Nick and Lydias Wedding Pictures

This is just a few of the wedding pictures from Nick and Lydia's Wedding on July 11th. I took a TON more plus some videos. It was a great day!

Hello Long Lost Blog!

So I haven’t written in a while but I need to do an update! Things have just been pretty busy since we got back from the 4th of July! First up was Nick and Lydia’s wedding on July 11th. It was a really beautiful wedding and I’m so happy for the two of them. After a beautiful honeymoon at Sandals, they are now in Michigan and enjoying it up there! Nick's job is based out of there and Lydia is working on getting a teaching job there since she just graduated with her Masters.

The next day we had Ben’s grandma’s surprise 70th birthday party (July 12th). His grandma thought she was going to Olive Garden and then someone was going to pick her up and bring her down to Ben’s Aunt the lives two houses up from us to “pick her up to go” and then we would surprise her. Ben’s aunts were supposed to be the ones to pick Ben’s grandma up but Ben ended up being the one to pick her up. It still went off and she had really no idea even after seeing the balloons and everything in the front of the house. She was mad though because she wanted her Olive Garden. But it was a good time with almost the whole family there. I have lots of pictures to post from that day! I’m going to make a slide show of the whole day and I took some video so that will be really nice to have.

Next up was our friend Kyle’s birthday the next weekend (July 18th). We went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse and then we went back to Liz and Kyle’s house. We decided we were going to stay the night there at the last minute so we could drink and not have to drive home. I got really wasted, probably worse than I’ve ever been except for once or twice. Some interesting pictures came out of the night but I will stick to the good ones when I post them! We went to breakfast the next morning at Bob Evan’s…I just had fruit. It’s all my stomach could handle.

The following weekend we really didn’t do a whole lot because I was tired of running around. We did go to our friend Rob and Rachelle’s house Friday night to swim and hang out. It was ok until Rachelle started yelling at Rob in front of everyone. Long story but it was still a pretty good time. I think other than that we pretty much hung out at home all weekend and relaxed.

This past weekend on Friday night, we had game night at our house. Melanie, Brian, Kyle and Liz came over and we played board games with them. My mom found a bunch of my old games from my old house (it’s being rented right now so the games were still in the basement). So I have like 3 different Monopoly versions, 2 Clue’s and a bunch of older games. My favorite has to now be Outburst which my mom actually gave me – she got it as a wedding gift a few years back and never had opened it! Then on Saturday was Melanie and Brian’s 5th wedding anniversary party. They just did something small at their house with family and friends. It was a good time. Mel picked me up at 1 pm so I could help her get set up for the party. I brought my laptop and did some music for us to listen to. We just had rigatoni, salad and rolls to eat but it was still good. We hung out there pretty much all night and had a good time but I was tired from being there all day.

So I think that’s about all the catching up on events. Now as far as work goes, it’s not too bad. We are just still going crazy with orders because of swine flu and with the fall coming up which is always a bigger season for us. I started my four 10 hour days this week which have been ok so far. It was really nice having Monday off but it’s been a struggle getting up earlier and staying later. But I am adjusting already so I think it will work out!

I am down to a total weight loss of 14.5 pounds! I’m so excited but none of my clothes fit. I did just buy two new shirts for my trip to San Antonio (Aug 18 I leave for work!) which are dressy shirts but I need to get more pants for work! Most of my shirt fit still but my pants are getting too big! I am still trying to hit 20 pounds before I leave but I don’t think that will happen. But that’s ok! I’m happy with where it’s going and I just need to crack back down on my eating because I’ve been a little lax lately about it. I am still walking every day and I’m trying to walk the neighborhood at night if I have the energy and it’s nice out. So wish me luck!!

I’ve also started a huge project to back up my pictures on CD’s and on to Shutterfly and remove them from my computer. It ran out of space last weekend for me to add more pictures so I need to do it! It’s been a not so fun process but I have this need to double back them up just in case. I would hate if anything happened to some of my pictures. So that’s pretty much what I’ve been working on at night right now until I get through them all. They are on CDs but it’s just backing them up to the website that’s taking a while.

I think that’s all of my updating for now. I will be back to post pictures later!

One Year Ago...

Me and my hubby were getting married :) This first year has certainly had it's ups and downs but we survived. I love you honey!

Today we are going to Golden Corral to celebrate our anniversary and it's also Ben's Grandpa Blankenship's 74th birthday. Should be a good time :)