GAME....COCKS!!!!!!!!!

Kristen and Donna at the baby shower!!!

No, it's not a pregnant man, but Kera and I were amazed at how this man got his belly so big!!!

Me and Ben at the game!

Rienna, Aaron, and Ben in the stands...oh and Josh and Jannell in the background!

I forgot that the cooler was made of Styrofoam...so yes..I broke the cooler!

Me, Rienna, and Leah in the stands

Can you tell that Ben was excited to sneak booze into the game!

The girls at the tailgate!

Me, Kera, Christina, and Jray being stupid at Jakes on Friday night

The girls at Jakes on Friday...and don't forget the token husband Aaron in the background!!

This weekend Ben and I ventured to my Alma mater USC in South Carolina (GO COCKS) for some football, drunken shenanigans, and baby shower fun!

Ben and I got into town on Friday around 8:30pm. We met up with Erin at our room at the Embassy Suites. We quickly changed to go out and headed to the Carolina Ale House. There we met up with everybody else...and by everybody I mean practically the whole college gang!

It was me, Ben, Erin, Christina, Melissa, Kera, Shaun, David, Josh, Jannell, Rienna, Aaron, Jray, Christie, Andy, and Angela!!!

We stayed and partied at the Ale house for awhile and then decided to head down to our old stomping grounds in Five Points. We went to one of our favorite bars called Jake's and stayed there til around 2am. As soon as the bar started to clear out, Ben and I took a cab home and crashed. Saturday morning we got up and got ready to tailgate!

We stopped for supplies at Publix and I picked up a jersey at the bookstore and then it was off to Williams Bryce Stadium! There we met up with more people...Leah and Anastasia joined the group along with a LOT of people that we hadn't seen in a long time!

Tailgating was so much fun!!!

We got to the game just in time to catch 2001: A Space Odyssey (only the best pregame show ever!!) and watch the Cocks crush the Vols!!!

After the game, we came home and literally passed out...we were SO exhausted from the day!

Sunday morning it was an early morning wake up call so that we could go run errands for Donna's baby shower. It was really good to see Donna. She was supposed to hang out with us all weekend but unfortunately has been put on bed rest until Christian Spivey's arrival in December. She was still able to make it to the shower though, so a good time was had by all.

Ben and I left to come home around 3pm and got home just in time to veg out on the couch and catch up on some DVR!

Hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend...and in case I didn't say enough in this post...GO COCKS!!!!

October Birthday Shoutouts!!!

Jan and Dwight on their visit to ATL!

Jannell, Leah, me and Donna at Kera's wedding

Me and Rienna

Happy October Bdays to....

ME, my uncle Earl, Donna, and Rienna!

Love you all!!!!

PS - If I missed anyone, feel free to comment on here and bash me publicly! :)

Thanks Kate! I forgot my father in law...happy bday Dwight!

Tennis Practice and El Azteca!

Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association...

Kristen and Aaron at the Decatur Beer Fest...

After our cardio tennis class earlier this year, Ben and I quickly realized that we needed to actually learn how to play tennis...to be honest we really sucked at it!

So we joined a Tennis League through ALTA, Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association! http://www.altatennis.org/

Ben and I are excited to better our skills. Our league is a really fun group of people too.

Our friends Grace and Jon turned us onto it. The season starts in January but we had our first practice last night. I returned a few balls and learned how to hold my racket correctly...so that was good enough for me!!!

After practice we headed over to El Azteca (a "hole in the wall" Mexican place with great food) to chow down and have some margaritas!

Our friend Aaron was having a bday happy hour there so we stopped by! Happy Bday Aaron!

Lots of good times all around!

Wicked Weekend!!!

Wicked...what a great show!!!

Ben/A-rod and my sailor friend Amanda...it's okay...he wasn't being naughty, I was taking the picture!

Beer girl Kim, Me (Madonna), Sailor Amanda, and "Sister" Melissa

A-rod and Madonna...aren't we cute!!!

It was a Halloween filled weekend for the Sullivans!!!

Friday Ben and I went to our Kball bar Charlie Mopps for our Mid Season Halloween Party! Ben and I dressed as A-Rod and Madonna (check out the pics above). It was hilarious! Everyone loved our outfits!!!

We even got runner up in the best "Couples Costume" of the night. We lost by a few votes to Santa and Mrs. Claus. All I have to say to that is...WHATEVER! I still think we deserved first...I mean come on??? Santa and Mrs. Claus? How uncreative can you be??? Sorry...I guess I'm still bitter!

Anyways, Saturday I started my "official" training for my half marathon. I went to Roswell Park and ran 6.2 miles..WOOHOO!!! I was very proud of myself considering it's been about 2 years since I've run that far! I have 5 months until the half marathon so I'm going to keep running 6.2 miles at the park at least once a week for the next month...then I'll bump it up to 7 or 8 from there! I still have a LOT of practice left!

Saturday night Ben and I went to an AMAZING restaurant in downtown Atlanta called Wisteria.

http://www.wisteria-atlanta.com/

I had the Brie stuffed tortellini and it was probably some of the best food I've ever had!!!

Simply delicious! Ben and I went with Ben's coworker Stephanie and her husband Eric. It was a great time!

Sunday Ben and I headed to the gym, and then he went to Cheyenne Grill to watch the Skins play. I had some errands to run, so unfortunately wasn't able to go.

Sunday evening, I left the hubby at home with his Sunday night football and headed out with the girls to see Wicked at the Fox Theater! It was such a great show! I absolutely loved it!

After the show, we went to yet another great restaurant/bar in Atlanta called Churchill Grounds http://www.churchillgrounds.com/.

I can't wait to take Ben here because their steamed dumplings are to die for...and Ben is a sucker for some good dumplings!!!!

So that was our fun filled pre-Halloween weekend! I hope everyone else had a great one!

Did someone say Giant Smoked Turkey Leg???

Yes...we saw Live Bears at the Fair...

Isn't that the biggest cup of ice cream you have EVER seen???

ShamWOW

Smoked Turkey Legs...my FAVORITE!!!

This week was quite the crazy busy week!

Tuesday night I had my HR class...I did well on my 3rd test ( I got an 89..woohoo) but I'm afraid I didn't do too well on the 4th test. I think I'll squeak by with a C on that one..but that's okay. I'll just study super hard for this week's test to make up for it!!!

Anyways, after a grueling 3 hour lecture in class I got home at around 10pm.

But instead of getting sleep, I had to pack my bags to catch a 7:30am flight to NC the next morning (I had to get up at 4:45 am..yuck)! I flew to North Carolina to go to my company's corporate headquarters for a staff meeting and to assist with an audit that we are going through. It was a very intense day at work, so I definitely needed to blow off some steam.

Wednesday night I went to the NC State Fair with my BFF Johanna and her hubby Steve, and my coworkers Chesare and Sylvia! It was so much fun!

We ate...and ate...and ate....see pics above.

The highlight of the night was when Johanna and I purchased an "as seen on TV" Shamwow http://www.shamwow.com/ !!! (They had them for sale in the Hobbies and Crafts section and were doing live demonstrations). Why are Johanna and I such a suckers for info-mercials I have no idea!!!

Now it wasn't the actual purchasing of the Shamwow that was the highlight of the night...it was when Johanna dared me to scream out "I'm SOLD" and run up with my $20 during the middle of the live demonstration. Being one to NEVER turn down a dare...I stepped right up to the challenge. I think Johanna, Steve, Chesare and Sylvia almost wet their pants. The guy doing the demonstration didn't know what to do when I ran to the front, slammed down my money, and screamed "I'm SOLD..where do I pay?" right in the middle of a crowd of people. It was hilarious.

Anyways, while at the State fair I gobbled down a smoked turkey leg and the biggest cup of ice cream in the world!

Good times all around!

I returned home on Thursday in time to make it to our kball game. We lost...Booo!!!

Tonight is our Halloween party for our Kickball division! We will post pics of us in our costumes soon! Stay tuned....

Half Marathon!!!

So today I signed up for the Georgia ING Half Marathon!!! Am I crazy? Who knows???

But it's not until March 29th so I have plenty of time to train!

Inspiration comes from running across the finish line back in 2004 after completing my first 10K.

See pic of me and my great friend Christina above!

Lots of runners in my group of friends so I wanted to jump on the bandwagon...
Kera completed a half marathon last weekend
Jacqueline and Todd run the Marine Corp Marathon this weekend (Good luck guys)
Christine completed the Baltimore Half Marathon a couple of weeks ago along with Jacks and Todd
and Kim and Will are running a Half Marathon in November

If all that running isn't inspiration..then I don't know what is!!!

Beer Fest and Football...can it get much better than that?

Cornhole!!! One of my fave games!!!
Steph S, Shauna, and Kristen during our volunteering stint!
Ben was very happy to fill Melissa's glass!!! hahaha!
Terrapin beer had a "secret stash" of 11% alcohol beer but the only way you could get it was if they painted a "stache" on your finger! It was worth it though...delicious!!!

Amanda, Kim and I in the volunteer check in area
Kim, Will, Ben, Kristen and Amanda during our free time before our volunteering started! There was LOTS of beer to try!
Kim, Chris and Melissa
Ben and Kristen at Brunch!
Kristen and Siliva...Go Skins!!!

This weekend, Ben and I had a lot of fun in ATL. We were excited to not have to travel for once!

Friday, Ben got home from work and we decided to crash. It was uncharacteristically cold and rainy and we were exhausted from Thursday night's kball game and bar time.

Although our original plan was to grill out steaks, we opted for Chinese delivery and movie night!!

We watched "I Am Legend" which we both decided was a complete waste of time! However, we ended the night watching the new Chris Rock special on HBO, which made me almost pee my pants! Good stuff!!!

Saturday morning we were up and out the door by 9am! We were scheduled to be volunteers at the Decatur Beerfest and we didn't want to miss a minute of it!

We met with Amanda at Kim and Will's and off we all went! We got to Decatur around 10am and met up with our friends Melissa, Chris and Aaron at their friend's house for some brunch. We drank Mimosas and played cornhole for a couple of hours and then headed over the festival so that we could get our bracelets and tshirts. We got into the festival for a few hours before it was time to volunteer!

Let me tell you...Volunteering is the way to go when it comes to the Beerfest! It was so much fun. Not only did you get in for free, but all you had to do was pour beer for people for 3 hours. A lot of our friends stopped by our booth so it was an absolute Blast!!!

After the beerfest we were pretty exhausted. The friend who hosted the early morning brunch was having a cookout, so we stopped by there for a little bit...grabbed a burger...and drank some more, but we ended up leaving around 8pm because we were so tired!

I tried to watch the entire South Carolina game back at home but I was out like a light come 10pm.

Sunday, Ben and I slept in, then went for a run in Roswell Park. It was such a pretty autumn day that we had to take advantage of it!

After the run, we came home and changed then met up with Yosh and Silvia at Cheyenne Grille to watch the Redskins game. It was great to see them "post engagement"!!!

Ben and I are VERY excited for them!

The first half of the game was completely uneventful but the second half turned out to be quite the nail biter! We had a great time catching up with them!!!

Hope everyone else out there had a great weekend!