Dear Blog....

Wow, where to begin? First off I want to apologize to you blog for not updating you in 6 months. Sorry blog, that's inexcusable! So blog, since I've neglected you, let me fill you in with what's happened since errrr April!

May:

I had a birthday blog, it was really nice. Several of my friends gathered at the NEW smoke-free Caprock and we ate some food and it was delicious!

May was also full of bachelorette parties, Court and baby seeeester both had theirs in May. You would have had a great time blog.
June:

Guess what blog? Courtney and Logan tied the knot! Remember when I wrote about them here? Their wedding was so much fun blog, as well as the few days leading up to it. Taylor and I also spent some time at the Tech Leisure Pool, it was a lot of fun! Sorry you couldn't be there blog.

July:

July was a busy month blog. Why you ask? Because the baby seeester got married! We also celebrated 4th of July with our friends!

August:

Love was definitely in the air blog, we celebrated Meg's wedding one night and then the very next day celebrated Memaw and Papaw's 50th wedding anniversary!


September:

We had so much fun in September blog! Taylor and I traveled to North Carolina for Suleika's wedding. I'll just post one pic here because I'll have to tell you about the whole trip later! Also in September, my dear friend Jenny had baby #2, they named her Caroline. I'll have to tell you more about her later!

October:

Blog, something EXCITING happened in October. Yes I know blog, October isn't over yet.....duh! But I still want to share with you something that happened on October 9, Taylor proposed! How'd he do it you ask? Well you're just going to have to wait until I can dedicate a whole blog to the occasion. Till then, this picture will have to do!

Again Blog, I'm so sorry for neglecting you, I promise I'll be better about updating you and to make it up to you, I really hope you like the updates I made to your layout. Please don't hate me blog, because I don't hate you.

Weekend Re-cap

This past weekend was extremely busy. It was a fun and eventful kind of busy, but still busy nonetheless. Here's a rundown of my Saturday, I had a bridal shower and TWO weddings! My day started out with a bridal shower in Lamesa for my sweet friend Leslie. Leslie and I have been friends since early elementary school and it was great to see several of my old friends and their babies. Here's a pic of Les with her awesome food set-up. Check out that cake, so pretty!

Then after the shower I had lunch with my Memaw and then it was time for me to get ready for the weddings. The first wedding was at 4:00 in Tahoka (convenient since my 2nd wedding was in Lubbock at 6:30!) My best friend Eric's old roommate/Marine buddy was the one who got married. Unfortunately the groom is getting deployed to Iraq in about a week and a half, and he and his fiancee wanted to get married before he was deployed.

The wedding was really pretty and at the end of the ceremony all the Marines not already in the wedding held up their swords for the bride and groom to walk under. As the bride and groom approached the last set of Marines, they crossed their swords and kept them from passing. The bride had a puzzled look on her face wondering why they wouldn't let them pass, then a Marine they had already passed leans forward and tells the bride, "Welcome to the Marine Corp family Mrs. Lucas" and then proceeds to slap her behind with his sword. The sword made a loud "whop" and the whole church began laughing. Here's the bride and groom right before she was properly welcomed into the Marine family!

And here is Eric and I all dressed up!

The second wedding I went to was for my dear friend Geleah. Geleah and I have been friends since my sophomore year at Tech. Geleah also stayed in Lubbock after graduation and she's been my concert buddy to many, many concerts. Her wedding was super laid back and lots of fun. We had delicious barbecue and Tyler T and his band provided the music. I got to see several girls I hadn't seen since college and we had lots of fun dancing just like we did in the old days haha! Unfortunately my camera battery died so I didn't get any pictures at Geleah's wedding. So on that note, I decided to post a picture courtesy of Geleah's Facebook! Here's my sweet Geleah and her husband Chris a.k.a Beanie.

After dancing with my old friends at Geleah's reception, I then headed over to the reception of the 4:00 wedding (don't worry I didn't drive back to Tahoka, the reception was in Lubbock!) for more dancing with Marines and their wives/girlfriends! After the night was finally over, which didn't end till the wee hours of the morning, I felt like Katherine Heigl in 27 Dresses! Whew, how's that for a Saturday? :)

Weirdest dream ever??

So here lately I've been having some really odd dreams. I mean really odd. A few weeks ago I was feeling nostalgic and looked through my high school yearbook from my sophomore year. I was looking at pictures of me and my friends in our band uniforms (lame I know!) among other pictures as well. Well that night I had a dream that I was back in high school and my ex's Dad was my new band director. I was in band again and freaking out because I didn't remember how to play my clarinet or march. What's even weirder is my ex's Dad is a retired chemistry professor and has never directed a band in his life...that I know of! :)





Then last night I had a dream reminscient of Freaky Friday. Apparently I switched bodies with Steve Nash. Yeah that Steve Nash. Now if you aren't sure who Steve Nash is, he's the point guard for the Phoenix Suns. In my dream I was in a gym, notice I said gym...not an arena! We were warming up and I came to the realization that I was going to let my team down since I obviously don't have the same athletic abilities as those of Steve Nash! Then thinking that this might just be some charity game or something like that, I mean it was in a gym a lot like my high school gym, the opposing team walks out.....the L.A. Lakers.


I normally don't remember my dreams at all, but for some reason both of these were extremely vivid! Now why I dreamed I was Steve Nash is beyond me, I didn't watch TV last night at all and I read New Moon from the time I got home from work till I went to bed. Oh, and Steve Nash doesn't make a special guest appearance in New Moon either. I think I'm losing my mind! haha

I caved....

I've now fallen into the same category as every 13-year-old girl in America. Why? Because I totally got sucked into the Twilight craze. My friend Jenny read the books and watched the movie and raved about how good the books were. I like to read, but I didn't really want to read a series of books aimed for teens and pre-teens.

Last Thursday, my roommate brought home Twilight on D.V.D. and since I'm not one to turn down a movie, I decided to watch it. The movie was decent but EVERYONE I talked to said they liked the book so much better. On the bright side though, some of the music in the movie wasn't terrible and the movie closes with a Radiohead song. Radiohead = one of my faves!

On Saturday I went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things and noticed that the paperback version of the book was only $6 bucks. I decided why the heck not?

Fastforward to bedtime last night and in a little more than a days time I read 375 pages. Yeah, I've become that girl! Is it sad that I'm ready to finish this one and move onto the next??

Best Concert Experience Ever!

A few days ago my good friend from back home sent me a youtube video about a touring band performing in Lubbock who is classified as a Japanese Comic Punk band. I told him I was trying to save some money so I thought I would pass. His response? The cover is only $5 bucks. So of course I agreed, what did I have to lose?

I show up to the venue and there is literally only a handful of people to catch Peelander-Z. As I looked around I noticed I was the only girl. Raines then tells me that he thinks I'll be the ONLY girl to catch the Japanese Comic Punk band! How would I describe them? Think Power Rangers times 5000 plus loud guitars and all over the place drum beats.

I went into this not knowing what to expect and as the music starts, out comes "Red" guy in a rubber suit that looks like a cross between a lobster and a guitar! The show was extremely interactive and many songs included lots of audience participation.....jump rope anyone?? How about some limbo? A mask maybe? How about you jump on stage and play the band's guitar and drums and form an audience band. Yeah that basically sums up the show. Yes the music was a little over the top and a not very understandable, but the experience itself was so fun. Best $5 dollars I've ever spent!

Thanks Raines for dragging my butt out to Jake's!

Welcome Home Eric!

Last night one of my best friend's arrived home from his 3rd tour in Iraq. I honestly can't believe this was his 3rd tour, as it seems like just last year we welcomed him home from his 2nd tour. I definitely hope that this will in fact be his last.

I've known Eric since we were both 19 and went with him to his first Marine Corp Ball. He's been such a great friend to me and has helped me move numerous times....hey when you have a truck that's pretty much a given! He's the life of the party and can put a smile on your face no matter what kind of mood you're in. That being said, here's a photo montage dedicated to my Eric!

Spencer, me and Eric celebrating my 20th birthday, wow how this seems so long ago!

Road Trip to Wichita Falls LtoR: Eric, Spence, Jenny, Me

Eric and I a few days after his Homecoming (2003) after his 1st tour in Iraq...he decided to wear part of Spencer's Halloween costume from the year before!
Halloween '05, Eric learned the hard way what happens when you show up to a Halloween party without a costume....the girls MAKE you a costume! (He was a pretty lady and I was a rollergirl)

Taken the day before he left for his 2nd tour (2006)

Eric and I the night he got back from his 2nd tour (2007)

Celebrating Jenny's b-day at Murphy's (2007)

The last picture Eric and I took before he left for his 3rd tour (2008)

My Lil' Bears....

Many of my friends tease me because I'm better at setting other people up than I am finding someone for myself. I've managed to introduce two of my best friends to their husbands, one being Jenny and Spencer and two being Court and Logan. Well Court and Logan aren't quite married yet, but they will be in June. Court and Logan recently had their engagement pictures taken and I decided to dedicate this blog to my sweet friends!

The night Court and Logan finally met was not actually the first night this was supposed to happen. I tried on numerous occasions to coax Court into coming out to check out my friend's band and on each occasion she always had something else going on....or she was just blowing me off haha! So after a few failed attempts, we finally decided that she would come to Rocky's that night to catch the show. As the night went on, I waited and waited on Court to show up. Around midnight I text Court to see if she was in fact coming.....her response? I'm at Wild West and I just met a cute boy. My response to her.....don't even worry about it. So what did Court do? She made a beeline for Rocky's since she knew I wasn't too happy! See all it took was a little tough love to make my Court come to Rocky's to meet her future husband and they've been inseperable ever since!

These two are so sweet together, its obvious to anyone who even spends just 5 minutes with them and it absolutely makes me so happy that I had a hand in all of it. Now for your viewing pleasure, just a few of their absolutely gorgeous engagement pictures.