Entries from April 2009

April 28, 2009

Brandy’s Bachelorette Party

Saturday I attended my friend Brandy’s bachelorette party in Peoria.  The night was filled with the usual hillarious one liners from the bride and blue UV vodka (Brandy’s favorite).  I was glad to get away because I had just taken a 3 hour test (for my reading specialist certficate)  just before leaving.  Literally, I had 20 minutes to [...]

April 28, 2009

Jill’s Bridal Shower and Joy’s Baby Shower

Two weekends ago I drove up to the Chicago burbs…..yes again.  I am so lucky to have so many fun events to attend up in the Chi-town area.  Anway, so I went to my friend Katie’s b-day on Saturday  night where Jill, Katie, Jenna, and new mommy to be Whitney, went fordinner and drinks (Whit had ginger-ale of course). 
On [...]

April 14, 2009

Bachelorette party and Easter

This weekend I threw a bachelorette party for my cousin Emily. Emily wanted a less traditional party and so 12 members of our family and her family went to a spa in Madison and received a variety of “mini treatments”.  I was able to get the whole spa to ourselves!! After the treatments and some refreshments we headed to [...]

April 6, 2009

Just another Sunday

I had a wonderful day with my husband.  We started our Sunday by taking a 4 mile walk around our neighborhood.  We came back and I made us a yummy brunch of buckwheat pancakes, turkey bacon, and eggs with ham and cheese. This is when the rain stared.  Later in the afternoon we cracked open a [...]