J+K

Today is going to be a super busy day revolved around Butler + Indianapolis + Basketball + Final Four. I don’t think I could get much happier.

But first!! I have exciting news. The hubs and I are going to be meeting my friend’s new fella (I talked about it in depth here).



On top of it, this will be the last time I see my friend before she departs to North Carolina to set up her new life ::sigh::



So here’s to a great morning and a great start of a fabulous weekend, and a fabulous life for the 2 of them. Cheers to a fellow Bulldawg, a great friend, a sister and her new love.

Elite 8 Weekend Summary

As I talked about here, we had a very hectic weekend that happened to fall over Butler's first appearance in an Elite 8.

Our week started with a drive to Elwood with a determination to get to get to the hubs parent's house prior to the Purdue vs Duke tip off. The drive looked like this, full of semis:


Because of all the semis & Chicago traffic I ended up having a very impatient husband and doggie:


When we arrived to Elwood, Minne and her cousin Buddy celebrated while mom and dd ate Pizza King Pizza. Minne continued celebrating the dawgs well through Sunday.

Saturday looked like this:

Lunch and Play date with the Lozers. Landon got to do some of his favorite things including, lunch at 5 Guys, a morning full of boys, some basketball and LEGOS


From there, I made my way to Laura's house for a nice little bridal shower. I can only imagine Minne's jealousy over Laura's Bullies toys:


The shower was beautiful. Jessica helped to host it and definitely used her expertise to help make the shower a success. Case in point, check out these bad boys:


Check out the beautiful bride too, ok ok the photo isn't great but still, couldn't she be a model?


We then headed over to our friend JDs house to drink some Blue Moon (Blue like Bulldawgs) and watch Butler take on K State. Good times were had by all, there was lots of screaming, gaging, crying, yelling...ect by all, I mean me. We didn't take any photos but here's what it looked like:


From there we went to dinner with some of the hubs close friends. Dinner itself was blah but the company was fabuslous. We even got to meet Mr Baby L. I think the hubs was smitten:

Landon especially liked when little "L" passed some gas:


After dinner we drove to Hinkle and waited for 3 hours for the Butler team to arrive back from Salt Lake City. (Had we still been in college we would have had more Butler friends in town to do some celebrating with, unfortunately it was just the hubs and I but it still rocked)


We waited in the cold, we waited in the rain, we waited while college kids passed out, but we waited for the one and only Bulldawgs. So worth it. Best part? Seeing how humble the guys were when they got off the buses? perhaps. Seeing Bobby Fong completely disoriented? perhaps. See Blue II. perhaps. What was really the coolest was surprising one of my BFFs. I think her hat shows it all:


After a long weekend for us, we drove home on Sunday. It didn't even take 2 minutes into the drive till Minne was asleep. I think the hubs and I both felt like she did.


For more about my love of Butler Basketball, read here

It's Game Day

GO TEAM INDIANA! First up Butler vs Syracuse tonight. Purdue vs Duke on Friday! OH BOY!

ESPN TODAY

Did you see this? If not head over to www.espn.com enjoy oh and Go Dawgs!

The caption on the photo reads "Butler's mascot chews on a gigantic bone while walking around the set of Hoosiers, aka the home of the Bulldogs. How can you root against that?"

Team Indiana On the Road to Indy

Yup, that's right. As of yesterday, Team Indiana is till on it's way to Indianapolis for the Final Four. Next stop....sweet 16. Happy Monday everyone! (PS can you tell the hubs is stoaked?)

Busy weekend!

Yup, it's been another busy busy weekend! We have officially decided that we are now Team Indiana (we being me and the hubs).



Hope everyone is having a great weekend! BU has now advanced to the sweet 16 and we're hoping that Purdue does the same tomorrow.



Go Dawgs, Boiler Up, Cheers Indiana!

Past Weekend

Wow this past weekend was super busy! It started with an awesome concert of MUSE and Silversun Pickups. To be honest, I knew MUSE had a hit song on Q101 right now, I knew they were huge in other countries but I had no clue that they could rock like they did. The light show they put on was spectacular, so if you ever have a chance to see it live, DO IT! I promise you won't be disappointed. This video doesn't do the show justice:



After that the rest of the weekend was filled with wedding festivities and college basketball.

A special shout out goes out to my Aunt L who is getting married in May. My aunt K and grandma through a lovely shower this past Sunday at Olive Garden. The bride’s favorite color is purple so you may notice a theme with some of the photos (which I am kicking myself for not bringing my other camera, photos taken from Blackberry).

I love the usage of the tool around the flowers seen here:


And how cute are these name tags/place settings? Yup there is a heart shaped cookie cutter with a cute cookie recipe written inside with a little sweetness note. And how about the continued use of purple?


Who could forget about the guest table? Check out the beautiful towel cake made by the groom’s mother:


A photo of the soon to be Mr. & Mrs.


After the shower I made it home with 1 minute to spare for the selection show. My hubs was disappointed to see Purdue’s placement against Siena and I was not surprised to see Butler in the 5 seed (although I hate the 5 seed, it is one of the highest rated upsets in the tourney every year…I’m used to Butler being the underdog).

Where does your team rank

MARCH!

Yup it's March, which is one of my favorite times of the year. Wanna know why?

College Basketball Starts to heat up! Case in point check out where Butler and Purdue are both ranked! This years tourny is sure to be a big one for our household:



March also means lots of green celebrating, especially when it comes to St. Patricks day, aren't we all a little Chi-Irish?




The weather starts to warm up which means more walks and runs outside with Minne moo!


And baseball spring training starts! It's time to get the boys of summer into shape!



Happy March everyone!