have I mentioned before that I love my friends?

especially when they say things like:

"I wouldn't trade you for all the graham crackers
with peanut butter in the world...and that usually does the trick"

followed by:

"thanks for being you"

sometimes your friends say just the right thing at just the right time...love you gina!

April 17, 2010

I realized today that I haven't mentioned something incredibly important on here yet...

My best friend is getting married!

I am so beyond excited for Caela and Nic! I can still remember the beginning of their relationship like it was yesterday even though it was like 4 years ago! Nic is such a great guy...I love him to pieces (part of that may be due to the fact that he let me in on the ring-buying process even though he always said he wanted to do it on his own)!! But in all seriousness, the thing I want more than anything in the world is for my friends and family to be happy. And just looking at Caela, you can tell that she radiates happiness.

They are getting married April 17, 2010--which, by the way, the date was already picked out before they got engaged...I have actually had that date saved in the calender on my phone for months now :) Caela also asked me to be her maid of honor and I am so--is this a cliche (and redundant) word?--honored! Their wedding will be such a blast!

Now if I can only manage to not spill champagne down my dress during my speech...

hat day

Did you ever find yourself--just every once in awhile--doing something completely spontaneous? Maybe with a friend you hadn't seen in a while. Or maybe with a friend you see every single day? Did you ever find yourself having the time of your life doing something completely ridiculous and just not caring what other people thought?

Oh and also, did you ever have a hat day during school??

Well I did. I actually did all of the above. Rachel (who just so happens to be one of my best friends in the entire world) and I finally got a chance to see each other! And the best thing about seeing Rae is that I know, no matter what we do, I will have the time of my life. We could have coffee--or sit on the couch and watch a movie--or quote Friends the entire time we're together--or go to the mall, buy ridiculous hats, and wear them--and I know that we're going to have fun.

It's kind of fun acting like you're 14 and don't have a care in the world every once in awhile. (But don't worry, we weren't obnoxious 14 year old wannabes!)

Enjoy the pics...they're pretty ridiculous!

Rochester bound!

So this weekend Rachel and I roadtripped down to Rochester to visit Al! It was a much needed and fun reunion with my girls! Rae and I drove down on Friday after work--we went out to a comedy club which was absolutely hilarious! Then we hit up a few bars and had a pretty great night! The next day, we all woke up and cuddled in bed (ok it's not as weird as it sounds! on our last night in college freshman year, the three of us plus our friend Lindsey, all had a sleepover because we were so sad to leave each other for the summer--it's kind of a thing we do haha) anyways, after that, we went to lunch and then Al drove us around Rochester and showed us some of the cool houses and places--we went up to this mansion called the Plummer mansion which was HUGE--this first picture above here is the backyard of the house...imagine playing in that every day! We also drove by the old Mayo brothers house which was even bigger! (just no backyard there)...here's some pictures...i'm too tired to put them all in order so you'll just have to enjoy them as they are--out of order!

New pics!

So I'm still as obsessed with picnik as ever...here's some of my newer cool pics!