LA-Cupcake Challenge

Here we go!!  We just arrived at the Cupcake Challenge!

 Headed to the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel today for the Nesquik Cupcake Challenge.  19 Local cupcake companies came out and over 200 people bought tickets, including me, to come out and taste 37 different cupcakes and judge them.  I was so excited to get a chance to do such a fun, cool event...Thanks to my friend Nancy!  She scored us a couple of tickets and it was by far on of the funnies things we have done.

Here is what I voted for: 

1st Best in Show:  Polkatots :  Dulce de Leche

2nd Best in Show:  Melli Bellli:  Gingerbread

3rd Best in Show:  Southern Girl:  Sweet Potato Pie

Dulce de Leche

Lavender & Gingerbread

So many cupcakes....So little tummy!

YUM-O!!

Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend

Just returne from few days in Orlando were I took part in the 1st Annual Princess Half Marathon Weekend.

Activies:

Arrived in Orlando Thursday

T.I. was on my plane to Orlando!! He was a couple of rows behind me in First Class!

Epcot Park and Fitness Expo on Friday

**Pictures to Come***

5K and Animal Kingdom Park on Saturday

Group before Royal Family 5K.

Beauty and the Beast!

Princess Mickey and Prince Mickey
We all finished!!
Animal Kingdom Park

Mom and I on Mt. Everest Ride...lol.

Half Marathon and Happily Ever After Party on Saturday

Getting my oranges ready for the race!

Kristin and Kelly @ around mile 8.

Just Finished the Princess Half Marathon

Happily Ever After Party

50's Dinner @ Hollywood Studios. It was a fun place!!

Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studio Parks on Monday

Haunted Mansion

Kitchen Sink Sundae!! We so wanted to order this, but we didn't have enough people by the last day...Only Mom, Nancy and I.

Hollywood Studios...Exhausted!

Back to LA on Tuesday

9 Years

Ron and I have been married 9 years as of today! Since he is on one side of the world and I am on the other, we will celebrate when he gets back this summer!

Hong Kong

As many of you know, Ron is currently deployed for 6 months. He is onboard the USS Stennis and they made port last week in Hong Kong. Here are some pictures of his few days there.

Huntington Beach 1/2 Marathon

Best Time EVER!!

This past weekend I went up to Huntington Beach for the Surf City 1/2 Marathon. It was a fun filled weekend!

Friday: We arrived at Huntington Beach and headed straight to the Fitness Expo were we had tons of fun, ate several free samples and all won a package of rice. We then went to the Huntington Beach Pier and hung out for a while and then head back to the hotel and relaxed around the fire pit outside.

Girls hanging at the fire pit at the Hilton Waterfront Hotel

Saturday: We got up early and went for a walk down Huntington Beach, Pier and Main Street. We also had decided we wanted this yellow Huntington Beach Marathon Race Team shirt...In order to get it, we had to volunteer...So, we did! We went to the expo and volunteered for 3 hours...We opened medals and it was a blast! We went back to the hotel and just relaxed the rest of the evening.

Nancy, Debbie and I doing our volunteer work to get the free yellow shirt!!

Sunday: RACE DAY! We got up bright and early and got ready and ran/walked our hearts out!
My race time: 2:52...16 minutes faster than Disneyland 1/2 Marathon! Here are just a few pictures.

View of Pacific Coast Highway @ 730AM...30 Minutes before race!

View of PCH after race...It turned out to be nice about 4 miles into the race!

Debbie, me and Nancy near the Fitness Expo

Nancy, Debbie and I near the finish line!

4 Weeks until my next 1/2 Marathon....Disney World Princess Half Marathon!!

Christmas 2008

My parents came to California for Christmas this year!! This is Randy's first visit to California since I have moved here. He has never really been a big fan of traffic!

They arrived on Christmas Eve and we went straight to Santa Monica Pier for the afternoon. Had an earlier dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Randy's favorite place and then drove up Malibu to get to our house.

Christmas day we just hung around the house and opened presents, ate dinner and went to the beach to check out the ocean.

We went to Universal Studios the day after Christmas...One of Randy' favorite theme parks! It is a lot closer than Disneyland and geared more towards adults. They had Grinchmas going on there and that was a lot of fun to see!!

On Saturday, we headed up to Santa Barbara, Solvang, Firestone Winery and Firestone Brewery. Mom said the winery was her favorite part of the entire trip. Firestone Winery and Firestone Brewery are about five minutes apart, but totally different atmosphere. Ron and Randy did the beer tasting and they both agreed it was the worst beer they have ever had!!

Sunday was the day they all left and the day Kelly started to get sick!! This was a great Christmas and I was so happy that everyone had a great time!

Mom, Randy and Ron doing wine tasting at Firestone Winery

Kelly at Wharf in Santa Barbara

Mom and Kelly on Wharf in Santa Barbara

Kelly, Randy and Mom in front of Universal Studios

Our first REAL Christmas tree!!

Ron, Kelly, Grinch, Mom and Randy!

Kelly with her Mickey Snowman Hat!

Beach Day for the Dogs

We took to the dogs on an beach day not to long ago and they had a blast. Normally we take them to the beach and they are on their leash and run around, but this time...We put them on 20 ft. long ropes and let them run around! They had so much fun and Ron and I never had to get wet!! (Normally Kehau will pull us into the ocean so that she can swim. With the 20 ft. rope, she got to go into the ocean and we got to stay on land!!)

Izzy about to dig!

Kehau on the way home after beach day!

Running back from her ocean swim...55 degree water!!

Deshae Visit

Deshae came down from Texas to visit for Thanksgiving week. We went to Disneyland for the weekend since she has never been to any Disney park. It was all decorated up for Christmas and we had a great time. Ron and her also went to several local attractions; Malibu, Santa Monica Pier. It was a great week and we look forward to her visit again this summer.

Victoria's New Room

With all my training for 1/2 marathons, I go through running shoes like there is no tomorrow. Victoria has found a great use for the shoe boxes...She will use them as her new bedroom until they bust out of the side and then we toss it!! Isn't she so cute!!

SkirtChaser 5K

Nov 1 some friends and I went into LA and did the SkirtChaser 5K on the beach. It was a cool, chilly, rainy morning, but we went away to run in skirts! Overall it was a good race! Good run, good friends and we had some good breakfast in Malibu that morning!!

Kelly, Debbie and Nancy