Lately...

I have been trying to post on blogger for two days now, but it has been such a pain in the *beep*. Anyways...now it's letting me post certain pics, but not others. So get ready for an endurance test of pictures here.

Last week was crazy busy. Fun, but busy. Heidi and I went to Martin Sexton, who was awesome as always. He has such great range. He even played some Johnny Cash, which was pretty sweet. Of course, it won't let me post any pics of him, but here we are at the concert. (Yes, I know my cheeks are extremely pokey).


Friday was my cousin Mehgan's law school graduation down in Happy Valley. She is a smart cookie and I am proud of her!


Here is her cute family minus one sib. Attention single ladies: My cousin Micah (blue shirt) is a babe and is also single.


Saturday was THE busiest day ever. I won't go into boring you with the sched details. One of the events was my sister's bridal shower.


Grandma's and aunts:


I think my mom looks so pretty in this pic.


And here is Meg, me and my aunt Jen.


So only 3 people asked me if I was pregnant at the shower because of that dumb shirt. Finally when one of my aunt's asked me if I had an announcement to make I said "Ya, actually, even though I'm wearing a shirt that apparently looks like a maternity shirt, I am NOT pregnant." However, this shirt is too cute to shelve and so you will be seeing it again.

Everyday People

Everyone knows Arrested Development is like THE funniest TV show ever. (If you need proof, you can borrow it from us). The other night I was watching random clips on YouTube and came across this video. I totally had this CD and Arrested Development was one of my favorite bands in junior high. I mean how could you go wrong with hits like "Mr. Wendell"...(don't even try to pretend that you don't know that song.) In fact, I may even still have that bad boy somewhere. Although I jest, the funny thing is, when I watched this video I still totally like this song. I guess I haven't really progressed all that much....(musically or otherwise) since junior high.

Reasons

Here was a good reason to finally spring clean and pack away all of those jackets. (Romey was starting to enjoy her nest on the chair)


And not that any one ever needs a reason to shop at Target, but this cute diamond ring dog toy has the funniest tag attached.

DUNZO!

So, I came home from work the other day to find this:


Patrick's house was bulldozed to the ground in one day. It is a pretty amazing sight to see. I was worried about noxious fumes for a minute, but I don't think they would keep the foundation if it was really contaminated, so let's hope not. This is truly a happy day. Don't get me wrong....I definitely miss scary druggies hanging out, f-bomb rap blaring through the window, Melissa and her other 350 lb. friend in bikinis on the front lawn, watching Melissa and her boyfriend practically having S on the porch, and Patrick's little picture book of the surgery he had after his sister ran over him with the car. But alas, I have those treasured memories to tide me over.

In even better news, we celebrated my Dad's 49th B-day at my FAVE restaurant Cucina Toscana. It is seriously the best. Peter and I purposely order all of this extra food so that we will have some leftovers. Wow, we sure know how to treat my dad on his birthday (by giving him a nice big tab).

A Classic

The other day I just felt like listening to this song...because I like it a lot. If you've never heard the Natalie Merchant cover, I might actually like that one more. But you gotta love Neil. Especially in this 1989 clip.

The Babe

Here is my cute little bro's "Spring Picture". He isn't called Babe for nothin.

Easter Family Party

Get ready for picture overkill. We had Peter's family Easter party this weekend. Here's the sign my niece Olivia made for the big event: (apparently this was a Barbie Easter party)


There were 5 families with little kids there. The girls were grossly outnumbered 15:2



Some of us chose to sit on the sidelines and watch the madness from afar:



Our cute niece Ellie & nephew Paul:



And of course, the whole point of going to these types of things...my mother-in-law Pinkie is the queen of domesticity and whipped up this delicious trifle that was oh so good.

The Sunshine State

I just got back from a few days of some fun in the sun visiting with good friends. I realized that I took maybe 2 pictures the whole time. We went to the beach, talked, ate, talked, did a little shopping, and ate some more. It doesn't really get any better than that. Although my stomach is suffering from a little bit of what I would call "The Easter candy binging revenge".

Blue Light Special

Sometimes there is nothing better than getting a bargain. I've been wanting one of these, but as you can see they are a little out of my price range.

So this afternoon, I found this little number on Craigs List. Albeit a far cry from what I was looking at, I think it has some potential. Maybe a cute pillow and throw?


Anyways...the best part of all and the reason why I am still smiling? $10 bucks.

Spring Fever

I love this time of year. I'm not going to wax poetic or anything, but there really is something great about spring that is refreshing and that makes you want to get organized and get busy. Friday night I had a rare burst of energy and felt like doing some yard work. So I bought some bushes and planters for these:


And of course, this is our one and only yard ornament:


Conference is always fun because my cute cousins come over and we eat good food and hang out.


Peter & Babe:


Easter bunny sugar cookies:

Doggy Love

So...if you're not a dog lover, you probably hate this blog. But I love dogs and I like to look at cute pictures of them. Here's a few pics of Romey and Mele hangin while we were watching conference.