The Time Travelers Wife

Have you seen it? What did you think?

I went to see this movie last week with my friend, Amber, and I'm still not sure what to think of it. It was a decent movie, but I would probably recommend waiting until it comes out on video to watch it. We went at 4:30, so we were able to pay the cheaper price, which was nice, but it still probably wasn't worth the whole $6.50.

Complete Opposites

So, my brother and I are complete opposites. I would just like
to name a few for you:

• He's tall. I'm Short
• He likes to spend his money. I like to save my money.
• He likes to party. I like to stay at home.
• He can argue like nobody's business w/o getting upset. I get upset because I can't argue well w/o blowing up.
• He was a super good athlete. I was a mediocre athlete.
• He was on homecoming court and popular. I was not.

Even though we are so complete opposite in almost all aspects of our life's, we are still brother & sister. I wouldn't change it for the world, because in the end if I ever needed anyone to be there and support me I know I could count on him. No.Matter.What. He's my only brother and my only sibling. We don't see eye to eye about a lot of things, but we know we're family and nothing else matters. I love my big brother! :-)

Oooo My love....

Yes, Friday, that's you I'm talking about!! You're here, I've waited all week for you and you're finally here! I wish you would come around more often, it seems so long since the last time you were here! I'll be begging for you to come back again in about two days, so be ready!

Last night was great. Old Navy was having their last day of their $19 jean sale and we headed over to take advantage of it along with a 25% off coupon! Score! We ended up with a great deal and 4 pairs of jeans! :-) Though, being the tall 5'0" girl that I am, I will still need to get them altered before I can actually wear them! (I think I should get a special discount for that, don't you??) We headed home to make a quick dinner and sit down to relax and watch a movie. We were in bed by 9:30, no kidding!

This morning I had to get up extra early to go to the dentist... I mentioned here, my love for the dentist. Not really for the dentist himself, but more so for the clean feeling afterwards!

Tonight I'm planning to go to Old Navy for their Stuff & Save!! I've been waiting forever for this and if they don't have my cute blue bag with the bird on it' someone's going to hear about it! :-) On a nicer note, we have planned a date night for tonight as well! I'm so very excited! We're grilling out, having a bottle of wine and sitting at the table for dinner! :-) Then we're probably just going to watch a movie. We decided no work for tonight at the house, we're just going to relax and enjoy eachother's company!

Saturday:
Sleep in! FINALLY! Enough.Said.
Get caught up on a few things at the house since we've been traveling for God knows how long.
Meet up with a friend for lunch at 12:30 and do a little shopping.
Back home to do whatever it is I need to do and then we have a cookout to go to.

Sunday:
Sleep in, yet again!
My mom's coming today! I'm very excited about that. I also mentioned about it here, and that we use to shop and do lunch every Saturday before we moved. It should be a great relaxing weekend at HOME!

Any big plans for your weekend???

Thankful Thursdays

Today I am thankful for:

• My new blogy friends! I've had a lot of new followers lately and I'm very thankful that they are willing to give a damn about what I have to say! :-) Thanks!
• Weekends at home. This is the first weekend in 9 weeks that we've been able to spend the entire weekend at home, doing whatever we want! I.Can.Not.Wait!
• Co-workers. I don't know how I would get through the day without them. I love all of our inside jokes and all of the laughs we have when we're really stressed out.
• Friday. Enough said about that
• Fall weather. I love football time and football weather.
  
• Starbucks. When the weather gets cold, I love to hop on over and get a Carmel Spice Apple Cider. (I probably won't hop over so much as drive) If you haven't tired these, it is a must!
• My Mom. She's visiting this weekend and we're going to go for lunch and shopping like old times. When I lived closer, it would be our Saturday routine and it was so much fun. I really miss getting to spend more time with her.
• The Dentist. I actually hate going, but I love how my teeth feel afterwards. ( I have an appointment tomorrow morning, pray for no problems!!)

Edit: Miss Honey Dew at Life After I "Dew" started doing Thankful Thursdays and you can get your button from her if you go here!

Show us Your Life... Families, Ceremony & Cake

Well, I've posted here and here about our wedding. This post is all about family, the ceremony and the cake (and a centerpiece)

My wonderful family! (Minus Nat-my future-sis-in -law!

My new in-laws! (LOVE THEM!)

Our Beautiful Outdoor Ceremony

Us!

With this Ring, I thee Wed

The Kiss! Yes, Hubby did have his hand in an inappropriate place, but it worked :-)


We're Married!!! Mr & Mrs!

That's right, Just married! (My friend Pam made this!)

Our Cake, I wanted simple and loved it! (O and it was delicious!)

One of our centerpieces. I'm very simple and I always think, Less is More.

Thanks for stopping by our wedding, next I'll post about the reception!!

Aplington Parkersburg High School

I'm sure many of you have heard of the recent events in Parkersburg, IA where their football coach of 30+ years was shot by a former student. ESPN did a special story on this and I think they did a great job. Take a look at it, I think it does a great job of portraying the great man that Ed Thomas was and always will be. It gave me chills throughout the entire video because of how powerful it was. (This town is about 20 minutes away from where I live and this story truly impacted their entire community)

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4422636

I can't figure out how to add the video stream into the blog, but follow the above link to watch.

Weekend recap

So, this weekend was a B-E-A-U-Tiful weekend! Friday we were able to stay home and not travel!

Friday:
We headed out for our friend James' 25th Birthday bash.
Being the "old" "married" couple that we are, we went out at 9:30 and were home by 11:30

Saturday:
We headed to my hometown to catch up with two old friends
Nick & Katie! I forgot my camera and wish I could have taken pictures
Katie is a little over 9 months prego and looking cute as ever!
I hope that when I carry a baby I look that good lol
Nick & I were friends first, back when I was 18 and first attending college. We attended the same college for the first semester and then both moved back home to attend a different college. We then worked at the same job for about 2-3 years where we met Katie. To make a long story short, Nick & Katie eventually got together and were married 2 years ago this November. They are the cutest couple and I hope we get to see more of them, especially when that little bundle of joy is born this week!! I'm hoping for a girl! I even bought them pink & purple socks because I'm so sure! haha

Afterwards, we headed to a family reunion on my mom's side of the family. All 6 of us were there and it was nice to see people whom I haven't seen in awhile or that I'd never met!
I once again, did not get any pictures! Shame on me, I know! Some of you terrific photographers are probably just cussing me out right now!

After that, we then headed to a corn boil. Yes, we do live in Iowa! Give me a break :-)
There were tons of delicious things to eat and we got our share, that's for sure! Then it was back to my parents house for a movie and some popcorn.

Sunday:
We woke up early to head to breakfast with my parents and then to a MOPAR car show that my hubby was dying to go to!

Here is my hunk of a husband standing in front of the car that he wants to purchase in 5 years :-) haha


And for some reason, this was one of my favorite cars! Isn't it cute? I just love it... I can totally picture an older couple going out for a Saturday night cruise in this thing! Did you have a great weekend too?

I'm pumped for next weekend, we get to stay home the entire weekend and do absolutely nothing!!!! (Though I'm sure we'll find something to keep us busy!)