We invited Lori’s family over for a cookout on Saturday, and of course it rained.  But whatever, we still had fun, and having company over means we clean our house so yay for that.

Lori hand pattied burgers and cooked them on our griddle inside, and daniel microwaved his veggie dogs (because he’s stubborn).  After dinner we played baulderdash and learned that Lori’s family is fascinated by the word “turd”, which makes the game easier since the real answers have never used that word.  We also found out Xander is allergic to cats after his eye started swelling and the back of his knees turned red, which sucks for him since he had fun playing with the cats, but also for us because they had to leave early.

This weekend we’re inviting Daniel’s family over which means our house will stay clean.  Yay!

Last week we went to PCB so Lori could get her fix.  Seriously, she goes crazy without it.  While there, a guy walked by us in a blue jumpsuit . . . at the beach.  Found out yesterday that it was FEMA.  The last day we thought we found tar, guess we went just in time.

Today we shot a wedding, Hannah and Brent.  It was laid back and nice, not stressful at all, and we were out of there by 5:30 and on our way to Chastain for Hall and Oates.   It was our first time at Chastain, and we knew it was open air and we knew it was supposed to rain, but it’s Hall and Oates.

The concert was great, a total blast, and we got soaked, a total non-blast.   Maybe the rain brings out the crazy in people.  Or maybe it was the wine.  The group sitting next to us started throwing food at people a couple rows in front because they were standing up and blocking the view.  And then a lady in the row in front of us was mad at the people on the other side of us because they were calling her names or something, so she took her umbrella and held it out to block their view, and they almost got in a fist fight.  And then Hall and Oates played Rich Girl and everything was fine.  They did two encore’s.  Which we both agree is absurd.  If “Kiss is on my List”, “I Can’t go for That”, and “Private Eyes” are your encore then it was definitely planned, ’cause you can’t not play those.  Absurd.

Friday was my 25th birthday and Lori planned an awesome party for me.  We went to Manuel’s for dinner, I didn’t know who was coming until they showed up, so I got really excited every time someone I knew walked by the window.   There was Adam, Wesley, Becky, Jessica, Ashton, Jessica, Marvin, Mike, Jenny, Catherine, Dustin, CB, Kristin, and Joy!  I didn’t think that many people would come for my birthday.

Then after dinner we went back to our place for drinks and cake and pin the tail on the donkey and a pinata!  I hope our neighbors don’t hate us already.  We did try to keep it down outside after midnight though, so they can’t hate too hard on a Friday night.  I fell asleep early as usual (right after they started playing Balderdash), probably 1oclock, but the last person didn’t leave until 230AM.  I consider that a pretty good bash.

Here are more pictures.  And Lori has plenty on her Facebook too.

We’ve officially moved, again.  This is the fourth place we’ve lived together in the last three years I think, which is really crazy now that I’ve said it.  But this one is different because it’s not an apartment.  Get ready for this one, we’ve bought a house.  Yep.  And it’s a nice one too.  New appliances, new furnace, new roof, new deck.  There’s only been a few tweaks to make so far.  Like replacing the doorbell that doesn’t ding (it only donged), and adjusting a door plate so the bathroom door will shut and lock now.

Pretty soon (not sure when we can do it yet) we’ll be having a party and inviting everybody over to see it.  Hope you guys can come!

We’ll post pictures soon, as soon as we unpack the box with the right USB cable in it.  Plus everything is a gigantic mess at the moment and we’d rather show you what it looks like when stuff is put up.

Saturday we went to Prom, WOO-HOO!  It was Daniel’s first prom experience, and not exactly what a High School prom is like (we hope).  We were the Prom Photographers for the evening, $10 for 5 poses on a CD by the end of the night.  Not just poses, but cheesy, awkward, uncomfortable poses, as if you weren’t married to your date and you’d never really held hands before.  People loved it!  So many people that we actually broke even and made a little bit of scratch that we were then able to go out fancy for Valentines Day!

Just about everyone there was dressed the part, except for a group of people that looked like they just came from a wedding where the bride convinced the guys that “Pink is the new gray”, or she got them sloshed enough that they didn’t care they were wearing pink vests.  Because they were definitely partying before they even got in the building.

Next time we go to prom we have to go for prom.  Even though it was fun and great to work, it wasn’t a real prom experience, and Daniel needs one of those.

Daniel’s team won the Superbowl!  Yay for the Saints.