Defining Love in Defiance, Missouri

You ask where in the world is Defiance, Missouri?  It is about 25 minutes outside of St. Louis, MO.

Our good friends B.J and Katie got married this weekend on Friday June 3 at a winery in Defiance, MO. There was a perfect amount of people at the wedding making it very intimate and a lot of fun getting to know everyone that was good friends and family with the bride and groom.

Thursday we went to the rehearsal dinner where I took lots of candid fun shots, and proceeded to keep on snapping away during the wedding on Friday.  I was SO excited to show you all of these great pictures from the rehearsal dinner and wedding, however, in the midst of switching out my memory card I bent a pin where the memory card goes and and SOL.  I have to either A) repair my camera for $250+ B) get a refurbished camera from Canon at a great discount.  I am going with option B since it seems to be my best option and I am NOT pleased with myself at all considering I can't even show you the pictures I took from the beginning of the wedding.

The good news.  I did bring my Canon G11 as my back up should my batteries run out or if I needed more memory space. Little did I know I'd end up VERY lucky that I'd thought ahead and brought it with me since my SLR broke.

With that said, to keep this semi-short and sweet, here are some of the candid wedding photos I got:

I See, You See.

Ya, ya, ya... I'm a little behind on my days and I know I typically do this on Tuesday, but apparently when I posted yesterday I thought it was Monday due to the long weekend! Did any of you happen to do the same thing?

This week has felt so weird with having Monday off for Memorial Day, and then leaving TOMORROW for my friends Katie and B.J's wedding in St. Louis. I'm so excited for their wedding and to take a billion pictures of the winery, their wedding, and friends.  So I promise to come back with plenty of pictures to show off for my absence this coming weekend (starting tomorrow).

So back to the reason why you are reading this.  I See, You See.

Our theme: Road Signs

Here is what I saw:

Here is what Megan saw:

Hope you all have a fabulous rest of your week! Be back on Sunday!

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Lake Lotoawana

Who doesn't love the lake?

This past weekend as I mentioned yesterday I hit up Lake Lotawana with Walt and his friends and my girlfriend Lindsay. Unfortunately it was rainy and icky ALL day on Saturday so we opted to hang out at the house rather than go out on the boat.

To our surprise the next day when we woke up the weather was PPERFECT! Too bad we had to head back to Kansas City.  But I just couldn't resist getting a quick picture off James' deck.

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Where was Lulu?

I will get this out of the way right now.  I am SO sorry for the lack of posts this weekend. I've been a little all over the place.  Errands. Dinner Party. Lake. Pool. BBQ.

The good news is I got some great pics!

I'll save the long boring stories for you and get right to the good stuff.

Here's my Friday night dinner party at our friends' BJ & Katie's house with our friends Bobby and Anne.  BJ and Katie are getting married NEXT weekend and were still nice enough to throw us a dinner party! Can you believe it?  I can't wait to show you all the pics from THAT wedding!

Last one was priceless and gives you an idea of how much fun we all had.  Katie trying to read her catch phrase with one eye... AWESOME.

Now onto the pictures that Katie actually took. She wanted to try out my SLR and boy did she go wild :)  These are only SOME of the pictures as there was about a 100 total that were taken this night! 

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Twenty 20

No... not 2020.  Twenty 20.  It is a local restaurant in Kansas City located right next to our other downtown office. After we were huddled in the basement for over an hour DURING lunch... we were all starving and decided to run next door to Twenty 20 to grab a bite to eat.

To my surprise, I had ordered a vegetarian panini sandwich.  There were a few items on the sandwich I hadn't heard of and figured that must be some kind of italian meat considering the sandwich was called "Little Italy." It had artichoke hearts, carmelized onions (I think...), tomatoes (got them taken off), banana peppers, and red peppers. It was MM - GOOD!

You probably think I'm a fatty with all this talk about food the past two days (and I sorta am - I ALWAYS eat out and really need to break this habit). But why not share the love with you?

Blanc

I normally am not one to rave on and on about how much I just love hamburgers and how they are the best hang over food ever...

When I was a kid I decided I did not like them, and would always ask for "no nuts" when I ordered at McDonald's (i.e. no onions) and would only like cheese on them.  Eventually I just stopped eating them for years.

My freshman year in college, I eased into eating them since I was running out of food options in our dorm cafeteria and still kept them on the bottom of my list of foods to eat when given an option.

To this day, I basically only eat Turkey burgers smothered in goat cheese at the local restaurant Blue Moose.  So when my best friend Kara suggested we go to Blanc Burger for her going away dinner I was less than thrilled.  Until she highly recommended this amazing burger called the "Inside Out Burger" which consisted of a hamburger filled with bleu cheese, topped with bacon and an onion ring and an onion bun.  I was a little apprehensive once I ordered it when the waiter was giving me the warnings about eat it.  Do not squeeze the burger, you must cut into the burger before eating it, be careful that the cheese doesn't spill all over you... But he promised it would be a great choice.

Both Kara and the waiter were RIGHT! The burger was SO good.  Like I said, I am not normally one to rave about hamburgers, but this was one hamburger I will pass onto others to give a try.

Not to mention, the atmosphere of Blanc is so clean and crisp with a little old school feel which makes me love it even more now!

Go ahead and give it a try.  Sure is gooooood!

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I See, You See.

Here we are again with "I See. You See."

This week our theme was: BLACK 

Our friend Carrie from work gave us this one today since we of course wait until the last minute to decide every week.  We would LOVE it if anyone gave extra theme suggestions too.  So if you think you are creative (which I'm sure you are) give it a shot and come up with a theme for next week!

Here is what I saw today... I looked outside and the sky was literally BLACK. It was actually pretty scary looking and I was a little nervous to go outside to get this picture in feel of getting poured on or sucked up by a tornado!

Here is what Megan saw:

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It's That Time Again

The Bachelorette started tonight!!! It was 100x more fun watching the show when Lisa was on, so I'm hesitant to watch it for yet another season... but let's be real...I WILL watch the whole thing because what else would I do on a Monday night?

To ring in the new season I thought I'd do something fun for my post tonight. A series of "Would You Rather" questions for our favorite Bachelor girl Lisa M.

So here we go:

Would you rather have a funny man or a cute one?
Funny

Would you rather go shopping for shoes or shopping for clothes?
Shoes! 

Would you rather be a giant hamster or a tiny rhino?
What? Uh..... 

Would you rathe be able to stop time or fly?
Fly

Would you rather go about your normal day naked or sleep for a year?
Walk around naked

Would you rather go on The Bachelor Pad or be the next Bachelorette?
The next Bachelorette

Would you rather get even or get over it?
Get over it! 

Would you rather love and not be loved back, or be loved but never love?
I'd rather be loved and never long 

Would you rather find true love or 10 million dollars?
Find true love

Would you rather live in NYC or L.A.?
Both at the same time! 



Little secret... if you look close enough to her right foot on the inside you will see Lisa's rose tattoo her and a few other girls got while on the show!

Happy SUNday

I was so excited when I got up this morning and looked at the weather. SUNSHINE and 80s. I knew exactly what I wanted to do today. NOTHING ;)

I threw on my swimsuit, went to the back patio, posted up on my $10 lawn chair I got from CVS forever ago, turned on Pandora (the Jack Johnson station), and whipped out my Kindle (I just started reading Jodi Picoult's "The Pact").

I was in much need of a tan and a do nothing day.  In fact, Ed decided what I had was going on was pretty spectacular and joined me.

No.. I don't have the prettiest feet in the whole wide world thanks to running track and cross country since 8th grade...

PS - To top off my day I saw Bridesmaids with some girlfriends. HILARIOUS and I highly recommend you seeing it.  I laughed so hard I was crying.

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Happy, Happy. Joy, Joy.

My friend Matt at work FINALLY got his house he has been hunting for! After months of searching he finally found a house that suites him. Not to mention he went through some struggles to get there....

1. Falling through the ceiling of one house
2. Finding out that the house he finally wanted had TWO roofs.  Not one, but TWO!!! Apparently they thought instead of just getting a new one they wanted to layer on another. Weird, right?

After realizing that no one in their right mind would buy their house with two roofs they finally gave in and sold it to Matt - WITH a new roof! Go Matt! 

To celebrate, my co-workers put together a little surprise party for Matt.  Kristin distracted him while we set up and asked him to go grab her power cord so when he ran up the stairs there we all were waiting for him!  HOWEVER, he waved and ran right by us.  We all yelled after him to come back and that we were throwing HIM the party! He was completely surprised! We had set our "bull pen" up with his favorite beer (Coors Light and Unfiltered Wheat (Boulevard Wheat) and gave him a Home Depot gift card to get started with his new house! 

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