1. Happy October! Geez Louise, where does the time go? I'm so excited it's finally starting to feel like fall, though, and I can't wait to pull out my jeans, boots, sweaters, and scarves and drink Pumpkin Spice Lattes all the time.
2. I turned the big 2-6 on Sunday and had the BEST day thanks to my awesone husband (who made the day so special despite just having had back surgery), my fabulous family (both mine and Gaines'), and my great friends. We had a low-key day that started off with breakfast, included a lot of relaxation, and ended with a delicious meal "catered" by my in-laws. Thank you for all of the sweet messages- I really, really appreciated all of the birthday love. :)
3. I opened my gift from Gaines yesterday morning and sat there for a few seconds confused. A fake apple and a phone with a picture of an eye on it? Ooooohhh! An Apple iPhone!! What a sweet, corny guy he is. :)
4. Ten years ago (again, where does the time go??) my parents planned and exectued the best surprise birthday party I could have ever imagined. Elisabeth and I went down to the rivah on Friday night with my dad and Dales while my mom and Sammy stayed home in Richmond for a "soccer tournament." Saturday morning I was woken up with a video camera in my face (mind you, I didn't have my contacts in and was wearing my retainer...) and my dad saying, "Kates! Kates! Go look outside!" I couldn't actually see anything since I'm basically blind, but when I went to the window I heard lots of cheering and "Happy birthdays!" I rushed to get ready as 25 of my friends came running upstairs. My parents had rented a huge 55-passenger bus that had picked up all my friends in Richmond that morning at 6am and drove them to Deltaville. We spent the day hanging out and celebrating by the water, and it was by far one of the best days of my life.
P.S. How young do we look?!
5. Gaines' back surgery went well and I just wanted to thank you all so much for the love and prayers. The surgery started at 1:45pm last Wednesday, lasted exactly an hour, and we were in the car on the way home by 5:15pm. He's doing really well right now and has just been spending his days laying down, playing video games, and ringing a tiny bell anytime he needs me. Kidding (about the last part). ;)
6. On Saturday a bunch of my girlfriends and I signed up to walk in the Bird Dog Breakaway 5k run/2-mile walk in Waynesboro. In the last 5k we did together, we were crowned the "Winners of the Walkers" (even if we were the only ones who knew about it), so this time we were deteremined to continue our reign. I think Kristina sums up this race pretty well when she said, "Through a unanimous vote (from the three of us) and several disqualifications (also
given out by the three of us) - we are pretty sure we were the winners of the
walkers again this time!"
7. Later that afternoon after the walk, I'm pretty sure Gaines and I had a combined 25 heart attacks as we were cheering on our Bulldogs from our den. Thankfully, we pulled out a 51-44 win over Tennessee, but boy was it look ugly at times.
8. Speaking of football, we're still ranked #5 in the nation! And how 'bout the SEC taking up 5 out of the top 10 spots. Best conference? Hands down.
We play USC this weekend in Columbia and ESPN Gameday is going to be filmed there. Even though we aren't going to make it to the game, I told Gaines I'm going to need a few of his pain pills to make it through this one. I can already feel my anxiety rising. But hopefully we'll show the who's best in the SEC East. Sorry, Liz. ;)
9. This weekend I started reading "Where We Belong" by Emily Griffin. I didn't get too far into it yet, but I love her other books and so far I'm loving this one, too.
10. And what would a TOT post be without a picture of our spoiled luttle Mollybug?
Happy Tuesday!
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