

 Yum-oh!

We wore our cowboy boots (because, really, how often can you sport those in Southern California?) and walked the long road to the Verizon Amphitheatre.

We got to our seats nice and early.  Unfortunately, being an outdoor theatre, there were plenty of people smoking some funny smelling green stuff.  YUCK!

The concert was AWESOME!

...And I know that Timothy would liked it too.  Especially when ZBB sang Whatever it is.  There will be plenty more concerts in our future.  

It was an interesting and rowdy crowd.



We love you Zac Brown Band.  Thanks for making my birthday a fun one!!!

I'll be in San Francisco for a work trip for my REAL birthday tomorrow.  Not a bad place to start my 32nd year. 

Jennifer and Melinda Marie are Disneyland and Coast to Coast Half Marathon Finishers!

Jennifer and I did it!  We ran our little hearts out and finished the SOLD OUT Disneyland Half Marathon.  And with our finisher medals we also scored the coveted COAST TO COAST medal for finishing the Disneyworld Princess Half Marathon and the Disneyland Half Marathon!  YAY!!!!



We woke up at the crack of dawn, grabbed our breakfast of champions (including a snickers bar and Coca Cola classic for me) and headed to meet 13,998 of our closest friends (and their fans) to run 13.1 miles throughout the happiest place on earth.

The traditional pic of Port a Potty row....

 Minnie Mouse Twins...

... right down to our Sauconys.  Both of us endured a broken foot after running in Nike's.  Sorry Nike ~ we love your apparel, but your shoes don't cut it for our pronating runner girls.

We kind of sorta snuck into a Corral ahead of ours.  We didn't want to chance being swept from the course if we lagged behind... so we were in a pace group that was just a wee bit faster than us.  No big deal. 

We laughed at our new friends diva race shirt ~ so fashionable!

I had an extra spring in my step and was pumped full of adrenaline, so I wished Jennifer a good race, promised to meet her at the finish line and got lost in the sea of runners.  Just me and my ipod and my pack of snacks. (Because goo makes me sick and I just have to have my carbs!)

I had to get a shot of The Toy Story Folks for Timothy...

Point taken 

And by mile 9 I was starting to not feel so hot.  My blood sugar was dropping despite my eating sugar.  

But I pushed through :)

I finished and headed straight to the first aid stand.  I was shaky, vomited (oh boy!) and my blood sugar was in the LOW 30's.  The volunteer doc stayed with me while I drank sugar water and repeatedly tested my blood sugar until it was back in normal range.  It was scary and a bit unexplainable.  I was just happy to be finished with the race, in my flip flops and feeling not so yucky.

The Finishers!  Thank you, Jennifer for being my race buddy.

We headed to my sister Janice's to swim and eat.  Oh, and my family (and Jennifer) are met Timothy for the first time tonight.  They loved him.  Of course the did!