Saturday, December 10, 2011

Casey "lumberjack" Mau

I have been doing a very good job of forgetting my camera to our last few dates. Ughhh. So, last weekend we went to Gallivan Center and went ice skating on this outdoor rink. It was super fun. The trees around it were covered in lights, they were blasting Christmas music, and I attempted some Michelle Kwan type tricks like sticking my leg out behind me. It was amazing!! My favorite part was that I would start racing him like Apolo Ohno, but unlike Apolo, I couldn't stop, so Casey would stop before me and I would go flying into his arms. It was pretty cute. (Last night we went to a Christmas party where Pope's kids were singing. Aren't we cute. Well, I'm not sure what my bangs we re doing, but otherwise...cute.)
Then Tuesday we went to Devri's house to do sugar cookies with her 7 kids. Casey became the two boys best friend and they played hide n go seek, pretend angry birds, cars and at one point Casey has a hat and scarf on. Casey had Kono- the 4 year old, decorate me a cookie. It was literally covered in chocolate chips and weighed about 3 pounds. Yeah, I ate it. LOL.
Last night before the party we went and ate at a Brazilian restaurant, which was so good. I had
my first flan and I'm in love!! I feel like I need to eat a lot of flan to make up for all those years of missed flan eating. Then we sat back and just watched the talent show.

So Casey met the Popes. Saia doesn't usually say much, but liked Casey cuz he was a wrestler. Luisa chatted with him and while I was in the bathroom, I heard her say something like...Lori hasn't dated a lot of nice guys..so if you're mean to her, we are going to beat the crap out of you. Then started laughing and invited us for Christmas. Gotta love Pope. He seemed ok with the threats and will probably recover by next week sometime.LOL.


Saturday, December 3, 2011

Best Best BEST weekend ever!


It all started with an amazingly delicious thanksgiving meal. Wow. All of the food was amazing and we ate ourselves silly as usual. We survived another year of black friday shopping. We almost died at Walmart - both inside and outside of the store. Despite the total chaos we were able to get out faster than anticipated. Ruby decided she didn't want to miss out on all the action and refused to sleep so we ended up bringing a 7 month old, bright eyed girl out to Kohls for her first midnight shopping experience! We got a lot of great deals and I got a few horrified "you are a terrible mother" looks - totally worth it! We shopped around all day long including 3 trips to meijer, a quick stop at JC Penny, and a LONG wait at JoAnn's. The day ended with a delicious batch of pocki!
***Sugi-Mania***
***ESPN camera man...BOOOO....***
***3 BIGGEST fans***
Saturday was easily the third best day of my life (Preston informed me that it's offensive to rate a win over the buckeyes above the birth of your child or wedding day...). The weather was PERFECT and the game was GLORIOUS! Our seats made it a LITTLE hard for us to see the action, as did the very unpopular camera guy, but nothing could dampen our spirits when the final buzzer rang and we rushed the field screaming HAIL TO THE VICTORS! Literally my face hurt from smiling so much! We raced home for some INSANELY thick and delicious grilled steaks at Tim's house. The perfect day. The PERFECT weekend.
***Denard's bum was on this bench! What up!!***
***Even got Dad down on the sidelines***
***COMPLETE CHAOS on the field - TOTALLY AWESOME***



(These videos are a little nauseating...sorry 'bout that - got caught up in the moment :)