Beer for Us, Water for People

Apart from our running, engineering societies, rock climbing, hiking, etc, Ed and I enjoy supporting our "charity of choice" Water for People. Water for People is an organization that assists people in developing countries improve quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities and health and hygiene education programs.

Around the world, 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.5 billion are without adequate sanitation facilities. Every day, nearly 6,000 people who share our planet die from water-related illnesses, and the vast majority are children.

Their vision is a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation; a world where no one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease.

In order to support this great cause, we hold various fundraisers around the Houston area. The funds collected go toward the materials needed to build these much needed facilities, which are built by the community (supervised by Water For People volunteers).

One of our most successful events is our "Beer for Us, Water for People" event at Saint Arnold's Brewery! This is our 4th year having the event and it's been a great time and a great success every year! We are really thankful for everyone who came out - especially our great friends who seem to support us no matter what!!! Thank you so much!!!! Below are some pics of the event.

Ed and I happy that everyone is having a great time!

Our awesome NASA friends!

Great sponsors!!! Look at how many awesome companies want to support us!!! Amazing!

Erin and Archana working the check-in table while someone signs in - great job!

Erin with the raffle winner, Christi, who won the FREE TANDEM SKYDIVE raffle prize!!!!

Anniversary Weekend

Ed and I got to celebrate our 1-year anniversary a week early with great friends at our wedding site! We went camping with Christina, Paul, Brett and Lisa at North Park t Canyon Lake. We had cake and bratwurst (including veggie bratwurst) and lots of wine! It was a little cool, so we made a fire and really had a blast! On our actual anniversary, November 15, we had our 1-year old cake, which was delicious, and enjoyed an easy 8 mile run (to run OFF the cake!).

Happy to be back here!

Me and the Matron of Honor!

1-year and still in love!

Cactus Rose - Ultramarathon!

While everyone else was dressing up and putting out candy for Halloween, Ed and I were accompanying Kira Matukaitis to the Cactus Rose 100 mile Ultramarathon! We crewed and paced her and had a ton of fun! Ed and I realized that we have a lot to learn about crewing ultras, but we really did have a blast and met a ton of cool people!

Me and Kira before the race - it was FREEZING!

Look at all these crazy people!!! :)

Kira coming up on mile 20 - almost a quarter of the way through!

Lots of fun!

Sorry it's been a while since our last post, but we have still been busy! My (Kristin) cousin, Shannon, and family moved to Houston this past summer and we planned a fun filled day at the park a few weeks ago. We headed to Bear Creek Park and had a picnic and got to see the "wild life" which was not very wild.

Ethan took a picture of all the girls! Great photographer!

Ethan's photography skills

After that fun on Saturday, Ed took me golfing on Sunday. We used his Redstone gift card that I got him for his birthday LAST year! I didn't actually "golf" per say, but had a ton of fun!

Nice shot!!

Ed in the golf cart...really, the golf cart is half the fun of golfing!

Posing after the 18th hole...