Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008 was very good besides the 80 degree weather!

On Christmas Eve I went to mass with my parents and my brother. It was pretty funny when the priest told everyone Santa called him and he wants brownies this year instead of cookies... wonder how many kids made their parents go to the store!

After mass we went to dinner at the Flaming Torch resturant on Octavia St. This was a new thing for us and it worked out great so looks like it might become a new Christmas tradition.

The fam. at the Flaming Torch

Me and Corey at dinner

Christmas morning Corey and I went to my parents house to open presents. We all got some good stuff, I got a wet suit(for the ironman), and MP3 player, some clothes etc. After presents we headed to my Nanie's house for a huge lunch.

Corey and Dad opening presents

Me and Mom at Nanie's

I headed to MS. to Adam's family's place in the afternoon and had another big meal Christmas night there. Adam gave me a beautiful watch that I love.

He looks thrilled to be taking a picture The tree

We spent the rest of the weekend in Ms. playing with the neices and nephews and hanging out relaxing. Friday night we had a big campfire and roasted Oysters wrapped in bacon and made smores. I also found out I am very good at the board game Sorry!:)

Saturday night I got togther with the girls at Mary's house for a post Chritsmas party. we had a great time trying out Mary's new Wii Fit and drinking lots of wine!

The Beer Mile

ok so this event actually happened last Tuesday but I had not had a chance to Blog about it yet and it's too halarious of an event not to!

So here's how it worked, you show up to Metairie playground with 4 beers of your choice, no lite beer allowed, this is hard core. You have to run 1 mile (4 laps) around the track drinking a beer each lap. The clock is running so you are trying to hurry and if you puke durring the mile you take a penalty lap.

About 75 people showed up for this so we ran in heats according to your predicted finish time. All I have to say is it's a lot harder than it sounds! I finished in 13:40 and I am proud to say I didn't puke until AFTER I finished:)

Adrienne and I nervously waiting for our turn

Getting ready to start

Me and Tonya drinking

the beer would NOT go down!!

Thanks to JRoger for this lovely picture

I felt much better after that:)

VRA Christmas Party 2008

Saturday night was the annual Verges Rome Christmas party. It started with a cocktail hour and then dinner at Resturant August in the CBD. Dinner was very excellent.

After dinner we all headed to Fulton Street to check out the Christmas display, but not before Adam tried out Holly's coat.

Fulton Street was very festive decorated with lights and complete with "bubble" snow that fell on us.

After Fulton Street the party continued at Gordon Beirch and then we finished with the hard core people at Harrah's casino. You can say it was a late night and I was pretty worthless Sunday but we had a great time!

SNOWING in New Orleans!!!! 2008

Yeah you read it right!! This morning it actually snowed in New Orleans!! This is only the 3rd time this has happened in my whole life so it's pretty exciting.

It started out sleeting on my way to work this morning and by the time I got to the office it was snowing! Brittany and I went out front to take some pictures, I couldn't even wait long enough to get my coat on....

Then the snow really started comming down. We couldn't resist so we all went in the back parking lot and had a snowball fight:)

Trinity is about to get hit!

Russ collecting snow off of my car, I think he hit me with it too!



Here are some pictures from the front of the building ....

O' Christmas Tree

About 6 years ago we started a tradition where when my parents went to buy their Christmas Tree they would pick me up one too. This works great b/c delivery and set up is included in this deal. I know you are thinking this sounds like a one sided deal, but before you start to feel sorry for my parents just know they recieved homemade bread pudding in exchange for the tree this year!

Here is a picture of my 2008 tree:)

This is my favorite ornament

Since I spend most of my time at Adam's house I decided he also needed a tree this year, so $7.50 later here is Adam's tree. Yes it might only be 12" tall, decorated with exactly 10 lights(that run on batteries) but it makes it feel more like Christmas:)

Corporate Cup 5K

The 28th annual Corporate Cup race was this past Sunday. It's a 5k race that benefits the YMCA that consists of teams of 4 co-workers. This year I rounded up 4 teams from my office, mostly walkers but hey I'm not picky. The race starts and finishes in front of the Audubon Zoo, running through Audubon Park. We couldn't have ordered better weather!

Last week I had started increasing my mileage and had ran 6 miles on Friday so I was curious to see how that would impact my race. If anything it helped. I ran 23:02, one of my fastest 5K times and the best part was I felt good the whole time!

I placed 6th in the top 10 Females and there were 452 people total so I was happy with that. As for the teams they didn't do bad either my team came in 6th out of 26 teams in our division and our other three teams placed 13th, 17th and 18th.

There should be more pictures but Adam overslept and didn't show up until after the race.....at least he showed up I guess:)