Weekend Recap...in mostly pictures!

Okay, I took a LOT of pics this weekend... and I'm also pretty wiped out so I'm gonna just blog from Saturday forward and get Friday's (awesome) Day of C@ring, etc tomorrow night. :)

Saturday was Brooke's baby shower! (I tried to tag everyone with blogs who attended at least once in this post.) :) I don't know if it was the rain... or the bootcamp that morning (more on that later) but I was in a FOUL mood until I got to see these girlies at the shower. Have you ever just been funktastic and can't.get.out.of.it. that day? Anyway, a glass of wine in hand, chatting with friends, and mood was drastically improved!

Check out this cake! Brooke hearts giraffes so Jenny found an awesome place here in T town to make this fabulous cake!

One thing about my fabulous friends... we like to eat. :)
Ashley MADE THESE!!! How adorable, right?! (And uh.. they were amazing, too... mmmmm...)

A few of us surprised Brooke with this guy for the Baby's room!

Some of the girlies :)
I like safari/animal themes b/c I can growl in photos. And I like Ashley b/c she will join me. haha! :) (although she looks cute and I look crazy.. but whatever.. I like it. :))
I heart this photo of Melissa and Sarah and I love it when these girls come in town. :)
Let the gift opening begin! Look at the little giraffe burp cloth! (Other things I find humorous.. Ashley was writing down the gifts and I was sitting by her.. aka the two chicks w/o babies. There were times where we both were like "What was that?" "I dont know.... *nervous*" haha)
This was from Sarah, Ashley, Sarah and me! It was a joke that it was wrapped in like three different things..including Chrismas paper. Just go with it... haha!
Angela, Melissa, Audra, Sarah and Kristen :)
And...the gift opening drew to a close...except one more... Each hostess (Sarah, Kat, and Jenny) had a gift remaining from Brooke...and a set order to open them in. So, one by one, they were opened... and revealed Baby Knight's name for the first time.... PARKER!!!!!! What a cute idea, right?! I loved being in on the big name reveal!
So excited for you, Brooke, Paul and PARKER!!! I promise to get these on facebook asap! :)
After the shower, headed to the official TU watch party. I'd never been to the bar on the fairgrounds (it's new) but lookie how many TU fans! It was so fun!
Audra and Kat used to work at the fairgrounds in college-a marketing internship-and they stay in touch with their boss. Once he found out we were there, he used a pic she'd sent him from her wedding on the cover of the tip sheet for the night's races! (It's also home of the horse racetrack). That means... for the small price of three dollars, you too could've owned a pic of Jackie and Audra...along with some horse picks! haha! We thought it was hilarious.
Eric's dad got there early enough to grab a table-thank gosh b/c there wasn't another one to be had in the whole place.
My mom came with some of her friends to cheer on TU, too!
This cracks me up... Eric and his dad opted to bet on some horses while we were there. Check them out simultaneously watching the race...
I'll get the rest of the pics up soon! Tomorrow night, have a UWay event with Eric for his work and then it's the GOSSIP GIRL PREMIERE!! I 'm so excited!! But I have to admit, it's overshadowed by other awesomeness like.. .BRITNEY on Tuesday!!! I will try to do a devotional post to Brit Brit.

People, I am SO.SORE. Blaze will likely agree with me on her end, too. Her husband is a trainer and is starting a boot camp, so we opted to go on Saturday morning. Oh.my.gawd. I used muscles I didn't know I had.. and then used them again.. and again. Today, I've been lowering myself onto everyday things like.. oh.. the toilet (tmi, but it's true), my car... Agh! I find myself awkwardly laughing b/c stairs are like little torture devices right now. Abs. Butt. Legs. Back. Arms. Sore! But, it's a "good sore" ya know... Eric finds the whole thing incredibly entertaining.. haha.. I think he said I sounded like those peeps on the Biggest Loser after their first workout.. which was true and hilarious! No laughing....it hurts my abs...*silent giggle* But, it's really good and I'm gonna try to get my bootie back there regularly. Kinda hard with my work schedule right now, but gonna do my best! If you wanna come, let me know. I'll tell you one thing...I will definitely be doing this before bikini season next year. *affirmative nod*

Today, I went on the hunt for shoes. Shoes. shoes SHOES. I found lots of strappies. But uh.. it's getting cold soon, so that didn't work. I want some cute black flats and some fun heels.. like leopard or something. I wear a lot of jeans and black so some fun heels would be cool for winter. Advice welcomed.

And somewhere in the midst of not finding the shoes I wanted, I had a craving.. rather a NEED for jamba juice. I literally stopped what I was doing and went directly to jamba (afraid they closed early on Sundays. They don't.). Picked up one for Eric, too. Please check out my embarrassingly obese fruit smoothie compared to Eric's requested medium. *bows head in shame* I don't think it's healthy when you get it in bucket size... haha.. Whatever. It was good. Every.last.sip.

Hope you had a great weekend! Was anyone else in a bit of a funk at all this weekend or was it just me? I thankfully shook out of it, but still. Night peeps! I need to hit the hay so my poor sore body can recover appropriately enough to shake my @ss at Brit Brit on Tuesday! ;)

Tonight I watched the VMAs...and like the rest of America watching, was disgusted by K@nye (what an @sshole), have a new respect for Bey0nce, and LOVE LOVE LOVED the Twilight thing for New Moon! *happy sigh*