Three Wonderful Years

This week Gary and I celebrated our three year anniversary! I can't believe it's already been three years, it seems like just yesterday I had a stomach full of butterflys as I got off the plane in San Diego visiting him for the first time. In true "us" fashion, neither of us could keep a secret from eachother so we ended up giving each other gifts way before the actual day!

A quick look back in time...here is a picture from that first time I went to visit in San Diego.

Last Fling Before the Ring

My friend Rachel is getting married in Las Vegas this coming weekend. Last Friday, Amanda threw her a bachellorette party for all the people in Michigan who were not flying out to Vegas. Her "official" bachellorette party will be Thursday night in Vegas. We had a great time and of course took a million pictures (thanks to the paparazzi - a.k.a AMANDA). Here are a few from the evening:

The bride-to-be decked out for a night on the town

Amanda, Kristie and I at the Dirty Martini in Novi

In case you're wondering about the name tags, it's a fun little activity we did for Julie's bachelorette party where you give everyone stripper names. We also decided it would be fun to take the name tags to the bar and re-name random people. It turned out to quite entertaining!

The PGA Comes to Detroit

Although I didn't attend (it's not really my thing) Gary was lucky enough to get tickets for both Monday's practice round and Saturday's tournament round from his friends at Popular Mechanics Magazine. I'll have to say, that is one of the things I miss about working in advertising...no more magazine rep perks!

I posted this one because it was the only picture that had someone I knew in it! John Daly is in the blue shirt...

Fun in the Sun

Saturday we spent the day with Kristie and Burton out at one of their buddies houses in Commerce. He lives on a lake and has a HUGE backyard. The weather was perfect and I was so happy to be out enjoying the sunshine!
And of course, what Saturday afternoon wouldn't be complete without a Baggo tournament? My partner and I ended up losing the losers bracket. Ouch.
Thanks KJ and BW for letting us tag along!!

The Rock-afire Explosion

As children of the 80's most of us have been to Show Biz Pizza once or twice. I always remember the pizza being really good (which it probably in reality wasn't) but my favorite part was the animatronic band called The Rock-afire Explosion.

Aparently when Show Biz Pizza went under, the company producing the animatronic characters still had 80 sets that had yet to be sold. Therefore, they have been selling them off to various collectors and Rock-afire Explosion fans. One fan figured out how to hack into the system and program the band to perform current songs such as Love in this Club by Usher. Check out the video below.

If you're interested in the whole story, click here.

How funny is that???

Kid Rock

While I'm not the biggest Kid Rock fan, I did attend the concert this past Saturday. We went with a big group of people and did some tailgating before hand. Although the weather was not that great, we ended up having a ton of fun! And I actually enjoyed the concert too!

Gary and I rockin' our aviator sunglasses :-)

Danielle, Ryan and I using the hatchback for cover! Luckily it didn't rain too hard.

Kristie, Amanda and I on the hill...not sure why I even bothered curling my hair!

At least a few of us came prepared, I ended up wearing the pants of Lisa's rain suit on my head!

The Simon's Come to Visit

Last weekend I went home because Julie and Paul were in town for the weekend. I haven't seen since I was in Dallas for work in January. We had a good time hanging out at The Curraugh in Holland along with a few of my other guys friends from high school including Rick, Keith, and the Strabbing brothers.

It was so good to see you guys, Jules and Paulie! I'll have to make another trip to Texas soon! Maybe when it starts to get cold here in Michigan! :)