Hellooo October!
I know a bunch of you out there are just as pumped as I am for this festive fall month. Bring on the cooler weather (if you don’t live in Florida), the changing leaves (if you don’t live in Florida) and the pumpkins (hallelujah, we have those)!
A quick glance at my calendar reveals that there is a lot to look forward to this month!
In chronological order:
- Ryan’s 30th birthday (This Saturday!!!)
- Terry & Janelle’s wedding in New Jersey
- Gettysburg with my family to visit my grandmothers
- Race for the Cure 5K
- Merri & Pete’s wedding in Sarasota
- Three year wedding anniversary
- Halloween
Though most of the upcoming events have been on my calendar for quite some time, the trip to Gettysburg popped up last minute and we just booked our flights last night. My grandma Mimi (the grandmother who makes the best sugar cookies in the world) is having some health concerns and my mom, dad, sister and I are planning a short visit to see her and my other grandma during this gorgeous time of year in Pennsylvania.
I was able to sneak a trip to Gettysburg in last year on the tail end of my trip to Baltimore for FitBloggin’ and am excited to return again this year. It’s a beautiful town and I’m more than ready for some quality time with my grandmothers.
But this weekend it’s off to New Jersey for a wedding! Ryan is the best man in Terry and Janelle’s wedding (on his 30th birthday!) and we’re arriving in New Brunswick early on Friday. I love traveling and I love weddings, so I am really looking forward to our time in New Jersey.
Workout
My first October workout took me to the gym at 5 a.m. for a leg workout that focused on heavier weights and drop sets. It was challenging and I have a feeling I am going to be quite sore tomorrow.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning was similar to yesterday’s morning meal but incorporated more color!
Scrambled eggs + Chicken sausage + Sweet peppers + Broccoli
Served with an apple on the side.
Now it’s off to work! Tomorrow is the launch of the Livestrong program at our gym so there’s lots to do today!
Question of the Morning
- What is one thing you’re looking forward to in October?
![\"Quantcast\"/](\"//pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-1e3-7hOJ_U8Bg.gif\")
Whew, what a busy month! Do you ever sit still?? 🙂
I am looking forward to watch my husband run the Chicago Marathon and Marine Corps Marathon and doing some traveling with him while he begins his residency interview season! PLUS the beautiful weather on October helps too!
I hope your grandmother is okay! I remember her in your wedding video-she is the cutest ever! Sending lots of positive thoughts her way, and to your family. I’m prettttttttttty jealous you’re going to be up north this weekend and actually get to experience fall for a weekend!
Thanks so much, Claire. I hope so, too! She’s had a lot of health concerns lately so it will be very good to see her.
Wow you look like you’ve got an awesome October planned. What a lot of wonderful fun things to look forward to! I’ve always loved Autumn (it’s my favorite season) so I’m really excited for all the colors and fall stuff that’s just around the corner. 🙂
My bachelorette party in Nashville this weekend and I’m getting married in 18 days! Pretty exciting month 🙂
What an awesome location!!!! You will have a blast! And congrats on your upcoming wedding, Cathryn!
Visiting my BFF from college in buffalo!
I am looking forward to the Epcot Food and Wine Festival! My husband and I are leaving the kids with Grandma and Grandpa and spending a few days at Disney alone (we are so cruel!) It’s the first time we have been away all year just the two of us and we are really excited.
It sounds like a wonderfully busy month. I also have an anniversary this month. Five years! How did that happen??? 🙂
Congratulations to you and your husband, Tiff!
I am looking forward to a pumpkin walk at night. It’s a 1 mile walk with all carved lit pumpkins in the woods!
Getting Married Oct. 26!!! I am so excited I can’t even stand it!!
AH! So excited for you!!!! Congrats to you and your husband-to-be!
Def looking forward to Halloween & our 5 year wedding Anniversary plus my families Oktoberfest. Hope your Grandma is doing well.
lol flying to New Brunswick to get to Jersey???
Flying into Newark and meeting up with the groom before driving to the hotel in New Brunswick. That’s what the bride and groom told us to do, so I hope it makes sense!!
Yes, it makes perfect sense 🙂 I think she is thinking you meant Canada…
I’m looking forward to visiting my family! 🙂
EVERYTHING PUMPKIN!!
xoMelissa
LittleBlueDress4change.blogspot.com
Sounds like a very busy month for you but a fun one at that! I hope your grandma is doing okay.
I’m looking forward to fall fun such as apple and pumpkin picking. I love fall baking. I’m also looking forward to wearing my uggs! I cannot wait to put them back on 🙂
Love October! We have our three year wedding anniversary , too and 9 years together on 10/9! My birthday is close to Halloween, and we { fingers crossed} hopefully will find out the sex of our little nugget tomorrow! I also love Halloween; more so for the candy. 😉
I would say finding out our baby’s gender is going to be the highlight of the month. Other things include maybe heading to Munich for Oktoberfest, and going to Frankenstein’s castle on Halloween night for some extra scare. (:
what a busy month! I am looking forward to a March of Dimes event tomorrow night, Greenwich food and wine festival and another March of Dimes event later in October! I just love when I have things to look forward to!
I am looking forward to marrying my best friend in just 18 days! And of course for the honeymoon. : )
October = running month for me! This weekend is Twin Cities 10 mile, 10K, and 5K in Minneapolis, Next weekend = CHICAGO MARATHON!, followed up by a marathon relay, and a Halloween half marathon. Whew!
I live in New Brunswick!!! You’ll have a great time, there’s a ton of great restaurants 🙂
Any breakfast or lunch recommendations? We have dinner covered thanks to the rehearsal dinner and wedding, but I’d love to explore the area a little bit if time permits.
Stuff Yer Face for lunch. It’s on the Rutgers University Campus. Go RU!
Old Man Rafferty’s is great for a Sunday Brunch, if you’ll still be in town by then. If not Hansel & Griddle has some fun breakfast options.
Destination Dogs is a super fun lunch spot (crazy hot dogs!!). Same with Harvest Moon Brewery, if you’d like to try some of the local beers! There’s also a Brother Jimmy’s BBQ (a chain but still delicious!).
After almost three years of reading your blog, I’ll be meeting you at Janelle and Terry’s wedding! Wild! I agree with the above…Old Man Rafferty’s for brunch or Harvest Moon Brewery for lunch. If you want an RU hot spot, Stuff Yer Face is where it’s at. Evelyn’s is a Mediterranean restaurant with the cutest outdoor patio-excellent light meal options. In our hotel, the Glass Room Tavern has the most amazing lobster mac and cheese (hopefully it will be around for our Sunday morning brunch ’cause I can’t stop thinking about it!) I can go on and on…but until then, we’ll meet on Friday!
It sounds like October is going to be a busy month for everyone!
Out in NYC for a co-workers birthday this weekend…
Then, a good friend from MN visits the following weekend…
I’m off to D.C. the following weekend to meet my best friend from MN and run a quick 5K race {through a cemetary….ahhhh!}…
And then the last weekend of October will be spent in Boston with my husband!
Best month ever 🙂
yay for coming back to Gettysburg! Hopefully the government gets its act together so you can explore the area {the shutdown closes half of Gettysburg}
Apple Picking!!! 🙂 One of the best things about fall and then of course making yummy apple treats!!
My 21st birthday is on the 16th this month! I’m so excited!
Oh man, that’s a fun one! Happy almost birthday!!
Looking forward to my first half marathon….and am excited for it to be over haha less runnning more group exercise classes which I have missed very much!! Also to do more hot yoga, its the best when it gets cool out.
what kind of boots are those you are wearing in the pic with your grandmother? im looking for some new brown ones!
I actually have a question for you. I was wondering if you would be willing to talk more about food. I am really good at working out and burning lots of calories…but I suck at eating healthy all the time. (20 minute lunches at school make it hard to have healthy choices sometimes). Can you share some insight as to how you keep track of what you’re eating. Do you count calories? Use My Fitness Pal? Or are you lucky enough that you don’t really worry much about it right now? Thanks 🙂
My grandma is going to visit in a few weeks, camping, the color run in Ventura, and I will have to hit up some oktober fests. Ooh, we can’t forget Halloween, this will be my first Halloween in my new house 😉
Whew! That’s quite a month! I’m looking forward to volunteering at the Chicago Marathon and cheering on my friends, a Hanson concert (yes, HANSON), and my birthday!!!
I’m looking forward to my birthday! And a very exciting update / surprise on my blog!
You should visit Schmucker Hall in Gettysburg. They just renovated it this Spring and its fascinating! They even have a display of things they found in the walls while doing construction!
I love October! It’s my favorite month. Hopefully I can work it out to someday be married in October. That would be the best!!!
Sounds like you have a fun, busy month ahead of you! Yay!
I’m looking forward to make it the best month ever! Sounds a little daunting, but I just want to keep my happiness up and focus on all the amazing things life has to offer. =)
Wow, sounds like you have a lot of fun events to look forward to this month! Super excited for you , you’ll have a great time.
You must take a stroll around the Rutgers campus (my alma mater) while in New Brunswick! It’s beautiful this time of year! Just head down College Ave. If you’re hunger stop by Stuff Yer Face for a boli. Mmmm… now I’m hungry!
You have quite the busy month! I am most looking forward to wearing boots 🙂 I think I’m going to break them out on Thursday!
So exciting!! I live right near new brunswick and went to college in that town, its gotten a lot nicer over the years 🙂 Is the reception at the Heldrich?
You must try hansel n griddle for breakfast, they have awesome stuff. Check out Harvest moon as a good lunch or dinner spot, plus they have great beers! Old man raffertys is pretty good too (i’m actually having my birthday dinner there next saturday, ha!) Hope you guys have a blast!
Julie, I know you will be all tied up with wedding festivities in New Brunswick, but I am from the area and if you and Ryan get some time, PLEASE make a pit stop at Old Man Rafferty’s for their dessert menu. I wish I could recommend one dessert to you, but every single item on that menu is lip-smackingly delicious! I hope you guys can stop there!
If you have a car and a spare afternoon, visit Princeton! Such a nice town with so many good restaurants, plus there’s a nice towpath by the lake for running and walking. And the university campus is gorgeous in the fall!
Yay NJ! I live in north Jersey 🙂 I’m looking forward to my friend’s wedding this weekend in Oregon and my wedding in 19 days!
It looks like Ryan and I share the same Birthday!!!! Happy Early Birthday 😉 This month I get spend a lot of quality time before my boyfriend leaves for deployment early next month. I also get to celebrate my birthday (no idea what the man has planned) , visit my best friend in New Orleans the next few days and try and celebrate Fall. I recently moved to Florida from northern California and still not use to the “no seasons” thing in Florida.
I hope you and Ryan have a spectacular month!!
I love this time of year, probably more so because my birthday is in October lol. Where are you going to be in NJ? Just curious since you’re in my neck of the woods, I live in Toms River.
I’m looking forward to my 10 mile race on the 27th!
Halloween! My Nana does a HUGE production for Halloween (she even won 2nd place national hallmark house of the year)! Bates motel, walk through Oz its amazing def my one thing to look foward to this month!
Sounds like a fun month! We have lots to look forward to as well. It’s our anniversary next week, then we have a fun 5k race the following weekend, and it’s also Hunter’s first Halloween! October is one of my favorite months, especially in Utah – it’s just beautiful!
Have fun in Gettysburg! I am getting married there next October :o)
My husbands 30th birthday is this sat too!! WOO HOO
You travel sooo much! I love to travel, I’m jealous :)!
Wow, you have a busy fun month ahead! Ryan gets a whole wedding around his birthday 😉 hehe; wishing your Granny’s health improves, and you’ve got a romantic 3 yr anniversary to plan 😉 whoohoo
We’ve just started Spring here in South Africa in September, so October is about the roses and flowers all blooming in their glory. The aroma of jasmine, hmn… and the beauty of the roses.
The one thing I’m looking forward to? It’s my birthday later this month 😉 Doesn’t matter how much older we get, it’s just a number and I feel a decade younger anyway, hee hee (turning 43). Why do I enjoy the day so much? Hearing from all and sundry, local/overseas and out of every corner 😉
Have an awesome month!