Men's Walk!

Initially, this was supposed to be blogged on Friday.  However, seeing as after walk Friday afternoon, I had almost 5 thousand other things to do before leaving to go home, and then when I finally got home it was 10:00pm, I was just too tired! Oh well!

And yeah, I intended on posting this earlier in the day today but, um, hello? Where did the rest of the day go...??

A couple weeks ago, I posted about the Sorority Walk that my sister had been a part of.  Then came the Fraternity Walk.  I had been to Sorority Walks before during my time at Longwood, but never a Fraternity Walk...until this past fall!  I have a reason to go now--Matt's one of the Longwood Founding Fathers of Phi Mu Delta--and yes, I like to brag for him, haha.

I know, there aren't many pictures to look at from Walk the other day, but it's almost 10:00pm and I'm just about drained from the day!  But, I do hope you enjoy what I do have posted!

 This is one of my previous staff members, and mine and Matt's friend Ronnie.  He's also a Founding Father, and was one of the Recruitment Counselors this semester!

 Had to share this picture of Matt's new little: Dani!

 And one of my current staff members: Danny!

After Walk, I did get to go to the Phi Mu Delta Induction Ceremony--possibly a future blog post? ;)

February Workout!

Last semester, I was determined to go to the gym on a regular basis.  That lasted through about...oh I don't know, maybe the middle of October?  Either way, that failed.

This semester, I'm even more determined to go to the gym on a regular basis and stick with it! I have no excuses this semester--my schedule allows for plenty of time for working out.  I've pretty much gotten into a regular schedule of when is the best time for me to go, which ends up being the time at the gym when few people are there!

I've also been some extra exercises that I've found on Pinterest.  One I came across last week and it's for the month of February--Fab Ab February.  Basically, it's a day-by-day routine of sit-ups, push-ups and planks.  It starts off pretty small on day 1, but by day 29, I'll be doing 100 sit-ups, 25 push-ups (without stopping), and a 2 minute plank!  Sound hard? Kinda.  I'm aleady used to doing a lot of sit-ups; before, I could only do about 10 push-ups without stopping; and well, I just hate planks (not planking, doing planks!) so I'm trying to stay motivated to keep doing them! haha

I also found a really good (and INTENSE) Pilates ab workout that I've done a couple times.  It's super challenging but after completing it--it's only 10 minutes long!--you feel like you've accomplished SO much!

Happy Birthday Sissy!

For Abby's birthday today, Mom, Dad, Papa and Auntie "Shurrie" came down for dinner.  We went to Charley's Waterfront Cafe, and on Wednesdays they have pasta bar!! yum!!

Since we've been having such warm weather lately, Mom thought it would be funny to get her a summery birthday cake! haha!  No matter what kind of cake it is, I always love a good Ukrop's cake!!

 Present time!!

 Okay, so we always tend to tease Abby because she can't STAND for gift boxes and bags to just be sitting out, not knowing who they're for, or not knowing what's in them.  I got back to school before she did, so I was determined to have her gift from me wrapped and sitting in my room before she got back, JUST to drive her crazy (I most definitely succeeded, by the way).  So, tonight finally came where she could open the bag...

 Abby can't ever find anything with her name on it, so I came across a personalized "Abby" necklace and keychain and just had to get them both.

 Okay, this is the best part about the gift, and the entire table knew about it.  This past Christmas, we had all been talking about how they're (whoever "they" is) switching all Christmas lights over to all LED lights.  Well, Abby is not excited about that. "That sucks!" is her reply when you mention it, haha.  Abby also tends to have bad luck with the lights on the Christmas tree in her room, and least one strand is always out every year.  Well, when it comes to Christmas items, you don't wanna joke around with me because I will for sure remember....which is why Abby received TEN boxes of Christmas lights from me! haha!  I had wrapped one of the boxes that was in the top of the bag, so she would just think it was one box....until she lifted all the tissue paper!

 She loved it :)

 And finally, the PAAAALLLLM TREES (Abby, I did that just for you) from her cake!

Happy Birthday Sister!!!

And guess what? My 200th blog post is all about you!