Friday, November 09, 2012

Milestone


Black Beauty has served me well over the last 9 1/2 years (she has hit the ripe old age of 15!). I fear that she might be running out of time and that from this point on every mile becomes a milestone (currently she is at 231,132), fairly soon I may have to hold her together with duct tape. I am willing her to keep going -- make it to 250,000 but I am not sure that it is in the cards for her.
Time will tell...

Thursday, November 08, 2012

Rolling around in a Crayola Box







Completed 3.2 miles in approx 43 minutes

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

This is Halloween

Halloween time means pumpkin carving in the house of Hutch. 

Vampire Snoopy, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and Pennywise


Paul was a good sport and became the Mr. Potato Head to my Mrs. Potato Head


Office Fun!

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Winning

Paul answered a question on the Biola Alumni page and won us tickets to the Mat Kearney concert!

Opening Act: Andrew Belle


Just hanging out waiting for the show to start. 

Mat Kearney

And the amazing added bonus was -- we got to do a meet & greet with Mat before the show!

Monday, November 05, 2012

Making strides

Monday is check-in day in my personal fitness world. So for today the blog post can be found HERE.

Sunday, November 04, 2012

Service

Our department had a service day helping out at a food bank. 

Office Family


Saturday, November 03, 2012

Click the Link

Todays blog post can be found HERE.

Friday, November 02, 2012

Run Forrest Run (5K)


A group of folks from the office decided to sign up for a 5k on a beautiful Sunday morning. We had a great time walking/running together and enjoying a delicious breakfast afterwards. 



Thursday, November 01, 2012

San Fran

My cousin Becky is getting married!!! There was an engagement party in the Bay Area to celebrate. My mom and I flew up to spend the weekend. My Uncle Bill & Aunt Marie took us out to dinner at a delicious restaurant upon our arrival. The following day we got to spend with aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.  

We decided to drive out to the Charles Shultz museum which was about an hour drive from where we were staying. I loved seeing all the memorabilia, old comic strips and sculptures. 
This is a wall that was taken out of the Shultz home. It was at one time a wall his daughter asked him to draw on for her. Eventually it got covered by layer after layer of paint. Finally a family who had heard of what was underneath all that paint in the home they bought decided to uncover it. The family felt that this wall needed to be on display so they donated it to the museum. So amazing to see early renditions of Snoopy and Charlie Brown!

We even got to eat at the Warm Puppy -- a restaurant inside the ice arena where Shultz had breakfast and lunch each day.  


Although my mom grew up in San Fran it has been many decades since she was down at the piers so we stopped by Pier 39 to look through the shops and have lunch before it was time to head home. 

Monday, October 29, 2012

Hollywood Bowl

Paul mentioned once upon a time that he was interested in going to see the Brian Setzer Orchestra so when cheap tickets to one of his shows popped up on Goldstar we couldn't pass it up. 


Opening Day 2012


Sunday, October 28, 2012

Happy Baby Shower Annie!



Celebrating 11 years


The Mr. and I took a long weekend and headed out to Vegas as we had a free hotel room.

We checked out some places we had never been before...

Pinball Hall of Fame 
so much fun to play these old school machines

The Hoover Dam
we saw it from both the Nevada and the Arizona side

Norm MacDonald 
doing a very drunk comedy show

We ran into one of the guys who was on Americas Got Talent doing his thing on the strip

KISS mini golf and wedding chapel 

For our anniversary night I surprised the Mr. with tickets to see Penn & Teller

Office - Birthday Lunch


Saturday, October 27, 2012

Office Olympics

Opening Cermony

Tasty torches Jeri made for the 1st day of competition

Human Bowling

Backwards Triathalon

Relay Race

Snickerdoodles and brownies inside pie crust

Balanced Flonkerton

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Anaheim Angels


When I did the Angels 5K back in the Spring a free ticket to a game was included.
We decided to head out to the stadium in July to catch a Monday night game. 



Monday, August 20, 2012

Street Food Cinema

A great way to spend a Saturday night in the Summer. 

Food trucks, music, and a movie.


Twentywonder (July)

An evening of music, food trucks, lucha libre, and roller derby!

Tic-Tac-Toe with Steve-O


Family Dinner (May)





Saturday, August 18, 2012

End of an Era

As January ended so did our rivalry with APU. 
Paul and I were there to witness the last BU vs. APU basketball games. 





Presidential


We ended the year on NYE with a trip to the Reagan Library. 

There were Christmas Trees set up for each decade with all the important/significant events

Always cool to get to walk through the Presidential plane

The grounds were beautiful as always

So moving to be able to touch a piece of 9/11 history