Vacation starts in 15 minutes

Hey all,
just wanted to post before I shut the computer down, that is right, I am on vacation starting at 2pm today. brett and I are going to Santa Cruz, CA and San Fran early tomorrow morning. I hope to have lots of pictures to share when I get back. I am pumped for three things:
One: Spend 5 days with my best friend and a hotty: Brett J. Wiese, I have butterfly's in my stomach like I did before my honeymoon, so fun!!!
Two: Surf, I am hoping to be a good surfer by the time I come back, really my goal is to get the hot surfer girl hair and get a picture of it;)
Three: Eat, sleep, lay out, shop, and be merry!!!

Peace out everyone, I am out of this town!!!!!

Thoughts on kelly

As I blogged last week, I went to the Kelly Clarkson concert and I was sooooo excited. I would say I could give Kelly a C+. She really didn't perform as well as I thought she could have. Don't get me wrong, her voice was out of this world but I was hoping to see a bit more of a performance. The sound was not the best and it was almost hard to hear her which is not a good thing ever! I also was hoping that she would come out in something sparkling hot and say "Hey Kansas City, love you all and I am thrilled to be here with you all at this awesome Verizon Wireless amphitheater!!!" What, she does not like to perform in KC?? Oh wait, no one likes to perform there because is hole in the ground in the middle of Bonner Springs. Anyway, she wore a white tee-shirt and black pants which was kinda disappointing and she had short brown hair and I was hoping for the long brown locks, what can you do. All and all I had a great time with my girls though. Thanks ladies!!

Wednesday night equals craft night

It is Wednesday and that means craft night with the ladies. It is so fun, last week we did mostly talking and very little crafting;) It also included home made ice-cream and chocolate zucchini bread, yummy!!! Last week I learned how to do t-shirt prints with fabric paint. I am not really sure what it is called so Hannah you will have to leave me a comment on that one. I am totally pumped about it now, I made a couple t-shirts for my sweet little sister in-law, Annie last week. Lastnight I made some baby onesies for my girlfriends baby and they turned out so cute. Had to post a picture.
Well, tonight I am not sure if I will be doing a craft because I have to work late and I will only get to stop by so I think I will observe and get some more ideas for fun crafts. What I love the most about craft nights besides the food and crafts of course is the girl time. Where else can you go where the conversation starts out about what new fabrics are in this season and what store carries it to whether you are a fan of the thong underwear, I love it!!!
Enjoy the little baby onesies, the theme in his room is airplanes ;)

But since u been gone !!!!!

I can breathe for the first time!!!!! That is right, I love pop music and tonight I am going to make one of my dreams come true. I see Kelly Clarkson at approximately 9pm tonight in concert. I know some of you are thinking that I am to old to go to this crap. Or at least the whole crowd at the Jessica Simpson concert that I went to last year thought I was. I have decided not to care what others thing about my obsession with pop stars. Yes, I love them all, Ashley and Jessica Simpson, Kelly, and even Britney when she was hot. You can't tell me that you don't get in your car and jam to this stuff. I use to commute and this kind of music is the only thing that got me through it.
Anyway, should be a good time of hanging out with the girls (which Brett is thinking I need to cut back on considering I have been gone three nights a week with girls these days, still love you brett. You just will not take me to the Kelly concert so what is a girl to do?) Rain rain go away and come again tomorrow because tonight is Kelly's night and I am going to be there rain or shine baby!!!

too dang hot to be nice.

Wow, sorry I was off the blog train for a while. I can't motivate myself to do anything in this heat!! ;) Just kidding
Today something really cool happened, mostly stupid. I got yelled at by this Greeter grandma at Roeland Park Wal-mart. I think it may have pushed me over the edge, I mean don't mess with me when it is 103 degrees outside and I need to make a return. So, here is what happened:
I went to walmart to return a frame that I got and realized it was broken. I go in the store and there was grandma with her sticker gun greeting me with no smile, no "hi, welcome to wal-mart" nothing, I mean isn't that why they are there in the first place. So old people have something to do instead of watching soaps and eating bit o honey all day. When I tried to go back to get another frame so I could return the one I had and get a new one all at the same time she said: " mam, no, you need to go to the returns, now!" I started to explain that I wanted to get another frame and because I knew they were just going to make me get in line again so I was going to do it all at one time, before I could finish my sentence : "No, mam, you need to go their first and return!" I started to argue with her, I could feel my face getting red, not like I was not already steaming hot but now I was a time bomb. She pointed her finger at the return line and said "Go get in line mam, you need to get in that line first!" I felt like a two year old, not only because she was bossing me around but because I stomped off and said under my breath for real " fine, I will get in your stupid line just so I can stand in your stupid line again, this place sucks!!!"
As I started to go to the line I decided since I got past her I would just make a "B line" for the frames, I got two steps and I hear a shouting from about 30 ft away "Mam, right there Mam, you need to stand in that line!" I was so close to taking that frame and throwing it on the ground like a little girl, then I wanted to shout, "I am never coming back to this hell hole, I hate this wal-mart!!!!!" Obviously, I didn't do that, I thought I would just return this stupid frame and then promise myself that I will never make a return at that walmart again. I think the new rule of the year is if it is not worth over 10 bucks and you need to return it to walmart, I would rather throw it away and get what I really need at Target. Anyway, it was kinda funny after I got back to work and I was in the air condition. I loved it that I tried to run away from the greeter at walmart, thinking she would not see me, then I got yelled and and everyone checking out turned their heads and looked at me. It was classic!!!!!! Stay cool, today, it is the last say of the heat wave.

here I come

Watch out, I am going to be a baking fool in my new apron that my girl hannah made me for my birthday, I love it! I tried it out this morning, it fits like a glove and I feel really cute in it ;)

Well this weekend I am going to hang out with friends, see the kids I use to babysit in college for a whole day which we be a blast. They are the cutest kids ever (hannah, I also think your kids are the cutest ;) The little ones are who I use to babysit for, not the two crimson girls ;)













I am going to hang out at the lake on sunday and I am sure that will be the perfect conclusion to a stinkin hot weekend.

the big two five

Well, I am now 25 years old and one day. My girl friends threw me the best party ever. It was full of laying out in the sun, eating junk food, making smores, camping out, sitting by the fire and some great gifts from my girls. Thank you all so much for making it so special, I love you all!!!!

Party time, excellent

yes, this is the theme of my first 25th birthday party this weekend with my college girlfriends. " Party your grass off" is the theme. How fun is that??? It is a full day of laying out in the sun with the ladies, BBQ and then camping out. I am so pumped! My birthday is not until 7/11, which is Tuesday but I am getting a head start. I am most excited about:
One: competing with Cara for the best tan of the summer
Two: Drinking Coca Cola and not feeling guilty about it
Three: Burnt Hot dogs on the grill
Four: Hanging out with my best girlfriends
Five: PARTYING MY GRASS OFF!!!!!

On fire.

I know that none of you care but the reason that I titled this post "on fire" as well as posting a picture of my eye ball is because my eye ball is on fire!!! I don't know if it is because I stare at a computer all day, I spent to many days as a child staring into the sun, or if watching my dad weld is finally starting to burn my eye ball. I remember going out to the shop to tell my dad that lunch was ready or something and he would be welding and would tell me to not look directly into the light of the welding. You know as good as I do that when you tell a kid not to look at something cool that they are going to stare right into it. Man, maybe I should have listened, it is killing me.
Besides that my day is going pretty smooth, I have not had to pick up any dead animals so that makes for a pretty good day. It is Thursday already!! I love holidays in the middle of the week, I have got to get some more of those. Having a long weekend got me a little excited for a vacation that Brett and I are taking in less than a month to Santa Cruz, CA. I am so pumped to spend a whole 5 days hanging out with my best friend ever!!! Love you Brett! I think we will be doing some surfing, some hiking, eating some good food, shopping, and as Sheryl Crow says: Soaking up the sun!!! Brett lived here for a summer when we were in college so I am excited to go back and see where he lived and worked for a summer. Hope you are not all grossed out by my eye ball, I think it is pretty cool, I might put it on my screen saver for a while. What?? And take sweet debo off, I don't think so man. Here is a cute one of my little pup.

Ahh, the glamour

Yes, that is right, friday at my event, a bird decided to crash into the freshly washed windows and land right in the path of where all the guest were going to arrive. and yes, I called housekeeping but do you think it was a priority to pick up a dead bird? Apparently not, I waited an hour and then decided I needed to dispose of it myself because VIP guest were going to arrive any minute. I knew my VIP guests would not shut up about something like this so I did what I had to do.
So, here I am picking up a dead bird and pitching it, Nice work Vikkie Wiese!! Your job rocks!!! Yes, there are fun things about my job, putting orders in for fun flower arrangements, ordering linens, and delicious food but event planners also do a ton of behind the scenes work that is either hard labor or just plain gross.

Late night

So, I had a blast baking with my girls last night, we baked a total of a 124 cupcakes I think, I am not sure what the total came to. All I know is the next time I have a chance to do that again with those girls, I will be all over it. It was so fun to hang out and talk about girl stuff. I was really proud of Brett, he watched Huffmania kids for two hours all by himself while his mommy was baking with me. It is her 30th birthday today so I thought I would give a shout out to Hannah, Happy 30th birthday sister!!! I love you tons and I am thrilled that I have gotten to know you better this year!! You are my inspiration for blogging, so thanks!
I hate not posting a picture everyday because I love pictures so much. This may be why I am a terrible reader, I only picked up picture books as a child, I prefer to just look at pictures instead of doing the whole reading thing ;). It might also be why I prefer to read trash magazines such as US Weekly and In Touch (so many stupid pictures) instead of books that might actually help me become more intelligent. I am sure it would help with my vocabulary, or lack there of. So, no reason for posting this picture, I just like it. My friend, Kate-O and I took this when we met up in NYC last fall, if you look close you can see the women on the very right under panties)

Yo Yo Yo, Get your bake on!

So today has been pretty uneventful, I am busy planning for a huge event in September called Treads and Threads, it is a blast but a ton of work to plan. Here is the website if you want to purchase tickets or to volunteer, let me know: www.treadsandthreads.org

Besides working hard I am getting pumped to get my bake on tonight with some girlfriends, we are going to bake like 100 cupcakes for a big birthday bash on Saturday. We are leaving Brett with the kids and baking some yummy cupcakes. I say if we bake 100 cup cakes then there should be at least 30 to bring to the party. Come on, 100 cupcakes and 5 women, ARE YOU CRAZY, that is some good eating. I just thought I would post this picture of the last time I did some baking with my sister, I think we had all 17 cookies gone in about 20 minutes, Nice workCallie!!! Well should be fun and I will be sure to take some pics!!!

Lurk alert!!!

So, I find out everyday that I have many readers but several lurkers out there, in case you don't know what lurkers are, it is people that read my blog and don't comment. I would like to give a shout out to my good friend Hannah for religiously leaving comments to make me laugh. Now, I have gotten three emails this morning about not blogging for almost a week. I didn't know you were all reading it ;) I have set my blog up so you don't have to sign up, just leave a comment.

Ok, on to other business. I am still flipping tired from a weekend at the lake with some friends, I am not sure why but once I get out on a lake, I get the lake tiredness. It reminds me of when I was younger and we would go to the pool everyday in the summer and then we would have a Swans orange pushup and crash until dinner time. It must be the mixture of the water, junk food, and sun that makes me very sleepy. I don't have any pictures of this weekend yet but I did have a great time spending time with my main man Brett, it is always good to get away for a weekend and be with each other. I just got this picture from a wedding we went to a couple weekends ago and I love it.

Corn fed!

To celebrate the first day of summer I had three ears of corn last night, that is right, I went to the store and got three and ate all three!! Brett didn't have a fighting chance. I go into the zone when I eat corn on the cob, I am not sure if it is just growing up on the farm with four other siblings and fighting to get the last piece or if I love it so much that I can't eat it fast enough. Brett said he would like to take of picture of me eating corn on the cob because I am ONE BIG MESS. I don't even mess with trying to stay clean, I just get the job done. Last night I had maybe close to a 1/2 cup of butter, salt and pepper falling off my chin. Since we still don't have a digital camera and I could not take a picture of me last night and get it on my blog, I thought this picture would have to do. I found a picture that was on the web that I am pretty sure is me when I was a child. Regardless, I think it gives you a good picture of what went on in our house last night.

Working for the weekends!

Is it only Tuesday, I feel like in the summer I really work for the weekends. It is really like I make money so I can spend it on the weekends. This weekend I will be spending my money to get my fine self to the lake for some sun, relaxing, and time with friends. You know how people ask "Lake or Ocean"? I think I may be a lake girl. If the ocean didn't sting every part of my body when I jumped in, maybe I would like it more. I feel like the ocean is a lot like the Cheesecake factory. It looks great from the outside and so many people love it but it is just not as good as you would like once you get there. You can't layout at the beach unless you have a tarp to put under your blanket or you will find sand in every pocket of your body for days. But it is most the burning, you shave your legs to look great on the beach and then you run into the ocean and it is like a thousand needles. In conclusion, "Lake vs. Ocean" I pick the lake, call me white trash but it is a good time!
Tomorrow is the first day of summer, bringing the Frisbee, the sunscreen, and the good times with friends. I tried to think of a fun picture to post today but didn't come up with anything great so I figured I would post one of my two brothers playing golf, country style, that's right baby, right into the corn field. Summer is good!

Back at the farm

This weekend I went back to my hometown to celebrate fathers day, it is always good to get out of the city and see the open sky before a thunderstorm. Growing up, I don't think I appreciated the farm but now that my backyard is border line not big enough to put a volleyball net up, I am thankful for the wide open spaces that I had a child.

One thing that was funny to me this trip was a little restaurant we ate at. First of al, this sign is only somewhat true. The did have cold beer and it was only $1.75 a bottle but the food was not to great. In fact, the dinner salad consisted of iceberg lettuce with four small pieces of tomatoes. Yummy!!! Maybe it would be nice to have a little bit of carrots and cucumber on the salad? Perhaps it would add some color? My fries were great, you can always count on small town hole in the wall restaurant to have good fried food. I knew there was going to be great fried food when I walked in and I saw a big fella holding a beer with word "Bub" on the back of his shirt, he may have been just shy of 350 pounds I would say.

Of course I can not go without saying that Debo had a great time on the farm, he sniffed his little heart out and has been napping since we got home last night. He always knows a big bath is coming his way when he gets home from the farm because he stinks something awful. He is a happy boy on the farm, just chilling to the max.

I sure do love Target!

So as most of you know, I love to shop at Target, I always find something but today I left the house and got to work and realized that not only do I love the store but apparently I need to get a job there. I am not sure how I managed to leave the house without noticing that I look like a work at target. Rookie mistake!! I guess I will go apply for a part-time job there over my lunch break. Then I realized after taking this picture that I must also love Christmas because I look like a elf with these shoes and this shirt. Man, seriously good thing it is Friday and I don't even care. ;)
Well, I think I have been living for the weekends so far this summer. I turn into a whole different person at work on Fridays, I just want to kiss everyone and laugh all the day. The thought of Monday makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little.I guess it is suppose to rain all weekend, so much for a fun weekend of boating!!I was thinking I might take the pup out on the boat as well, nothing cuter than a dog in a life jacket unless you count Brett of course.I just realized that I don't have much to blog about except my dog and my main man.I need to get some hobbies!!

Welcome Back

Last night was a great time of catching up with our good friend Toby Lunn. He has been in Kenya for a past few years with a mission organization and is home to stay for a while. Welcome Home Toby!

crazy people

Have you ever known someone who has gotten a dog and then became obsessed with it? Calling it baby cakes, saying "I have to go home early to take the boy out to go to the bathroom". Wanting to take it anywhere and everywhere and letting it snuggle you with its wet paws just after you got out of the shower. It is so annoying and YES, I am one of them. Who can resist this cute guy.


Oh, brett is a cute too. He and Debo have so much in common, they love to hunt birds. Me? I just love them both!!!

Thinking about it

Hey all,
I have been thinking about blogging for the last few months and finally got the gumption to do it. I figured since I don't have cable, I don't have a personal cell phone, and I don't have a ipod, I might at well keep up with times and start blogging. I am not sure how good at this I will be but I will do my best to entertain you with my thoughts and pictures as much as possible. I also have not gone to the digital world yet with cameras so the pictures may be far and few between. Ok, here it goes.