Walking for a Cure and for a Friend!

Every year since 2007 Team Holbrook has walked in the Race for the Cure to support our friend Beth Ann Holbrook who was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in April 2007 at age 32! YIKES indeed. After a double mastectomy and chemo and radiation, she is now cancer free and has been for 2 years!! Happiness indeed!! This year the race fell on her 35th birthday!

Friday began the birthday celebration with a Tour of Homes in DT Charleston, the Queen street route to be more specific (last year we did Tradd St!). The homes are amazing! They are huge and most amazingly decorated! Though some houses were a little cluttered and we did get called "sporty" with a bit of a stink eye we had a BLAST! We toured 7 homes and 3 churches. There were two houses that really stood out. One was that of a well known landscape artist in Charleston and the other was no one that we were told was special, I mean they do own a house in DT Charleston that is open for tours so I call that special, and did I mention they had a pool in their backyard along with 4 Piazzas!! My favorite church was the Unitarian Church. The ceiling was a sight to be seen. i just stared at it while the man described all the renovations of the church, but all of it paled in comparison to that ceiling! If you ever get the chance to take one of the homes tours I certainly recommend it. It's amazing and a great way to learn some history about the city we call home!

This was night one of a 3 part series known as BA's birthday weekend! We then all gathered together to walk the Race for the Cure on Daniel Island. Well, they tout the race as a 5K, but this year they tried out parking us further away from the race site and hey here's an idea, made us WALK a good mile or mile and a half to the race starting line!! It was a bit chilly this morning, but there wasn't rain and for that we are grateful. We did the walk last year in the rain, and it was not ideal! So after the walk, we hit up the freebies and got to see some friends we hadn't seen in awhile (always nice!) and then we treked back the 1.5 miles to the car... Fun... So all in all we are thinking we walked a 5 K on Friday night at the tour and then a 10K today so we got some good excercise in for the weekend! I was so tired and in desperate need of caffeine that I headed home to a warm bed and a hot lunch!!

Tomorrow the Birthday weekend will conclude with an 8pm showing of Kathy Grffin at the Performing Arts Center!! We are really excited about this! Should be a BLAST!!

Let me tell you BA is worth a weekend celebration! If everyone could have a BA in their life I think the world would be a better place!

So here is the card I made for her, that I have been waiting to post until I gave it to her!!

Hidden inside is a coupon for a free cupcake at Cupcake!! If you have never been, you need to make it a priority to go. They are amazing cupcakes and have many interesting and delicious choices!! They even havea $30 cupcake that is HUGE!!

This was a great weekend spent with great friends!

I hoep everyone stays warm and has a GREAT rest of their weekend!!

Happy Day!

Lisa

How I spent my day!!

I had a blast crafting, and shopping and lunching with Mom and Dad (well he lunched!!)!!

I got more done in the craft room than I thought I would granted we didn't get started til 3:30 due to the Pepsi debate 2009!!

Check out the baby shower card I made...

The Happy fall card I made

And the Halloween card I made!

Tomorrow it's off to a card class in the morning and then a baby shower at night! Fun weekend!!

Happy Day!

Lisa

Sophie Bear Russell

It's official. Sophie has been adopted into the Russell household. The adoption happened on Wednesday and I couldn't be happier to make her a permanent addition to our household. She is an amazingly sweet dog. She lives to be loved and to love you, her timing might be off on loving you aka when I'm trying to sleep in on a day off, but I still couldn't be happier!

When doing hte adoption, we realized she was not microchipped and so we went in to the shelter today to get her chipped. She was less than pleased to be returning to where she was surrendered. She was scared and reverted to the dog with the tail between her legs and trembling. I felt like a horrible Mom, but I knew she needed to be chipped. If she got out, then she would run!! She doesn't know our neighborhood well enough to be sure she would come back home, so it's WAY important for her to be chipped. Once that was done, she was ready to go and be on her way home. She is SUCH a good car rider. I hardly even noticed her in the car. She sleeps in the back seat and appears to be at peace in the car. She is the total opposite of Kahlua in this respect. Kahlua flys from one window to the other, doesn't lay down, nor does she posses decent balance for a turn or stop of any kind!

She is currently resting peacefully on a chair and happy to have a forever home! I love that dog and I'm happy for the positive changes she has made in the household. She has made Kahlua act about 5 years younger. They play with each other, with their toys and sleep together. These are things that I have tried for years to provide for Kahlua, but she doesn't respond to my toy interactions, doesn't play tug or fetch, but with Sophie she does it all and she is DARN good at it!! Two Two is still getting used to the fast pace Sophie lives, but she can often be found laying near Sophie on the bed. Give Two Two time to get used the the fast movements, and Sophie time to realize that we aren't going anywhere and I think that will be a sweet partnership!

Joe loves Sophie. More at night than in the morning. She wakes at the first sound and has a hard time going back to sleep, but I look at it as a way to get me moving earlier and be more productive with my day. Today is a prime example. I got WAY more done on a Thursday than I have EVER done since I started at the Shelter. I usually use Thursday as a lay around and take some time for myself cause I worked so hard during the week day!

So all in all I think Sophie is going to be the fresh step this house needs. Now, I'm not saying she's perfect. I hunt for my clothes that she has hidden throughout the house on a daily basis. She has no personal space boundaries. She has a thing for my favorite comforter, but her smile, her eyes, her face, her love makes all those silly things fly right out of my head.

I'm going to be crafting tomorrow. Starting early and hopefully getting a lot done before I have to go home!! I'll post what I work on!!

Happy Day!

Lisa

It's about time..

I got back in the craft room Thursday and Friday this past week! I needed that. I haven't spent that much time crafting in months!! I was going to work on my wedding scrapbook, but instead I chose to return to a passion of mine.. card making!! I made a card for my friend BA's birthday on the 17th!! And I made two fall cards. I was inspired by many things for these cards. Mom had been making a new format of a card, and so I wanted to play with that a little, and then we have an AWESOME paper pack that inspired the rest of the card. Here's the "Happy Harvest" card I made!!

I missed being in the craft room. I can't wait to go back. I have a card making class this weekend and I can't wait! She makes lovely cards and I can only imagine the loveliness that is to come!

One another note, I saw Pretty in Pink for the first time on Saturday night. Apparently, it's unheard of that I have made it to age 27 and not seen this movie. Well this sparked the discussion in person and on Facebook, what other classics have you not seen???

Well here are a few of the reccomended movies that I haven't seen and apparently NEED to see!

-Legends of the Fall

-16 Candles

-Say Anything

-Fast Times at Ridgemont High

-Better off Dead

-Weird Science (I think I have been quoted lines from this one...)

-Can't Buy Me Love

I'm sure there are more. Joe says I live in a bubble on a lot of things and I do believe this would be one of those moments! I have CHEESY taste in movies, but most times they are current and revolve around a current actor or actress being in them, not the plot itself. Case in point, My Best Friend's Girl starring Kate Hudson. HORRIBLY HORRIBLE movie... Erin can back me up on this one!! So I plan to add these to my Netflix queue and rating them as I go. I'll keep you posted!

One another note, Today is my Half Birthday!! 6 more months til my birthday!!! I would like to thank Mrs Vogel for teaching me about this wonderful holiday. Though no one ever remembers, I do, and that's what counts!!

Happy Day!

Lisa