MEGAN'S RACE DAY!

This isn't wedding related, but I wanted to share it anyway. Yesterday Megan ran the Nike Women's Marathon on behalf of Team in Training to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in San Francisco. I know a lot of you donated to her run to show support, and she did amazing.

Here she approaching the finish line, still full of smiles.

Then she blew by like a flash.

I'm proud of her for doing such and awesome job of running her 13.1 miles and sticking to the training these last few months. I confess that she did skip a day because I prodded her to join me for drinks, so that was my fault. Other than that, she didn't miss a day. (Oh, besides when she was sick. Oops!)

I don't how she was so chipper after waking up at 5AM to get to Union Square and run for almost 4 hours, but she was. That's what makes Megan the best - always so damn chipper!

On the walk back to the car we did notice something a bit odd about her race day running gear --


She had somehow managed to put on two different shoes.

Oh, Megan.

- Chris

CAKE!

Last week we hosted our very own wedding cake tasting shindig.

Megan brought some pictures of cakes she liked that she found online to show our cake lady, Laurie.
And Laurie brought along this lil' guy, a cake. I forgot the specifics on it. White cake with a lemon custard and raspberry preserves?

It had a thin layer of fondant that was sprayed with orange zest. I think. I didn't take notes, just photos.

But I'm pretty sure it was a hit with ladies, especially since that cake will be one of our tiers.

After the main cake we moved onto a variety of other flavors. German chocolate, fudge, white, spice, and swirl.


And a whole mess of toppings to choose from. In the end, we chose three different combinations for our cake. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be a surprise. Is it? I'll check with Megan on that one.

After a bit of discussion, Laurie did some drawing --


And came up with this --

So our cake should look roughly something that. Square cake, round cake, repeat until you reach the top.

To end the evening we made our cake, the best kind of them all --

One with sausage, peppers, and cheese.

Thanks ladies for coming over to help with the cake tasting!

- Chris