Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts

Saturday, November 6, 2010

A Marathon with Memories...


Brad, Taylor, Ashley

Since June, my sweet hubby has been training for the Washington DC Marine Corps Marathon.  If you're a Daily Portion follower, you probably remember my previous post about his training.  Until you've actually trained for a marathon (or are a wife of a marathon runner), it's hard to appreciate how long and difficult and time consuming marathon training can be.  I can think of so many times Brad gave up time with friends, family, and even one another just so he could go RUN.  Needless to say, I think I was just as excited as he was to see race day finally arrive.  So this past Halloween weekend, my hubby, my brother-in-law Taylor, some close friends from Charleston, and 30,000 other crazy runners took on DC in a 26.2 mile run!  All the wives ran the 10K and were able to meet up with our husbands after the race.  Here are some great pictures from race day!

Brad at Mile 16...still going strong!

The 10K runners...

Lisa running 10K

Candace working it in her running skirt!

Me running the 10K

Lisa at the finish line

Craig and Candace
Ashley and Lisa

Candace, Mary, and Craig

Me and my hubby!

Me, Brad, Ashley, Lisa

Taylor, Me, Bradley, Ashley, Lisa


After the race we were finally able to see some of the sights around DC...

Me and Bradley

Lisa and Ashley

Nancy and Grayson

Taylor, Lindsay, and Grayson

The tired crew waiting to drive home

Brad and I had a chance to meet up with my college roomie and her hubby and walk through the Mall area.   We even got to see some crazy people at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear...

Elizabeth, Livingston, Brad, Me

The Rally

Rally

Brad at Smithsonian Museum

Me with Mr. Caveman.  Tee-Hee :)

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

And The Winner Is...

THE BAD SEED!!!  Congratulations Luke and Megan!  Your prize awaits you...(we'll drop it off at your house sometime next week!)


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Pumpkin Carving Contest 2010

Every year we host a pumpkin carving contest.  This year we decided to post the entries on my blog and let YOU vote for the winner!  We had four entries this year.  Vote for the one pumpkin that you like the best!  Use the voting poll on the ride hand side of this page.  All votes must be submitted by this WEDNESDAY, October 27th by 6:00pm.  Send this link to as many people you know and get them involved in the voting competition.  Here are the contestants...

1.  PALMETTO PRIDE






























2.  PALMETTO MOONSHINE





























3.  A "COOLER" PUMPKIN





























4.  THE BAD SEED




























Oh what fun we had!  Here are some pics from the day!







A Carolina Girl Married A Clemson Boy


If you've ever driven by the Porter house, you might have noticed that the collegiate flag hung just outside our front door is in constant rotation throughout the year.  Sometimes the flag is UNC...other times it is Clemson.  Yes, we are definitely a "house divided."  Our first big marital dispute was over which flag we would hang outside.  Orange or Blue?  Tiger or Tarheel?  Because both of us are incredibly stubborn, neither one of us gave in to the other.  After hours of debating, acting like two-year-olds, and hiding each other's flags, we had to come up with "flag rules" to help keep our marital disputes at bay ;)  Here is what we came up with...
  • Brad will fly the Clemson flag during football season
  • I will fly the UNC flag during basketball season
  • Whenever the two teams play one another, be it football or basketball, the home team gets their flag flown.
  • If the two teams are playing one another in a championship; I fly the UNC flag for all basketball events, and Brad flies the Clemson flag for all football events.
Two weeks ago, Clemson played UNC in football at Chapel Hill.  Instead of hanging our flags outside the house, we packed them up and headed up to Chapel Hill...hanging both of them proudly outside our tailgating tent!  No marital disputes broke out and everyone was happy!

Here are some pictures from our wonderful weekend with UNC/Clemson friends up in Chapel Hill:

How many Clemson boys does it take to put up a
tailgating tent?

A Carolina girl married a Clemson boy...
"For Better or for Worse"

Me and Laura with Ramses

Me and Laura kissing Ramses..woo-hoo!

Stephanie, Me, Katie

The Old Well

Abigail, Lisa, Laura

Touchdown!!!


Carolina Won!  21 to 16!
And he still loves me after losing ;)