Story of our Life! Busy, Busy!!!

Let's see....the past few weeks. I went to the Lake of the Ozarks with some of my girlfriends at the end of September. Jim stayed home with the kids. It was so good to get out and I had a lot of fun...although, I'm getting pretty old...it was hard for me to go out drinking two nights in a row. And I lost my voice, so that was no good. We went to a bar on the lake called Dog Days the first night. That was fun and I love outside bars with music....just really laid back. The next day, we went shopping all day at the outlet mall and then out to lunch. That night we went to a Pecker's (a piano bar). I love piano bars.....good, fun music. OH, forgot to mention we hit up a tattoo parlor the first night....that was a first for me. And NOOOOO, no tattoos for me!!!! Although 4 of the 6 of us got tattoos---ICK ;) I came back early on Sunday afternoon. Jim did get to go out to dinner and the City Museum for his friend's b-day celebration, so I don't think it was too hard for him.

Kari, Tracie, Toni, Riki, Me, Sheila

Kari and I

Having such a hard decision picking out which tattoo to get

Falling asleep/Passing out after 3 LONG hours at the tattoo parlor....at least the couch was comfy!

Toni and I shopping at the outlet mall. I had to BEG Toni not to buy that shirt!

Toni, our sober driver :) Poor girl had to drink lots of water, but she was a good sport :)

Me and Riki

Cheers!

Me and Sheila, the birthday cougar ;0)

Me and Tracie

Pecker Girls

The next weekend, we went to the Cardinal game and it was such a great game....until the end...gosh, did it suck! I haven't been to many winning games this year. Actually, tonight we got swept by the Dodgers in the NLDS. I'm glad I wasn't there for it....Jim's friend Chris is in town for the football game tomorrow (which I'm sure the Rams will lose too:)), so I let him use my ticket for the Cardinal game. Jim's family came down to hang out on Saturday. A few of us did some shopping, but mainly we just hung out and all the cousins got to play together. Kristen and Jason spent the night, so we drank a beer with them. It was actually a pretty relaxing weekend.

Our last regular season Cardinal game

Me and Ann

Makenzie and Alli hanging out

This weekend...well, we were pretty busy! Starting with Thurs, we had John and Kate's rehearsal dinner. Jim used to work with John and he asked Jim to be one of his groomsmen. It was really nice. Friday, my cousin Jenny got married to Jason. They looked soooo happy. The wedding was beautiful and everyone had so much fun at the reception. And the food was awesome! I would have had more fun if Jim could have been with there too though. He was at his friends wedding. What are the chances of a two Friday night weddings on the same date? They aren't very common. Wish they would have been on different days so we could have both went to both of them. I for sure wasn't missing my cousin's though and he was in the other one.

Jenny and Jason saying their vows

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Probst

Uncle John and Aunt Kathy
Jeffrey and Johnny
Me, Jenny, and Ann - Jennifer looked soooo beautiful!

Jackie, Kelly, Kelly, and Katie

Aunt Margie and Mom

Me and Ann

Katie and Cory

Me, Jimmy, Ann

Mom with her two favorites...Janie and Me :)
Ann, Johnny, Julie, Brian, Me, Gina

Saturday, Alli and I met my Mom and Jackie's family at Henke's for lunch before Jim went to the losing Cardinal playoff game. Here is a pic of Jackie and Bill and most of his family.
Chris, Jim, and Jon at the Rams/Vikings game. Can you guess who won???

Happy 2nd Birthday Sully!!! Tomorrow we are celebrating at Brian and Gina's house for his b-day party and baby Sam is getting Baptized