Lunch Date in Como...

...Sunday afternoon, I headed to Columbia to meet up with two of my AGD sisters for lunch at Shakespeare's Pizza! We picked Como because it was central for us all, Lauren from Jeff City, Candace from KC and me from STL. The last time that I'd eaten there was in 2005 on the day of Candace's wedding. I remember one girl had set her purse on a burner so the bottom of her purse had a burner imprint and I was wearing a see through shirt (but only in pictures-great!).

So here is Lauren, Candace and myself:


It's been a long time since we'd all gotten together so we talked about everything under the sun then headed to the mall for a little shopping. It was great to see them and we decided we were going to try to do this quarterly. Oh and, of course, the pizza was delicious although we debated whether pineapple belonged on pizza or not...its an ongoing debate with us...your thoughts???

Saturday Night=Trivia Night...

...Saturday night I went to my friend's family Trivia Night. It's actually a pretty cool idea. Her cousins put it on and all the money goes to the prizes and to rent the room so it's only $10/person because they don't make any money off of it. There were 6 teams so we had a 50/50 shot of winning money. And we won big money because we won first!?! Woohoo!!! Here is the final standings, we were I'm Still Talking (making fun of the judge at the beginning of the night). We'd guessed that we would get 71 right and we ended up getting 72 so we were really on the ball.

Here is our winning table (from left to right): Stacey, her FI Matt (whose birthday is our wedding anniversary), me who was husbandless (sorry no winnings for my Mattie), Sarah and her bf Chris

It was a fun night although I don't think I helped much. The boys carried us in the sports trivia and Stacey and Sarah in the music. This was a real pick me up from the last Trivia Night I went to where we got last place. Thanks for a fun night everyone!!!

Pooch Plunge...

...today was the annual Pool Paws at the O'Fallon Pool. I got up at 5am this morning and worked a garage sale for work until noon. I was super excited because someone donated a karaoke machine to camp!!! When the sale was over, I headed home and picked up Shadow then headed back to the park for him to swim.

Boy is he out of shape!!! Here he is taking a break...

Here he is swimming, look at those webbed feet! I think this dog is part duck!

Over all, he had a great time and I know he's going to sleep well tonight. Now if only he'd sleep in tomorrow instead of getting up at 6am...

Secret Obsession...

...I have a confession to make...I have an obsession. It started with our wedding. I found "G" notecards at Michael's while we were planning the wedding. Every trip I'd make, I would buy a pack and I used them as our thank you cards. But it didn't stop there, turns out that every season, Michael's get new notecards and I feel as though I MUST buy all the G ones I can find. Here is my collection thus far:

The gold letter ones didn't come from Michael's but I have 8 different styles of G notecards. But the honest truth is this is just ONE of like 5 in each style. They have 8-10 notecards in each pack. So let's say 8 times 10 times 5, well, that leaves me with about 400 G notecards...I can't help it. Every time I walk into Michael's, I feel as though it is my honorary duty to purchase G notecards for all the people whose last names start with G. I should never have to buy notecards again in my life but I'm sure when the season changes, I'll be at Michael's buying the new design and that my friends is my secret obsession.

Hunting Season Begins...

...and so hunting season begins. We spent Labor Day morning out at Busch Wildlife attempting to dove hunt. We didn't see any dove but we saw one deer and two turtles. We had fun driving through the area and the doggies got to go with us.

Here is Matt and Shadow looking for dove.


Here is a picture of Emma hanging out the back of the truck. She loves the wind in her hair.

We left Busch and stopped at one of their lakes by Francis Howell HS to let the doggies cool off. They had an outdoor classroom and here's Matt and I resting in it while the doggies swam for a bit.


Hope everyone had a great Labor Day! Happy birthday to my dad Butchie!!!

Me & My Em Dog...

...are we not the cutest? This was the end of our Labor Day trip to Cape. Me and my Em dog chillin' on the couch watching a little HGTV.

Craftin' and Cookin'...

...Saturday night, I headed to my mom's house for a night of craftin' and cookin'. I can't talk too much about the craftin' part because it may or may not have been for someone who reads my blog so that will be posted later.

Here are a couple pics of all the ingredients we started with:

We made so much food. My mom likes to fill my freezer so Matt and I can just set out a pre-cooked meal and voila-dinner is served. We made manicotti, chicken parmasean, salsa steak, and chicken enchiladas. We were up until midnight cooking and designing stuff!?!

We tried out a couple dessert recipes and made delicious White Chocolate Trail Mix. This is only HALF the batch (we ran out of table space so we had to use the top of the washer):

Thanks Momma for all the delicious food!!!