Dessert Party!

Sat, I met up with Sarah. We are working on a great project/gift for our friend Jody. She's getting married next month in CA! Michael and I are going and taking a few extra days for a vacation, I can't wait! And, it will be extra fun to have Sarah and Jackie both there! Once we give the gift to Jody, I'll post pictures on here...

Sunday we had a dessert party at my house for Michael's family. I made four desserts and everyone else each brought one. Also, I made a cheese ball and beer bread. We snacked, then played scattegories with all 8 of us. It was so fun...we were laughing the whole time. It was a great afternoon/evening. I have a ton of goodies left over...I brought them to work with me, I'm sure everyone appreciates that!

Michael and I took Lola to get ice-cream. They gave her a puppy cone, she loved it!

A trip home to family...

My weekend was just what I needed! I decided to go to Horton for the entire weekend. Whenever Michael and I go, it's always so fast due to either a holiday or the fact that Michael works every Sat - which means we can't leave town til after 5 on Sat afternoons. So, I decided to come for the whole weekend by myself. I stopped in Topeka to see my wonderful friend, Karen. It was good to catch up and play with Andrew and Ryleigh! I played a little b-ball and got my hair done with lots of bows and a braid...I can always use some pampering! From there, I stopped in Holton to visit my brother, Brad and see his house. We chatted a bit, then I finished my trip to Horton late Friday night. On Sat, Kelsey and I picked up Jason and ate at Breadeaux Pizza. It was good as always. My friend Paula was working and we visited for awhile. Then we went back to Jason's house. Chelsie had just gotten home....we hung out there for most the afternoon. After eating dinner, we met my parents and Brad at home and played some good old fashion Pitch and other card games. It was a lot of fun!

Sunday, we went to church and had lunch, then I headed back to KC to see my husband! We didn't get to hang out too long though. I had girl's night bunco. I met up with some friends, then we went to Lisa's house. It was fun to chat with everyone...and I ended up with the most wins and collected $35! Luckily I had Monday off since I didn't get home til almost midnight! It was a wonderful and relaxing weekend. By the way, Michael had a good one too. He hung out with friends both nights and is now an expert at guitar hero. :) Oh, and he cleaned out the garage so his 1965 Impala fits in it...nice for him to work on it, but not good for me with no space to walk to the deep freeze. Oh well...could be worse things to deal with.

Here is a couple pictures of the awesome crosses Michael got me for Christmas!

Girl's day and a birthday

Friday, we went to Dave and Buster's for date night. Ate, then played some games. I broke a nail getting crazy when hitting the NOS on a racing game. It was a fun date night! Sat, I met my friend Jackie for lunch and a movie. We went to Bride Wars, perfect chick flick! Sat night, Michael and I went out for our friend Kristin's birthday. It was fun. El Patron has pretty good food, then we headed to the Cashew.

Sunday, we went over to Michael's sister's. Jeff made homemade beer and Italian sausage. He did a great job on both!





Friday, we went to Dave and Buster's for date night. Ate, then played some games. I broke a nail getting crazy when hitting the NOS on a racing game. It was a fun date night! Sat, I met my friend Jackie for lunch and a movie. We went to Bride Wars, perfect chick flick! Sat night, Michael and I went out for our friend Kristin's birthday. It was fun. El Patron has pretty good food and they sang and played for Kristin! Then we headed to the Cashew for a few drinks!

Sunday, we went over to Michael's sister's. Jeff made homemade beer and Italian sausage. He did a great job on both!

Bowling

Ok, I'm still a week behind, but hope to catch up this week with two posts.
My sister came to visit Friday! We went out to eat, then bowling with friends. Sat. day, Kelsey and I went and saw Four Christmas's and then did a little shopping. We went to the AMC on 119th. The show time was only for the fork and dine, but since it was daytime, the tickets were $10 each and $5 of it goes towards a food/drink purchase. It was really nice there and exciting since we'd never been to one of them. There's a HUGE bar when you walk into those theaters...and inside the theater, they come to you to get your orders, crazy place! Kelsey left around 5 to head home. Michael and I stayed home Sat night...watched movies and hung out. Sunday, we did about the same...went to church, then came home and watched movies. It was nice...I'm super old now...not wanting to go out that often! We watched Eagle Eye last night, it was pretty good....crazy action packed!

Christmas!!!

Michael and I had a very busy, but great Christmas! On Christmas Eve, we headed to my parents' house. My mom had dinner for her side of the family. It was yummy and then we opened presents. Afterwards, we headed to Christmas Eve mass. On Christmas, my family got up and opened presents from Santa and each other. Then, we all went to my aunt's house for Christmas with my dad's side of the family. This year, we had Italian food for something different. It was really good! From there, we left for Michael's parents' house. We opened presents from everyone, then had another great meal! Finally, when we got to our house, Michael and I exchanged our gifts to each other...then headed to bed since both of us had to work the next day. It was a wonderful holiday with so much good food and gifts, and it was great to spend time with our families! I'm exhausted again, just thinking about it!