and it's time to celebrate

It is official just one hour ago I finished all my quizzes, responded to all my peers and turned in all my papers. I am done with GRAD school!!!! Although the grammar on my blog would sometimes convince you else wise. It's true, I am done!! I can't believe it and I am super excited to celebrate, now what to do.... any ideas with this spare time.

A quick getaway

A couple of weekends ago we boarded a plane late Friday, as our flight was delayed two hours. We hoped that we would be able to make our connecting flight in Dallas, but we didn't bet any money on it. We got lucky as all flights were delayed out of Dallas due to a Thunderstorm. We ran through the Dallas airport (amazing race style) and made it 5 minutes before the plane took off. Our Florida trip was a little bit shorter due to all the crazy traveling but we arrived and were greeting by two smiling faces (Kyle's brother and his fiance Sarah). We woke up Saturday morning to some gorgeous weather so we headed to the beach, bars and shops to do a little exploring. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard in a long time. It was great to see Nicholas and Sarah and the weekend definitely flew by too quick. Guess we will have to wait

until Christmas....

The pictures are here....

finally!!! The camera is back!!! and I am finally able to move forward and post a little blog on Collyn and Corey getting married. I have know Collyn since I started at SARRC and could always rely on her to help me crack a smile, find the answer and of course change a poopy diaper. A few weekends ago Kyle and I were reminded about what great people Collyn and Corey are. We were excited to be a part of their special weekend and can't wait to see what lies

ahead for the two. The entire weekend we felt like we were part of their family and this was only a reminder as to why we love Collyn and Corey so much. I should probably start off by saying that I LOVE WEDDINGS, and this wedding weekend was nothing but the best.

We flew in to Oakland on Thursday and spent the night with Kyle's Aunt and Uncle (they were so nice to let us stay the night and made us breakfast in the morning). Friday morning we headed to the wine taste in Sonoma with all of the wedding guests. We spent the day enjoying wine, snacks and the beautiful scenery.

The wineries we attended were St. Francis, Kunde (where they got married) and Imagery. After a long day of fun we headed to dinner at a small pizza place in Santa Rosa. Saturday was filled with more gorgeous views and of course all the wedding festivities.

After leaving my camera in the hotel room Sunday morning, I missed out on exploring pictures in San Francisco (guess we will just have to go back).

CONGRATULATIONS to Collyn and Corey Hawley!!!!

Thanks to everyone (Kyle's relatives, Collyn and Corey and their families and whoever I am forgetting) for an amazing vacation that we will never forget.

On to the next wedding this weekend..... Florida here we come :-)

Hats Off

After reading my somewhat pathetic but cute post (as seen below) I got thinking about people who really are inspiring. People who go weeks, days, months without seeing their significant others. Currently I have two girlfriends who have husbands that are deployed and these woman are inspiring. How they are able to keep it together while being supportive of their husbands just wows me!!! LeeAnne and Christy are some of the strongest, smartest, sweetest, kindest, caring, giving, thoughtful, creative and loving people I know. (when I grow up I want to be like them) :-) Love you two, just wanted you to know how fantastic you really are!!!

Here are some amazing pictures of LeeAnne and Thomas that my friend Jenny took....gorgeous

(oh yeah and their dog buddy)

Here are some pictures of Christy and Esteven enjoying some time together while he is home on leave for two weekends, Enjoy Enjoy Enjoy!!!

Love you both mucho!

Something Different

This week has been a little different. I am house/babysitting a 17 and two 15 year olds (And no I did not make them play mall madness for hours on end like I once did for a babysitter). I have spent hours sitting inside a house (that is not mine) bored out of my mind. Today is my last day so we are going out for a fun dinner. I have missed Kyle and Lucy like crazy. It has been hard to be by myself and know that I am stuck here. I found myself doing homework that isn't due for another week, working out and sometimes even reading books for pleasure. Yesterday I spent the entire day counting down the hours and minutes until I got to go to dinner with Kyle (kind of like when we first started dating). So as the time drew closer and closer, I got ready and might have been speeding to see Lucy and Kyle when Kyle called to say he was home from work. We decided to go get dinner and come home and watch our (more Kyle's than mine)favorite show with Lucy. After many laughs in the drive through at Sonic we headed home with our greasy food and just relaxed and ate. After a short hour I headed back to house/babysitting...... and I found myself in the best mood driving home. I don't know if it was..

...the good greasy food

...seeing crazy goose

...hanging out with Kyle

...or a good episode of survivor...

maybe it was the mix of all four, all in all a Happy Wednesday!

Wedding Festivities

On Thursday Kyle and I head to San Francisco for a little vacation and Collyn's wedding. Here is a little bit of the agenda and no worries I will definitely be bringing the camera and take lots and lots of pictures. We head out Thursday night after work and fly into Oakland, California. Then we are spending our first night with Kyle's Aunt Judy and Uncle Johnny. We wake up Friday and head to a wine tasting with the wedding party and guests at noon. We have a free Friday night to explore Santa Rosa where were staying. The Wedding is on Saturday at Kunde Family Estates.

After wedding festivities all day Saturday we have a farewell breakfast Sunday morning and then it's off to explore San Fran until our flight Sunday night. We are extremely excited to see Collyn and Corey get married, get out of town and explore a new city. Join me in counting down the days.... 5 more

*Thanks to Jen our puppy sitter, who is making all this possible :-)*

Something Different

This weekend was once again filled with new events. I spent the day wedding dress shopping for my sister. Little did I know how much work wedding dress shopping would be. We were all exhausted by 2 when we wrapped up our first of many days of dress shopping. After continuing my day I topped it off with a nap with Lucy. Kyle and I tired something different at night and had a date night on a Saturday. We have been together for over a year and had never been to a movie together, so it was fun. After grabbing our free movie passes we headed to see The social network (the movie about the youngest billionaire, who created Facebook) it was pretty good but nothing fantastic. As we walked into the movie theatre we were pleasantly surprised by Eric and his girlfriend Gillean. We topped off our night and enjoyed the movie with some snacks and friends. All in all a great night and a calm Saturday just got me more and more excited for our vacation to San Fran on Thursday. 5 more days!!

Kyle's rating: **

Megan's rating: ***

Kyle's Request

So after the last post, Kyle was a little more interested in the blog. First off he wondered where the "Just the two of us" was for him and Lucy. So I took a little video of the two love birds together in there usual manner.

I don't know if it's weird that I am taping them, talking to my dog in that voice or singing "Just the two of us". Either way Lucy sat like this for 10 minutes and was over us by the end of the video. Still makes me laugh...weird dog humor.

Have you meet my anteater?

So Lucy got a haircut on Sunday and Kyle thinks that he has a future in dog grooming.... watch out Petsmart.... no one saw it coming...

Needless to say Lucy is getting a full body cut by the professionals on Saturday and she definitely resembles an anteater :-)

Just the two of us

Kings of Leon concert at Cricket

Amy got hitched :-)

My best friend since I was 9 months old tied the knot Labor day weekend. It was a long weekend that flew by fast filled with activity after activity, luckily someone else brought a camera to capture a few memories. We stayed with the Dycks and had a blast hanging out. They were finally able to meet the infamous Skyles :-) We hit up Old Chicago with Rachel and Luke on Friday and then the wedding events on Saturday, headed to a Twins game and dinner with the Nylanders on Sunday and then topped it all off with the State Fair Monday before we left.

It was sad to go but we will be back soon!! (especially with more weddings to come)