Hello wedding season!

Another whirlwind weekend come and gone and boy was it awesome, seriously I mean awesome.

Friday: Ran some errands before heading to LAX with Matt for our flight to New Mexico! We hung out for a while and before we boarded we ran into a friend of ours who was on the same flight as us, sweeeet party flight. So we all sat next to each other and chatted the whole way and even got free drinks from the guy sitting behind us who had a ton of drink tickets (thanks!). Basically it was a fun flight to say the least, haha. Oh so funny story once we landed, if you saw my tweet you saw that we had a celeb sighting (woo!). Apparently my letter to celebs just switched to Albuquerque instead of LAX and we saw Seth Meyers from SNL. He is super freakin tan! Other than that I just let him be and was like 'oh hey there a celeb, schnazzy pants.'

After the airport Matt and I headed to our hotel to check in and relax before the rest of our friends got in. Eventually after some dinner all of our friends came together and we all headed to the hotel bar for some drinking and then a sketchy bar later on. It was quite the adventure and oh so much fun. I wish all of my friends lived close to each other again, but man what a great night.

Saturday: Wedding day! We didn't do a whole lot before the wedding except a quick trip to the mall but really all Saturday was about was our friends' Blake and Sydney's wedding. The wedding was at this oh so quaint and cute lavender field/farm in the middle of nowhere. It was seriously adorable and the perfect place for a wedding (minus the bugs, oh the bugs, they did not read my letter, the bugs attacked me and it wasn't pretty). Okay time to let some of the pictures do some talking:

such a laid back and adorable couple


all the high school guys all dressed up and fancy like


me and Matt with the dashing groom


ohmygod we're next!
well it's still a year away but still :)


Steve and Karen, our roomies for the weekend,
heart them


cutting the cake! and ummm there were cupcakes!
so tasty!


the bride getting down in her purple converse,
love it


the boys getting down to "Thriller"


I loved my new corsage, haha


"Shout" got everyone to the floor, haha


and then back up again


a nice surprise for the bride and groom, haha


and we continued the party back at the hotel

Basically the wedding was fun, my friends and I dominated the bar and the dance floor, the cupcakes were phenomenal, dinner was delish, my friends crack me up, and I love weddings. It was a fantastic wedding and it was great to hang out with all of my friends. I wish we could do it all over again, I don't get to hang out with those guys enough. But hey I guess that's what my wedding is for next year :)

Sunday: Woke up surprisingly not hungover (which was awesome) and rounded up the group to meet for brunch at Sydney's parents' house. We basically spent the whole afternoon there before heading to the airport since we were all on the same flight. Also funny, we ran into Phil in the airport and got to hang out with him for a bit which a fun surprise. And again the flight was pretty fun since there were four of us and the guys played hangman while the ladies took a nap, haha. Eventually Matt and I made it home and it was so nice to be back and relax a bit before Monday showed up.


And that my friends is my first wedding of the year and it was a great way to kick things off. Man I love weddings :)


and how was your weekend?



happy monday!

My dearest weekend.

Dear blog,

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I was way too sick and tired and eck to post anything worth posting. And I couldn't look at a computer screen for more than a minute. So for this I apologize/ blame my sickness. Hope you'll forgive me. And it won't happen again (at least not for a while).

Love,
Katelin

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Dear sickness,

It's okay if you left now. I'm kind of tired of you hanging around and I need to be in top form this weekend. So feel free to head on out and bother someone else. Okay?

Thanks,
Katelin

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Dear New Mexico,

I hope you are awesome. I'll be seeing you in a few short hours and I'm quite excited. It's been 14 years since I was there last and I don't remember much except for the bugs, so please take it easy and lay off the bugs please. I see enough at home I don't need to see any here. And um, please try not to rain or be a million degrees. That would be just dandy.

Thanks,
Katelin

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Dear Matt,

Thanks for getting me popsicles and orange juice when I was sick on Wednesday even though you're supposed to be recuperating from your spinal shot. You are officially the best fiance ever and I'm sort of really lucky to have you.

Love,
your fiancee

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Dear work,

Sorry but I will not miss you today while I am on a plane en route to vacation. I won't even think about you. Hope you'll be able to manage with an empty space where I would be sitting. Actually, I think you'll be just fine.

Sincerely,
Katelin

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Dear celebrities,

Feel free to travel today. No really, stop by LAX. I'll be there, you can be there. We can all hang out and be friends. I'll even buy you some Starbucks. It'll be awesome. So yeah just look for me. I'll be wearing my yellow cardigan again so I'm easy to spot, I'll be on the lookout.

Word,
Katelin

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Dear Blake and Sydney,

Congrats! You're getting married this weekend! And Matt and I are quite excited to come celebrate with you. And just so you know, I'll be stealing ideas and envisioning myself as the bride just because I can't help it now, haha. But no really in all seriousness, congrats and woo for your wedding. I can't wait to celebrate with you!

Love,
Katelin



And with that my friends I am up up and away with Matt to celebrate our friends' wedding and I couldn't be more excited. Hope you all have a most fabulous weekend!




happy friday!

Send in a doctor.

So I'm sort of half-sick, fully exhausted and in need of a doctor. And if I could request a doctor to tend to me today, these are probably the ones I'd go with:

• Dr. Sloane.
  Yeah I don't need any plastic surgery but I wouldn't mind him hanging around my bedside all day, haha.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dr. Ross.
  Yeah he can just walk around with Dr. Sloane, I won't object.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dr. Yang.
  She would tell me to shut the hell up and stop my sicky whining and then I'd probably go drink some tequilla with her and all would be better.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dr. Dorian.
  He would have me laughing with random scenarios as I lay sick in bed. And he'd probably bring me OJ too, which is quite nice.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• *updated* Dr. Cullen.
  I blame the Sudafed for making me forget Dr. Cullen. He's just so nice and even though he's a vampire and all I wouldn't be upset if he made a house call with I don't know, Edward perhaps? :)
  
  
  
  

Yeah I think I'd be good with any of those doctors stopping by to take care of me. I'd also be good with just being healthy already! Come on now!


What doctor(s) would you want to make you feel better?


happy wednesday!

Just some Hollywood.

Hello Tuesday and hello Hollywood. Let's not waste any time shall we?

• This week's bebe cuteness is all about the boys. Sheryl Crow's son Wyatt is all sorts of adorable and I love him toting his own little suitcase, so cute:
  
  
  
  cuuuute.
  
  
  
  
• Next up in the cuteness is little Zuma Rossdale (aka Jack Jack) chilling at the beach with his dad (Gwen and Kingston were there too). Seriously this picture is just cute and Zuma is precious and ah! Heart. Melting.
  
  
  
  oh so presh.
  
  
  
• Moving on from the bebes and on to some other cuteness. Matt Damon cuteness to be exact. Seriously he has aged so well and he is just so "boy next door" and down to earth and ah, heart. Basically he was promoting his new documentary and was even in my town and I didn't see him (blasphemy!), but I love that like Leo and Ben he's always about helping other people and movies for a good cause. Matt you are awesome.
  
  
  
  oh love that smile!
  
  
  
• This week in the world o Twilight we had some major developments.
  1. Rachelle Lefevre (aka Victoria) was replaced with Bryce Howard. Um say what? Did I hear that right? Yeah I know this was all the talk last week and I even tweeted about it, but it still sounds fishy. Summit Rachelle deserves a better explanation and so do the fans. I mean hello, Eclipse is so much about Victoria and to get a new one, just lame.
  
  2. Some new posters/images from New Moon have been released. Enjoy:
  
  
  
  oh hello.
  
  
  (More pics and LTT's breakdown of the image can be found here.)
  
  
• As for other news around Hollywood: Shemar Moore (from Criminal Minds) is recuperating after being clipped by a car while on his bike causing him a broken leg, over the weekend (get better!). Kara DioGuardi is returning to the next season of Idol. And Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are very much together and quite cute if I do say so.
  
  
• In movie news...
  Katherine Heigl. Um. She needs to shut her trap. Apparently she went on ranting about how her character in Knocked Up painted women as shrews....but um isn't her character in The Ugly Truth pretty similar? (I can't actually say because I haven't seen it yet, but it looks that way). Well Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow seem to think the same thing and I agree. Katherine start being more likeable please! I mean really your husband is awesome can you please take some notes from him? Thanks.
  
  
• And in TV news...
  Greek. It's coming back! Are your callendars marked for August 31st? Because this season looks just as ridiculous and geeky and cute as before. I'm sort of really excited for it. Check it out.
  
  Heroes. So I admit it took Matt and I forever to get through last season (thank goodness for DVR) but this season's preview looks like there is actually some potential. But you be the judge, do you still watch Heroes?
  
  Also in Heroes news, Ali Larter got married over the weekend and I may have let out a squee that Joshua Jackson was at her wedding (um she had a brief stint on Dawson's Creek remember?). And he was looking as dashing as ever. Oh and she was pretty great too, haha.
  
  
  
  are you coming to my wedding too? :)
  
  
  aw what lovely newlyweds
  
  
  John and Kate Plus Eight. It was back last night and I still can't decide if I'm going to watch the show anymore. I have it set on my DVR but if I'll watch it is the thing. The off camera drama is just so sad and Kate and John are both becoming total dbags that I don't know that I could sit through an episode even if the kids are the cutest things ever. I'm just waiting for the kids to see this in stores for Halloween and want to wear it, haha.
  
  
• And lastly for today's WTF story we have a story that may make some of my guy reader's cringe a bit. Let's just jump to the end of it, four scorned women, in an attempt to humiliate their mutual lover, glued their guy's junk to his stomach. Um say that one again? Manbits to the stomach! Ah! Moral of the story: Don't cheat on Wisconsin women! (or heck don't cheat on anyone! Otherwise bad things will happen and the internet will make fun of you)
  
  
  

And that my friends is today's Hollywood news. As always, fill me in if I missed anything otherwise hope you enjoyed your weekly dose of Hollywood.



happy tuesday!

I won't be getting a cowboy hat any time soon.

Oh dear weekend why have you left me already? You were so nice and relaxing, seriously we should meet up again? How about five days from now? Sound good? Okay. Works for me too :)

Friday: After work I headed over to meet up with Matt for dinner at his dad's house. It was a delicious night of burgers and wine and good conversation. Matt's brother was there as well and later my cousin Brittany came over to do some chatting and hanging out and twas a lovely way to spend the evening. Afterwards Matt and I came home and played some Mario Party on the Wii and yeah it was awesome.

Saturday: Slept in and oh my was it wonderous. Don't remember the last time I slept past ten and mmmm I loved it. Eventually Matt and I did some errand running and before we knew it it was time to get ready and head to the Borderline Bar and Grill for a good ole night of country! It was our friend Laura's birthday and man was it a good night for line dancing (even if I have absolutely no rhythm whatsoever, seriously I was awful, haha).

a delicious cake for the birthday girl


Gianni is clearly reserved for Laura :)


drinks all around!


the whole country crew, woo

Basically there were line dancing and partner lessons and somehow I am missing that element to make me good, haha. But Laura and Matt were amazing. Seriously Gianni and I joked that we should just switch fiances for dancing because our other halves were significantly better than we were, haha. All in all it was a great night full of lots of laughs, lots of country music and lots of cowboy hats, haha.

Sunday: Slept in again (man it was lovely) and after much debate Matt and I finally decided to spend our day a the Norton Simon museum. I hadn't been in about ten years and Matt had never been so it was a fun afternoon. Got to check out some art, be a bit cultural and all that jazz.

Adam and Eve,
a la the Desperate Housewives opening, haha

such a gorgeous day

After the museum I came home to get ready and went walking with my mom (project bridesmaid/bride is in full effect, haha). After walking Matt and I had breakfast for dinner. Talk about delicious alright, I freaking love breakfast so I was in heaven. Then we spent the rest of our night relaxing, wedding planning and movie watching (yeah I put in Mama Mia, I just had to, haha).


Basically it was a fabulous weekend and I'm ready for another one already, woo.




happy monday!

To my iphone with love.

My dearest iphone,

First of all I'm sorry I don't have a better name for you yet, it's almost been two weeks and clearly I am slacking. How does Pearl sound? Or Violet (haha I joke)? Or Clementine (since your case is orange and amazing)? Anyways, we'll figure it out sooner or later and you'll love your new name I just know it. But for now, iphone it is.

So my iphone why am I writing you a letter on this fine friday? Well, I just needed to profess my love for you so the world (a la my blogworld) could hear it (er read it). Seriously I am in love.

Last week in Chicago while I was wandering the city aimlessly by myself you stepped in and gave me emails and tweets and phone calls and it was magnificent. You even gave me weather reports (and stocks, which um do I really need that) and directions to a cafe to meet friends for lunch.

You even let me take twitpics for the first time ever and play useless games to kill the time as I lounged in Millenium Park. And for that, I love you. No really, I do.

Although you costed me a pretty penny I'm learning that it was totally worth it and I wouldn't trade you for anything (unless someone offered me a million dollars I may be persuaded, haha).

So keep on being awesome and I'll keep on loving you.

Love,

Katelin



happy friday!

Just one more BlogHer post.

S0 I forgot a few things that I just have to share:

The photo booth pics. Oh I love photo booths! And they were everywhere. So of course I have to share them.

Jamie, me and Tara were cracking up
while posing in the booth, too funny


Jess and I found this booth and could not stop laughing,
especially since there was like 5 seconds between pics,
oh man we're a bit ridiculous


well technically not a booth pic, but a red carpet entrance for
BowlHer, I sort of hear us all and our divaness, haha

Celeb sightings. Tim Gunn was there. I saw him from afar. Paula Deen was there too. But um I was most excited to meet Jen Lancaster. I sort of mildly followed her around shortly trying to read her name tag and see if it really was her, and alas it WAS! So I was that super nerd (as Jamie can attest) and told her I was a big fan of Bitter is the New Black and cannot wait to read the rest. Luckily she was incredibly nice said thanks for chatting and she was off. And my need to meet an author was fulfilled.

The video. Oh the video. Because my family and coworkers read my blog I don't know that I'm going to link to our superb post-Cheeseburger party video just yet. But if you read me regularly you'll know where to find it, haha.

And of course, Chicago. I already have a check list of things I want to do when I go back with Matt one day (hopefully soonish). The list includes: a Cubs game, Sears tower, a boat tour, the Art Museum and probably a million other things, haha.


That my friends wraps up BlogHer '09! I'm already looking forward to BlogHer '10. Woo!




happy thursday!

I was going through Hollywood withdrawal.

Oh Hollywood news I missed you. Seriously a week of not being at a computer 24/7 seriously made me feel like I was missing out. So I know there will be some celeb stories I've overlooked and heck this is going to be a shortish Hollywood post all together since I am still catching up with my life (yeah a week away can do that to a person, haha). So without further adieu I present this week's (and some of last week's) Hollywooood news:

• Starting off this week's cute bebes we have my favorite of the favorites, little Violet Affleck. And man is that girl styling. Seriously her sunglasses cracked me up, she almost looks diva like Suri or Z, haha.
  
  
  
  too cute for words.
  
  
  
• Next up in the cute bebe departmnt we have some girls that aren't really bebes but are just so darn adorable I had to share this cute Mommy and me pic. Leslie Mann and her daughters (with Judd Apatow) Maude and Iris are just so cute and I love that they are in movies together and ah, heart them.
  
  
  
  little stars in the making!
  
  
  
• Moving on from the cuteness of kids to the cuteness/awesomeness/fabulousness/amazingness (oh yes lots of nesses) of Twilight. This past weekend was Comic-Con and oh the goodness that came out of that (for example check out Letters to Twilight's hilarious recap). So many pictures and clips and ah is New Moon out already!?
  
  And umm Rob Pattinson still makes me swoon. He is just so dorky and adorable and goofy and ah, heart.
  
  
  
  
  
  And um although I am very Team Edward, Jacob (aka Taylor aka still 17) was looking pretty darn good I must say. He counteracts the awkward and the ew that emitted from Kristen Stewart.
  
  
  
  and aw the boys matched in plaid, haha
  
  
  
• Okay moving on from the Twilightness before I ramble any more about how I can't wait to see New Moon...oh wait just kidding. Apparently Dakota Fanning adn Freddie Highmore went on a date and ohmygoodnesstheyarejustsoadultlikeandcutebutohsoyoung and heart. And I totally used to say that Freddie and Dakota were both adults stuck in kid bodies because of all of their movie roles, haha. So random.
  
  
  
  oh young love.
  
  
  
• In not so young love apparently Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush broke up, and not only that one of the Jonas's and Camilla Belle broke up too and waaaait one more for the break up toll, LeAnn Rimes and her husband officially called it quits (as if we didn't see that one coming). Um hopefully everyone is okay after their splits and maybe they should just go watch Twilight to feel better, haha.
  
  
• In other more upliftingish news, Hilary Duff is a new model for DKNY. Seriously I heart her and the new ad is fabulous. Also fabulous, remember Anna Chlumsky? From My Girl? Yeah apparently she stopped acting to go to school and be all smart like. But now she's coming back to the big screen! I sort of really liked her as a kid and woo for her making a comeback, hopefully it'll last.
  
  
• In movie news...
  Harry Potter. I finally saw it! And expect a review to go up on my review blog soon. I sort of really liked it and laughed a lot and ummyes. Can't wait to see the next one.
  
  Julie and Julia. I really want to see this movie! It just looks so cute and I heart Amy Adams and Merryl Streep. And um it's based on a blog so of course I want to see this!
  
  
  
  seriously these ladies look fabulous
  
  
  Sequels. Sort of. Apparently someone thought it was necessary to make Scream 4. So yes that's really happening and Courteney Cox and David Arquette have already signed on! So I don't think I'll be seeing that one. However one sequel that I am mildly curious to see is Bridget Jones's Diary 3. I don't believe there is a third book so I'm curious to see where a third movie goes.
  
  
• And in TV news...
  Desperate Housewives. Apparently Shawn Pyfrom (Bree's son, Andrew) is leaving the show. Well not leaving but not staying on full time. And I sort of loved his character this past season. Hopefully he'll still get some good storylines.
  
  The Emmy's! The nominations came out and I'm sort of excited. And um this article about people's reactions to nominations sort of made me laugh a little and I had to share.
  
  
• And lastly in today's WTF news we have a Twitter story. One woman in Chicago twittered about the mold in her apartment and now the company is suing her for defamation...suing her!!! And for fifty thousand dollars!
  

And that my friends is today's Hollywood news. Please let me know if I missed anything, I know there has to be some surprises out there I missed on my hiatus last week.



happy wednesday!

Chicago Take Two.

So where did I leave off about Chicago...oh right Thursday night (here's part one). So let's have some more recap shall we? oh and a quick warning, it's going to be a long one but I have tons of pics if that helps :)

Thursday night: After checking into the hotel and relaxing briefly I headed over to the SocialLuxe Lounge party across the street. I basically mingled a bit, hung out with Tara, had some drinks and got a fabulous swag bag. After the party I headed out and finally got some Chicago deep dish pizza with my cousin Jason. And it was delicious! Seriously I don't think pizza can even be bad but this one from some Lou's place was quite scrumptious. After dinner I headed back to the Sheraton where I met up with Jamie and Jessica (my partners in crime all weekend) and we went to the People's Party and 704 Party which were equally awesome. Got to do some drinking, some dancing, some chatting, met some other lovelies and had a grand ole time before calling it a night.

Friday: BlogHer officially commenced! It was so exciting to be back again and see everyone and meet new people. I went in and out of a couple panels only because they weren't all what I thought they'd be but I still enjoyed myself. After the morning session was an awesome lunch break sponsored by Ragu.

the amazingly awesome centerpieces

Seriously, it was such a step up from lunch last year, I loved it! After lunch were some afternoon sessions and got to meet tons more people which is definitely one of the best parts of BlogHer. To the first day there was the community keynote where different bloggers read posts of theirs from the past year. I heard several that were funny some that were sad but all were amazing and I can't wait to see the videos of them again when they go online. After the keynote we went to a fabulous EnergizeHer party and got some manicures done along with some delicious food before heading on over the Brand About Town Nintendo party.

Jamie, me and Jessica showing off our purdy nails

To get to the Nintendo party we rode in horse drawn carriages to the Hancock's Signature Room (which was on the 95th floor, wowza!). Dinner was all sorts of fabulous, I'm pretty sure we had the best table in the place. And ummm I got to meet Rachel and Doni was even there so of course that made the night superb. And Jenn was even there too! Basically it was a party full of rockstars.

heart these ladies

To top of the night we saw a lightning storm that took over all of Chicago and got some fabulous parting gifts. All in all a great way to spend a Friday night.

However the night was far from over. After we got back to the Sheraton we headed to the MamaPop party which was all sorts of amazing. There were movie posters everywhere, a unicorn cake, a RPatz cutout, glow sticks...yeah sort of hard to go wrong there.

oh yes a unicorn cake, so awesome

I thought Rob might be thirsty

and the girls just wanted to show him some loving, haha

Basically a great way to end to the night, haha.

Saturday: Woke up fine and dandy ready to go for a day of panels again. I did go to one panel that I absolutely loved and it was the 'Women in Color and Marketing' themed one. It was amazing. The women were amazing, the interactions were amazing, I feel like everything about it was amazing and I'm so glad I went. After that I went in and out of panels most of the day and roamed around the exhibit hall (which was so cool and so much bigger than last year, seriously ridiculous). Basically it was another great day at BlogHer.

After the closing keynote the ladies and I headed to the BlogHer sponsored cocktail hour which was pretty fun. However I gotta say that the most fun of the night happened afterwards. We all headed over to BowlHer across the street for what was most definitely an amazing time.

Maggie, Jess, Allie and Ashley embracing their new boas


the fabulous Heidi and I showing off
our matching rings, love it


Jess and I were getting a little frisky
by the end of the night, haha


all the ladies of the evening
I sort of heart them all like wo

Although there was no bowling done on our parts there was lots of silliness and drinking and eating delicious appetizers (I'm pretty sure I had like seven mozzarella bites, haha). After BowlHer we made our way back to the Sheraton and headed up to the Presidential Suite for the Cheeseburger Party! (recall I went to it at BlogHer last year and at the Mom 2.0 event in February). I don't even think I need to describe it really, I'll let the pictures do the talking:

Heidi, me, Jessica, Tara and Beth rockin some fabulous headware, haha


with the oh so awesome Sizzle


me and Jamie with one of the Cheeseburger hostesses, the fabulous Yvonne


I'd say this sums up the night alright

After the fabulousness of the cheeseburger party Jamie, Jess and myself made a video blog that will surely make it's way to everyone soon and oh man it's a winner alright. Pretty much it was another awesome night and a fabulous way to wrap up the weekend.

Sunday: Ended BlogHer weekend with a lovely breakfast sponsored by Starbucks with nice goodies and treats and it was lovely to see everyone before heading our own merry ways. Got to hang out with Jamie and Jess a bit while I packed my bag (and oh boy was that a feat) and got ready to go. And before I knew it I was in a cab to the airport and on my way home.

And that my friends was my Chicago adventure, whew what a trip. But oh so amazing and I loved every minute of it. So thank you to all of my new friends, my old friends and everyone in between. I seriously heart you all and cannot wait to see you again!



Oh and as if this post wasn't long enough and picture filled I put all my pics up on flickr so check it out!


happy tuesday!

Chicago Take One.

Oh vacation how I heart you so and I heart you even more when it's for six days and in Chicago.
Seriously, last week was so much fun I can barely believe it's over already. So yes I believe some recapping is in order, so much in fact that I know I can't cover it all in one post, so consider this Chicago take one:

Tuesday: Hopped on a plane (which hey Frontier is there a reason it had to be so dang bumpy on both of my flights?!) and made it to Chicago just in time for dinner. My friend Lynn met me at the airport and we headed to her place before making our way to grab sushi for dinner. The place was BYOB which I think is amazing and more places should definitely do that. Afterwards we just hung out, went to a bar and had a fine and dandy time.

Wednesday: My Chicago Day. Seriously, I had the day to myself so what did I do? I explored Michigan Ave. Did some shopping, took some pictures, enjoyed some music in the park, basically all sorts of goodness.

Loved this church courtyard so much


the Tip Top Tap part made me laugh


next time I'm in Chicago I am doing a boat tour!


me and the beeeeeeeean!


there are cars in there! sort of awesome
and ummm a bit baffling!

The day was lovely. I walked around, explored some of the city and had lunch with Jessica and Teresa which was awesome. Eventually I made it back to Lynn's place and relaxed a bit before heading over to the beach with her to play some volleyball with her team. It was crazy, I hadn't touched a volleyball in years but somehow managed to play six games in the sand, haha. It was entertaining to say the least. After the game we hit up a fabulous Mexican place for some delicious margaritas (sadly I forgot to take pictures) and enchilladas (let's say yummmmm together) and had a lovely time. Eventually we had to call it a night.

Thursday: Another Chicago day for me, woo. Got to explore a bit and do some more walking, met Lynn for lunch. Eventually checked into the Sheraton (which ohmygosh has the most amazing beds ever) and waited for the BlogHer festivities to begin.

And that my friends is where I'm going to leave you...there is so much BlogHerness and I'm way too tired to even begin to cover the awesomeness, but I will leave you with a teaser pic:

love it.

Oh good times all around.




And how was your week/weekend? Anything I missed since I admit I may not make it to all posts since my reader is 1000+ (oh boy), haha.



happy monday!

It's all about LOVE Renee.

Dear Renee,

Happy Bridal Shower! Bet you didn't see this one coming huh? Well you can blame it all on Erin and her super cuteness of an idea to give you a virtual bridal shower before the big day.

Seriously I think it's just the cutest and I almost wish I was already married so I could give you some pre-married life tips, but we're pretty much in the same boat here, haha. Instead I've decided to share my own little list of what Love means to me (well sort of, just a snippet at least) because well that's all I got right now...

Love is...

• ...sometimes letting the boy win at Wii bowling instead of kicking his butt everytime.

• ...sharing a bottle of wine on a Saturday night and watching a horrible (yet easy oh so easy to make fun of) movie together.
  
  
• ...watching Sports Center for an hour before asking to change the channel.
  
  
• ...being totally silly and not getting embarrassed.
  
  
• ...a whole lot of laughing.
  
  
• ...a little spontaneous adventure every now and then.
  
  
• ...kind of crazy, a little tiring, but all sorts of awesome and amazing.
  
  
• ...eating his soggy fries while he takes your crunchy ones.
  
  
• ...taking ridiculous pictures like this:
  
  
  
  

Renee I am so excited for you and hope you have the most lovely and wonderous wedding ever! I hope your Love is everything I wrote and more. You and the Beau seem quite fantastic together so congrats times a million and can't wait to read all about it! :)





happy friday!

Extreme Home Freakout

As you readers know, Katelin is in Chicago this week partying it up with everyone at Blogher. She has asked me, Rachel from Mom in Real Life, to write a guest post for her. I was COMPLETELY lost on what to write since I already had to come up with a 20sb blog swap post, a guest post for Free and Flawed, and a top secret post for Friday.
Seriously, my brain was fried.
On top of this Dan and I qualified for a home loan!!!

I know not all of you know me that well, but please feel free to do a happy dance for us right now.

I'll wait.

Thanks.

Anyways, my every waking moment was spent looking at houses, dreaming of remodeled kitchens, learning about property taxes. Blogging was far from my little brain.
Tuesday morning I woke up to a tired Dan, sitting at his laptop (since 4am!) scrolling through MLS #'s. He grunted something along the lines of;
"I find houses. Look. Now."
I looked over the ones he found and many of them had similar problems;

1) PEOPLE! I'm sure the thought of having a bar in your basement sounds "cool" or "totally awesome" but 99% of the bars I saw suuuuuccckkkkkked. To keep these in my future house would require me to be constantly drinking the same number of beers (12) that you had when you built these retched things!
2) I didn't realize so many people had pools. I tried those temporary pools last summer. All I managed to do was grow myself an army of Lagoon creatures.
3) Hi, house owner? 1970 called. They want their wood paneling back.

But one house stuck out. It was old and it had character. I mentioned it to Dan and he said that he had been thinking about the same house. As the day progressed we built the pedestal for this house higher and higher. By the time we went to see it we had pictures of Pottery Barn photo shoots dancing in our heads.

Once I stepped in I knew it was all wrong. The house had been abandoned giving it a Zombie movie feel. Drinking glasses still sat out. A baby bouncer was in the other room. A litter box (still with cat shit) sat by the back door.
I won't get into all the structural problems *shudder* but Dan did discover one MAJOR things.
"Um Rachel. There's no showers."
"No shower heads?"
"Nope, no showers at ALL. Just tubs...."
At this point I grabbed Diana and sprinted out of the house.

As I sat in my car, trying to scrub the smell of the house off of me, all I could think was;

"Oh man, this is going to make such a good blog post."

Food I cannot resist

Hey everyone! It's Jessica from Everyday Adventures of Me in the City here guest posting for you today while Katelin is chillaxing with me in Chicago for BlogHer (oh yes, I saw her today).

So if you're joining me from my blog, I mentioned there that I love food but that I find some foods I absolutely cannot resist. Like, if you put it in front of me, I won't be able to resist myself.

It's not a scary sight, trust me :)

Now, let's take a look at what I can't resist.

• Garrett's popcorn - local Chicago popcorn shop. I'm not lying, people in my office have pushed people to get to leftovers of this. The cheese/caramel corn mix is like dying and going to heaven

• Rotisserie chicken - yeah I can't resist this. I walk by the chickens cooking at the store and I'm like a puppy for sale in the window (slightly sad)

• M&Ms - plain or peanut, I love them. Especially when they are slightly chilled in the fridge

• Strawberries - see, not everything I like is bad for me! I love fresh strawberries and fruit in summer. Yum

• French fries - cheese sauce is optional but I love fries. So addictive

• Dunkin' Donuts Munchkins - yeah a coworker used to bring these as a Friday treat and I could not resist them. I like the cake donuts best. Seriously tasty

So the question for tonight is, what foods are irresistible to you?

Oh yeah and I did use the tag "my friends kick ass" because I do :) Ask Katelin.