a Wicked recap

outside by the official Wicked semi!

spoiled by my sister...love you!

ahhh it's almost show time!
Jordan was embarrassed that I made him stand here for the picture..

"no photography allowed"
I think the guy meant during the show so I snuck this pic of the stage!

WICKED was absolutely incredible!!!! From the very beginning opening scene all the way through to the closing scene and final moments! I was in awe the whole time and even found myself tearing up from time to time because I was just that happy to be there and so impressed by everything and loved the whole story line along with every single song. I would highly, highly recommend this show to anyone if you ever have a chance to go see it....then definitely, buy tickets when they become available and go see it!!! You will not regret it at all! The show was both mesmerizing and amazing all at the same time... I still have all of the songs stuck in my head!

The rest of the weekend was just as awesome as well... we stayed up late both nights playing cards, exchanging lots of stories, and plenty of laughs. Saturday night we actually stayed up until the sun came up. I mean, until it was "daybreak" as we kept calling it. When we realized it was 5am, we quickly wrapped up our card game and called it a night or morning? We all slept in late on Sunday, because that's how all Lazy Sunday's should start, and then had breakfast together before hitting the road back home to Iowa. The weekend went by way too fast but it was one for the record books that's for sure. Jordan and I were both spoiled with the awesome tickets for Wicked and all of the good food and good company for the weekend... I have the best sister ever! Can't wait until we are all together again in a few weeks! Thanks for the laughs and filling our lives with love, you're the best!

Friday Funnies - 6.14.13

We are getting ready to hit the road to leave for Milwaukee for the weekend and I can't wait! We are going up to my sister's place for a weekend of fun that will include a lot of laughs, lounging, and we are going to see WICKED!!! Ahhh I'm sooo excited! I love a great weekend spent with my sister but a weekend together with a show?! Perfect! Jordan is the only one out of us who has already seen Wicked but he is just as excited to see it again... I somehow already have the entire soundtrack memorized and I've never even seen the show so I definitely can't wait for some of the songs to make a little more sense! June is really shaping up to be a great month and I'm so lucky to have gotten so much time with my family and our friends. Here's to another amazing weekend - hope you all enjoy the weekend as well!

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now why didn't I think of this when I gave Paisley her summer buzz?!!

this kid is flying around on a broom like Harry Potter...

whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo!!! 

it seriously gets funnier the more you watch it.....

Friday Funnies - 6.7.13

It's Friday and it's girls weekend for me and guys weekend for Jordan! And today is also a special Friday because it's my parents 33rd wedding anniversary! Wow!! Way to rock, Mom and Dad! Hope you have a wonderful anniversary and 33 more years of wedded bliss - you two are my biggest supporters and have always encouraged me and loved me in all that I do. Thanks for being so awesome and the best parents a girl could ask for! Hope you all enjoy the weekend - around here it's supposed to be rainy and gloomy but that won't stop our fun! Since it's my parents wedding anniversary and my mom is spending the weekend with us, today's Friday Funnies is dedicated to moms and the job of being a parent. Enjoy!

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how is it that Mom's always know where everything is?!

The Mom Song

this is genius...and I better get this memorized for when I am telling my kids all of this same stuff!

aunts & the kiddos

This picture makes me so happy. There's nothing like a family weekend that really warms my heart! What a perfect way to spend the afternoon than with my sister and best friend....and with our hilarious and adorable niece and nephew, Teagan and Kemper, to love on as well! We are so blessed to be their Aunts and Godmother's! I never knew how much they would impact my life and how much I could possibly love them but my heart grew exponentially when each of them were born! I can't wait for them to meet their baby cousin this fall and watch them all grow up together!

Perfect Picks

Oh yeah, we're the highlighted team...at the top!

Jordan and I play in an NFL Pick 'Em Pool with my dad, sister, brother, several uncles and then lots of co-workers and friends of my uncles. We thought it would be a fun thing to get into and give us all something to talk smack about with each other. Well.....it has quickly turned into MUCH more than that. Basically, it's a really easy concept: you pick who you think is going to win every NFL game for the week and then give a tiebreaker score. That's it. No picking individual players or a defense. And the people who finish in the Top 3 each week win money! This pick 'em pool is perfect for me and Jordan because it's a great combination of my luck and his football knowledge (although, I know my fair share of football facts.) After a few kind of rough weeks, we've slowly been creeping our way back up to the top. Then the past two weeks, the Top 3 places came down to the tiebreaker score and we got beat out. Devastating. And so this week we came back with a vengeance!  AND WE TOTALLY DOMINATED!!!! We had PERFECT picks across the board for a solid 13-0 showing and no tie breaker to determine the winner. We outright won it and made some huge ground for the overall points for the season to get within 3 of the winner. Whoop whoop! Now that's what I call teamwork, baby!

the end is near

Well, the end of break is finally in sight. And now I'm suddenly realizing just how much I didn't get done over break. And I'm perfectly ok with this. Because there's not too many days that I can spend posted up on the couch with Jordan and watch an entire season of Dexter...or when I can sleep til 10:30 or 11:00 (if my body even lets me)...or do some laundry and cleaning between napping and cuddling with Paisley. But I am ready for school to get started. I'm actually feeling really prepared for this semester. I even have my books bought and one lesson done already for my online class. What's happening to me? I think the biggest nerd I know my sister is starting to rub off on me. Not like I'm complaining, clearly it's paid off for both of us to be nerds. Literally. Schools love us and are PAYING us to be students. What's up to no more student loans?? Booyahhh.


To cap off break, I decided that tomorrow I'm giving myself a spa day. And I'm telling myself that I deserve it and since I have Christmas money, that means it should be used for a special treat. I love the feeling of a fresh hair cut, highlights and a mani! I gotta look good at the start of the semester to impress the kids in my class. Don't want them to think I'm some greasy, broke and sloppy TA that they have. Obviously, I am none of the above even without the spa day. But who doesn't feel better about themselves knowing they're nicely put together? I rest my case.


In other news, we finally got some snow here. Puke. Seriously, I was perfectly happy and content with having no snow yet. I could have went all winter without it! It's like snow hits the pavement and suddenly people are like, "ooh driving, what is this crazy metal box with wheels that I have gotten myself into? Brakes? What do you mean I need to tap on my brakes in the snow and ice?" Some people's driving in the snow/winter conditions ends up driving me fucking nuts. Unless you're going to work or have an emergency, get off the roads people. Go back home, get some movies lined up and be a bum all day. And then order delivery pizza like we did because we're not driving out in this weather and afterall, that's their job...right? 


Jordan is finally on the second book of The Hunger Games Trilogy, thank god. I feel like we're in a two-man book club because we discuss it each night before we go to bed. Then I turn on a movie or go to sleep and tell him that he has to keep reading so we can talk about it more. I wonder if our kids will just keep reading like that when I tell them to? I hope that they love reading as much as I do or even if they're big closet readers like Jordan, I'll be happy with that as well. Speaking of reading and watching a movie in bed, looks like it's that time of night to shower and get in bed to talk about The Hunger Games some more and our weekend plans. I wonder what kind of adventures we'll get into this time...cheers to the weekend and Happy Friday!!!