Thursday, March 19, 2009

Girls Weekend Part 2

Here are some more pics from my ladies weekend with my Associated girls.

Here is Nikki waiting for her piercing. Looks like a pretty happy camper!

Nikki and I enjoying our time at L & M's...

Colettes husband! We have never gotten to hang out with him so Nikki and I were very excited!


Nikki, Colette and myself. I believe this was at Pudges. We tried to go to Dicks but even with Nikki's husband with us, they wouldn't let her in. Poo on them!





Monday, March 16, 2009

St. Croix Part 1

I know, I know. These are way behind. Part 2 of my St. Croix pictures I posted a while ago. But here are some photos from my point and shoot from our wedding vacation.

Here is the tiny little 10 seater island hopper that brought us from Puerto Rico to St. Croix. We had a slight delay since there was a storm and I'm sure we would have crashed in this little thing. Max's mom called it a flying Taurus. Haha, she is so funny. We purposely didn't tell her about the tiny planes because we KNEW she would freak out. And freak out she did!
There were so many pretty flower around the hotel... they picked flower right off the bushes for some of the decoration for the wedding.
This is Max's sister Harmony and I. We were exploring the beach with JW, Rach, Lynsie and Isaac I think.
This is the part of the beach we were walking along... not really beach. More coastline? There were lots of sea urchins lurking in the rocks. Max got stung on his hand when he fell over while snorkeling and I got one in my foot when my sandal slid off. Let me tell you, they take forever to get out, and they sting for a long time even after they are out.
Max and I pre sea urchin.
This was our first little cottage... it had all the necessities. Bed, tv, bathroom and a kitchenette. They did upgrade us to a way nicer cottage since we were the wedding couple ;)
This is Max's cousin Tony and his fiancee Tina. We were on our way for a horseback ride in the rainforest! They were so nice and paid for us to come with them!
We were in the taxi here... we had to drive from Christensted to Fredrickson which was on the other side of the island. Our main taxi driver for our whole wedding group was Dallas. He as a great guy.
Max was in front of me since his horse was a "biter".
My purty lady.
This was a section that completely covered in moss. It's hard to tell by the picture how completely covered everything was but it was drowning in the stuff!

Isn't this a classic vacation picture! The whole palm tree, sand, ocean thing going on. Very VERY beautiful I will tell you!
Just Max and I. Our horses weren't cooperating very well.



This was a giant termites nest... Fascinating stuff huh?

Here is a little better look on how the moss covered everything. This is us going to walk under a strangler tree. You can't even see the branches!
We found this plant on our horseback ride that's leaves tasted just like lemons! My friends ended up not liking them but Max and I sure did! Apparently they are really good to put out on your counters if you have a bad case of ants.
My Opa and I relaxing at the pool.
This is my Oma.
My mom, sister and I looking really hot after swimming and sweating in the heat.
Max's sister Angel and I.
This was before I got into my wedding dress. Always the goofball right? This tank top is a special tank top. Rachel wore it before she got married and she passed it on to me. I wore it while I was getting ready and I will pass it down to JW or Lynsie when it is their turn! In essence, we will all wear it before getting married.
Saucy time ;)

Girl Weekends

I have had a couple of great girl weekends recently! With all of this working, a girl just needs some time to play! Two weekends ago, I went with my Monday crew plus Sarah to the MOA for some much needed shopping. I definitely got some things that I needed plus a few extras that just put me in a good mood ;) The only problem I had is that one of the pair of work pants that I got from Maurices left the ink tag on it and no Maurices around here has the correct thinger to remove it! So now I have to go all the way back there just to get the tag removed. Poo. They are very lucky that I need to go to ikea to get a few things for my new kitchen!

Here are some photos from our shopping, just some goofy ones. We were in Sears and right by the purses (which we of COURSE had to go by), they had an area for church hats! I haven't seen church hats in a while so I took some pics of us in our choice hats.

Sarah of course chose a yellow one to match her new shirt. Sarah is funny, she started the day in one outfit and by the end of the day was in a completely different one including shoes.
I don't even have to explain this one, Rachel is just funny. Nice pick Rach for the hat!
Fluffy one for Jessie Walton... Looking like a fancy lady.
Oh yes Lynsie, very saucy in your Kentucky Derby style hat ;)
This hat was giant! I have a very large head and I am not afraid to say it but this hat wouldn't even stay on my head it was so large!
Now, I don't mean to offend anyone by this picture but seriously, this was the largest bra I have ever seen in my life!!!! Lynsie and JW could have put their heads in each side and it would have easily accommodated them. In this picture I have a pack of three socks in each side and it still was quite saggy. I won't tell you the exact size because, like i said, I don't want to offend anyone but lets just say it was in the middle alphabet. Do you like the hat? I should have gotten it... dang it!
This past weekend I had another girls day/night with my work ladies! I got done at Holiday a little early and got to go with the work gals down to the tattoo place. For some reason, my goofy co workers got into a discussion about piercings and decided to go down and get some stuff pierced. Nikki and Colette got their noses pierced while Amy got her nipple pierced. Random huh? I watched Amy getting her piercing done... I was quite curious as to how they do it. I guess I can check that off my list!

Here is Colette getting hers done. Her camera ran out of room right as she was getting her nose done so I just took some with mine. Here she is just waiting. Look how she looks so professional even while laying down!

Haha, this was right when the needle was going thru her nose.
And the giant needle sitting there. I guess these photos are not for the squeamish.
I am going to try and get the rest of the pics from Nikki off her camera. After the while piercing business was done, we went out for the evening! Started at Applebees and made our way over L and M's in Roberts. I am not the bar hopping type, I am more of a club person but I had a lot of fun! Even Colette's husband came down and met us there! Nikki and I were very excited because we have not hung out with or even barely talked to Joe before. All in all, very nice couple of weekends.

Next weekend Max is having a poker party at our house. The first since October! He has been very upset that we haven't had one in so long but with the wedding and working 2 jobs, I don't have very many weekends off!

Friday, March 6, 2009

a few wedding pics

i'm at work right now so i can't add a whole bunch of pics because i can't resize them but here are a few!










Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Shop. Shop. Shop.

no i don't have very much money to throw around... not much at all but there are some essentials that i have had to recently purchase that i am waiting for.

my countertop! i haven't ordered this online but menards should be calling soon saying they are ready for us to pick up! i love the color of our kitchen so very much and i can't wait to see the finished effect of our new stuff! you will understand when you see how nasty the kitchen was. plus once we get the countertop installed we will be able to use our new sink and faucet too... its one of those beautiful tall curved faucets. Luca will actually fit under it when i give him a bath :)

my glasses. i went to the eye doctor at the beginning of the month and haven't been able to order glasses until now! i have been getting some nasty headaches at work as of recent. if you can believe it, i got 2 pairs of glasses WITH anti flare lenses for 35 dollars. that's right, 35 dollars. Caitlin let me on to this website www.zennioptical.com where they have extremely cheap and good looking glasses for like 8-15 dollars! the anti flare lenses were an extra $5 per glasses so it would have been $25 with out that. pretty nice huh! i went to pearl vision to try on some glasses first to be sure of some that look good on me because obviously you can't try glasses on through the internet so hopefully the ones i picked will look alright. if they don't, then i can just get a different pair since they are so cheap!

oh my beloved books. i ran out of books to read. out of the hundreds of books that i own, i stinkin' ran out of books. i am trying to restock on books so that i won't run out again for a while so my mom got me a couple at a thrift store and i ordered 5 online for $25. on sat when i go shopping with the girls from some of max's poker winnings (i really need work clothes), i am hoping to get them to stop at goodwill so i can take a look at the books there. i can't wait for garage sale season where i can get tons of books for a quarter!

as i said before, I am going shopping on sat with my lady friends and i am so very excited about it! i haven't gone mall shopping since my birthday last july. yes. LAST JULY! i have done a little jcpenny shopping since then but just to get a few sweaters for work for the winter. i have been running on one pair of work pants for a while now and a little variety would be nice! we are heading to the mall of america and ikea and i CANT. WAIT!

waiting for these things has been making my week go by quite slow but working so much has been making my week go by very fast. does this mean time is going normal for me?

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

i heart

i just NEED. TO. GET. A. MOVE. on my photography stuff!

i miss taking photos so very much.

since i have been working both jobs and with the wedding in december, i just haven't had time to
even pull out my camera.

it makes me very sad to think that while i am working away at these jobs that are not my heart filled joy, my favorite (most expensive) thing i own, is sitting in my office.

i don't have photoshop on my computer right now either and that makes me sad.

i have all those wedding photos that i want to play around with and i can't!

jw, can you help me with this please?!?!?!?!

a new computer would be a dream too... that will come someday right?

i might have to steal some kids soon so that i can remember what it feels like to have my camera in my hand!

molly? can i steal mya? i can steal my niece too, she's due for her 2 year pics.

now, just to steal some time away from mother nature....... or father time. whoever.