My time home has been a blast. For once in my life I captured some things on pictures but not nearly enough.
My as per usual “highlights of break”:
- Tequila Dinner!! It was even better than the first one I went to. The food was excellent although we had to sit next to this incredibly weird Asian woman. Literally one of the oddest people I have ever met. She told us her daughter was a scary Goth. Sad. I did end up stealing four of the really nice shot glasses which was not sad at all.
- Mother’s Day. My dad and I got my mom a super nice Spa package because we are really nice people. Then we went out and had a really good Champagne brunch. Yum!
Brady and Kenna at Brunch. It looks like Kenna has a balloon tiara. Pretty!
My beautiful mom on Mother's Day! And my dad smashing that chocolate cake in the background.- A lot of being lazy, playing computer games, watching TV, and not feeling guilty about any of it.
- Seeing a many of good movies. Narnia: Prince Caspian and the new Indiana Jones. Both sooooo good! And I’m going to see Sex and the City tomorrow which may according to some make me “slutty” but I’m still so excited!
- Kyle Turning 21! Finally. I’ve been waiting for that for nine months now. He had many celebrations including: A great cookout in Freeport involving ice cream cake! Hitting up the classy Freeport Bars and watching Kyle get absolutely trashed. Going out for a birthday dinner with my family and Kyle at a Beer Brewery. And having a Memorial Day/Birthday cookout in the suburbs involving a delicious cake decorated with race cars. But seriously, who gets that many celebrations? What a lucky dog. Although he didn’t get a birthday blog for me because sometimes I’m a bad girlfriend and forget.
At the Beer Brewery, Kyle ordered an extreme burger. What is a extreme burger? 1 lb. of meat, four slices of bacon, sauteed mushrooms, lettuce, mustard, ketchup, and a bun about the size of a loaf of bread. Coupled with some french fries the size of two fingers side by side.
Really, look at the size of this burger!! And that steak knife was humongous! Kyle had to cut the burger into sixths to eat it all. But by God, he did. My mom says 1lb. of beef used to feed our entire family. That night, it fed Kyle.
And then because it was his birthday, he got this surprise dessert! Really. But he, along with the help of the family did indeed finish this too.
Kyle's birthday cake from my family. Notice the #26 car. It's winning!
Again.
And the birthday boy himself. I know, lame picture.
- Kyle racing! He got sixth but deserved fifth and is driving better than ever. Still absolutely way to scary for me to watch though.
Yeah, these pictures are definitely from last year and last year's car but I never took them off my camera and I forgot to take some this last time. So there! Oh, and here Kyle is getting ready to go out.
Dave giving Kyle a pre-race pep talk. Or something like that.
Kyle out on the track!
Coming in after a successful race.
Getting out of the car like a pro.
- Getting to see my BFF Caitlin. I played beer pong at her house one day until four in the morning. And I still suck at beer pong. I also found out I suck at shot gunning a beer as well when my brothers peer pressured me into doing one.
- Going to watch Amanda run a half marathon. Actually, this may have been a lowlight too. It was amazing because Amanda was a machine and finished running 13 miles in under 2 hours. It was bad because I’ve never felt more out of shape in my entire life. Standing in the midst of 4,000 marathon runners can really do a number to your self-esteem. Actually, it was a really good time and I give props to people who can run like that.
The start of either a 13 mile or 26 mile run. I would call it the entrance to hell.
And they're off!!!
I saw one guy who had the most glorious legs I've ever seen in my entire life. They were tanned, smoothly shaven, and just the right amount of muscle in the right places. I swear to God I wanted to go compliment him before the race and I even more just wanted to steal his legs and make them my own. Note: he is not pictured in the above photo. Or sadly any for that matter.
The look happy now......
Look!! You can see Amanda! She's in the ice blue shirt with black shorts right next to the girl in the purple fuchsia shirt.
Me and Kyle doing what we do best, sitting and watching. We kind of look like hell and like we just finished running a marathon. We did get up at like 5 am which I would argue is almost just as tough. Almost.
Amanda's about to cross the finish line!! Congrats!! And proof of my superior photo taking skills.
- Shopping. Of course. I always spend at least a hundred dollars on cloths when I come home. Good for the soul, bad for the wallet.
I’m sure there were more highlights but I can’t think of them at this moment. I may or may not blog again before I go back to Champaign on Sunday but either way my normal blogging schedule will return shortly.
And as much as I love pleasing you readers, I’m not ready to go back yet and fall into my normal routine. I love break too much!!!!!!!!!
