Indiana For My Mom's Birthday

This past weekend, I got to go on a much needed vacation to Indiana! I spent the weekend with my family and celebrated my Mom's birthday. I took off on Friday morning, trying to arrive in time to decorate a cake I baked for her and still have time to change out of my PJs and into concert clothes! As her birthday gift, my Mom wanted to go to a Christian concert. Her favorite female Christian artist, Natalie Grant, was playing with a few others at a local church. We left early so that we could eat before the concert (obviously since I had been on the road all day). When we got closer to the location, we started running out of places to eat. So we stopped at a deli, which looked questionable, so we went next door which happened to be a pub. Once inside and seated, we suddenly started to notice there was some weird contest going on. Here we are in nice clothes, heading to a Christian concert just trying to grab something fast to eat when we realized there were girls walking around half naked trying to do some sort of raffle. I mean, almost strippers! I will never forget the look on my Mom's face as we dashed out the door! Luckily, Arby's was close by! The concert was really fun and I enjoyed the music. Especially the first act- Meredith Andrews. I not only liked her songs, but I loved the fact that she was married and her husband traveled with her and was playing guitar/keyboard for her that night. SO CUTE! I ended up buying her CD, which she autographed and we took a picture with her. Another performer was a previous cast member of American Idol. My Mom loves that show, so she got a picture with him too (Chris Sligh). The next couple days consisted of lots of shopping, drinking Seattle's Best whenever I could, and eating the much missed Mexican food (but it's still not as good as AZ). I took this quiz once, years back, that said I was a city girl with a small town heart. I think it's true because I throughly enjoyed being in the city, having everything I needed at my fingertips! But I did not enjoy the few moments of traffic and people everywhere! So, although I am happy to be home, I definitely enjoyed Indianapolis! Just before I left, I got to meet up with Melissa, who also lives in Indiana now! Melissa and I went to high school together and were on the cheer squad (of course!). So it was really fun to get caught up with her and I look forward to us "East Coast Girls" meeting up again.





Here's a picture of the adorable Tinker Bell and Elisa.






The happiest birthday wishes to my Mom and sister, who share the same birthday! Love you Mom and Kara!!! And the biggest thank you to my Step-Dad, Charlie, who fixed my car! No more hole in my bumper! Hopefully, people will stop hitting me and my car can stay nice and pretty for a while....Believe it or not, but I actually bought the new bumper on E-bay! Looks perfect, doesn't it?!

Green Is A Good Color

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This state loves holidays, I've learned. Who knew that St. Patty's day would be such a big deal? I mean, a huge parade in Pittsburgh, everyone wearing Irish shirst, celebrations all weekend long... It was great! Have to love festive people! I've never done much for the green holiday, other than wear green and eat some corned beef and cabbage. But now, I've married in to the Irish and apparently, live in a pretty Irish/Polish state! We joined in the celebration and met some friends down at a restaurant that has a year round St. Patrick's Day countdown. Lucky Leprechauns were the names of the drinks Angela and I are holding. Yes, they were GREEN! Has anyone heard of the Shamrock Shake? I never did until I met my husband. He loves them! They're mint flavored shakes McDonald's sells around this time. And yes, they are green! They're pretty good I have to admit...

It's Time For Twilight

Having just finished 3 books already this month (Pasadena Promises, A Woman's Place, Multiple Blessings), I finally decided it was time for Twilight. I can just see Jacque jumping up and down and Leah clapping her hands. Yes, I am going to take on one of the most popular series since Harry Potter. I figured, it was time. Of all the books I read, only rarely does somebody else also read it. If only the Jane Austen Book Club really existed? I've been trying to get my closest friends to read certain books to no avail. So I decided that it should be I who took on their readings to have any sort of "book chat". Janelle, this is for you... Thank you Stacey, for loaning your beautiful collectors edition series. Maybe when I've finished (at least the first book) I will re-watch the movie with you, Ellen, and this time not laugh so much!





P.S. Jan-Michael and I are going to try and read them together- which means finding the time when we'd actually be home together to read aloud. So, it may be a while before we finish...

We Went To Disneyland In Pittsburgh

This weekend was crazy busy, but really fun! It started with my Mother-In-Law and I attending a high school musical (which I will post pictures of soon), seeing friends and old co-workers for a "game night" that ended up having no games, and going to Disney On Ice with my Husband to see Disneyland Adventures! We weren't planning on going to the Disney On Ice show until we randomly both ended up with Saturday off. We drove up and were able to purchase tickets there. We also bought a program and got a free Mickey crown souvenir! After the show had started though, a family of 6 showed up and the ushers realized there weren't enough seats... we had been seated in the wrong section! I was wondering why our seats were so good! So, unfortunately we missed a little while we were shown to our REAL seats... way up in the nose bleed section! I think my pictures turned out pretty good for being so far up though =p The show was really cute. The Parr Family from the Incredibles were on their vacation at Disneyland, enjoying the rides when Syndrome kidnapped Mickey and Minnie and tried to take over the park. They recreated the Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion, Pirates, Small World, Tea Cups, Thunder Mountain Railroad, Pirates, Space Mountain, and parades. At one point I turned to Jan-Michael and said, "It's sort of weird hearing and seeing Mickey in... Pennsylvania?!" A very nice treat =)

Cheap Flight, Yay!

Sorry economy, I know you're not doing well..... but thanks for the cheap flight! YAY!

Now, what does "Arizona" and "April" have in common? They both start with A's and they're both on my airline ticket.



See you all soon!