in case you haven’t heard…

I love The Little Gym of Chesapeake.

 

Last week was our member’s party, a night of member appreciation full of gym activities, giveaways, and snacks.

It was also a time for current members to receive priority for enrolling their child in the fall semester.

 

Tiffany and Rachel donning their grass skirts (mine didn’t make it past 5 minutes)

  

 

um… some belly rubbing and a group photo

  

 

once the luau was over we headed down to skinny dip for a yummy treat

(you remember my love for The Skinny Dip,

and my work lovelies share the same affinity!)

   

what silly-millies

I know you love our matching shirts… go ahead… admit it… we ROCK!

  

ooh, my purse made it into both pics…. SA-WEET!

 

in other important world news… I’ve almost finished my save-the-dates!

I can’t wait for you to ooh and aah over them… and you will – trust me, oh, you will.

Remember the sneak peek I showed you of a baby shower gift for my friend Tiffany?

Well, here’s the finished product:

                    

My first quilt EVER!

My mom made it look so easy…but this was definitely a challenge.

I was so happy, though,  to make this for Tiffany and her first baby, Hunter!

Here are a few more details from the shower:

 

                                        

 

The day before the shower Tiff and I spoiled ourselves with pedicures:

I won’t even go into how hard it was for me to choose a color…..

in the end I chose a “rockin” green,

(the kids at work are fascinated by it and try to poke at my toes to see if it will come off)

  We decided unanimously that we (and all women) need to do that more often…

i’m just sayin’

i look at my wedding dress every day.

i do.

i’ve had it since last August (i think?)

and it still hasn’t made it to the closet for safe keeping

for some reason, i feel the need to check on it to make sure it’s coping alright;

that it hasn’t been exposed to the elements (mainly pollen around here)

and that it wasn’t cold or lonely during the night.

 

every morning…

ziiiiiiiiiiiip

peek

smile and fidget + happy jig

ziiiiiiiiiiiip

 

then on with the day!

sick, no?

do you want to hear the success first? or the failure?

er… i’ll give you the failure first, just to get it out of the way.

   <— the culpret

the victim –>

  <—The hero

So I hate our toaster.

We’ve got beef (what does that even mean?! I’m not sure I used that correctly)

anywho…

Beef 1: the thing makes a ticking noise when it’s toasting… i guess so you don’t forget you are toasting something

HOWEVER, it ALSO makes that SAME ticking sound even when it isn’t plugged in… so you THINK your are gettin’ your toast on… in fact, your toast is still just bread because the toaster has been unplugged and isn’t getting hot… it’s just making the ticking sound.

SO. AN.NOY.ING

but that’s not what happened this morning.

Beef 2: the toaster does not STOP toasting… ever.

once you turn it on, it’s the energizer bunny… going, and going, and going.

SO. AN.NOY.ING

beef 2  is what occurred this morning… the thing just kept on toasting, and toasting, and toasting until my bread was a black brick of shame. (ooh, alliteration)

i remembered to plug the sucker in before turning it on… however, then I sat down on the couch, turned on my computer, and sat down to write an awesome blog about some wedding planning …

toaster of terror just kept at it, until flames were practically shooting out from it!

fortunately, one still-growing 19 year-old little brother/scavenger came to the rescue and gave the toast a proper burial…

in his belly.

I think I actually heard a “hm, not bad”

thanks baby bro!

 

Back to the original post!

the yard is coming along nicely for the wedding (thanks Mom and Daddy!)

Here is the image board I made in an attempt to wrangle all my ideas into some sort of organized thought

what do you think?

can you picture it?

 

here’s the program I used for the board

http://www.photovisi.com/

 

SO EASY! Give it a try!