I See, You See.

Trying to come up with themes EARLIER like we should have been doing oh say... for the past six months, Meggy and I decided this week's theme should be....

NEW

As in something old and something NEW.  Hence, next week our theme will be OLD. Easy peasy, right?

So onto what we saw this week.

I saw this yummy looking NEW bottle of red wine. Given to Lisa and I by our neighbors across the street. Is it sad our neighbors know we love wine that much??  A few weeks ago the Trader Joe's opened up in Kansas City and basically everyone and their mom has made a trip there, except for me! I get frustrated with crowds in grocery stores and lose my patience QUICKLY. But I may make the trek over there to get me some more Charles Shaw ($2 buck chuck) after I finish this NEW bottle of wine!

Want to see what Meggy saw?  Her NEW baby bump! She is 20 weeks along so her baby boy is still so new.  Even to me it feels like it was just yesterday she was having a glass of wine with me and now she has a little baby boy inside her!


Everyday my belly is something new.  It's constantly changing and growing to make room for baby boy.  He loves to move around, flip his legs up above his head and swing his arms around.  And I love feeling him do so.  This is all new to me and I am loving every minute.

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Play by Play...

...of me getting my butt kicked in a bouquet toss.

Remember when I posted pictures of the 5th wedding I went to (the one I was in) with Mandi and Matt?

Well, when I stopped by Mandi and Matt's house tonight to drop off something, I hung around a played catch up for a while.  Then we got started talking about the wedding and the wedding pictures etc.  Mandi then goes on to say that the photographer got some pretty good pictures of the bouquet toss.  I was like, "WHAT?!" I don't know how much I had to drink, but I definitely don't remember seeing someone taking pictures during that part of the wedding. Little did I know she was standing right in front of Mandi taking pictures of the crowd (a.k.a single/not engaged ladies such as myself).

I couldn't resist showing these after we had a good laugh of how absolutely ridiculous this play by play of the bouquet toss was at Mandi's wedding.

Erica May was her photographer and since these weren't featured on her site, I took some screenshots of them to share of Mandi's album.

If you will notice... that is MY long arm reaching across the entire crowd

Ooop... there I am! Yes my arms are a span of 5'9'' (VERY long)

I realize that the bouquet is actually coming my direction... shoot why not try and catch it?

I caught it... or did I? Oh I DID. Keep an eye on my friend Sarah who's back is to the camera... 

Yep. She STOLE it! Right out of my hands!!!!

What the!?!

Did you really just take that out of my hands?!? 

Yep... I did it.  I stole the bouquet and kicked Laura's butt! 

Walter assuring me that it's not the end of world that I didn't catch the bouquet (as I put on my sad puppy face). So Sweet! 

So needless to say. This is embarrassing for me, but I love you all so I will show you as your source of entertainment tonight.

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Theit Cat

I normally try NOT to post obsessive pictures of my cat Mia. I mean it's been months before this most recent picture this week.

But are you kidding me..... I was going to upload the pictures from last night and took my camera out of my NEW Theit bag, looked down and found this little monster.

Tell me.... how could I not take a picture of this and show it off?

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Happy Happy Birthday Matt!

It was impossible for Matt (co-worker/friend) to NOT have a good birthday after the week/day he had.

He got a promotion yesterday (WAHOO) and he turns the big 3-0 this weekend!

Not only that he also bought a house recently and is about to get a puppy... shhh... we are working on easing him into this :)

So in order to celebrate his big birthday, we thought it would be a fun idea to get him a singing telegram.  When someone suggested this at first, I'm not going to lie, I thought it was a joke.  I mean how often have you ever heard some say that OR ever seen one? I never have! But heck, why not?

We requested a "Jane of the Jungle" telegram and asked for her to be conservative with her clothes since we do work in a big office after all. This is what we ended up with:

1. A woman who is well beyond 45+
2. Wearing a leopard leotard (with shiny nude tights and grandma sandals
3. Who couldn't sing

It made me realize I could do this as a part time job if this lady could do it.  One of you probably could to considering I bet you are all better singers than both her and I combined! 

Surprise Matt! We got you a 50 year old for your birthday!

Matt: What in the world is she planning on doing with that monkey?

Matt getting a monkey kiss

Jane giving matt a jungle hickey.... interesting! 

Jane: Please marry me, no one will love my singing as much as you

Me Jane gonna rip this phone book

ARHHHH....  

Jane: AHA I did it Matt: Holy crap did you see that?

This woman is a whackadoo

Birthday Boy! 

Oh and P.S. yes you see Coors Light on his desk. He loves it and someone brought it as a birthday gift.

Happy Early Birthday Matt!

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Hello Plaza.

I had a great evening with the BF tonight.

Right after work we got a massage on the Plaza to relieve some stress and kick back and relax. We were both in desperate need of one.  The masseuses oddly told both of us that we were already "relaxed" and we both looked at them like are you crazy.  I guess what they meant was that our legs weren't tense (duh), but our backs were a wreck (duh), I could have told them that! Guess all that work at a computer all day does a body bad :)

After dinner we ran home to rinse off and get ready for dinner. Our initial plan was to walk next store to P.F Chang's, but then quickly realized we were both disgusting.  When I looked at Walt and asked if I'd be able to just rinse off instead of washing my hair he looked at me like... nice try, you need to wash everything. Dang it!

After getting all cleaned up we headed over the P.F Chang's for some lettuce wraps (I had a free coupon you may have seen a while back), Chang's Spicy Chicken, and Mongolian Beef. SO GOOD.

When we were done, I realized I had forgotten to take my picture for today.  Walt suggested we walk across the street to the fountains that were filled with people taking pictures.  My mom also pointed out that Kansas City was the city of fountains. Apparently I need to do my research.  I haven't done ANY pictures of fountains in KC! So here I am.  Finally getting in my fountain picture.  But what I really love are the clouds.

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I See, You See.

To go along with the disgusting heat wave we have going on here in Kansas City, we chose the theme of our "I See, You See" to be: HOT/HEAT

Jumping right in today... my "hot" picture couldn't be more perfect to show what I feel like every time I walk outside lately.

Walt grilled out for dinner and made steaks and asparagus on the grill along with a baked potato.  While they were all steaming hot, what could be more fitting than the burning hot grill itself? I swear, I'd be poor if it wasn't for Walt and his great grilling abilities.  What a good man!

Now onto what Megan saw this week:

While it's hot hot hot outside, I was also eating something oh-so-spicy hot, delicious.  Spicy verde salsa atop home-made tortilla chips and an egg sunny side up.  Might sound pretty simple, but the perfect blend of all these major aspects and the spices made for a culinary explosion!

Yummy looking isn't it?

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Hungry Hungry Hippo.

Or Mia.

You remember my kitty Mia, right?

She is basically the biggest spaz you will ever meet.  But so am I, so we make a perfect couple.

She loves food. I love food. However, I don't go through the extent of lying on my back clawing at my plate like she does.

Here is a little peek into Mia's life....

1. Wake up at the crack of dawn, literally.  4:30 a.m. 
2. Attempt to wake mom up by clawing at the window shades to make juuuuuust enough noise to make me crack my eyes to see what's going on.
3. Her automatic feeder goes off at 7:00 a.m. (this was my attempt at getting more sleep in hopes she would realize I don't feed her, the machine does, therefore I don't get woken up in the wee hours of the morning... WRONG).
4. She sleeps ALL day long on my bed
5. 5:30 p.m. rolls around I'm on my way home from work and her feeder goes off again
6. Here's where she gets sneaky...While I'm hanging out watching TV doing my own thing, Mia recently figured out that she can stick her claw up the feeder and shake it just enough to get pebbles to fall out.  

NO WONDER SHE IS GETTING SO FAT!!!

All this time I thought she just slept all day when in fact she figured this little trick out.  Little monster! So note to all you cat owners, automatic feeders are good for one thing. Feeding your pet during scheduled times when you aren't at home.  The bad thing, once your cat finally realizes how to get the food out for him/herself, you can expect them to start packing on the pounds!

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That Time of My Life

Is happening RIGHT NOW as all my friends are getting engaged, married, having babies.... Therefore I get to practice all my picture taking more than usual as I see it!

This weekend Walt and I went our friends Bobby and Anne's country themed engagement party.

Leading up to the party Walt had mentioned something about the party being country themed, so what do I think...I think I have to dress country.  Wouldn't you?  I come to find out that the theme WAS country, however, that didn't mean I had to dress country.  Good thing because I own nothing of the sort. Not even cowboy boots unfortunately for me.

Back to the real reason for celebrating... Bobby and Anne. They are so, so cute together.  When you watch them you know that they truly love each other. That is one of my favorite parts about my friends getting married, when you get just see the love between them and how happy they are. These two are getting hitched over Labor Day weekend so all the festivities are kicking into full gear (I'm helping throw another party later this Summer I'll tell you all about). I wanted to share a little fun that they had at the party to top off the great weekend I had.  Hope you all had a fabulous weekend as well and your ready to kick off the new week!!!

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This is Theit.

It's about time!

I've been on a non-stop search for the perfect camera bag.  One that is not to big, not to small, can be a camera bag without looking like a camera bag (that was very important to me). Meggy from ChasingDavies got this super cute Theit camera bag when we first started off with our photography classes in February.  I was obsessed with it, and when I finally made the decision that I wanted to get it after drooling all over hers, I come to find out they are all sold out!!!

Total bummer.

I put my name on their wait list back in May and the day finally came. I found out last week that they were doing pre-orders and that the bags were again available.  I immediately went and ordered the bag. No waiting around this time! I had to have it. With that being said, I came home from work today to find my Theit bag sitting on my doorstep. LOVE IT!

Go ahead... be jealous ;)

Photos by Walter. 

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I Got a Turkey

No... not really.  But speaking in a bowling since I sorta did.

I had fun co-workers, laid back afternoon, and fun co-workers.

Today we had our "media outing," that being said our department had a little fun with just ourselves.

We headed over to Lucky Strike, which you may have heard of, to have a good time.

Other than my inability to roll a bowling ball, I had a fabulous time.  To brief you on my little outing I wanted to share a few photos..

Danielle

Angela and Matt

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