glingdidit June 30th, 2008
After a great weekend…there’s always a Monday. As a laid there in bed this morning…I quickly realized that I didn’t get nearly enough sleep this weekend. Lack of sleep is totally worth it when it means you get to hang out with good friends…and watch silly movies with your hubby. Today work just seemed to drag on and on…like 4:30 was never going to get here. After some fun and exciting news though….it got here a little more quickly. Jared surprised me today by letting me know that we were getting season tickets to this year’s Broadway series at the Fox Theatre. We had some friends that asked if we were interested…and we decided not to…even though I really really wanted to. Needless to say…Jared completely changed his mind and told them yes…and then let me know. I’m so pumped! We get to look foward to 6 great shows over the next year! It makes me feel so fancy! The Fox is probably my most favorite theatre that I’ve ever been to. It’s so huge and beautiful…and just an amazing experience every time you go. This evening we made hobo dinners on the grill…and they were super yummy. We followed dinner up with some lawn games and cleaned the house up a bit. So even though it definitely started out as a Monday…it turned into a great day!
glingdidit June 28th, 2008
Yesterday we took the day off from work…to get away for the day. To start with…I went to contest a speeding ticket that I got a few months ago. Luckily I succeeded! I’d never had a ticket before…and I certainly didn’t want to start now. I was supposedly caught speeding in a school zone…however…school hours were over…so the ticket was easily dismissed. Hooray! After that we caught some lunch at Jimmy John’s (yummm!) and spent some time shopping. Then we caught a matinee at the movie theatre…we went to see “The Happening” by M. N. Shayamalon (or however you spell his name!). It was really good…but definitely not our favorite of his. It will keep you on the edge of your seat though! After that we headed over to Alton to spend some time with Steve and Nicole. We hung out and got some supper. Jared hung out with Steve while Nicole and I headed over to the Muny in St. Louis. She was given tickets to go see “High School Musical” and invited me to go along. It was really cute! Cheese…but lots of fun! The weather was perfect and it was a great night. We made it back to Greenville around 1:45…and fortunately slept in quite a bit this morning. It’s been a relaxing day filled with TV…S’mores cereal…and some cleaning.  Good times!
glingdidit June 21st, 2008
Last night we headed out for some BBQ with Steve and Nicole at 17th Street (our favorite…of course). The food was delicious…and the company was even better. After we ate we ran (well…drove quickly) over to Guitar Center to drop off Jared and Steve, while Nicole and I scanned the home decor section at Gordman’s. I found a couple of cute things for the house…and a great pair of Nine West sunglasses. Then we played an exciting game of mini-golf….which is always fun. I definitely didn’t play my best…but oh well! Then…to top of the evening we headed over to Lotawata Creek for desert. Nicole had seen these “chocolate nachos” on the menu before…and they supposedly fed four…so went to give them a try. They were…in a word…scrumtrulescent! It was probably the biggest plate of yumminess that I’d ever seen…this thing was huge! There was a layer of cinnamon suger tortilla chips…then like 4 or 5 enormous scoops of ice cream….then mounds of whipped cream…and then the whole thing was covered in hot fudge and caramel. Oh…and a cherry on top. The four of us couldn’t even make it through the whole thing. It was amazing…I’ll definitely be giving that a try again. And that leads us to today. We’ve slept in and are being lazy….and it’s great. We’ve got a wedding to go to at 4:00….so we’ll actually have to get off the couch at some point…but not until then! Ah yes….yay for lazy Saturdays.Â
glingdidit June 20th, 2008
So life seems to be speeding by as of late. There always seems to be something going on…all the time. This past weekend we were able to get back up to visit family for Father’s Day and our niece’s 1.5 birthday party. As always…it was great to be back home and to just relax for a bit. Mom and dad got Jared a bocce ball set for his birthday…so that took up a good chunk of Friday evening. Sunday was a bit more chaotic…but still a great time. We got my dad an ipod for Father’s Day…and it was a lot of fun seeing how excited he was about it. We went to church with my rents and then headed to Monical’s for lunch…dad’s choice. It’s probably one of my favorite pizza places…so I’m always eager to go there when we’re home. We also got to spend some time with Jared’s mom and his dad…which was a nice treat. Then we headed off to Geof and Lauri’s for Aubrey’s birthday bash. Lots of people…lots of good food…and lots of fun. It was a great evening! Then we made the long trek back to Greenville. This week has pretty much flown by. One of my coworker’s resigned last Friday…so I’ve now got double the workload…but I’m ready for the challenge. Needless to say…my phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Monday. Yesterday was Jared’s 29th birthday. He had praise band practice for church…so our celebration was a rented movie…dippin’ dots ice cream…funfetti cake…some cool presents…and camping out on the hide-a-bed for the night while we watched said movie. It was relaxing…and I think he had a really good day. So today is Friday…thank goodness! We’re planning on getting out of town with some friends for the evening….which will be nice. Until then…adios!
glingdidit June 6th, 2008
So yesterday was our 4 year wedding anniversary…and it was great! It’s funny…because on days like that…most people ask if it seems like it’s been that long…etc. It does seem like time has flown…but at the same time…I have a hard time thinking about life before I knew Jared. He’s just been such a huge part of my life for so long…that it seems longer…but in a really good way! Either way…since we’d just taken vacation a few weeks ago…we didn’t have a ton of cash to do something crazy fancy. Sooo…we decided on the Amazing Pizza Company and a movie…both of which were AWESOME! What’s better than spending 4 hours of all-you-can eat pizza and otherdelicious goodies…and lots of mini-bowling, mini-golf, ski-ball, go carts…with the bestest hubby ever?! We also went to see “Baby Mamma”…which was hillarious and a great movie to just sit back and watch…without much thought. It was great night away from Greenville! Now it’s the weekend…which is great. I have a lot of cleaning to get through in the house this weekend…and some homework too. Hopefully it’ll be a nice low-key weekend at home!