Happy 2014!

Ringing in the New Year this year was almost identical to last years celebration. We of course, all spent it in Kentucky at Dolphie's! It was busy, but not too busy this year, which meant we had a lot of singing time..

Celebrating with the bestie!

So glad I rang in the past few New Years with these folks!

Metcalf even sang "The Cowboy Rides Away" for us! 

I keep seeing everyone posting about resolutions, and I so hate making a resolution. Mainly because I usually know I won't keep up with it. I suppose my resolution actually this year could be continuing training for my marathon....because I have no choice but to train for it! 

The bestie & I DID, however, make a concert list for this year - artists we want to see - some we've seen 1091202121 times, some we've never seen, so my goal is to make this year even bigger on the concert front than last year. That's a hard feat - we sure hit a lot of great concerts & saw some serious legends. At the top of our list this year:

George Strait - which happens in March!

PL -duh!

Charley Pride

Alan Jackson

Ronnie Milsap

Loretta 

Merle  - which will most likely happen once again on Labor Day weekend, where we'll see him with Loretta again!

Gene Watson

Keith Urban

Emmylou Harris

Steve Wariner

Dolly Parton - we see her in May! I haven't seen a full show of hers since I got to meet her in Chicago! 

Joe Nichols

And I have no doubt we'll hit a gig for every single one of them. 

Disney Princess 1/2 Marathon

It's no secret I'm a Disney nerd. My inner 8 year old still love love loves Ariel, Snow White -- and every other Disney Princess (and villain, who the hell doesn't love Ursula, The Evil Queen or Maleficent!?) you can think of. Hence why the twin cousin & I visit Disney whenever we can. I think we had more fun as adults at Disney than I ever had in the times I went as a child!

Anyway, in booking our next Disney trip (Thanksgiving 2014!), I spotted the Disney Princess 1/2 Marathon. Apparently this happens every February, and it immediately piqued my interest. I started looking up some blogs & some images on pinterest. And once I saw ladies dress the part for the marathon....I was pretty sold. I immediately started jotting ideas for costumes. Torn between Ariel & Snow White, my two favorites, I decided to go with Snow --- seemed like an easier one to come up with. (Somehow the tank tops with the Ariel seashells on the boobs just didn't cry out to me!)

I spotted this on pinterest and pretty much died. This is the greatest Snow runner shirt I've seen so far. I'm big on the whole collar thing. It's just not a legit Snow costume without the collar! 

I'm not actually doing it until 2015. I kind of missed the cut off for the 2014 one since I really didn't know about it. This DOES give me time to train for the marathon though! 

I started looking up some of the rules for the race & what pace we had to keep up with in order to stay in, etc. I started running slightly a year or so ago, but had to cut back when the knee started flaring back up.  I've already been to my Orthopedic Surgeon & gotten the "Go For It!" so, here I begin! I can't think of anything better to motivate me back into running than the 1/2 Marathon. Maybe this was the motivation I needed. I've never been an athlete, or played sports....but I WILL be a runner, and I WILL finish this marathon!

Oh, and there are character stops to get pictures with different Princesses/Princes & Villains? Seriously, sign me up! I have no shame in being a 30 year old Disney nerd!