Grade School Friends and Les Miserables

Another weekend has come and gone. There sure are flying by! Now if only the work weeks would fly by, but who am I kidding? I only have 6 days left at this job before the packing starts. 

Friday night, I got to see my grade school girlfriends. Two of them I have known since 2nd grade and the other since 5th grade. Its crazy to think that we are hitting the point where we can say, yeah we have been friends for nearly 20 years. Its just mind-blowing! Julianna is expecting a little boy, to be called Noah, in August. Melissa had tales of her daughter Lily and Mary Beth is chugging along. We were having such a good time that before we knew it, it was 10 o'clock. Time does fly when you are having fun! It was good to catch up with the girls, as I do not think I'll be seeing them for a long time! *Tear* After we were done, I hung out with my parents for a little while before going home. 

Saturday morning, Garrett and I did some cleaning before he left to do some SCUBA lessons in the afternoon. He had a good time but now he's ready to go to the ocean. Some day we will do this. Don't know when, but some day. Saturday evening, I went to a friend's house and we watched Les Mis and had wine and cheese. We had a good time! And I just never get tired of Les Mis.

Sunday morning, Garrett and I got up early and went for a hike on a trail not too far from our apartment. We took Achilles! He needed a nice long hike! LoL! We had a lunch while sitting on a log that had fallen over the creek. It was entertaining. Afterwards, Garrett went to play golf with Ryan and I headed to my parents' house to hang. Unfortunately, I arrived at precisely the wrong time...Just in time to help my dad in the garage. Ha! Well we ended rebuilding the hydraulic something for the tractor. At least I think it was hydraulics. Whatever. Quality time with my dad in the garage is better than spreading mulch, in my opinion. I ended up spending the rest of the day covered in transmission fluid and rockin' out with my dad. 

We had a really good weekend! Sadly, the weekends are starting to be few in number! But on the agenda this week is Group Therapy $5 Buckets on Wednesday, dinner with my grandparents Thursday, Lunch with Lindsay on Friday, then hanging with Amanda and Ares as well as my other friend Linzi for the weekend! We are rapidly approaching the one week mark until packing time! So many things to get done!! Yikes!!

Wish Me Luck!

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A

I'm Dead, I'm Dead, I Died, I'm Dead

That pretty much sums up my weekend. Don't get me wrong, we had a fabulous weekend, I'm just still wiped out and its Tuesday. Never fear, we are slowly recovering and gearing up for another of the last few remaining weekends in StL! Before we get to that, a recap of the past weekend.

I was so very, very excited to see these two crazies this past weekend! I'm only sad we didn't have the opportunity to spend more time together! However, we did still have a blast! The introduction circle that they did was entertaining. They asked for a story...which I think we were all frantically searching for a family friendly story! Lol! Something Steph said really is true. We have indeed come a long way since the pirate party that resulted in the cops pulling us over...and then letting us off the hook because we were smart enough to get a sober driver...and that's all I'm going to say about that story as the people reading this already know the full story and for those that don't, well too bad... :) Anyway, I was very sad to leave on Saturday. I think Rachel and I talked for another 30-45 minutes from the time I said I was going to go to the time I actually left. This is what happens when old friends get together and can't seem to leave...too much reminiscing to be done. :)

Then there was the other part of the weekend: the marathon relay/half marathon for Garrett.  I had all the shirts set out and ready to roll on Sunday. We woke up at 5 AM and Garrett sleepily said to me, "Who's idea was this again?!" Uh that's right...YOURS! LOL! By the time that Abby, Cyle, and Cameron arrived, we were very much awake and it was a good thing too because they sure were.We all suited up and took off on the adventure 3 months in the making.

It was dark when we left, but it was light in no time at all. Abby took the first leg for 6 miles, Cameron took the second leg for 7.5 miles, Cyle took the third leg for 7 miles, and I took the final leg for 6 miles. Abby and I decided a long time ago that the boys were going to run the long legs. :) Sorry guys! (But not really!) In the picture, Cameron had just finished the longest stretch and was still good to pose for a picture! Typical of Cameron! Can't wait to spend 24 hours in a car with this guy in June. Evidently Cyle was like gimme the belt, gots to go! 

Our trusty photographer was ready to take a picture as we ran by towards the finish line. My only thought as we ran towards the finish line was, "is it me or is that line not getting any closer?!" Finally, we all sprinted through the archway and were officially finished.

Team Huck: Relay Marathon 2013...Finishers.

"The Family Huck: The family that runs together, survives the zombie apocalypse together." ~Garrett Huck (He really wants to get shirts the next time we do this together that says this.)

After the big run, we headed down to Cyle and Abby's house to have some fun with the kiddos. We had a lot of fun but we were quite exhausted after our crazy day. I ended up switching my Friday off and took Monday off again as I was so sore. Garrett and I spent the day on the couch playing Lego Lord of the Rings and then finishing up season 2 of The Walking Dead. Garrett was all ready to buy Season 3, but I vetoed that idea since I really did want to sleep last night. It was a very chill day for us and we did need it!

On the agenda for this weekend:

Friday: Dinner with my grade school girlfriends

Saturday: Les Miserables night with Sarah and Rachael

Sunday:  Who knows?! Maybe a BBQ

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A

Hoppy Easter!

Happy Belated Easter everyone! I just love Easter! Everyone looks so pretty and polished in church! And nothing says Happy Easter like the little girl getting sick mid-Mass!  Never a dull moment. Well at least it wasn't one of us.

We went to Garrett's grandma's house for Easter on Saturday and she made some delicious chicken and dumplings! Yes! Garrett made oreo cookie balls which were very entertaining to see. I didn't help him. I left him to it and the results were comical. I didn't take pictures, but I did laugh quite a lot. Saturday evening, we had a pretty epic Uno tournament with my family. Nothing like 8 people playing Uno plus another person adding on later! Never ending game let me tell you. We were already playing with two decks and were nearly out of the pile of cards. Always a good time! Sunday was church and my mom's cousins' house. Nothing better than honey baked ham and a slam dunk contest! All in all, Easter was a good time! We did miss the Kramp family due to my cousin being very sick and we also didn't get to see the Huck family. There's always another year! 

All the kiddos (minus Clayton, Levi, and Clarey) on the Arnold side.

The sweet picture that my sister in law sent of the nephews and niece! They were so cute!

So naturally, Garrett had to send one back! LOL! Everyone was wearing mint green for Easter this year! LOL! We eventually got a picture of my 16 year old brother in law wearing his mint green, but he was also wearing his pjs so that one won't make the blog! Lol! Plus in this one, KK is photo-bombing like a pro but she should have put bunny ears on Garrett. 

Happy Easter one and all!

Until Next Time!

Lots of Love!!

~A