A Favor...

There's something really special about this whole blog world. We follow each other to compare fashion trends and wedding plans and weekend shenanigans, but every once and a while one of us reaches out, reaches out to a huge group of people we've never met for love and support. There's something really, truly amazing about that.

I don't want to go in to all of the details, but I am asking you...my blog friends...to take a minute out of your day and say a prayer for some people who mean a whole lot to me who are going through a really hard time and experiencing extreme loss.

"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."
~Author Unknown

Another One Bites the Dust

Another weekend has come and gone...and it was a good one!

Friday night, J and I took Bailey for a walk around Starring Lake (a cute little lake near our house) and then grilled brats and hot dogs at my dad's. It was a great little date night.

In April, my dear friends from college were married in Jamaica and Saturday was their at-home reception downtown at Kieran's. It was SO much fun! It was like a college reunion! I spent most of my college nights (and days for that matter) at the Delta Chi Fraternity house and the friendships I built there will be lifelong. It was so amazing to see the whole gang back together and to catch up with friends I haven't seen in a long time.

Me and my hot date


Cutting the cake!


Me and the groom, Dustin

My girl Chrissy

Blueberry Pancake shots, and Jameson for Chrissy--cuz she's bad ass


All the boys! :)


Jessica, Robyn, Me and J


Yesterday, we headed to St. Paul for Grand Ol Day!

Grand Old Day, is sort of like a street fair that happens every year on the first Sunday in June. It takes place along the city's historic Grand Avenue and is super fun. My BB and her fiance Jake met up with us too, which makes everything more fun!

The main reason we went was because somehow J and his brother Travis got entered in to a Jimmy John's eating contest. At 1:00pm they went up against 2 other competitors to see who could eat a Garatuan sub the fastest.

THAT is a big sub!


About to face off


Ready to eat....


Mowing down....

The first and second place winners got to move on to the next round, unfortunately, J finished 3rd but Travis got 2nd and was able to move on! At 2:00pm another group of four faced off and the top two from that group also advanced to the final. At 3:00pm it was time to square off again, but lucky for Travis, only one of the other finalists showed up, so it was a straight up face off...



Travis ended up winning and walked away with $175 in Jimmy John's gift cards!!!


After we had had enough sun and enough of the crowds we zipped over to Downtown St. Paul for lunch and a much needed adult beverage (Travis, however, won't be hungry for days).


It was great weekend and finally felt like summer!!!!!!!

May

I have been horrible about posting pictures both on this lovely blog and facebook, so I'm doing it all now.

Here is what I've been up to this past month.......

I celebrated my friend Robyn's birthday:

My girls-Sarah and Robyn


My honey!


J, Me, Travis & Robyn

I celebrated my friend Sharisse's birthday:

My favorite little guy, BRODY BEAR!


Crazy good (and strong) punch!


Amazing crab cake in green curry


Best friends


The girls

We celebrated our friends Steve and Stephanie getting engaged!

Brides to be!


Grooms to be!


The boys


The girls

I celebrated my brother graduating from college!!!
We had a celebratory dinner at my moms:




A celebratory brunch with my dad's side:


My favorite boys! Brother, Dad, Fiance!

And, we had commencement:


May was crazy busy and crazy fun, and I'm afraid each month from now until November is just going to be crazier and funner (yes funner) than the last!

My Thoughts

It's Thursday again, which means my BB is hosting Thoughts on Thursday!
Head on over to Life, Love & Puppy Prints to play along!

-The wedding is only 156 days away! Is it just me or is time FLYING by?


-It's finally feeling like summer in Minneapolis. I had my first morning by the pool on Tuesday and am already sunburned, whoops!


-I can't believe it's June already!

-I wish there was some way to get an advance on my next 30 paychecks....it would really help me out.


-I have leftover pizza for lunch today....cold pizza might be my favorite thing on the planet.


-J and I decided to make some changes financially to help us spend less money and save more. One thing we did was actually go grocery shopping, normally we just buy as we need stuff and since we rarely have a night at home together we'll each just buy our own dinners. We decided that each pay day we will go grocery shopping and split the cost (so it's fair) and so far in the last 2 weeks (beside dinner last night after his softball game) we have spent $0 on food!!!!! Seriously, that's huge for us!

-I have the redecorating bug BAD right now! There is so much I want to do to our place, but I know I need to wait until after the wedding. Patience is a virtue.


-I'm excited for this weekend! (Who isn't? Right?)

Mom = Bomb

Just wanted to do a quick post wishing my beautiful mama a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

She is currently in Europe on her honeymoon and I am hating that I can't talk to her on her birthday! But, I know she is having a blast and we will celebrate with some cosmos once she is home!

LOVE YOU MOM!