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A Surprise Birthday Beach Picnic!! June 14, 2010

Filed under: Friends,Los Angeles — Kelocity @ 8:58 pm
Tags: Beach, Birthday, Friends, Frisbee, Santa Monica

Irving’s birthday is on Tuesday, but I surprised him last night for a Birthday Picnic at the beach! Erika, Timmy and I surprised him with balloons when he got out of work.

We headed down to the Santa Monica pier.

Happy Birthday, Irving!

We had quite the picnic!!!

Irving really enjoyed it!

MMmm Cherries!!!

But the star of the picnic was, of course, the COOKIES!

I mean, LOOK at this!

We were totally entertained my the birds that kept trying to eat the trash. Poor things.

They were really funny to watch though. We felt bad for them. haha

Then we played frisbee for over an hour. What a workout!
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Fun Fact about Irving: He is a righty and does everything with his right hand except throw a Frisbee!

I also had some fun playing with my camera:

And my favorite:

What a fun spontaneous night!

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We didn’t get any sunsets (it was super cloudy), but we had a great time!
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Happy Birthday, darling!
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PS… Erika has some pics on her blog too! Check them out!

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Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Filed under: Food — Kelocity @ 8:40 pm
Tags: Baking, Cookies, Peanut Butter Kisses

I had a total craving for some cookies that reminded me of being a kid. I finally found a recipe online for some Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies that was really, really good!

The dough was really hard to mix and it wasn’t blending well at first.

So I ended up just using my hands to mix it all together.

My favorite part was rolling the balls in sugar! (Don’t they look like Munchkins)?

All lined up and ready to be baked!

When they came out, I added the Hershey’s Kisses…..But not just any Hershey’s Kisses….. CARAMEL ones!!!!

Ok… I lied up above… my favorite part was actually putting the Kisses into the cookies!

It felt like I was squishing the cookies too much, so I started inserting them upside down!

BRILLIANT!

OMG these were SOOOOOO good!!!!

The jury called these cookies “devine” and “yummalicious”.

I definitely have to make these again ASAP!

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Sunday Funday Hike! June 13, 2010

Filed under: Friends,Running — Kelocity @ 11:23 am
Tags: Ashley, bananagrams, Dogs, hike

This morning, JR, Timmy and Erika and I got up really early to go for a hike. It’s nice to go really early before the sun burns off the fog layer and it gets too hot.

It was gorgeous!

It was Abby and Muggles’ first time meeting each other.

I think they really hit it off. haha

We hiked to the Nike Tower, which was an old military missile control site during the cold war!

It’s so high up, they can see almost all of LA from there.

The old guard shack:

We climbed to the top of the tower and JR watched the pups!

It was a gorgeous hike though.

Where’s Erika?

In 2 Hours and 15 minutes, we did 6.25 miles!

Good job Abby!

PS…. yesterday, Ashley and I played a few great games of Bananagrams. lol

So far, a great weekend!

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An evening jog… June 12, 2010

Filed under: 20 before 30,Run DFMC,Running — Kelocity @ 9:01 pm
Tags: 20 before 30, Boston Marathon, Running

I just got done with a 2.5 mile jog around my neighborhood. I love that hour of twilight between 7 and 8pm when the sun is setting and all the neighbors come out to play. I felt like everyone was out tonight. Kids were riding their bikes, parents were laughing and sprinklers were watering suburban lawns. It just reminds me of home, it’s so nice. I just took my time and really enjoyed everything that the summer evening had to offer.

Then I started thinking that I should set some kind of long term goal for myself. I’ve run 11 long distance marathons over the past 6 years (8 half-marathons and 3 full-marathons).

Then this brilliant idea was born:

The 20 Before 30!

I think I would love to do 20 endurance races before I turn 30. That gives me just over 3 years to complete 9 more. I plan to do two more half marathons in the fall… so then I’ll have 7 more to do in the next 2.5 years. Do you think I can do it?

PS… I finally bought my Boston Marathon photos…. It was totally worth it (I found a coupon for 30% off, SCORE!)

Here’s a few teasers!
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The Kelocity Roundup

Filed under: Food,Friends,Home — Kelocity @ 12:26 pm
Tags: Dunkin Donuts, Home, House of Pies, Running

Nothing too life-changing has been going on. Just a bunch of random, everyday adventures. In no particular order…

Beauty on a walk
Irving and I went on a few great walks this week, but one day, we saw these amazing flowers in someone’s yard. They look like they’re from outer-space! Does anyone know what these are called??
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A Sad Day…
We are sad to report that we finished the jar of Nutella.
We had banana, peanut butter & nutella sandwiches for dessert one night.. MMMmm.

We have to get another one ASAP!

Running!
Erika & I went on a great 3.9 mile run on Friday. (I’ll spare you the sweaty picture.)

But post run… I had the most glorious cold shower. YAY!
Then had some fresh strawberries.

I ❤ when strawberries are in season. It’s such a nice treat.

Art on the Wall!
We are very excited to announce that after four years of living in our condo, we have pictures on our wall!
And not just any pictures… real nice ones!

Irving worked really hard to make a photo collage on the wall.

It came out awesome!

A view from down the hall:

We plan to add two vertical frames on the upper right and lower left in the future.
(Seeing the frames on the wall, we realized it’s a lot of white, so we’re contemplating painting this wall green to make the pictures pop more. What do you think?)

We printed some pictures from our photographer, including this one (my fave):

I still have to get a frame for that one though.

Blogger Giveaway!
I won my first “blogger” giveaway this week! I was really, really excited about it.
Peanut Butter Fingers sent me a coupon for free Monterey Pasta! I’m very excited. Thanks!!

House of Pies
Last night, Ash & JR, Erika & Timmy, and us went to the House of Pies again!

It was fun conversation and really good coconut cream pie!

A Taste of Home
This morning, I woke up to a great cup of Iced Coffee from Dunkin Donuts. It really did (almost) taste like the real thing. Mmmm!

Isn’t my life exciting?

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