Week 4 Thanksgiving 5K

This week it was officially THREE weeks until Thanksgiving and I get to see my family! I'm super excited! You know what else that means? The Thanksgiving 5K is in three weeks too! This week wasn't so good for running...I'm blaming it on the cold weather that came through this week. I hate cold weather! (I ran 6.5 miles today though..so week 5 is off to a great start!)

Here's my not-so-many-miles week:
10-29-12: Ran 3 miles, weights 30 minutes
10-30-12: OFF
10-31-12: Ran 2 miles, elliptical 50 minutes
11-1-12: Ran 2 miles 20:00, elliptical 35 minutes
11-2-12: OFF
11-3-12: OFF

Happy Halloween...a few days late

Happy Halloween! I really should be saying Happy November! But since I never posted anything for Halloween, it's going up today. I didn't do anything on Halloween night, but I did go to a party last Saturday night at the Catholic Center. We did lots of hanging out, haunted house, voting on best costumes, dancing, and musical chairs.

Kevin and I dressed up as gangsters, since he's a huge fan of Boardwalk Empire. He was Jimmy Darmondy and I was Angela Darmondy. How do we look?!

Some other interesting costumes were: Hobos, Richard Simmons, Pillsbury Dough Boy, Peter Pan, Sheldon...just to name a few.

Here is the group photo from the night...

How was your Halloween? What was your costume?

Ice Cream Cake for a 21st Birthday

Happy Birthday to a wonderful roommate, Hannah! This weekend she turned 21. You know what that means? I needed to make her an awesome birthday cake of course! I haven't made one of my delicious ice cream cakes in FOR-EVER.                                       <-BIRTHDAY GIRL (with her crazy hair!)

Check out this easy, yummy, chocolatey, heaven-like cake...

Ingredients:

1 box brownie mix (plus ingredients to make it)

1 roll of cookie dough

1 tub of ice cream (whatever flavor floats your boat :) )

1 jar of fudge 

Directions:

Bake brownie according to the box, EXCEPT under cook it a little bit so it's still a little gooey. Make one giant cookie that will fit right on top of the brownie. Let both the brownie and cookie completely cool. Spread the jar of fudge on top of the brownie. Put the cookie on top of the fudge. The cookie may fall apart, but it will still taste good and be covered by the ice cream :). Freeze for at least an hour. Soften the ice cream and  spread on top. Put back in the freezer a little bit and then the deliciousness is ready to be served! 

Giant Cookie

Brownie

This is the fudge I used

We stuck it in our VERY crowded freezer!

We used Cookies n Cream ice cream. 

Look at those yummy layers!

Week Three 5K Thanksgiving Training

It was an awesome running week! On Friday I ran 6 miles, woo-hoo! That's the most I've run in several months. My legs were sure tired after that. Also, I reached running 100 miles since the beginning of August! I have been keeping track of my running on DailyMile since the beginning of August. It's a great website to figure out your pace and compare how much you've been running. If your into running or cycling you should check into it ;)

Here's my week:
10-21-12: REST
10-22-12: Ran 3 miles 29:30, bike 15 minutes, weights 20 minutes
10-23-12: Ran 2 miles 19:38, Elliptical 25 minutes
10-24-12: Ran 5 miles 50:00
10-25-12: Elliptical 45 minutes, weights 15 minutes
10-26-12: Ran 6 miles 60:00
10-27-12: REST

Check out my Lifetime Stats...104.35 miles (on October 26th)

Created Equal

On Friday October 19, 2012 Created Equal visited Western Kentucky University's campus. Hilltoppers for Life, the pro-life student organization that I belong to, hosted them. According to their website this is their mission...

We're a social action movement seeking to end the greatest human rights injustice of our time.   Killing preborn babies is nothing less than age-based discrimination.  Abortion robs us of our future.  Our goal is to restore the true meaning of equality to include equal protection between the born and the preborn.   

Protecting preborn children is our cause.  What makes Created Equal a movement is that we are an organized, mobilized generation choosing to live intentionally to protect the weak and defenseless by drawing strength and inspiration from one another.  

We live in a day when someone with a cell phone camera and a good idea can change the world.  Our various media make it possible for people to become part of a grassroots effort intelligently responding to injustice.  We are 21st century defenders.  There’s a place for everyone in this movement.  Join us.

What a great mission! :)

There were seven representatives that came down from Ohio that gave us training the night before and the next day is when it all began on campus. The display was placed on a high traffic area on campus from 9am to 2pm. This was the first time that the Hilltoppers for Life has done this kind of display before. This is completely different than the Cemetery of the Innocents that we put up last semester. These signs showed the harsh reality of abortion. 

Our purpose was to show WKU students what is happening in our country today- life is being ended tragically every day. People may have wondered why we decided to do it this way, why such graphic images of aborted babies? People need to see reality. These shocking images clearly show that a human life/baby is being killed. Sometimes it takes seeing to believing. Some can talk all they want about a fetus "not being a human being." Why don't you take a good look at these images, is that not a child?! Take this analogy: Harsh images such as those who died in the Holocaust, a drunk driver victim, or extreme acts of violence show the reality. Without these images, then how are you going to understand the truth. 

I believe that we instigated the students and faculty of WKU to think. Is this really what happens when a child is aborted? Yes. Some may think that this display may have offended, but come on now, offensiveness can be seen all the time (not just women and political things). 

We wanted to spark conversation with students and that's just what we did. There were several debating their beliefs. We had men and women come and talk to us. There were a few women that looked at our displays, crying or extremely angry (most likely they have had a close experience with abortion). It was quite interesting to listen to the opinions of others. 

I'm thankful that Created Equal was able to come to our campus to spread the pro-life movement on campus. I believe that abortion will be ended in my lifetime, YOU JUST WAIT!  

Here is an article published by the school newspaper: WKU Herald

Pictures from the day....

John Sohl (President of HFL) being interviewed for the school newspaper

Lots of discussions...

Debating and conversing

One of the signs

One of the Created Equal reps consoling a woman

A student crying- she was very angry. 

Support for Women