And... some incriminating photos of Christina

You knew they were coming!

Not incriminating, but a great picture of Matt and Brian at dinner!

Finally... some incriminating photos of Brad!

Brad and the guys obviously had a great time Saturday night! Thanks to Matt for supplying the photo's and being the designated driver. After dinner at Buca with the girls, the guys headed to GameWorks for some video game fun and then to Skye Bar for drinks and dancing.

The brother's air hockey competition... but does it count if you've both had a few beers?

Brothers

Brad returns home in one piece after a long night... at 2:05am... and gives everyone hugs ;)

BBQ and Pedi's

Last weekend, Brad and I traveled to Ohio for my bridal shower and our respective bachelor and bachelorette get togethers. On Friday evening, my Maid of Honor and her fiance Mike threw us a BBQ in the back yard of their cute house. Thanks Gena and Mike!

Christina salutes with a hot dog, while Brad fills his plate with mac and cheese

Cutting our OSU cake... Brad is saying "Should cutting a cake really be this hard? I hope it's not this hard at the wedding."

Cake successfully cut

Brad plays nice

Christina... not so nice

Brad: "I thought we agreed not to smash cake in each other's face?"

Christina: "That only applies to the actual wedding reception!"


Christina cleaning up the damage. Brad was an incredibly good sport.

On Saturday afternoon, the girl's went for pedicures and out to lunch.

Laura and Christina catch up on their celebrity gossip while their toes dry

The pedi girls - Rachel, Christina and Laura (minus Gena, who took the picture!)

I will upload pictures from the crazy dinner at Buca and my bridal shower when I get them. Thanks for a great weekend everyone!!!

C-SPAN

At 2am this morning, I woke up and picked up my Blackberry to see if the House had adjourned or I had gotten anything about today's schedule. Nothing. Try to go back to sleep. At 8am I got up and picked my Blackberry up off the nightstand to check the House schedule. They start at 9am. 30 minutes to enjoy some non-C-SPAN.

C-SPAN goes on the TV at 9am.
Eat breakfast = C-SPAN.
Get showered and dressed = C-SPAN.
Head out with Brad to go to Target = C-SPAN Radio.
Walking through Target = wishing I had a portable TV to watch C-SPAN.
Driving to lunch = C-SPAN Radio.
Lunch = again wishing for that portable TV.
Driving from Target to our new place = C-SPAN Radio.
Unpacking boxes and organizing the new place = C-SPAN.

Finally I leave Brad at 6:00pm to come into work and I think he very happily turned C-SPAN OFF the television!

I will be glad to leave work in a little bit, get in my car, and turn off C-SPAN!

Happy August Recess!!!!

Saturday = Moving Day!

No pics yet, but I hope to have some soon of our/Brad's new place! Thank goodness my stuff isn't moving in until after the wedding, because I think it's going to take three or four months to get everything organized! Major kudos goes out to Laura (aka Muscles Drinkwine), who gave up almost her whole Saturday to help us carry heavy furniture up three flights of stairs. She was rewarded with some yummy Taqueria Poblano afterward:




I rewarded my hard moving work with one of their awesome margaritas








I'll post some pics of the new pad as soon as we get some boxes unpacked!

Celebrating Independence Day at the White House

Brad and I were lucky enough to be able to watch fireworks on the 4th of July from the South Lawn of the White House. Some of the pictures aren't the best, but you get the idea :) Unfortunately, my picture of President Bush waving to the crowd didn't turn out -- it was too dark already. The President, First Lady and numerous guests watched the fireworks from the Truman Balcony. It was a great evening! (Note: picture above is totally not mine!)

Our new place

Since we didn't really send these around, I thought I'd share pictures of mine and Brad's new place. Brad will be moving in at the end of July and I'll be joining him in November after the wedding. It's in a great little neighborhood, only a few blocks from shops and restaurants. I'm really excited to move in and be all domestic :)

Looking into the kitchen from the dining room -- LOVE the china cabinets

Bedroom -- yay, ceiling fan!

Only part of the huge living room

Entering the world of blogging

After taking 50 million pictures at the fireworks last night, I started thinking about a medium which would allow me to share my pictures with y'all and not clog your inbox. The solution? A photo blog! I'll try to get my first pics up shortly!