golden weekend

it was all glitz, glam & gold this weekend as the olympics kicked off (USA! USA! USA!), my mom came to the city for a "spa day" saturday, one of our favorites, becca, celebrated her golden birthday, as well as a day trip on sunday to our dearest friends, kim & mike, lake house.  we're all "go-go-go!" these days as we want to get everything in before we leave!  by sunday evening, we were pooped.  we enjoyed a wendy's frosty and some gymnastics on tv before calling it night.  hope your weekend was busy fun too!

[by the way, when i say becca (aka B$) celebrated her golden birthday, she celebrated her GOLDen birthday.  everything and everyone was dressed to the nines in gold!  it was amazing!]

coffee & tea

i met up with one of my greatest friends, jen, this afternoon for coffee & tea.  i see and chat with jen all the time during the week, but it was this little, unplanned visit that really made my day.  i was also spoiled to get to see her again only a few hours later.  dang, i'm lucky.  thanks for always being awesome, jpec.      

b is for becca, bumper & bowling

our dear friend becca is celebrating her golden birthday this upcoming weekend.  [yay for 29!]  i got the opportunity to help her pick out some party supplies last week.  the theme is gold so it was fun to hunt down all things gold in the store ... especially these amazing $$ glasses.  for those that don't know, becca goes by the nickname B$ so these were more than fitting.  we can't wait to her help celebrate!

on a more frustrating note, our pretty little new car had its first accident.  i always thought cole would make the first scratch [did i say that out loud?], but it was me who put the mark on the bumper.  it'll be fine after a little elbow grease, but still makes me mad.  grrr!

and now for more fun stuff!  over the weekend went bowling with one of our favorite couples - the cowie's!  oh man, they're great.  as for their bowling skills, eh.  i kid ... kind of.  overall, it was a great time.  [below is a pic of us on the bus en route to the bowling alley.  such dorks.]  oh, and if you're curious, yours truly had the highest score of the night!  145, baby!  b is for BOOM!

oh, we worked for the weekend

it was busy at work this past week due to an office move, team members visiting and the overall day-to-day that keeps me on my toes.  cole had a similar experience, so friday ended with us falling asleep before 10pm.  [best. sleep. ever.]  we had a jam-packed weekend once we woke up the next morning as softball games, brunch*, a bbq and a trip to the beach kept us occupied both saturday & sunday.  unfortunately, we got caught in a bad storm while at the beach.  see the storms rolling in below!

*we had brunch at revolution brewery.  i shared the egg's benedict and french toast with cole's sister.  cole had the biscuits & gravy, as did his brother-n-law.  sadly, no pics...we ate it all too quickly!

i knew i'd be bad at this

lets see, over two weeks have gone by and we haven't made any updates?! that's because we're too busy having fun with our family & friends! we spent the 4th of july camping at turkey run in indiana ... wait ... i lied. we TRIED camping. it was us and 5 of our friends and just sweat the whole time due to the extreme heat. after doing the lazy river on day 2, [and boy, do i mean lazy. the water was so low it took almost 4 hours to complete!] we made the executive decision to drive to our friends lake house instead. best. decision. even. hope to head up to that lake many more times this summer!