Thanksgiving....I celebrate for a few weeks

Lets just pretend that I've been celebrating Thanksgiving for the past few weeks and that's why I'm just now posting pictures from it...Actually, with the same excuse as every other post lately, I have been swamped. School is getting very busy with only a couple of weeks left so with that and my attempts at wedding planning...there hasn't been much time left over. I am happy to report that I spent last weekend devoted to wedding planning! Mom and I shopped all weekend for decorations and reception supplies and while it didn't seem like we actually came home with a lot of goodies, I feel much better about my plans so far. I talked to the flower and cake ladies and got some things picked out. I also have a pretty solid idea about what I want to do for my reception decorations...although completing them is now going to be the big task. (Wish me luck!) Anyway, I am going to post a few pictures from Thanksgiving week as well as from the other night when we decorated our Christmas tree.
Happy birthday Brady! We got to celebrate Brady's 1st birthday the day before Thanksgiving.

Eric and Tessa. It had been a while since Eric had seen Tessa and she'd grown quite a bit!

The family at Little Apple Brewery after the girls' long day of shopping on black Friday.

You can tell we really dressed for the evening of Christmas decorating. :) At least the tree looks good!!

I got old recently

In the almost month since I've updated this blog, Eric and I have had lots of fun. A few weeks ago, we celebrated our "dating" anniversary by going on a date to Olive Garden. YUM! Every time I go and actually order pasta, I wish I wouldn't have because I'm full on salad and bread sticks!!


A week and a half later, we got to celebrate my birthday! I apparently go to the casino enough for them to mail me free money and promotions so they sent me a free hotel room in the month of my birthday! Eric and I headed out to the casino on Friday and we enjoyed a great dinner at the buffet there at the casino. After our dinner we went to the casino to gamble a little. Eric didn't have much luck at blackjack but I won a little on the slots!! (Eric keeps claiming it's his money because he pushed the "spin" button.) We had a lot of fun even though we didn't come home millionaires and I made it through the hotel stay without getting sick!!! (Some of you may know...I got sick the entire night last winter when we had a chance to stay at the hotel. It was awful!!)

I really am busy with school stuff!

The other day, I had my induction ceremony for Sigma Theta Tau. It is a nursing honor society that some of my classmates and I were inducted into. It was a fun ceremony and we got some good desserts afterwords. :) Here's a picture of the girls in my class who were there to get inducted.

I must have more time for this during the summer...

I think that either I do a lot more fun things that are worth taking pictures of during the summer or I just have more time. Either way, I haven't been so good at keeping this blog updated!! It seems like school this semester is keeping me busy with lots of busy work so by the time I'm done with that, and of course, checking facebook, this blog slips my mind! :) Anyway, here's some pictures of the past couple of weekends at the KSU games (one of the things that schoolwork will not be keeping me from enjoying).
On the 17th, KSU played A&M so Erin and John came to Manhattan to go to the game. Marcia and Mike took Tessa home with them after tailgating and Erin and John kept Isaac so that he could have fun at the game. It was Harley day so he got to see lots of cool motorcycles too. It was so much fun to get to see them (and Erin again!!). Although John's team didn't do as well as I'm sure he would have liked, he took the loss well so we tried to not give him too much grief! :)
This last weekend, KSU played Colorado. Logan and Eric came along and we switched off in and out of the game. KSU played great again so it was a fun game to be at!! (And much warmer!) Here we are all packed into the back of the car on the way to the parking lot.

Kelly and her mom stopped by the tailgate and brought some yummy doughnuts!! Here's Kelly teaching Mike about her cool touch screen phone.

Here's Logan and Eric and me. Such a good day for a tailgate!

We have celebrated my birthday every year at the game closest to it since I started school at KSU. We had a yummy cake but no candles so you'll have to imagine.

Champion fisherman!

Today Eric went fishing instead of tailgating with me at the KSU game. At least he had a successful night. Here he is with two white bass that he caught.

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...