Weddings, Weddings Everywhere!

Between Mr. KU and I, we have about 10 weddings in the year 2010, and more to come in 2011.  Its kinda crazy, but has been a blast.  We went to a wedding of a dear friend of mine this past weekend.  Two giant Italian families getting married and it was incredible!  For instance, its Italian tradition to have homemade cookies for everyone to take home...well, they had over 72 TRAYS of cookies for people to take home and enjoy throughout the night.  I've never seen so many cookies in one place in my life.  Here are a few pictures:

Wedding Cake in the middle



Left side of the cake w/ half the cookies...

(Reminder, the picture above is only half of the cookies...)  The reception was at the Argosy Casino, in North Kansas City.  Everything was just beautiful and very elegant.  It was a great place to have a reception.  Here are a few more pictures from the night:



Mr KU and I at the reception




The BEAUTIFUL gift table!




The gorgeous bride and I




our cookies that we got to take home




And the cute little bag we took the cookies home in.



It was such a fun night, with great friends, a fabulous date and and of course 2 people deeply in love with each other!  Can't wait for the next one!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE SHABBY BLOGS!!!

I just have to say, that I found an amazing website:  http://www.shabbyblogs.com/!!!!  AMAZING!!!!  As you can see I have transformed my blog today.  I found this cool website, with great, FREE ideas and tutorials on how to edit pictures, make pages, blinkies, the list goes on.  I'm now becoming obsessed with my blog and all of the fun, creative things I can do to keep it interesting.

Sorry if you see a lot of page changes in the next couple week or months, I'm just experimenting, trying to figure out what I like best!

Pumpkin Patch

I finally got to go to the pumpkin patch!  I did drag the BF (we are going to call him Mr. KU).  Hopefully he got some enjoyment out of it!  I just love being outside, enjoying the nice weather and its my favorite time of year!  Mostly because football is finally back, but this comes in a close second! 

Above is a picture of the entire pumpkin patch and below is a picture of me with all my pumpkins -- 65 lbs of pumpkins that is!!!  Which Mr. KU and I had to carry all the way back to the farm because we were too stubborn to hop on the tractor that was taking people to and from the pumpkin patch....

So when we got back to the house, I decided I was going to be "creative".  I don't like carving pumpkins, but I love the look of them in a house.  So I found a picture of painted pumpkins in the local Hy-Vee Grocery Store magazine ...and well...just copied how they were painted!  I love them and I don't care.  I at least tried to be a little creative! 

ALL DONE!  It was a great day enjoying the beautiful Kansas fall weather and Mr. KU's company!  We had fun!



My First Blog Entry...

Alright - so this is my first blog entry.  I thought I would tell you a little bit about myself and why I decided to start a blog.  Not sure if you will like hearing what I have to say, but thought I would give this whole blog thing a try.

I'm technically from New Jersey, even though I only lived there when I was in grade school.  But my entire extended family still lives back East.  I'm very proud of where I came from, which also makes me a HUGE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES FAN!!!  I am going back to Philly in a few weeks so don't worry, there will be an entry about my trip.  But I do miss my family very much.  I wish I could visit my grandparents more often.  I was very close to them when I was younger; they partially raised me and I miss the closeness we had.

I also attended K-State for college and received my Business Degree in Marketing & Management.  That lead me to work at Target Distribution Center in which I lead a night shift -- people were great, the job was ok, but the hours were terrible.  I worked weekend nights  while all of my friends worked normal 8-5 jobs.  Needless to say I did not last long - only 11 months and that brought me to my current job which I enjoy most days.  I'm sure there will be many blog entries about all the craziness and annoyances of my job, but all in all I'm happy with what I'm doing.  I work at a major shoe retailer in the casual and boots department and am enjoying the pressures working in the high profile departments.

So that's the boring stuff...now onto the fun stuff...I LOVE my family.  I have a sister who is 21 months younger than me and we are very close.  We actually lived together for the past year and I loved every minute of it (except when her dog yipped  or barked at every ant that walked by the door).  My mom and dad also live relatively close to me which is nice as well.  I am able to spend time with them whenever I'm not busy which is nice and convenient.  Most of my friends live close as well except for my best friend (we'll call her Miss Atlanta).  I'm hoping one day she'll realize she should move back home.  I'm also very blessed to have met the love of my life (through work actually), but I wouldn't have asked for it any other way.  He's amazing and smart and makes me belly laugh all the time!!!!!!!!  I love laughing!!!!   We are a very good balance for each other and I can't wait to see what exciting things happen in the next few years.

Now...on to why I am starting this blog???  Well, I'm intrigued by them.  I enjoy learning from and about other people.  I enjoy following friends and keeping up to date on their lives.  Plus, I love to talk and am pretty opinionated....so I thought why not share my life, make someone laugh and make people aware.  And so it begins, I've officially started!  Hope you enjoy reading and please let me know your thoughts/opinions about my blog. If you don't like something; tell me.  I won't keep my mouth shut so I don't expect other people to either!