A Battle of Epic Proportion

HeHe Sorry Mom.

Jen Vs. The Cupcake.

1 Point : Jen ---  0 Points : Cupcake









Ps. I'm trying to figure my page setup out, so if it keeps changing randomly... this is why.

"Insert witty title here"

I originally started this blog to document our wedding planning. Then I fell off the blogsphere when the wedding/wedding planning was over. Then after my multiple month hiatus Glam Bride returned as Beautiful Life. I've tried to keep up with it, but sometimes (most of the time) I find myself boring. Maybe I don't have the blogging talent. I want to be interesting and funny, and tell witty endearing stories about my life. Problem is my life doesn't seem that witty or endearing. Or maybe I just don't know how to write it so it sounds that way. I feel as if I'm just blah blah blahing as the story drags on. Well... here I go again, another attempt at keeping this blog updated. I love reading other peoples blogs, so hopefully someone will love reading mine.

I also love looking at pictures on people blogs ... so for your viewing pleasure...

Flo and The worlds greatest spokesperson in the World.

"What's the worst that could happen?"

Tony and I have been keeping busy lately ... I haven't been very good about posting on here. The past few weeks involved ::

Gahana Blues and Jazz Festival - We went with Liz and Dave, it was a pretty good time. The weather was nice, being newly summer. So we were all wanting relish the sun and warmth. There wasn't a lot to do down there, but we always make it fun for ourselves. We waited about an hour at the High School to board a school bus that would transport us to the festival. That was amusement in itself, school buses seemed to have shrunk (or we've all grown). We got down there and ended up finding Dave's friend Jack that was bartending at an outdoor bar. So we had some summer shandy's and could hear the music coming from the main stage.

Our partner's in crime.Tony & I

Our usual photo shoot

Liz & Dave.

We got hungry and had dinner at old bag of nails. 3 out of the 4 all you can eat fish (which was a terrible idea ... you end up OVERstuffed). That was pretty much all.

Cedar Point - We got free tickets to Cedar Point and ended up getting 6 of them. We invited Liz & Dave also Ashley & Jesse. So all 6 of us headed up to Sandusky. Turns out Father's day was Pride day ... so that made for an interesting day. The weather was really nice again, really hot though. It was too busy and we got to ride pretty much everything we wanted to with fairly short lines. For lunch we decided to pack instead of spending money inside the park. It was actually pretty fun. Each couple brought a couple of dishes and we tailgated in the parking lot behind the Jeep.

The girlsBoys

This was our "tailgate" lunch.

4th of July weekend - This past weekend was jam packed we all had a 3 day weekend. Saturday morning we headed down to Logan early in the morning to go canoing. There is so much to say about that event, not even sure where to begin. I had never canoed before, so it was a brand new experience for me. Took us a while to get the hang of it. We slowly made out way down the river drinking beer and having a good time. The guys went in one canoe and the girls were in the other. We just floated along while the guys were going a lot faster then us. We found a rope swing close to the end and decided to give it a try. Ashley tips us out of the boat then scrambles up the ladder to the rope swing while Liz and I are trying to recover our belongings. All 3 of us ended up going off the swing and all of us ended up hurting ourselves (not seriously though) I couldn't support my self and instead of swinging off the rope I kind of just ended up falling like a bag of bricks. I ended up with rope burn on my hands. Ashley skinned her knees and liz got a wedgie. The men did not attempt. The boys ended up tipping their boat a few times too. At one point they had the boat out of the water on the edge of the river. They were both sitting in the boat attempting to rock it into the water as we overhear "what's the worst that could happen". We finally made it to the end of the trip a little more wet and a little more drunk. At the beginning of the trip Tony and I had bought this  plastic "water tight" box. Well in the end everything in it ended up ruined which was my camera and Tony's phone. We were upset about it but honestly we had so much fun it didn't even matter. After that we went and got some food and went back to Ashley & Jesse's house and slept for a couple hours.

     Later that night we headed up to Lancaster to a drive in movie. They were playing Toy Story 3 & Eclipse. I really liked both movies a lot. It was just a really fun day!

Sadly these are the last of the pictures I have from the weekend since my camera faced a watery death. Monday we spent all day up at St. Mary's lake with everyone. I got quite burnt and bit up by mosquitos. We were exhausted from the weekend when we went back to work on tuesday. It was so much fun though it was worth it! This weekend we're just hanging out at home so far. I guess that sums everything up!   * Jen *

Exhausted

I'm kind of exhausted with life. I wish I could figure it out and be on my merry little way to "happily ever after".     The End.

Regenerating Belongings

    So things are getting somewhat back to normal after the purse snatching debacle. I FINALLY have a phone again. That was the weirdest part! Also I got 2 of my credit cards in the mail. So I'm not carrying around a wallet with only my drivers license in it. Still on my list of things to get - Sunglasses. The ones that I lost were ones I bought and wore on our honeymoon. So they have a little bit of a sentiment. As much sentiment as a pair of sunglasses can have. Also I need a new key chain. It's kind of a random thing, and they're surprisingly hard to find. Thats about it though. The people that stole all of our stuff are continuing to steal money though. Just using our id's and writing fake checks and cashing them. So it's kind of a constant state of paranoia. Are they going to steal money out of my account, or are they going to take out credit cards in my name? I'm really hoping these people will get what they deserve eventually.
    Other than that all is well. Tony's friend Joe and his wife Kris had their son on saturday. We went up to the hospital on sunday and I got to hold Aiden their son. He was only 1 day old and I was in love! How can you not love something that tiny? Tony held him too, he's definantely a natural. It makes it hard not to think of things to come in the future. I must admit I have a bit of baby fever. But hopefully I can just be baby sitter for now! Thats all for now. We have another volleyball game on Thursday, so I'm sure we will all be on edge a bit. Wish us luck! Jen

Unlucky Me

I haven't posted in a while. Nothing much going on, still trying to lose weight. It's going ok ... not great but it's a slow process. But I'm feeling pretty good about myself. I've been doing zumba (a dance class). It's so much fun and makes me look forward to working out. I'm obssesed.  Also I'm in a volleyball league on thursdays night at a local bar. I'm not very good, but it's a lot of fun. Which brings me to my unluckiness. We had a game this past thursday. We show up a little early to hang out and drink a beer. We were getting ready to go out on the vball court and everyone shoved all of their personal items in my purse. Then I put the purse under the table. There were a couple of guys that weren't on the team that were suppose to sit at the table and "guard". We play our game and come back I ask for my purse, and all I get is "it was stolen". Haha very funny. Nope no joke, it was freakin stolen! Along with everyones personal belonging. Cellphones/wallets/keys. Very upsetting considering there were two people that were suppose to be watching the purse and our table. For some reason 2 girls were sitting at the table and noone thought to keep their eye on my belongings. After everything calmed down and I finally made it home Tony and I started calling credit card companies. Luckily they didn't touch our checking account. But once we called the credit card companies we started to find out the damage these girls had done. Multiple $200 charges at krogers. And then some other charges at other places. That was just my cards, they also did the same thing to other peoples cards. So that was sucky but luckily we wont be help liable for the charges. But I had to buy a new cellphone, a new drivers license, pretty much everything you keep in your purse. Random stupid stuff like a wallet, a key chain and sunglasses. It was just plain inconvienent. It made me so mad to think that someone could do this to me and my friends. Hopefully in the end they get what they deserve. Things are finally getting back to normal and I'm finally starting to feel better. From now on I'm going to be less trusting and more aware and cautious. Thats pretty much the whole story, this could have been prevented but oh well there is no way to go back. Everyone is safe (althought we did change the locks at our house) and everything is replaceable.
     Tony and I ended up having a great weekend together though.  We ate lunch at Bel Lago today, they have an outdoor seating area that overlooks hoover resovoir. We had lunch with my dad and stepmom kat. Then we walked around in downtown westerville and looked around in all of the little antique shops. Now were just unwinding at home before another week of work! Until next time.... Jen

much needed time off

Nothing much going on here. Just lounging at home. I have to work 4 days next week and then we are leaving to go on vacation with my dad, stepmom and sisters. We're going to gatlinburg. Nothing exotic, but it will be nice to have some time off of work. That place has been driving me nuts lately! Today we're going to go get a new camera (my birthday present) to take down with us. I'm excited, I like road trips! My parents got a big nice cabin with a hot tub. Not sure what activities we will be doing, but it should be fun! I'll be sure to take lots of pictures!