Pictures from the weekend...

Here are some pictures from the party and the weekend...

Notice my new Kurt Busch shirt...Brad got it for me at qualifying on Friday :)

Our good friends...Stan and Sue, Curt and Kristy, Chad and Rachel, and us

Stan was quite stressed out when he saw the questions on the "Expert" quiz he had to take at the party. I think he was wishing he had studied more...!

Yes, that is a big Miller Lite pillow that is the shape of a beer can. I can't tell you how happy I am to have that in my house (special thanks to Rachel G. for giving Brad that gift!) For the past three nights, Brad has fallen asleep hugging it. I wish I was kidding.

The weather for the week was not looking good! Brad and the guys were so happy they were finally able to run the race.

And last, but definitely not least...the jacket. Ah yes, it is a thing of beauty. After we left the party, the guys were going to Meijer to buy food for the race, and Brad was taking off his jacket. I asked him if he was too embarassed to wear it around Meijer. His response: "I just don't want anyone to try to steal it."

Stay tuned...

We just finished a very good but very long weekend! Our friends Stan and Sue came to stay for the weekend, and the plan was for Stan to go to the Nascar race with Brad and Curt and Chad. Sue and I were planning on having some girl time while they were out. The older I get, the more I realize that things NEVER turn out how you plan! Sadly, it rained all weekend, and the boys spent a lot of time driving to and from the track but no time watching cars race. They finally got to run the race today (YEY! Kurt Busch, Brad's favorite driver, won! He is going to be in a very good mood when he gets home!) The sad part is that Sue and Stan had to go home yesterday so Stan didn't get to see the race, which was a real bummer, but at least they found someone to buy his ticket. Hopefully next year will work out a little better. We were still glad they could come and stay with us - it was fun to catch up and at least Sue and I got to go shopping a couple of times!

On Saturday we went to a Nascar-themed party so we all dressed up in our Nascar apparel (obviously, some of us own a lot more than others of us!). Brad finally got to wear his Rusty Wallace coat...usually I only let him get it out of the closet when we need a good laugh! We had a blast at the party but I was pretty dismayed to find out how much I know about Nascar when we took a quiz about it...way more than I ever wanted to know! I guess you can learn things while you are sleeping!

I will post some pictures tomorrow from the weekend...you really have to see the jacket to believe it!

Itty bitty kitties!

I just had to post these super cute pictures of the new kitten my mom, dad and sister recently brought home. The ginger one is a boy named Luke and the black and white one is a girl named Stella. Sadly, I have not been able to go and see them yet, but I am looking forward to it and hoping they will still be little when I finally get to meet them! I have decided something though after looking at these pictures. If Brad and I ever decide to get a kitten...we're getting two!

Bitten By a Bumble Bee????

We always thought it was kind of funny that Sadie has this little nubbin type thing on the top of her head (for lack of a better word!) but last night, Brad noticed that her nubbin was bigger than normal. She wasn't acting weird or anything, but we think she got stung by a bee on her nubbin. It was so big but I didn't get a chance to take a picture until a bit later when it had gone down a little. Still, it's a pretty funny nubbin.

Last weekend, my Dad was here to help Jo and Ryan with the house. Ryan has been doing so much work on the front part of their duplex, and they are almost done! I know they are really looking forward to moving in there. This weekend they were painting and now they are working on the trim. I can't wait to see the finished product - Ryan has done a really great job. It was nice to get to visit with Dad a little bit and to see the progress on the house.

I don't know why I am putting this picture up...I just thought it was kind of funny!

Not much happening!

I keep trying to think of something new to post but unfortunately life has been pretty uneventful lately! We went to a beautiful wedding this last weekend up in Charlevoix...but I forgot the camera. We drove there and back in one day and it was a very long trip, but the wedding was a lot of fun and it was definitely worth the drive.

Then on Sunday we had a really nice church picnic out at a nearby campground...and I forgot my camera! I'm not doing so well!

Brad is going to a Lugnuts baseball game on Saturday so I will have to make sure he takes the camera. I think he thinks it's a little girly, because we have a medium sized camera bag that kind of looks like a purse...but he's just going to have to overcome that and take some pictures for me! I am going to my friend Kristy's house that day to do some scrapbooking. Can't go wrong with scrapbooking!

Tomorrow night Brad and I are going to see "The Bourne Ultimatum" with some friends. I am so excited about it - we just watched the second one yesterday ("The Bourne Supremacy"? I get them all mixed up!) and it was so good. I can't wait to see the third one.

In other news...Brad and I have been running and even though we hit a little road bump when we had our Traverse City car incident, we have recovered and are now back to faithfully running 3 times a week. I was SO excited the other night - we planned to run 2 miles and I was a little nervous because I didn't know if I could run that far without DYING, but we got done with 2 miles and both felt so good that we did a THIRD MILE!!! We are training to do a 5K (which is 3.1 miles) so I was so excited to be able to do the distance. Now I just have to get faster...that will be a challenge I think. But I have a while - the race I'm hoping to run is not till the end of September.

Well, that's all the updates for now. Life is so good, even though I don't have much to say...hopefully I will have some new pictures of something soon!

I Grew That!

I'm not sure why, but for some reason I really wanted to grow something this year. One of the things that I love about Brad is that he doesn't seem to mind my strange requests, and he is always willing to help me do something that I decide I want to do. So this time, it was a garden. He did try to warn me about the weeding, but somehow I thought that I'd be so excited to be growing vegetables that even weeding would be fun! I have now learned two things. Number one: weeding is never, ever fun. Ever. And number two, I would not have survived in Little House on the Prairie, no matter how much I like to think I would have.

Anyway, this is our little garden right after we planted stuff:

We planted zucchini, tomatoes, lettuce, and peas. After a few days, the weeds were almost as big as the lettuce! Luckily, Brad and Joanna helped me with the weeding because I was feeling so overwhelmed by it. Brad did give me quite a few "I told you so" looks, but he helped me weed it anyway. This is what Sadie did while we did all the hard work:

Ah, the life of a basset hound!

This week we picked a bunch of zucchinis and ate them...I'm not sure what I was expecting, but they tasted just like the ones from the store!! But at least I have the knowledge that I grew them! The funny part is how many zucchinis we are going to have by the end of the summer... more than we will ever need! I am giving zucchini away as fast as I can but more just keep growing!