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Holiday Cheer is best served with Friends! December 5, 2010

Filed under: Christmas,Food,Friends,Happy — Kelocity @ 3:12 pm
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Last night, Erika and Timmy hosted a Holiday Party to celebrate the Holidays. They really went all out preparing the food for the party.

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The highlight was her Calzones! She made the bread from scratch! Delicous!
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It was such a great night. They have some great friends and we really enjoyed the conversation.
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Muggles was brave all night and hung out with everyone. (Good job, Muggles!)
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And little Abby made an appearance too! She was so cute!
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After spending an hour trying to figure out how to work the controllers, we played a few fun games of Trivia with everyone!
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Then it was time for the Yankee Swap! (Apparantly they don’t call it that out here! Maybe it’s an east coast thing?)
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They were all awesome gifts! I had the second number…
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And I got a sweet game of Travel Scattegories! (Thankfully no one stole from me, because I was pretty excited about this!)
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It was a great night, we had so much fun! Thanks for having us over!

 

It’s Snowing in Los Angeles! December 4, 2010

Filed under: Christmas,Food,Friends,Hollywood Events — Kelocity @ 8:57 am
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Yes, indeed, it was snowing in Los Angeles tonight!
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Even if it was fake snow blowing from the roof of a building, that still counts, right?
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Tonight was the neighborhood Holiday Open House where all the stores and restaurants offer free samples and discounts. It’s so fun!

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This year, Erika and Timmy came with us, so it was even more fun!
(Check out the “snow” in my hair!)
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We pretty much went on the ‘Soup Tour’ up and down the street! We had vegetable soup, stew, tomato soup, squash soup! And lots of zucchini bread, hot cocoa and cookies in between.
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As we were walking, we saw James Marsden walk by with his family!! We totally did a double take and spun around for another look. I used to love him on Second Noah! Remember that show?

And right before that, we saw George Barris! (I realize he’s not a household name, but in my house, he totally was!) He’s my dad’s car building role model!
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He built so many famous cars from the movies.

Then our friend Erica came by and we chatted by the Christmas tree until after midnight! So nice to be surrounded by great friends in a great city. I love this town.

 

CNN Heroes November 21, 2010

Filed under: Friends,Hollywood Events — Kelocity @ 11:08 am
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Last night was the taping of ‘CNN Heroes’. It’s a show about real life heroes that will air on Thanksgiving on CNN.

We got tickets to the event, and it was a great excuse to get dressed up for a night on the town!

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It was a true Hollywood event, with a red carpet and a photo wall!
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We were SO excited that Erika and Timmy came with us too!
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It was hosted by Anderson Cooper!
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Right at the beginning of the show, all 33 Chilean Miners and their 5 rescuers came out on stage!
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Jon Bon Jovi played a song in the show too! (So did Sugarland and John Legend)
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All of the nominees for CNN’s Hero of the Year are so deserving and amazing.
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After the show, we got to go the After Party. They had amazing food and an open bar.

But the highlight… Meeting the Chilean Miners!
This guy was so excited to be in Los Angeles. He was impressed by how long the roads are here. ha!
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What an amazing night of inspiring people.

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Fun nights with Friends! November 20, 2010

Filed under: Friends,Happy — Kelocity @ 11:29 am
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The past couple of nights have been filled with friends and laughter. I’m so thankful I have such great friends so close by.

Thursday night, Erika came over and we played a game of Life!
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Erika did a fabulous job of playing ‘banker’. haha

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Ultimately, I won, but she did end up with a sweet tree house at the end. (Have you played this new ‘Extreme Life’? It’s pretty funny).

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HOUSE PARTY

Last night, I hosted my second ‘House Party’ event. The first one was for Febreze back in the summer.

This time, the party was provided by Jolee Jewelry!
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They sent me a bunch of gift bags to giveaway to friends!
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They even sent me all the tools we needed to put everything together!
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I turned the event into a dinner party for the girls.
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And then the jewelry making began!
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Each person got to make a beaded bracelet.
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It was supposed to be a girls only event, but we did have one party crasher!
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Hudson agreed that the bracelets were beautiful!
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What a fun night, thanks for coming over, girls!!

PS.. Don’t forget to enter the contest!!! We’ll pick a random winner and will be sending them a prize!

 

I Run to Be… October 19, 2010

Filed under: Food,Happy,Marathons,Races,Running — Kelocity @ 7:15 am
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This weekend I flew up to San Francisco to run the Nike Women’s (Half) Marathon for the SIXTH time!! Here was where I ran my first Marathon back in 2005, so it will always hold a special place in my heart. Since then, I ran the half five years in a row. It was an excellent race!

Backing up to Saturday… the expo!

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My flight landed at 7:30a so I got there really early before the lines formed.

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I wizzed through the bag pickup, got a free massage and collected all the goodies before the crowds even got there.
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The bag check bags were awesome this year! The race is “going green” so it was a sweet magenta reusable bag!
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I loved the POM photobooth this year! Cheeeese!
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The theme at the race this year was “I Run To Be”
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I Run To Be:
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I Run To Be…ME!
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And yes, I totally wore my Boston Marathon gear all over the place on Saturday. Woot!

I headed over to Niketown after the expo to look at all the (overpriced) swag. I didn’t buy anything this year, my collection of running clothing is getting a tad bit out of hand as it is. 🙂
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On the wall outside the store, they have everyone’s names posted. I found mine!
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All six? floors of the store were decked out in marathon gear! (But I used self control and walked out).
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Who’s excited to run?!
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After I fully exhausted the expo, I met up with my friend Niki and we went off to explore San Francisco together!
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Lovely sights of the city
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We headed towards the Ferry Building to look around.

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Such a cute place inside. I hadn’t been in a few years.
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Later, we relaxed in the hotel that Niki (graciously) offered to share the night before the race.
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Then it was time to find a place to carbo load! We ended up at Olive, which ended up being a nice surprise. It was a really nice restaurant. It was a bar, but we stuck to water!
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Since the name of the place was olive, we got a bunch to share.
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And a few tempura battered ones too (for good measure).
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We split two of their thin crust pizzas (which were AH-MAZING).
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Now… it’s race time! Check back later for the official race recap!