Found a dress, check that one off the list!

This weekend Erin and Tessa flew in for a girls weekend and to help me find a dress! Marcia brought Mike up to the airport and brought Grant and Amber's two kids with her so we had a house full. It was so much fun to have all of the kids and get to see Erin and Marcia (and Mike). The best news of all is that I found a dress!! Thanks to Erin, she picked it off of the rack!!
Here is Tessa and I hanging out on the couch. She's grown so much since we saw her last.
Here's mom and Marcia with the girls. Finley had fun dress shopping, especially when I started trying on shoes. They were pretty so she had to try them on too!

We had craft night on Saturday. We made necklaces and discovered that none of us are going to be aspiring jewelry designers.

Sunday, Mike's daughter Allison came over to visit with her son Ryan. He's just a little younger than Tessa so they had fun meeting each other. Here they are hugging! They're both such loving, cuddly babies!!

While I'm at it...

Saturday night Eric and I met up with Kelly and her family and a high school friend of hers. We went down to Power and Light to Howl at the Moon, which is a piano bar. We had a lot of fun and even ran into Eric's roommate from when he lived in Texas!

Here's Michelle, me and Kelly.

This is a picture of Kelly, her mom, Michelle's mom, Michelle and Kelly's dad. They were all in town to go to the Chiefs game on Sunday. At least they had good weather for the game because as I hear, KC didn't play great...

....Or NASCAR drivers....

Sunday Eric and I went out to the NASCAR race. We were just planning on tailgating but there was a guy we tailgated with who had extra tickets so we were able to go to the race too. The race was fun and the weather was wonderful. We had a lot of fun!
Before the race, we walked around and got all sorts of free stuff. I had to be sure to take a picture of the M&M car. This is my favorite car but apparently there are quite a few people who hate the driver. I could care less who drives the car though, I just think it looks cool!
The headsets are so nice but they give me a headache!

Winner!! (And mom had him picked in the tailgate pool so she won the big bucks!)

Maybe we could be models instead...

A few weeks ago Eric and I had our engagement pictures taken by my aunt Cris. We met up with her in Clay Center to take our pics. Cris posted some of them on facebook for us to see. They're all so great already it makes us excited to see the rest! We had so much fun taking the pictures and to my great surprise, Eric didn't complain once! I have a feeling that it may have been because he got to take his new gun out when we took the pictures in the country...We're pretty tough ;)

I've done it again!

I've been a huge slacker and have failed to update the blog in such a long time! Sorry!! Time to catch up....
A couple of weekends ago we went to Newton for a family friend's wedding. We had such a great time getting to see friends.
As you can tell, it was a long ride...and I had to ride in the middle!! At least Eric was nice enough to let me sleep.
And Logan followed suit...

The bride's mom (Marla) and dad (Dan aka Old Dad aka Captain Dan, who has never lost a passenger). My family has been friends with this family for longer than I've been alive!

Eric and I at the reception. I think he's smiling so big because he got to go back to the hotel and change into jeans (after an unfortunate candle wax accident).

This is why every parent needs to have a girl. They just don't make comparable outfits for boys!

You can't have a wedding reception without the Cotton Eyed Joe! Of course, we were the most talented Cotton Eyed Joe'ers there were!

I will be trying to still play catch up. I have pictures from all sorts of stuff lately to post so I'll try to do a few at a time, without waiting three weeks in between!

Has it really been that long?!

I just looked at the date on my last post and realized it's been a really long time since I updated this thing! I've got some catching up to do!! Labor Day weekend we were able to go back to Clay Center to spend some time with Eric's family, take our engagement pictures and go to the K-state game. It was a busy, but fun weekend! The next weekend was Austin and Sadie's wedding. We were so glad to see that Helen made it to the wedding! She was excited that I had graduated from K-State and mom caught a picture of her excitement.
Here's Eric and I at the wedding.

Jordan and I were enjoying a piece of cake!

This weekend, Eric and I got to go to the first ever Flint Hills Music Festival. It was in a field in Alma and there were a bunch of our favorite Texas Country bands who played so we had a great time!

We got to meet Brandon Jenkins. He writes a lot of the songs for the bands and we were glad he was there to play!

After the concerts, we made it back to Manhattan and met up with Eric's cousin Lance and friend Josh.

Surprise!!

Last night I orchestrated a small surprise party for Eric. Eric's roommates and Kelly and my mom and Logan all attended. We grilled and enjoyed a wonderful evening by the fire-pit. Kelly came early to help me decorate with streamers and get the house ready. Mom helped make pasta salad and rice crispy treats (which were devoured). Here's a picture of the crowd (minus mom the photographer).