Already November

I can’t believe it’s already November! I’ve already decided that 2009 is going down as the fastest moving year of my life. We have less than two months left of the year — and only 3 weeks until I host Thanksgiving. Yikes.
I’ve made a few things I wanted to share with you all, including Pan [...]

Kathryn and Jesse Get Hitched

Like I said earlier, we had a blast this weekend! Ross, Tessa, Kathryn and I have been friends since freshman year of college and spent the 2-3 years after that as roommates. For nearly 7 years they’ve been my second family. I couldn’t ask for a better group of friends. This weekend was an awesome [...]

Sushi, Booze and Byrnie

As I said before, we went home to Chicago this weekend. Friday night, we stopped at Tess and Greg’s place as we usually do when we come into town. Tessa had been wanting to take me to this “conveyor belt sushi place,” which sounded both odd and amazing.

Sushi Station was heaven on Earth for me. [...]

Weekend Recap Park 2

Saturday I woke super early to get a run in with Brent before my four hour drive to Chicago. I don’t mind that drive with other people, but it’s pretty boring when I’m by myself.
I got into town around noon and I was at my parents house for about 7 minutes before mom started running [...]

Pizza and Bowling

Did you have a good weekend? Mine was a really nice mix of socializing and vegging out. It included some homemade pizza.
This was my favorite flavor combination thus far. It had a simple tomato sauce made with slightly pureed canned tomatoes, salt, red pepper flakes and oregano. My toppings were kalamata olives and roasted red [...]

Cedar Point AKA “Up is so much worse!”

I am exhausted. Physically and mentally drained. Sort of like I’ve been kept awake for 72 hours and put into a garbage bag and beaten with a bat. My body isn’t too pleased with me, but we had so much fun!
We picked a great day to go. The sun was out but not too hot [...]

A Photoless Weekend Recap

I am finally in bed after what seems like the busiest 3 or 4 days of my life. I am sure, given my propensity for exaggeration, that it wasn’t really that crazy, but it sure felt like it. Friday was my friend Tessa’s birthday, but because she lives 4 hours away, I had not planned [...]

Shenanigans

Whew! It’s been an extremely busy few days. My friends came to visit and we partied it up like it was 2005! Hot. Here are a few of the photos.
We got ourselves all gussied up to head out. Unfortunately, we arrived at our destination to discover that it appeared to be “Seniors Night” or something [...]

Reflections & Resolutions

Here’s a quick recap of my New Year’s Eve, which was spent in the company of our good friends Tessa & Greg, a Nintendo Wii, and perhaps a little too much wine, champagne and jello shots.

Important things to note about the above series of photographs: Those were the coolest party hats ever, and there was [...]

Family, Friends, Food & Fun

Bear with me. This will be a long post. It was a BUSY, but very fun weekend. We ended up getting into town around 8:30PM Friday night. We stopped by a friend’s house to drop off their goodie box, and then headed over to my cousin Liz’s house to see my brother and some of [...]