THEY FINALLY WON A BIG TEN GAME!!! That calls for celebration... lots of celebration. It's me and Mr Wonderful at the bar before the game. He wasn't hammered... just being lame.

Know idea what this guys story was but he only had one pant leg on his pants. And it was cold out. Really cold. Scarf and mitten cold.

Mr Wonderful is a HUGE Miller High Life fan. It's his favorite beer so this man has recently become his hero. Wendell just happened to be hanging out at bar we were at after the game. I took this picture because I love Mr Wonderful.

This is us in front of the Barry statue. It was even Mr Wonderful's idea. (Which surprised me and I got really excited he suggested it.) The drunk guy that took the picture wasn't real good at taking pictures but it's an ok picture. He's super cute so he makes any picture with him in it good.

This is me, my friends Amanda and Kim before the game. We were chilly. I was already getting sick and Amanda was really sick. However, we drank enough to forget about the illness and the freezing cold weather.

This is us again...

This past weekend I had a lot of fun. A LOT OF FUN. However, I got sick. So Sunday afternoon I spent on the couch while Mr Wonderful did my laundry. (Well, some of my laundry)

I am getting ready to move. I have to pack up my apartment in the next month and slowly start moving the crap North. I'm so excited to spend my nights with him. I'm so excited to lay in his arms at night while he whispers how much he loves me. I'm so excited to give him kisses in the morning. I'm so excited to do boring chores with someone who makes them bearable. I'm so excited to start the next chapter. This one will have a happy ending, I know it will.

Most beautiful wedding...

This weekend I was in the most wonderful wedding. When I was in college I lived with my boyfriend and his best friend, AJ. AJ and I got really close and became good friends. He had a girlfriend. I didn't like her. He had another friend that was a girl. I liked her. She liked him. So together we worked our charm on AJ and got him to give new girl a chance. Now new girl, Steph, and AJ got married!!!!! I love them and miss them. They are the type of friends that even if we have to go a couple months between visits, it's always as if we just saw each other last week. This is a couple I KNOW will be together forever. Here's the story of their wedding weekend.This is Steph before rehearsal. About three weeks before the wedding she broke her foot. She had to wear a huge walking cast. The week of the wedding, she found out she had a blood clot in her ankle. Granted her ankle is better then her leg or anywhere closer to her lungs, however, still very scary. Needless to say, they were both anxious to get married before anything else could happen.This is the happy couple. AJ is really tall, Steph isn't really that short! The wedding was in the Dells and so the rehearsal dinner was at Monks! It was great. Gotta love the Purple Monkey. It was great to sit around and catch up with everyone. We shared lots of stories from the bachelorette party and stories from college. Lots of laughing, that's for sure.These are the bridesmaids, all in a row. Me... you know how I know them. Then it's Abby, AJ's little/only sister. Her and I had LOTS of fun at the bachelorette party. We have partied together many, many times. She's fun. Then it's Andrea. Andrea was Steph's roommate in college. The semester AJ and Steph started dating, she was away studying in Spain. She came home to a crazy life style. My favorite memory was when Andrea had been back about a month or two, Chris and AJ decided they would clean Steph and Andrea's apartment for beer. (They were hard up what can I say.) When they got there they realized how disgusting two girls could be. Andrea and I were playing Dr Mario just laughing when Chris came out of the bathroom gagging. Oh it was funny. The blond bridesmaid is Carrie, Steph's high school friend. I don't know Carrie all that well.Here is the happy bride resting her broken foot after getting her hair done. She was so nervous... she hates attention. You would never have known how nervous her (or AJ for that matter) were if it wasn't for the pacing. There was lots of pacing. We tried to keep Steph's mind free all morning. It was such a wonderful ceremony though, I am glad they planned it the way they did. Here's Steph and I getting ready for pre-ceremony pictures. Weren't the flowers BEAUTIFUL!?!?! I loved them. When we were getting our hair done the bridesmaids and Steph's agreed I was the crazy one so the hair stylist did my hair "fun". You can't tell so much from the front but it was wild and crazy. I loved it. I love this picture. All the pretty little bridesmaids with the beautiful bride. The ceremony and a majority of the pictures were outside. It was chilly, probably 55ish degrees but it was exactly how I would have pictured their wedding to be. They are going to have so many awesome pictures too. I can't wait to see them all.
And the studly groomsmen. Derek, the ring bearer was the cutest thing ever. He's Steph's nephew from South Carolina. He was sporting the brown tux like a model and he walked down the aisle and smiled better then the adults. He's a very smart 3 1/2 year old. The one in the back left is Steph's brother Scott. He escorted me down the aisle. Then it's the best man, Nate. Him and AJ went to high school together and have been super close. They went to separate sides of the state for college but now both live in the Waukesha area. In the front kneeling is Ty. He is Nate's little brother and him and AJ have been friends forever. Then it's AJ...stud. Chris, my ex-husband is leaning on AJ. They have been friends since grade school and of course we all lived together in college.
I don't drink PBR... until my friends get married.
I don't do shots of liquid cocaine... until my friends get married.
And here is Derek and I. Saying a toast over wine and oj. I swear to you I can only dream my child is as cute as this one. I love him.

So that was my wedding weekend. It was a lot of fun. Have I mentioned that yet?

One more thing about the weekend I'd like to mention. I'm not an overly religious or superstitious or whatever word you want to use but I can tell you that Steph's mom was at the wedding. She must have spent the morning getting herself ready but before the ceremony started she was most definitely there. You could feel her in the front row. Steph's oldest brother sat next to what seemed like an empty chair with his hand rested softly on the seat. But I know he was holding his mom's hand. I had never met Steph's mom but she definitely brings a calm over Stephanie. I saw how nervous she had been all morning and when she walked down the aisle, I think she too saw her mom for the first time that day. She just relaxed. Steph's mom died of breast cancer when Steph was in high school. She missed her mom being at graduations and missed being able to tell her about first dates and falling in love. It felt so good to know she didn't have to miss her mom at her wedding because we all knew she was there.

no time for losers

my weekend in a nutshell.

Badgers lost.
Packers lost.
Brewers lost.

when all else fails, at least i can count on the Tarheels. AP top 25 Poll baby. Oh yea. GO HEELS!

so we lost one. that's ok. we can bounce back from that.

Go Brew!

this weekend is another home Badger game. I'll be going with my sista, her hubby, and a friend of theirs. looking forward to it.

Brew Crew

i was 1 the last time they made the playoffs. this time i'm 27 and ready to enjoy it.

GO BREWERS.

Whoa horsey!!!

I would like life to slow down... just a little bit.

The job/moving debate.

it's been agreed that i'll find a job first. if that's with mr. wonderful so be it. if it's an hour and a half from mr.wonderful so be it. then i got a job offer-ish. i'm in the final stages of interviewing with a company. it would be a promotion. more money. more responsibility. more set hours. more people my age to work with. new company. it's on the other side of town- about 45 mins away. it's a lot of pressure. i feel like i'd be setting myself up for failure. it's not what i want to do. but it would be a job. it would be staying in madtown and continuing our long distance relationship. it's not what i want. but a part of me feels like i have to take it. like i have to in order to not push my relationship along before it's ready. i'm so scared that whatever decision i make, i will soon think is a mistake.



on a lighter note. i spent the weekend with friends. i spent the night with some girlfriends and we got up at 4am to go craft shopping. this isn't just normal craft shopping, this is the Warrens Cranberry Festival.

If you don't like people, don't come to Cranberry Festival. We like people. We had a blast.

This is me with my friends Amanda, Jamie, and Melissa. I don't remember the last time I laughed as hard as I did Saturday with these girls. We were going on next to no sleep and we were shopping and we were all together. It was the perfect mix for a good day.

If you don't like walking, don't go to Cranberry Festival. We tried to avoid the HUGE crowd on all the main roads so we took this side street. However, it was one giant hill after another. Not sure if it was the best route, but it did avoid the crowds. After a hard day of shopping we went to a place that welcomed us with this. No we're not in Texas. But we went to cowboy heaven. It was fun. We continued the laughs and gossipping and the ridiculousness well into the evening. Ok so it was only like 6pm but remember, we'd been up since 4am!

As much as I love a cold beer... I decided Root Beer was a better idea. Gosh was it GOOD! I love me some root beer.

Mostly because I'm irresponsible... I decided a real beer was in order though for Saturday night. So I met up with some friends. This is my cousin and his girlfriend. They are super fun. We shared a couple beers together Saturday.

This is mr.wonderful and his brother in law. i'm not really sure what was going on but there was money, man-boobs, and some beer. i'm pretty sure it was ugly. (This was the first time i've seen/talked to "brother in law" in many many months... since sister started hating me. i miss him. we have been friends for YEARS!)mr.wonderful was not all about getting his picture taken with me. he doesn't love me. just kidding. he does.i have no idea what this was all about but they really wanted me to take this picture and it makes me laugh. that's my old neighbor, old classmate, and still my friend. mr.wonderful calls him the wee little man. he is pretty little.

monday i took a booze cruise with my team at work... or my old team i guess... around the lake. this was the view for most of the night. pretty nice. the food was really good, they had spotted cow, and i wasn't sitting home alone, so that was all good. i enjoyed myself. i think everyone else did too. in fact i over heard one gentleman claim he might have been slightly hungover this morning. that's a good work outing.

going through the big D!!!

I am no longer married.

I no longer have a husband and a boyfriend.

No longer am I attached, tied down, or suffocating.

My boyfriend allows me to stay free and breath on my own and I love this feeling.

I'm divorced.

For the rest of my life when people say, "Are you married?"

I get to reply with "Nope, divorced."

Well unless of course that Mr Wonderful makes me change my mind and we get married but even if I'm married again, I'll still be divorced at the same time, won't I?

yup.

I'm free.