A Wedding, Football in a Hurricane and a Birthday Weekend

October

October started with something that we seldom get to do, go to a wedding during football season, but after months of weekends full of football practices and games, the first off weekend we hopping in the car with Tom & Derley and headed to Virginia Beach to celebrate Sophie & Brad's wedding in Virginia Beach.

It was such a beautiful wedding and it was great to see her even for a minute and catch up with other former and current HokieVision students during the wedding.

The trip was super quick as Tom & Jed had to be back at work on Sunday but it was worth the trip and was an honor to be invited.

We all quickly jumped back into football season, the next weekend heading to our first ACC road game in Chapel Hill. I decided to make the trip down just for the day. I thought it would be fun to go cheer on the Hokies but little did I know what  I was really getting into. UNC decided to still host the game despite the hurricane that was coming through the area!

Boy was that a memorable game! With crazy wind and rain it was difficult to take many pictures but I had to take a few.

The best part was the final score 34-3 HOKIES! It was absolutely worth the trip.

That Sunday, Jed and I took advantage of a few hours off and hit the road to see if we could catch the changing leaves of fall. The leaves weren't great but the random adventure that landed us in Abingdon watching a Something Wicked This Way Comes at the Barter Theatre was a great quick get away.

After a sad let down game the following weekend in Syracuse, the Hokies were back for the beloved Thursday night football game. It was time to show the new football staff what Lane Stadium can be. We had a ton of people make the trip to Blacksburg for the game.

Lane Stadium and our Hokie football team did not disappoint. It was a spectacular display both by fans and team to bring home another Hokies victory, 37-16 again the Miami Hurricanes.

Later that weekend, we headed south again to celebrate more Castro birthdays. We met up in Asheville, NC at Biscuit Heads before finding a fall festival area.

We found Steeps Hillcrest Orchard, this place was so fun. We spent the day playing in hay and picking buckets of apples. It was really starting to look and feel like fall.

Birthday Celebration & Football

October 22 - 25th

This weekend we invited as many friends and family to celebrate Jed's birthday. Since Jed's actual birthday was on a Thursday the celebrating started pretty early in the week. For a while, Jed had talked about wanting a birthday party in the glass room in the movie theatre. For a while it was so funny to laugh about it but after a while, I realized that it would be awesome to surprise him with a little kid birthday party in the movie theatre glass room. But that part of the birthday will come later.

Jed started his morning with a huge surprise when we walked into his office. A bunch of people from work thought it would be hilarious to aluminum foil his office!

Jed's next surprise, we had a group of friends over to the house for pizza from Giordano's before we headed to the movie threatre. He was so surprised and it was so much fun!

After celebrating in the glass party room, we hopped into the movie theatre and watched The Martian.

It was a great way to celebrate Jed's birthday and we were excited to continue the celebrating as friends and family started to arrive in town on Friday evening.

Everyone got here by the time we were out tailgating on Saturday afternoon. The tailgate was a great time for everyone to hang out and catch up. It was so great to see everyone and just hang out.

The game was great and very stressful. We still can't believe we lost the game 43-45 in 4 overtimes! What a crazy game.

On Sunday, we had one last party for everyone to celebrate Jed's birthday since he spent most of his day yesterday working and didn't get a chance to hangout with friends and family.

 It was such a great day. We couldn't have asked for a warmer, prettier day. We all had a great time running around the park and stuffing our faces with pizza, cake and candy from the pinata!

After celebrating Jed's birthday for the last 4 days, it was time to change focus as everyone headed home and we headed to a wedding renewal service. It was such an honor to be a part of this service and it was a great way to end the weekend.

Congratulations Robyn & DR!