Healing Hearts Memory Walk

Each year 1 million babies die during pregnancy, at or shortly after birth, very often from unexplained causes. In 1988 former President Ronald Reagan declared October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. The Walk to Remember offers us an opportunity, as individuals and as a community, to help promote awareness, and to honor the memories of the sweet babies we have lost. "Let us walk for the steps they'll never take."

Read more: http://www.llost.org/Services/Community/WalkToRemember/Walk.html

This was the 2nd Healing Hearts Memory Walk. Last year, Nathan and I released 3 white balloons to symbolize my angel babies and this year I released 3 green balloons.

This year they passed out lapel pins to everyone. Which is......The LLOST’s Grieving: Handle with Care Campaign was created to support families and friends who have lost a loved one, as well as the people surrounding those who are grieving.

Thank you Ashley, Kristen, Linda, Steffany and my station for coming out and supporting me on this on a subject that no one talks about.

Virginia State Fair....

The Virginia State fair is at a new location this year. It's at Meadows event park next to Kings Dominion in Caroline county. They have tons of room there. Jessica, asked me to go along with her to the fair today. She was competing in a celebrity cook-off with her morning show partner, Geoff. I said yes!! Sharon also decided to come along with us. Sharon picked me up this morning and we came to the station, then Jessica drove us to the fair.

There were 3 teams. Jessica and Geoff, then a guy and gal from Radio one, and then a girl team. One of who writes cook books and the other a pastry chef. Totally not fair but whatever. :) Each team had a skillet at their station and a basket of food. They had 25 min. to make whatever from the basket. Jess sorted thru the basket and Geoff grabbed spices and knives.

The food consisted of rice, peppers, onion, apple, payday candy bar, chicken, potato, bottle of water, and green beans.

Jess and Geoff got 2nd place!!!!!!!!!! Woo-hoo!!!!!!!!! Of course, the winners were the cook book writer and pastry chef but the cook book writer did cut her finger while she was cutting an apple. :)


Here is the plate of food Jess and Geoff made. It was good!! :)

Jess showing off the skillet and how messy it looked.

After the competition we walked around the fair. Here's a picture of some turkey legs.



Sheepies!!!!!!!! Jess and I are obsessed with Sheepies. So, we spent a lot of time looking at them. Some of them are wearing blankets to keep them clean for their show competitions.


How cute is he?

This little guy is a messy eater. We found a station set up with wool all over it from some of the sheep being sheared. We also found some free samples of sheepy fur. I took some for my sheepy room. :)
The largest pumpkin was 1,057 pounds. It's the one on the left. Look at all those huge pumpkins!!! How can they get them to grow that big? Miracle Grow?

Little duckies!! :)

Little baby piggy sleepin. He had 11 little brothers and sisters. All of them woke up and started feeding while we were there. He was the last one to get up. It was soooo cute! :)


There were lots of quilts! This one quilt I thought was very unusual. They used boxes from girl scout cookies. How cool is that??

Funnel cake sign!

So.......Before we went into the competition we walked around for a few min. Sharon got a lemonade, and I got a Grape Hawaiian Shaved ice. We came to this cinnamon roll stand and gazed at them. They looked soooooo good. The vendor took a piece off and gave it to Jess. She was like OMG!! :) So as we went to walk away the vendor said "hold on" He got a box, put a roll in it, put extra icing on it and gave us 3 forks. Then Jess told him who we were and that she would talk about him on the radio tomorrow morning. We all ate the cinnamon roll. OMG, it was the best one I've ever had. It was delicious!! :)

Such a fun day!! :)

Cathing up...

Today I met some old WT friends (Tricia and Toni) for lunch. We were to meet at 12:45 at Bangkok Cafe in downtown. I parked my car in the free parking lot and walked up William street. As I'm walking up I see 4 ladies in scrubs walking ahead of me. They stopped and turned and yelled "Bonnie, is that you"? I was like wait a minute, I know those girls. It was Luchie, Karen, Myra and Hannah. All old co-workers from WT Rehab. Then Tricia (one of the ladies I was meeting) came out of her van. And everyone was surprised. It was just a coincidence that the other WT girls were there. They are all PT's and were having a PT meeting. I asked them where they were headed and they were headed at the same place. It was awesome. We all headed in and got a big table. Toni finally got there. We ordered our drinks and lunch and chit chatted non-stop. It was great seeing everyone and catching up with one another. Toni is going on a cruise next month and I can't wait to hear all about it when she gets back. Toni, Trish and me are all meeting for lunch again on November 2nd. I'm thinking Mimi's Cafe. :)

Oh so some of you are probably wondering what I ate at a Thai place. Well I played it safe and got Chicken fried rice with no spice. It was really good. I loved it and would totally get it again. Tricia and Toni got Pad Thai. I thought about getting that but didn't want to chance it. It seemed to have been the popular dish b/c it's what most of the girls got. :)

hmmmm

I miss my Lathering cleanser....I'm out and can't find it. So, my mission is to find my face wash.

Sunday Road trip....

Today, I picked up Ashley and we went to Kristen's. Kristen made pancakes, I made scrambled eggs and Ashley made the bacon. Then we ate breakfast. Afterwards, we went on a road trip to Farmville. Too bad everything was closed. And there really isn't anything there. The town is very small. We drove through the town and through Longwood University. We saw where the party was at last night. Some random frat house that had lots of cars still out front as well as beer bottles and beer cans. It was pretty trashy. After that we went looking for anything that was open. Nothing!! We did come upon two antique shops. We looked around but nothing that we had to have so we left empty handed. Then I searched the GPS for anything we could go and see. We ended up back in Richmond, to the Tuckahoe Plantation. It was a cute plantation right on the James River. :)

Greetings....

This little guy greeted me on my front door the other day. I thought it was awesome and grabbed the camera. This was one of my better shots. Of course, Harley came over and put his paw on the door and the little guy disappeared.

I just looked up praying mantises online and learn a little more about them.

My favorite part.....(in red) (wiki)
"The female may start feeding by biting off the male’s head (as with any prey), and if mating had begun, the male’s movements may become even more vigorous in its delivery of sperms." How nice. You go girl! You bite that head off. LOL "The male engages the female in courtship dance, to change her interest from feeding to mating." And of course the males are always trying to sweet talk the females just like humans. :)

Some more interesting facts.....
"Larger species have been known to prey on small lizards, frogs, birds, snakes, and even rodents, basically anything that it can successfully capture and devour. Most species are known to engage in cannibalism". That's crazy!! I thought they liked grass and plants.

Movies....

Tonight, I went to the movies with Sharon. We saw 'Fame'.

"This movie is based upon the 1980 film which follows NYC talent attending the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, (Known today as Fiorello H. Laguardia H.S.) students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. In 1936, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia founded the High School of Music & Art in order to provide a facility where the most gifted and talented public school students of New York City could pursue their talents in art or music, while also completing a full academic program of instruction. In 1948, the School of Performing Arts was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama." (imdb)

We both liked it! We weren't expecting a lot from the movie but overall it was cute. We think it might have been better if they'd focused on a couple of characters instead of like 10 people. And maybe give some more details into the characters storyline. :)

Some previews before the movie were.....'NEW MOON', 'The Vampire's Assistant' and 'Whip it'. After the 'new moon' preview everyone clapped with excitement. I thought it was cool and I told Sharon she totally needs to read the books or watch the last movie. I think she's thinking about it and who knows maybe we can get her to join in on the "Vampire Craze"! Speaking of the "Vampire Craze", a new movie called 'The Vampire's Assistant' is coming out. It looked really dumb to me though. And lastly, the 'whip it' trailer looked cute. From the few commercials I've seen on TV I thought the movie looked dumb but the extended clip tonight made the movie look really cute. I want to see it. Hmmm....a girl's night in the future? :)

Too cute....