Color Run New Orleans

This past weekend we headed down to New Orleans for the Color Run. I heard from a few friends who did the one in Dallas that it is a lot of fun, so some of us decided to register for it last April. Me, Grayson, Thurston, Maddie and Natalee ran it while Winston served as our cheerleader.

I am glad we registered early because it was sold out by May. Thankfully it wasn't your typical 5k so we got to sleep in and have breakfast before getting to the starting line.


There were so many people. We think maybe around 11,000!? We were in wave #10 and so while we were waiting our turn we got to do some great people watching. Turns out this was less of an athletic race and more of a costume contest. People were very creative with their race attire.


This was after we hit up all 5 color stations. We didn't get as much color as we thought we would, but it was still really fun. We saw two proposals after the event which was neat too.


Later that evening after we laid out by the pool (yes, in November!) we then prepped dinner and had drinks and appetizers at W.I.N.O. (Wine Institute of New Orleans)


It was this cool place in the Warehouse District where you can taste wine by the ounce.


It was such a cool place and a neat experience. We went during the end of the Tech game and when we realized they were going into overtime, we made a mad dash back to the apartment in hopes they would pull off a win. Sadly they didn't and so we spent the rest of the evening enjoying dinner together and watching the demise of the #1 ranked teams.

We are now looking forward to the TCU/Texas game and of course, the ND/USC game. Hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving week!

We have spent a lot of time on the road this fall, heading west to Fort Worth to cheer on our Frogs. The latest trip I finally got to enjoy some gorgeous fall foliage. There's something about those colors that makes me happy!

We got into town early enough to grab a meal at Joe T's. The weather could not have been more perfect!!! The wind was blowing, the sun was shining and the ambiance was magical. Then we headed to the game and got our seats.


Meg was able to meet us and watch the game. The past few games we have only had between 10 minutes or an hour to catch up, so getting this much quality time together was a special treat.


I love our seats. We are so close to the field and can really feel the action. This last game I went to the tunnel and got to hit the player's helmets and get a couple high fives. This was all the captains huddling up before the game.


Showgirls lined up just like the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. I talked to one of them who just so happens to be a ZTA too, so fun!!!


It was also the pink out game where they placed emphasis on breast cancer awareness. There were quite a few ZTA's on the field which was fun. The only thing better would have been a W for the Frogs, but that's okay.


We still enjoyed ourselves. On our traditional Chipotle run the ladies asked if we had moved back to FW. It has been confusing to them that they have seen us way more than normal, sometimes 3 times in one weekend.

We are enjoying these tickets and our quick trips back to FW. We've got one more trip for the fall and in the mean time we are beginning to celebrate the holiday season.

Halloween in Wedgewood

We had an extremely successful Halloween this year.  This was the first year that both Grayson and I were actually at the house at the same time.  This is our fourth year to live in Wedgewood so it was fun to experience this together. 

Initially, Barkley was going to be "Wonder Woman" and she was going to be the pun of our joke.  Grayson and I dressed up as "Saints Fans" and we were going to carry her around and let her be the superhero that would come and save the Saint's season.  But ... all the tool got a little itchy and so we reverted to plan B and we all just dressed as Saints fans.

Thankfully, we had some help this year.  Logan came over to help pass out candy and experience a little bit of the Wedgewood chaos.  I think we will enlist the help of others from now on.  It made it much more enjoyable to pass out all the candy and wasn't near as overwhelming as it has been in the past.

Here they are handing out some candy.  The trick-or-treaters were very good about lining up and waiting their turn.  I will say that Grayson and Logan were very good at sticking to our new rule of "1 piece of candy/person."  I buckled under the glaring eye of the kids every time and wound up passing out handfuls at a time. We got a lot of confused looks from a few princesses, ninjas and transformers when they realized they were really only getting 1 piece of candy ... see ya later, Happy Halloween, move on to the next house!

A panorama shot of our street.  We are lucky no little kids got ran over!  There were cars backed up like that all night long!

I would now like to share some of my favorite quotes from the evening.  Granted, you can't hear the sarcasm or inflection in my voice, so please use your creativity to add it as needed ...

#1.  A little girl came up wearing a spotted leotard.  It was a black leotard with brownish dots all over it.  It was a one shoulder ensemble with brownish/black tights.  Being the fun candy passer-outers that we were, we were constantly trying to guess the costumes and unfortunately got them wrong on a number of occasions.  On this specific incident though, Grayson got it really wrong and I suppose offended the little girl.

Grayson: "Oh ... are you a giraffe?" (which was actually a really good guess based on the spots in her costume)

Little Girl w/ serious attitude: "No. I'm Pebbles." (insert raised eyebrows looking at him like he is CUH-RAZY!)

Grayson: OOOOOkay then. (end scene)

#2.  Due to the fact that replica NFL jerseys can be quite costly, we opted to purchase the jerseys of players who aren't actually on the team anymore.  Grayson was Reggie Bush and I was Shockey.  It was alarming the number of people who called us out on this.  We decided to start telling people we were the Ghosts of Superbowls past.  Not sure it went over very well, but at least we were prepared for a response when people started poking fun.

#3.  Logan, being polite as always, inquired to a little girl what kind of princess she was.  She replied that she was in fact, not a princess, but rather a "dark angel".  WHAT?  Seriously???  She had wings, she had a halo, she had a tool skirt on!  Where do people get these costume ideas???

#4. Last and definitely not least ... at the end of the night when we ran out of candy and were heading inside to grab dinner, our doorbell rang.  As we went to the door and began to tell the kiddos 'Sorry, we are all out of candy' one brave little girl piped up and said, "Well then you need to turn your porch light off."  (insert open jaw here) We cracked up b/c she was right, but to have the gawl to say it!!!  We were rolling.

There were tons of other funny moments that can't be conveyed properly via blog.  If you want to have some fun next year, come to our house.  I guarantee you will not leave without having had a good laugh.