This Weekend

We...

Were here... For their...Telluride Wedding.

And let me tell you, what an amazing wedding it was. Thank you Meghan and Aaron for such an awesome weekend - Congrats to you both!

Weekend Pictures

This past weekend was very full - 1 Rockie's game for work, 1 amazing mom's birthday, 1 rugby game to support my friend Lindsay's hard work coordinating the Churchill Cup, 2 Father's Day celebrations and some time out in the sun with my two favorite buddies. Here are a few pictures:

Swap Pictures

Thanks to Melanie, here are a few pictures from the swap we did...

Her items included a fun wine cork, a picture frame, a pedicure set, an adorable polka-dotted make-up bag / pencil case, Burt's Bee's chapstick, an Ocean scented candle, a cute magnetic list pad, a decoupaged 'flip-flop' box and my FAVORITE - elephant print cocktail napkins from Ikea. Thanks Melanie!

And my items...

Hope you all are having a nice weekend. Today, I am off to have a day with my mom and then we are headed to the Kampsnider's for Dave's birthday. I swear with 5 kids, 2 parents, 3 in-laws, and a bundle of kids, we're always blowing out candles over there :)

kind of excited

Let me tell you why...

A) It's Friday! For me, this means flavored creamer in my morning coffee, wearing my favorite jeans/flats/gray cardigan at work, a day off from running, happy hour sushi with a handsome man, a second glass of wine and a bedtime that is later than 9:30. I know, pretty crazy...

B) It's May. I finally get to flip my month by month desk calender from 'April' to 'May'. I have 5 valid excuses to eat Birthday cake this month and plan to use them all. I will run 6.2 miles in the Boulder Boulder. And, I get my dose of Lisa Rupp's monthly calendar download below. You can download for free by visiting her site. Stummped on how to use them? Click here for ideas.

C) It's Derby time! And while I'm not exactly sure what this even means, I have gathered from our 'Kentucky Derby Party!' invitation that the day will include:

Mint Juleps - I have researched and have come up with the conclusion that a Mint Julep = a Southern and more reee-fhhiined version of my go-to summer cocktail, the Mojito. Perfection.

"...The two most exciting minutes in sports" - 2 minutes, that's all?! What a concept. No belabored quarters, B-lister half-time acts or wasting away on the couch, drinking beer and morphing into "one of the guys" for an afternoon.

Hats! - Any excuse to go thrifting and find an obnoxious, fancy and feathery piece of fashion sounds like fun to me. On Saturday, you may find me in a version of the following:

On second thought, you may not.

Have a great weekend~

Girlfriends

For the record, I have them. And they don't make an appearance, get mentioned or are shown off enough.

You see, this blog started out with the intentions (all very good mind you) that this would be our blog . I couldn't wait to capture Chris and I's life as newlyweds, owning our first home, what an amazing husband Chris is, what an equally awesome wife I am, how cute our cat is, what I planned on making for dinner, you get the idea. It was really a way to keep family updated and taken from the original blogger in my life - Leigh!

But, 84 posts later, with subject lines ranging from 'Boy-isms' to 'I heart Ray LaMontagne', one can clearly see that this blog tends to be a little more, shall we say, one sided. Huh, I'm shocked.

And so, since I've posted about my weight and my teacup as of late, I thought it was only appropriate to throw in a post about my girlfriends because they deserve some face time. I have a bunch of them and they are all pretty much the most hilarious, talented, educated, diverse, beautiful and on most days, semi-innapropriate, girls that I know. Love them.

Perhaps I will try and round up some pictures of Chris's friends. He would probably appreciate a post entitled 'Boyfriends' for him and his buddies, don't you think?!

Until then I'll leave you with these ladies...

Easter Weekend Recap

Because all blog posts are better with pictures and because I am in a post-vacation, back at work and it's only Monday, I wish I was outside enjoying the weather, So. Much. To. Unpack., must clean the house, dreading my afternoon run and don't feel much like writing kind-of mood, I thought I would post a few of our weekend in Nashville. Although we missed our two other guys, Byron (in Hawaii) and Pat (in Afghanistan), we had a great time.

Chris and I at Cutter's soccer game

Michelle and I at soccer game

Car ride - The tanning bed, bleached blond look is just starting to settle after about a week (previous post). I dare you to ask me if I just got off of a cruise.

Love this picture of my mom and dad - cute, huh?

Enjoying the day at Knockem'Hill BBQ - yum!

Our golf outing

Uncle Chris (or as Cutter prefers, just "Uncle") and Cutter

My mom and I's first real golf outing. We spent the afternoon yelling, "We're Golfers!" anytime we made contact with the ball. Unnecessary and completely obnoxious to everyone around us? Probably. But, oh-so-fun? Most definitely.

Not only does my sister look like a pro golfer, she plays like one too. Typical. Good at just about everything.

Easter morning, opening Bachugans. Bachu-what's? I'm still not exactly sure, but I know they're popular amongst the 7-year-olds these days.

The Easter table. Notice the awesome, real, church pew here. My sister could, and should, for that matter have her house in a magazine. This is just ONE example of her awesomeness when it comes to decor.

Sweet, crazy, wild, Bode. Despite his 90 pounds of muscle, this dog still thinks he's a lap dog. Love him.

Dad and me. No, his glasses aren't Blue-Blockers, but very, very close. Oh Dad...sigh.

May I just use this picture to insert the total cheese-ballish, "He's going to make such a great Dad one day" comment?! But, really....He is.

I secretly wanted to steal my sister's Frye boots - if only I was an itty bitty size 6!

Hope you had a great Easter!