Colorado Springs
At the end of April I went to Colorado Springs to present at the Paralympic Leadership Conference. My topic was event planning-lessons learned. I had an excellent title: Where's my golf cart? Event Planning-Lessons Learned. This resulted in me presenting in front of a room full of people curious to know what the heck happened with the golf cart! I hope everyone enjoyed it and took away a few tips and tricks. I had a blast at this conference and made some new friends. The night Bin Laden was killed we were sitting in the hotel bar and we witnessed some of our fellow military conference attendees celebrating decked out in the red, white, and blue. It was a pretty memorable night and one I won't soon forget. The rest of the conference was wonderful as usual and too much fun!
The UCO Endeavor Games
For those of you that know me, know that this is my super busy time of the year at work. We are just a few weeks away from the 12th annual Endeavor Games. This is my 5th year being involved and 3rd year to coordinate these games. This is the first time in all that time that we have several new people working for us and I can't say things like "we are doing it like last year...". They have no idea what that means!!! So I am a bit nervous about how all of this will work out. It's always a little comical to see how newbies react to the circus that is the UCO Endeavor Games. No one really understands the amount of work that is going to take place that week until they experience it first hand. Hehe (insert evil laugh). The faint of heart won't make it, but those who do, fall in love with the event and look forward to it each year! :) We still need a ton of volunteers and I know you, my fellow readers, would love to volunteer! Just visit www.ucoendeavorgames.com to register or contact me and I will get you hooked up! For those that don't know the UCO Endeavor Games is for athletes with physical disabilities. We have athletes from all across the U.S. and internationally come out each year to compete! We also have a large population of military athletes that have been recently wounded that come and compete as well! If you haven't liked us on Facebook you should! Click Here!
Birthday/Graduation Extravaganza
All with within a week, I had a birthday, Veronica had a birthday, Veronica graduated from high school, and Kaytie graduated with her MBA! My birthday was wonderful. TJ really tried to make it super special! He sent me flowers, got me a Kindle gift card, a Bed, Bath, and Beyond gift card, and he bought me my photo book! We went out to dinner and then went to Pinkitzel, the best cupcake and candy place in OKC! :) It was fabulous! Veronica came over to the house on her birthday and we had cake and a mini celebration with her. Then the following weekend it was a graduation marathon! Veronica graduated at the Cox Convention Center from Edmond North. Sam and Bobbi came into town. Todd, Andrea, and Jamila came to her graduation as well! I love the Pemberton side of the family and I love when we can all be in the same place! After the ceremony we all went to lunch. We got Veronica a laptop for school as a birthday/graduation present. I think she liked it. It was a very nice lunch celebration.
Once we were finished, Veronica went to celebrate with her mom's side of the family and TJ and I headed to the house where we were hosting Kaytie's graduation party. We get home and get it all together and just barely get it done before everyone starts to arrive. Kaytie's boyfriend's family came, my mom's family was there, plus my dad and Jacob it was a full house! Everyone finally left a little after nine. Needless to say we were exhausted, but it was really fun to get to see ALL of our family in one day!
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| I will have more pics of Kaytie's day when my dad sends them to me! My camera died! :( |
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| 18 years old! :) |
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| Happy Birthday to me! |
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| The graduate pretty in blue! :) |
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| Love my family! |
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| Just the beginning! |
5K/Keeping the weight off
So in case you haven't been following the theme of the past month has included LOTS of food as you can probably imagine! We have been celebrating left and right! So keeping up with Weight Watchers has been really tough. Not only are we celebrating, but I like to eat when I am stressed so between work and the month of May it will be a miracle if I come out of it all breaking even on the scale! I am not giving up. I made a promise to myself and I intend to keep it! Plus, I have come to far to ruin it all now! So wish me luck and when June 14th comes around, (the Tuesday after Endeavor which means a WW meeting) and I haven't gained any weight, I will celebrate in a non-food way! :)
Well I am sure I have missed something, but I hope you feel caught up in the happenings of Leigha. On a side note I am obsessed with this song:
It represents how I am feeling a this moment in time! This could really be a good life, a good, good life! Oh and I like to dance to this in the car, so if you see me just ignore it and keep driving! LOL! :)
Until next time world...
