girls' day out

On Saturday, I went on a girls' day out with my mom and mom-in-law, and we had a blast! We started out at Tuesday Morning and found some great things, and then we went to eat at Corner Bakery in Highland Park. It was reeeally cold that day, and we snagged the BEST table in the restaurant right next to the fireplace!!! It was wonderful! We sat and talked for a long time while we stayed toasty by the fire. We took a picture, and then realized we looked like a stoplight :)

After that, we walked over to Sprinkles (of course) so Gail could try her FIRST Sprinkles cupcake ever! I tried a new one called the Black & White which was suuuuuper yummy. Gosh, why do I love cupcakes so much!?

After enjoying our cupcakes we walked around and shopped in some cute little stores. Gail bought me (well, technically us but I don't think Ryan cared) a super cute pumpkin decoration! It was such a fun day of quality time with my moms :) I'm so blessed.

Oh, and here's the frame that I bought to display a very important picture in our apartment... this is from the night Ryan and I MET. As in, our blind date that ended up verrrrry well after almost 6 years :)

Not many people have a picture of the first night they me their husband, so I feel pretty blessed to have that memory in print... and displayed on our wall. :)

the bc gang on office night!

So, every Thursday we go to someone in our bc gang's apartment to watch The Office and Grey's. I literally look forward to that night every week because it means that the weekend is right around the corner, and we get to watch our favorite shows on the same night! Well, last Thursday it was our turn to host. We made tacos and everyone else brought the sides, drinks and dessert.

Oh, let me back track. The "bc gang" is actually the "Buttercream Gang" which is a name that Justin Kouba called our group a while back as a joke, and it just stuck. Unfortunately. We feel like big dorks when people call us that, but we've started to embrace the bc gang idea.

...and here we are :)

gosh, i love them.

yeah....

So... about that other blog....it sounded like a fun idea on a reeeeeeally slow work day... not so much anymore :) I think two blogs is plenty for me to handle at this point in time!!

Go ahead Justin... I deserved it.