I love weekends

For the record.

Last Friday was bible study at Amy's house... it was good to be there. And her dad brought home four baby raccoons that were um... rescued... from a chimney. They were really cute! Bob wouldn't let me keep one. Not that I would actually want a baby raccoon... haha.

Saturday we spent working at our duplex and buying things at Menard's (currently my favorite store). We got mattresses and a microwave and looked at washers and driers and we're almost done painting. It started raining before we got them all home so that was an adventure. Our singing shower was Saturday night. Kind of strange to be having a singing shower, but it was good. :)

I woke up early and really cold on Sunday because the power was out and the tractor on the generator was really noisy. I'm ready for spring and not snow! Thankfully, my flowers all survived. We had some issues getting to church so we were kind of late. Bob's family came for church and for supper afterwards and a game of LOTR Risk. Good times.

We have a church shower tonight. woot. And something every night for the next two weeks. *sigh* I kind of just want to do nothing and sleep, but, I'll just have to wait for it.

Blessings.

26 days.

Prairie Fire

There's a patch of prairie grass on the hillside above the highway here at work. Today was burn day, so I wandered out to watch during lunch. It was really cool, it made a lot more noise and crackling than I expected. They scared up a bunch of rabbits... the higher the fire climbed up the hill more rabbits would come darting out across the lawn. I smell a little bit like smoke now. :)

Blessings.

life

So I'm maybe a little behind on the whole blogging thing. oops. I've been busy. Or something. :)

Last week we got to hang out with Caleb and Bethany, went to potluck at Dale and Meg's (fun, but really, really weird), got our dresses fitted (I still like mine, and the girls look really cute in theirs), got a lot done at our duplex (thanks to our moms and random aunts and cousins), and went to champaign to hang out with BDY and J-nelle (custard cup is amazing...).

Good times. Showers start this weekend. woot.

I have a bunch of crocus blooming in my flowerbeds and 3 flats of flowers in my potting shed. Life is good.
Blessings.

Taylor

Such a good weekend- the weather was amazing, the wedding was good, and I got to see all kinds of cool people, which I love.

Rustin and Sharon and Grace were in town for Mark's wedding so we got to spend Thursday and Friday with them. I don't think I've seen them since that Minneapolis trip a year or so ago when we all went to visit Meg. Good times.

Saturday Bob and I left early for Taylor because he had pictures... a little too early for me on a Saturday, but I lived. :) Gab and I met up during pictures and went to the mall, which was great. It was full of stock cars on display and the nascar families and good old boys that go along with that. Pretty amusing. We ate lunch at a fun restaurant in Quincy and then went to Hoerr's to hang out until pictures were over.

The rehearsal made me nervous. I'm maybe freaking out a little bit about walking down the aisle. It was bad enough at Heidi's wedding when no one really was looking at me. :)

The rehearsal dinner was good... got to sit by Neal and Kim, who I never get to see anymore... and then went to the singing... Afterwards some of us U of I people went back to the hotel, and went to Steak and Shake, and explored the exercise room, and hung out for a while. There were seven girls in our room- we had a bunk bed and a king bed. It was a little tight... but lots of fun.

I haven't been to Taylor for church in ages. It was a really good day. The wedding was cool... very fun to see Markus up there. :)

We left for home after the reception was over and had just gotten outside of Quincy when my engine started overheating. *sigh* It would. So we turned the heat on and opened the windows and stopped at a dinky gas station in the middle of nowhere to look for coolant. We're standing there looking at the very limited selection of uncut antifreeze trying to decide what to do... and two older gentlemen started offering all kinds of advice. (ok, so they were really, really old. and hard of hearing. and very obviously bored because they were sitting at a card table in a dinky gas station drinking coffee in their seed corn caps. It was hilarious. And fit every stereotype of old men in small towns.) They told us that the dollar general down the road had pre-cut coolant "two for 9 dollars." And that they were pretty sure that they had got a new shipment in this week. And that they didn't think anybody sold un-cut coolant anymore. Did I mention they were hard of hearing? So funny. I was having a hard time not laughing. Anyway. They were wrong about the price of coolant at DG but we got some there anyway. It didn't really help though so I'm driving the taurus until my car can get fixed. I told Bob he'll have to prepare himself because these things seem to happen to me a lot. :)

But we did make it home without the engine blowing up or something awful like that. And it was an excellent weekend, just really good to see U of I and Champaign people and Scott and Mike.
Blessings.

quote of the night

"If I'm ever dating someone I'm going to ask her if she likes to remodel. If she says she does, it's over."

or something close to that... someone was tired of painting and trying to remove the awful wall paper in our kitchen. *grin*

beauty and the mess

We had another busy weekend... but it was good. Friday night was WCV- I haven't been to that in a while so it was good to be there again. It might be the last time too... mur... sad news. The older ladies love "In the Garden" so we sang it twice, which is cool, but the guys don't like to lead it so they make us girls do it... always interesting.

I slept in Saturday morning and then spent the rest of the day cleaning and painting at our duplex. We got one room painted and most of the upstairs cleaned. And got to hang out with Kerry and Kelly, and Dale and Meg stopped by, and Bob's fam. It was a happening place. :) I managed to not get any paint on my clothes, which I love... but my flip flops have a few spots of 'cheerful morn' on them now. O well.

We went to Giselle on Saturday night- it was great. :D Ballet is just so pretty. Bob wasn't super impressed... but I enjoyed it, and I'm glad he was willing to try it once with me.

Sunday my whole family was in Tremont for church and then went to his house for supper. And we stopped by our house to show the fam... *sigh* so much work to do still. O well, it'll get done sometime.
Blessings.

pictures and cool people

So taking engagement pictures went pretty well... it was kind of fun, and I did not end up in the lagoon, which was good. T and K are just cool, and it was fun to watch them work. Or not watch them, depending on where we were supposed to be looking at the moment. :) It was such a nice day- I was a little cold by the time we were done, but still I'd much rather spend an afternoon outside than inside working!

Last night we went down to Champaign to hang out with the girls. It's been a long time since I've been there, and it was really great to see them again. We ate supper at Applebee's and chilled... and didn't get any scrapbooking done. Big surprise. So last August when I was up on the north shore with Amber, Sarah, and Nat we stopped at a gift shop... they were selling all kinds of personalized key chains... one of them said 'I love Bob.' Apparently they distracted me and got it just in case because they were "hopeful." So funny. And Nat found this awesome tin sign for my kitchen that says 'homemade pie' on it, I'm pretty excited about that. We got home kind of late... *sigh* one of these days I'm going to get 8 hours again. *grin*

Nursing home singing tonight... painting and ballet tomorrow.
Blessings.

busy

I'm ready for life to slow down a little bit.... unfortunately it won't for another two months. *sigh* It's good though.

Friday night we went to the 'wild game supper' in Tremont. We sang a lot of old songs that I remember my aunt and uncles' groups sang way back in the day. :) It was fun... and Sprout was home for the weekend so it was good to see her.

I got most of the rest of my seeds planted Saturday, I'm just hoping they don't freeze in my potting shed- it needs to get warmer soon. We went to the Koch soup supper that evening and then left early (but were still a little bit late) for Tim's senior recital at Bradley. Good times.

We get to take engagement pictures tomorrow... I'm not sure if I'm excited or not, since I'm not very photogenic and I have a terrible time not blinking for pictures. It'll be fun, and I'll get to take the afternoon off. *grin*

Blessings.