Here's to you Tami!

Since I have no pictures to post from the events of the last couple weeks, I will just fill you in or use fake ones with what I have been up to the last couple of weeks. The biggest news is that my friend Holly got engaged and I'm helping her plan her wedding. They are getting married December 6th, so needless to say I've been busy with a little bit of everything. So here's a rundown of what I've been up to:

10/25 - Earlier in the day, we went wedding dress shopping for Holly and also bridesmaid dress shopping for me. This was my other option to the one I actually chose that you'll see later in the post.

This one was a little too greek goddess for me, not to mention it didn't come in the color Holly wanted.

Again, didn't come in the right color and that is NOT all my boob! There was some heavy padding in the dress!

We found her dress on the first day at the first store. You gotta work fast when you only have 6 weeks to work with. Now if we could only get the invitations in the mail! :-)

10/25 - We babysat for Darci and Aria while Denny and Bonnie went to Call to Worship. It's funny when grandparents come back and ask how much they owe you for babysitting! For the record, I did not take their money! :-)

I really wasn't strangling her even though it looks like I was!

I'm not sure how Rebekah does it. She always gets these adorable pictures of Aria where she's smiling and laughing. In mine, she just looks startled!

This was shortly after Darci walked around the ottoman and just disappeared. She tripped on the blanket that was on the floor and just wiped out. This was after she popped back up!

See! Again startled! And I'm not squeezing her hand in my fist again even though it looks like I am. I promise Rebekah, I'm very gentle with your children! :-)

Darci watching about her 4th show. She liked Bob the Builder, and Cailou but she wasn't have Angelina the ballerina. She requested what we thought was McGee, but Beks told me later they don't even own any of the those movies. Must have been something else!

This was after she ate our entire bowl of candy corn and started in on the m&m

Either startled, or I just filled my pants!

I was trying to make her look like she had long hair. Instead it just look like some side mullet thing.

She really was happy that I was holding her

10/27 - Ash and I took Chase and Ty to Peoria to try on our dresses and get them ordered in the right color. This is my dress, however that is not me! It's interesting trying on dresses with dressing rooms with no locks. You may have a peeping Tom(Chase) that checks in on you ever so often! Between him and Ty crawling/walking all over the place, and keeping his fingers from getting pinched it was a busy evening. The ride there and back was VERY spacious as well in Luke's Audi that had the passenger's seat shoved into the dash to accommodate Ty's car seat. Don't mind me, I'm only 6'2"! :-)

10/28 - (old picture), I had dinner with Amy and we went to our usual spot in East Peoria......Avanti's. Adam hates the place so she never gets to have Avanti's, so now it's our routine. I drive to Morton, she drives us to East Peoria. We eat while Adam watches the kids for a little bit, then we come home while Adam goes to the gym and her and I talk. Then Adam gets back and I usually keep them up and wear out my welcome till at least midnigh

10/29 - Wednesday was Tami's birthday. We took her to our favorite "fast food" restaurant and treated her to her first tasting of Chipotle. We also greeted her with some balloons, namely a curious George balloon. It's not easy ordering your food with 4 helium balloons in your hand!

10/30 - Thursdays are my standing Office Night. We have people over, eat some good food and watch the show. We discovered that watching it after it's over, we can buzz through without commercial using TIVO. Best invention known to man. I also went to the Spread Truth dinner at ISU and got to sit with Jeff and Abby and David and Kate but sadly forgot to take pictures and had to leave early for Office night.

10/31 - I'd like to say that I was creative and came up with a cool and creative outfit like the one above and had an awesome party to go to on Halloween but instead I ran errands for centerpieces and went to bed early!

11/1 - Saturday we road tripped it out to Ft. Wayne for my cousin Rachel's personal shower. I have to say when you think about it, it's a little weird to buy sex clothes for someone. I try not to think about it too much! We also ate a ton of food. We hit McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger and Steak-n-Shake on the way out and back. I had something at each place and the shower! No wonder I felt fat Sunday morning! We also had a quick anatomy lesson on the drive out. Thank goodness we got that squared away before our soon to be new cousin Stephanie joined us! :-)

11/2 - I started out the morning in a huge fight with Kate over dishes since she didn't get the whole time change memo(she couldn't dust because that would make her sweaty before church). We got it all worked out though, through text of course! :-) Then I got some curtains hung, and on to church. After church I spent some time in the woods or picking up things that came from the woods to try and put together some centerpiece ideas for Holly

11/3 - Mondays are my TV night. All my favorite shows are on. I can hardly watch them all in an evening. Sometimes I save myself a treat and wake up early the next morning and finish watching one of them. I watch One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Samantha Who and The Hills. It's a glorious night for the tv obsessed!

11/4 - I sadly watched (what we knew would probably happen) the election as Obama won and made it look like a landslide. I love how the media loves to act like it wasn't as close as it actually was in each state.

11/5 - I'm embarassed to admit that last night for sister night, we went to see High School Musical 3 or as the hip kids call it, HSM3. I decided that it is way too cheesy for my blood. I mean if Gabriella called Troy Bolton wildcat one one more time, I think I was going to scream! I think we should all start going around and referring to one another as mascots! So for al you CBA'ers, you will now be known as Crusader!

11/6 - I recently purchased one of these headsets when I'm on the phone which is pretty much all day so I don't hurt my neck, but Whit and Kate think I look like I should be saying, would you like fries with that?

ISU Homecoming

So we tailgated for ISU Homecoming yesterday. We had a lot of fun. We had awesome weather. Half the day you couldn't figure out if you wanted to put on a coat or shed a layer, put on sunglasses or take them off, but it really was nice football weather. We then headed out to see Hairbangers Ball, our favorite 80's band. It was a little crowded and I think we realized that it's not quite as fun as it used to be, but we enjoyed the music nonetheless.

We tailgated with Lindsey's friends who are all married. She said it looked more like a playpen than a tailgate since they all brought their babies!

We realized we don't have any pictures of us with a water tower!

You can't tell in this photo, but the black light made white fuzzies show up all over Denise's clothes. It bugged her all night! :-)

We apparently annoyed the people behind us with the first photo!

It took a few tries. We were tired!

My hair is now eating my face!

I look sweaty and Keith looks fried from the game!

So this was supposed to be a picture with the band behind us. As you can see, Keith barely got our heads in the picture, let alone the band!

So we had to take one of just the band.

I've Been Tagged!

So I've been tagged by Sandra. Guess that means I have to think of 7 things you wouldn't know about me. Not sure how many of these are new to people, but we'll see!



1. I'm a total procrastinator but when I finally get around to it, which is usually the last minute, I will accomplish more in an hour than most people in a week. As Denise used to call it, I go into speedy gonzalez mode!

2. I spend almost everyday, all day long in my room these days. It's the only place I can work without being distracted and be able to shut my door. Sad part is, I'm usually in my pajamas till about 4pm.

3. I get bored with my hair all the time. When it's short, I want it long and when it's long I want it short. I even think about how I will wear my hair when I'm old. What is a "stylish" hairdo when you're 85 without looking like you're trying to be too young? :-)

4. I've always wanted horses since I was little. Still don't own one but maybe someday!

5. I don't have absolute favorites of anything. It's hard for me to do those email forwards where you have to choose favorite colors, foods, etc. Mine change all the time. I would never be able to narrow it down to one.

6. I am not the type of person that gets super excited like yelling and screaming about anything. Whether it's a new job, birthday gifts, etc. I never get overly excited. I may think the gift is awesome, but it's just not my style to get all hoopin' and hollerin'. However, on the flip side, a commercial could make me cry if it catches me on the right day! Weird, I know!

7. I used to always think I wanted to skydive. Now that I'm older I'm more worried about dying! Plus it always looks like they are dropping slowly, but they're not. You are dropping at a really fast rate! :-)

What I've been up to these last few weeks!

So I know only Tami probably wonders where I've been on this blog for the last couple of weeks, but just in case anyone else wants to know why I haven't posted, here's where I've been:

So Inoues and I had a sleepover a couple weeks ago. Sadly enough I didn't take hardly any pictures. Clearly this wasn't quite the candid I was hoping for.
That's a little more like it. Tami and Heidi making cheese fondue. We now know that Heineken DOES NOT taste good in cheese fondue! It looks like Heidi is covered in flour but i'm pretty sure this is just the glare.

Our spa set up. It was a must that we had like 20 colors for five of us!


It was Beks and Heidi's first Guitar Hero experience! It started out a little rough but they quickly got the hang of it!

Mom and Holly at Stack. My mom had a little trouble finding her way around Vegas. She wanted me to call the Wynn for directions when we could see the hotel in front of us! :-)

This was shortly after I tore up my feet walking around trying to get to the monorail. I had to have my mom drop me off at the front door of the hotel so I had less to walk! I've never been in so much pain!

The restaurant was called Stack and it was described as canyon-like, however we weren't sure where the canyon-like feel was coming from!

I know you're all jealous that you didn't spend your ENTIRE birthday sitting in this booth!

My birthday tequila shot

She looks mad, but she was actually very happy because of the margarita and the shot in front of her!

See! She was happy! This is my co-worker and my previous manager from AFC.

I got to spend my birthday with my dad. That doesn't happen very often so it was very fun!

Susan and I were roomies all week! She cracks me up! When she "unpacks", she unpacks EVERYTHING! She actually uses the drawers at the hotel, and had her makeup all set out and lined up. I thought I had walked into a MAC store! :-)

This is the infamous Greg that I always talk about. He is one of my dad's best friends. He is my boss and I've known him since I was like 14. He used to stay at our house all the time and taught me how to play ping pong. Whit and Kate were sure he was demon possessed with all the magic tricks he showed them! :-)

My dad looks like he's about to fall over but he was just taking a step back. Brandon is my dad's other friend. He's the one that started the spank the Hubie dance. If all my dad's friends outdrive him on the golf course, Brandon made up this dance while he sings, spank, spank, spank the Hubie! I guess it's a guy thing!

Reality Bites, that's the name of the restaurant not what I think about life! Well maybe sometimes! :-) Holly, Ash and Denise took me out for my birthday.

I'm finally back to my original hair color if you didn't notice! :-)