Weddings, Pups, Friends, Sweet Ana and Drunken Times… What a Weekend!

We were so busy this weekend but it was so fun!! I played with Ana, pretended to be an undergrad and got drunk each night, stayed in a house with 7 dogs, had lou and my besties all together all weekend, ran into a ton of old high school friends of Alex’s, shopped with Stephanie and Tara (which ended with a minor catastrophe at Mc’D’s), enjoyed the 2 best things Statesboro has to offer at once… Kailey and Medical Center cheese sticks, got some sun, ate el sombrero- TWICE and even had a cookie dough blizzard on my ride home- more importantly i had one WITH lou- which you all know is rare, love it though bc it makes me feel less guilty   :) ha then we came home to reality and both stayed up all night studying!!

We didn’t mind though because it makes us appreciate coming home to our big comfy bed even more after sleeping on an air mattress all wknd! TJ and mill agree.. trust me!

Nothing short of a perfect Weekend!

Anyway, first on the list was to get TAN and play with ANA!! Cara was so sweet to join me and do most of the work! 

In case you can’t tell we bribed Ana to stand in front of us for the pics!! :) Unfortunately, one day she too will understand!

She is getting SOOO big and she is such a water worm now!! She still won’t go down the slide but she loves the water she told me she will when she turns 10 maybe!!

Alex T.  got a new rocket to launch off and was told he couldn’t do it until Lou got there, BAD IDEA. My Alex was spending the day studying but after I was asked by about 17 kids (of which I only knew half) “when is Lou going to be here so we can set off the rocket?” I forced him to put all his work down and get there!!

So they set it off two times until the parachute that comes out was lost… poor kids… ha but they loved it!

Did I mention we stayed in a house with 6 DOGS?

      

No worries… Milly kept them all in check!

   

Laura was babysitting a little pup named Gracie!

 

…and THE GIZ came to visit with JJ!

   

Besides that it was the usual crew of pups I guess  but it seemed like so much more… in a good way!

 

Ana wasn’t the only sweet girl I got to play with, Saturday Kailey joined us for lunch at Lou and I’s favorite (besides El Som) …..Medical Center!!

What a handful… her new thing apparently is to tell her mama that she got in a fight at daycare… YEAH she says “I pushed ‘em mama”

Fortunately yet strangely (so far) it is all made up in Kaileys creative mind and her only boo boo is from walking into a book shelf! haha

Then it was time for the main event….Kristen and Chad’s wedding was BE-UTI-FUL!!! ha and actually I bragged about Kailey the whole night as if she were mine… such a mess!

  It rained during the actual ceremony (which we pretended like we didnt miss due to a small stylist crisis) but the reception was soo perfect and the rain had stopped! It was an old plantation farm and she decorated it soooo cute!!

They made the old buggy a present holder.. how cute!!

I even found a sweet barn kitty, i think i was told 45676 times “No you can’t keep it” and Lou refused to hold it for fear that he too would fall in love. So it was my baby for the night!

The beautiful bride and groom made their exit headed to Savannah for the night (and we actually saw them Sunday afternoon at the gas station headed back home to Gainsville) they will be enjoying a honeymoon in 2 weeks!! I remember when people to told me to do that, i thought they were crazy but it does seem much more relaxed, go home, un-pack and then look forward to a VACAY!

Anyway then it was time to find a ride back to Statesboro and head to Mill House to meet my girlies

Is it me or does Lou lou look super buff!! :)    

AND guess what i found!?!

A sweet baby puppy, it was Haley’s new lab but sooo cuddly and sweet, I think Lee and I fought over her French kisses all night!

Can you tell we had a blast!!?!?!? 

Can you tell I’m procrastinating…

I may be, but really, You will get a kick out of this….

Here I am eating a bowl of cereal and of course Milly is sitting at my feet with tunnel vision, eyeing every sip i take. That part is usual however…. Then I noticed out the corner of my eye… She started spitting out her tricks…. she pawed at me, i ignored it, then she started sitting up and standing…

“No one asked you to do that Milly, you get it when mama’s done!”  but how do i ignore that!! I guess because I was reading simultaneously that I started eating more slowly…..

“Can mama finish please!?!?!” GEEEEEEEEEZ

She won….. she got the milk and the cereal!!

Countdown Til’ Finals: Lou- 1wk/ Jen- 2wks

Can you believe it!! I still remember the blog I wrote the first week of him starting his last semester… it included the start of the countdown, which seemed so far away…It really has flown by!

I’m honestly just happy to be have the end/summer time in sight!

SIDE NOTE

I sooo want to make a list of things to play/work on/ do this summer with ALLLLLLLL my free time, if you are jealous of my happiness in looking forward to free time take with you the fact that this MAY be my last summer ever “off”.

First project on list: Make wedding scrapbook!

(No i never did one, I can’t wait and love doing them but it’s such a big task… just perfect for this summer! btw: I still have not received our coffee book album from Steve…)

END OF SIDE NOTE

Somehow I’m not going as crazy as i was during this time last semester… maybe i am becoming immune to handling larger amounts of stress? hmm. possibly. “Nice thought Jen”… your future / aspiring counselor’s brain at work :)

OR

Maybe I just have a really good stress reliever to come home too??? I think soooo!! Name: Tucker Jones.

No matter how much school work I have or what happened that day you can’t help but feel like your the luckiest “mommy” in the world coming home to that lover boy.

Sorry Lou, you too of course, but i never get to come home to you on Clemson nights… you always get home after me  :)

So I get these two….

I have to remember to walk in the house one day with a video camera to capture it… His bunny hops, running circles around the house (until he bumps into mill-she initially plays –I yell “starts in laughter ends in tears” then she gets mad-hair goes up-and she’s done), so tucker continues- the bunny hop, runs around crying/whaling it’s just the sweetest thing in the world to come home to!!

Milly of course, is so sweet to come home to as well, but Tucker just treats us as if we are GODS when we come home to him.

I actually gave them a treat as i walked in the door today and TJ was so happy he dropped it, Milly snatched it up faster than I could blink… imagine that. So TJ decided soon after that he wanted it back…. I had to pry Mill’s jaws open to get it out and poor deprived baby girl was left with only her own treat!

Geez!

rough life huh… btw… I think she needs her own embroidered pillow since she now, will NOT sleep with out one…oh yeah, feathered too please :)

Anyway, I promise to video tape an every day arrival soon!

So because I hate unfinished out of order bloggo’s I will hurry and say this weekend was filled with amazing weather, Alex and I laid out for the first time this year on a beautiful grassy hill in a park I pass everyday on the way to school…. it was filled with pretty yellow flowers!

AND yes, weeds are flowers too!

“May all your weeds be wildflowers”

This was hillarious by the way… Alex decided to roll down the hill right before we left (like you did when you were little) –So he balled up and rolled so fast down the hill to the bottom- Poor thing he was soooo dizzy he could barely walk back up the hill and then we had to go for him to shower bc the pollen was all over him… guess we’re old?? This was his recovery pose :)

Why is it when your young you don’t get dizzy no matter what and your immune to pollen?

After Alex got dizzy and his initial burn of the year (which usually starts and ends there)  it was time for my promised fondue date at Park Avenue in Duluth to celebrate my internship placement for  next year at Laurel Heights Hospital!!

We were actually disappointed with the food… I know, fondue, how do you go wrong with that? It’s possible. The place was adorable however, it’s located in their downtown square and we sat outside listening to live music…

We finally got to use our restaurant.com gift certificate too! I payed 2$ for a 25$ gift certificate… the only catch is you have to spend a certain amount (usually 40-50$) and alcohol is not included… dessert is!

-Goal of the week: 3 more presentations, finish “cutting” paper and perform Mental Status Exam (Mom actually got me a book on interviews/assessments techniques and performing the MSE, it’s in the mail hope it helps with my paper, cross your finger it makes it by Thursday before we go to Statesboro!) Thanks Mom! (btw: that’s the 5$ –-i think-- dress you got me, good find! )

Thanks again!

* BTW did you guys know that slaves (of all types, sex slaves, clothes makers, fishermen, waiters, indentured servants) are more prevalent now than ever, even in the colonial days?

CRAZY huh. Just some food for thought!