Life Never Slows Down.

I've said it before and I'll say it again... life never slows down, and around here it's been crazy! I can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone! My brother came home from Bloomington and so did my sister and brother-in-law... that made for a crazy household! We celebrated Adam's birthday at the Burkeys on Wednesday night. I woke up on Thanksgiving and followed a personal tradition of mine: got the paper, a cup of coffee and turned on Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Good times. After the parade we were off to my cousins house for some turkey time!! We had a blast... I forgot how much fun cranium can be!! Tim stayed out all night/morning shopping for his brother so he slept all day Friday while I shopped, cleaned and did some wedding planning :) We discovered that the chair covers I've ordered fit our chairs... what a relief!! Then we met up with Kate and ordered our engagement pictures... yay!! Can't wait for those to get here!! Friday night we went out to coffee [my first caramel macchiato in almost one month] and then to Adam's second birthday party... happy birthday Adam! Saturday my entire family on my moms side got together for a second Thanksgiving dinner. That's pretty much where we spent our entire day... it was a lot of fun!! Then of course we did more shopping and Aaron made dinner for us... it was actually really delicious! Sunday we woke up and went to GMC at 10:00 and then to GCC at 12:00. Afterwards we went on a hunt for our program paper... I'm sure Tim enjoyed that! It's not my fault that it's right on the way home from church!! Then we watched the Bears game. What a great weekend!! I'll post some pictures soon!!

Amy's Wedding

I scanned some pictures from my sisters wedding. Obviously I need to clean my scanner :) These are a little old, I just found them while I was cleaning. Enjoy!

One less decision...

Last weekend my mom and I headed up to Holland, Michigan on a search for our unity candle. I can't wait for it to get here. It feels really nice to have one more detail figured out... ahhh!! It's kind of like the tall one... well sort of.

Got It!!
Last weekend Beth, Ann, Amy, my mom and I drove down to Indianapolis on a mission. Wedding dress or bust!! I loved Jen's dress and she recommended Sophia's just south of Indy. This shop is amazing. They treat you like a bride and not cattle like a certain nationwide chain might... cough cough. If you're in the market for a gown check out Sophia's. Five Stars!!

Over the next three months my gown will be made by hand in Australia... I can't wait for it to get here!! ahhhhh!!!
[it's couture... yay!]

Busy Busy Busy

October was a very busy month around here! One weekend we went down to Indianapolis to see my little brother compete at state for marching band. A week later we went down to Purdue for the homecoming game.
We ate, we froze... we stayed for the entire game.
That's a record for me, I usually don't stay past halftime.
Here's some pictures of our adventures...

Some of the family tailgating.... what a bunch of weirdos.

Purdue warming up before the game.

I just found out that our friend Bri was at the same game and sat directly across from us in the opposite end zone. Small world.

Staying warm.

Amy in action.

...and now we come to where Graig sat, up there with the heat.
Not fair.

This is the biggest P ever!!

You can kind of see the P on the scoreboard. It was an exciting moment in Boilermaker football folks.

I was not able to watch The Office last Thursday...

We had a crazy night last week. For those of you that didn't hear, check this out.

"As Chicago As It Gets"

So we've set the dates for our big Chicago weekend... yay!! December 7th -9th all of the ladies of my family will be spending the weekend downtown, eating, shopping and visiting Santa.

Here's a picture of the tree in the Walnut Room. This is where we always eat lunch after waiting in line for 2-3 hours.

I think this was my third year seeing Santa at Marshall Field's... poor Amy.

This picture was taken two years ago... right before Macy's took over. :(
I just found this site... kind of crazy. I love Marshall Fields, but really??

Fall is here...
Yesterday Tim & I went up to Edwardsburg with Larry, Brandi and Jace for a hayride and we had a ton of fun!! After the hayride we headed to church & coffee and then then we hit up IHOP for dinner. What an perfect fall day. We were even able to go on a beautiful fall ride through Michigan [Tim took the LONG way to church, minor detail :) ] I was able to have all of my fall fav's in one day. Here's some pictures from our afternoon:

That's a big chair.

Larry and Jace feeding the goats.

The goats fighting over food:

This was one of our stops along our hayride:

If you put your feet in this direction...

I love this message! I found this on a friends blog and I love it! Please take the time to read/watch it. Check out more that our church has to offer.

LOVE.

Nashville or Bust

So Ann & Andrew had planned to go on a cruise last week... long story short, their flight was canceled and they missed their boat. Ann called me at work on Monday asking me to take the rest of the week off and hit the road with her, Andrew & Tim. Here's the details of our mini-vacation.

Here we are on our way...

This is how the boys spent their time...

Andrew making sure he got everything he ordered for dinner...

Driving through Louisville

This is what I look like in Louisville

Andrew on the phone with American Airlines

Stopping to get gas in Bowling Green

Ann and Tim playing catch...

We were stuck in traffic 20 miles from our hotel.
No one moved for 45 minutes.
It was a very bad accident. The jaws of life were used.
We made the most of it by jumping out of our car to take pictures...

We finally made it...

We're planning what to do while we were in town

Our complimentary fish, plant and lava lamp...

Here we are at the Opryland...

Who do you think wanted to stop here?

Ann's beautiful parallel parking job:

Downtown Nashville

Ann & Mr. Stash

Driving around trying to get downtown.
[Ann is taking the wrong exit]Round two... tada!!

More of what the boys did while we were in the car

Our hotel... we highly recommend it!!
[Hotel Preston]

Tim and Andrew checking out the memorial

Andrew dared Tim to run through the fountain...

the tour bus from 1952

Heading to dinner

Eating at our fancy restaurant

getting ready for bed on our last night

It was 9:00 am... aren't we lucky ladies to have these guys??

Tim & Ann packing the car...

I'm not helping...

neither was Andrew...

Taking a break in Kentucky...

Ann's parking job at our first outlet mall on the way home...

Dinner at RUBY TUESDAY.... yay!!