I haven't been posting lately

due to the fact I no longer have a camera :( I left it in the rain.
I have been to a couple of shows since my last post and also a couple Halloween parties.
You can always refer to Alli-gals blog for some pics of those.
I am currently purchasing a camera so I should be back up and running very soon.
Stay tuned.................................................................

Renee's Bachlorette Party

My best friend is getting married on the 8th. 8/08/08 ~ I think the date is so that her soon to be husband never forgets an anniversary, lol. We all met at her mom's house for a preparty with party favors. heehee



From left to right: Rebecca (Renee's sister-in-law, Rhonda (Renee's mom), Renee, me, and Barb (Renee's god-mother) Notice the masks and bead we all also had little ribbons that said things on them. Pretty funny really!

Without the masks:



She is adorable.




Had to have a picture of the girls, they are fairly new and I loved the tattoo, she was letting the girls out to play.


This guy here must have tipped her at least $15.00, his wife was there also and got a real kick out of it.


Someone got a pic of us shaking our booty's on the stage at the Ugly Monkey. It took me awhile to convince her to get up there, but once I did we had a blast showing off our moves.

By the end of the night Renee was passed out:

Canoeing

Saturday we took me daughter, Ryanne and her boyfriend, Brandon on a canoe trip. It was a great day. The river was up really high due to the recent flooding and the landscape was a mess.

liz's pics from the vogue.....

Ft. Wayne and Ekoostik Hookah

I got the mapquest directions out and away we went, we arrived in fort wayne and found the Allen county library. The plaza which was right outside the library was a really nice courtyard. I loved the site. We got there in time for soundcheck. They played Freedom Flyer and another song I can't quite remember what right now. I briefly spoke to Eric Lanese (the drummer) he had brought his dog LEEEENNNNDA (Linda) but that's the way he likes to say it. The dog gave me a topic in which to speak to him. I never know what to say to the band members. I got to see Cliff pick up his book and walk into the library right after sound check that was a pretty funny site. I wonder if he was going to read, LOL. This was our cue to walk around and find a local bar in which to have a few drinks. There was a nice little establishment right down the street, they had soooo many beers Dave was in total heaven there. We met a really nice couple there, Bethany and Monty. They were also going to Rock the Plaza to see the Orange Opera (something like that) so they got to see EH also. I made some hula hoops for this event and ended up selling a couple. We also met up with Lisa and Tom, Ryan and Allison, Julie and Julie, oh there were others I'm forgetting to mention I'm sure. The show was great!!!! The place was great!!!! The people were great!!!! This definately made up for the night before. Now unfortunately I've got to get back to work, that's prolly why I don't post as often as I should I'll get to the end of a story and rush it. OH Well!!! Better something than nothing. Heehee............

some people, pshhh.......

WEll the vogue is one of my most favorite places to see a show. Friday the 13th, Ekoostik Hookah just happened to be playing there. It was so exciting. Dave's brother Tony and sister in law Angie went with us. We bought them tickets for Tony's b-day. We were so excited to take them. We always talk about EH and listen to them around Tony and Angie so it was awesome to have the opportunity to show them in person what they are all about. Before the show we went over to Liz and Matt's for some pre-party drinking. Dave was the DD for this night. Liz's best friend Carrie was there and we all sat around and laughed and had a nice time. Around 7:30pm me and Dave were ready to move the party to the vogue, which is exactly what we did. Once we arrived at the vogue there were so many of our friends there from all around so we made our rounds and sat down and listened to the opening band which was Hip-O. They were decent pretty fun actually, I do remember they played that "Foxy Lady" song. That was fun. Once the guys came on stage, I couldn't help myself I grabbed Angie up and we headed to the front of the stage to get down. It was nice seeing how much Angie enjoyed them, and at the same time kinda sad cause Tony wasn't having any fun. He seemed to make hisself miserable. Me and Angie shook our tails almost the whole first set. I really enjoy seeing a hookah virgin being totally drawn to them though. Needless to say since my spoiled ass self centered brother in law wasn't enjoying hisself he made sure the rest of us didn't either, so as to not get to negative about the situation, I'll just tell you now after the first set, during the set break we had to leave. Definately a good idea seeings as I wouldn't put it past him to literally throw himself on the ground and kick and scream til we did. But me and Dave we kept our heads up cuz we knew we had a whole nother day to see them. They were coming to Ft. Wayne on Saturday. And Angie said next time we'll just leave him at home. She definately wants to go again next time they are close to home.

she's back......

Aerial moved back home. I'm glad she's not mature enough to move out yet. Still got alot of growing up to do.

UGH.............

glitter-graphics.com
So my oldest daughter who will not be 18 for another month, has decided she is ready to be on her own. Seems she cannot follow the simplest rules I've instilled. I'm still not sure how I feel. One minute, I'm upset the next I feel OK lets see how she does. I really don't think I'd be ready for it in a month either.

Hookahville XXIX

So now that I'm over my cold I'm ready to tell you about the past weekend. IT WAS AWESOME!
We left out for Ohio on Friday around 1ish. We got to legend valley with a caravan of about 5 cars around 4 or 4:30pm and waited in line. This was new for us. It was me and Dave's 13th Hookahville and I've never waited so long to get in the front gate. I believe it was somewhere around nine before we actually got inside to find out our campsite was picked out for us all the way on the other side of the venue. I guess it wasn't so bad looking back now, we we're pretty tipsy by the time we got to start setting up. Partying in the line seemed to be the way to go. It wasn't that easy in the dark though that's for sure, but we managed.
We decided to call our camp Chaplis. (Chapless) I'm assuming this was a mixture of Ryan's last name and mine and Dave's. Here's a few pictures of our camp:





Directly down the way from us was Camp Reynoldsburg:


There was probably all together in the surrounding group of us a total of 25 or 30 of us from Indiana. It was really nice to have such a big group of friends to be surrounded by.
We played cornhole and sat around and talked and then went down to the stage for the first official night of Ekoostik Hookah....... I love EH!!!!!!!!










I have a few more pictures from our second night and then I've got to get back to work unfortunately I've been off almost this whole week recovering from this cold that I must have caught from the chilly night air of the weekend, that possibly mixed with alcohol and my inability to realize exactly how cold I may have been must of been how I came up with it.

fyi

Good Friends: Matt and Liz, at Matt's graduation from the Police Academy.

my baby......

It appears Olivia did just great at the babysitters while we went to see Ekoostik Hookah over the past weekend. Wish I had pics from that also:(

Trip to Cinncinati

yep for a wedding dress, my best friend Renee is getting married 8/08/08 in Oahu, Hawii. Me her and her mom and godmother all took a trip to Cinncinati a couple of weeks ago to a bridal outlet store there. And this is the dress she's decided on. She looks absolutely adorable in it.

weekend recap.....

quick entry here:

friday/ sister/ friend/ Nathan/ One under/ Ed/ Johnny/ Samesoul/ Derrick Howard/ Jennie/ beer/ saturday/ kids/ puppy/ Olivia/ box/ toys/ food/ Franko/ Renee/ Aero sweatshirt/ Jordans/ gas/ beer/ Allison/ Ryan/ Shane/ Andrew/ Ryan/ drive/ 2hrs/ Howard Johnson/ Holligans/ sucky service/ Taxi/ Annie's/ deepwater junction/ beer/ tylenol/ jager/ red bull/ HOOOOOOKah/ dance/ friends/ party/ smoke/ cold/ schwa/ sheepdog/ hush/ party girls/ and were we/ waterfalls/ mens room/ matt/ T/ AWESOME/ Good times/

new job

Well this is Dave's second week in a new job. His dad got him on where he works which is a trucking company, he is actually working on the dock, not in a truck just yet. His plans are still to get a CDL license but in the meantime he took this position. My job is going really good for me also, come next year I'll be in a salary position, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! So things are looking good.
Ryanne is getting ready for cheerleading once again. We had the call out meeting last week. She will start conditioning next week and tryouts will be the week after that.

Change and Support

So things are really changing around me. Dave quit his job yesterday! Wow! I do not blame him, his boss is intolerable. He is now studying the CDL license and is working on becoming a truck driver. I am really proud of him and am being very supportive. I believe it is important for a person to have alot of support as they make major changes in their lives.
My sister has also finally gotten herself a place of her own so I am currently supporting her in her move also. I hate that she will be living alone, she is a very depressed person (rightfully so) and it scares me for her to be alone too much. But this is a baby step in her life as she is trying to get her act together. We will see how it turns out :)

Happy Valentine's Day

My baby......

is 15 years old today.