My Bachelorette Party!!

This was the most fun weekend! I had a really hard week and I was looking forward to having some fun! Friday night John, his dad, his mom, his niece, and I went out to dinner then went see the musical Wicked. It was so amazing!! I had goosebumps all night!! Saturday night was my bachelorette party!! These two girls here, Kate and Angela, put my whole day together. It's amazing that I have only lived here for a year but I feel like I have known them for years. They are the absolute best! They surprised me by picking me up at 11:30 for pedicures.

We had a jello shot before we left. Riley wanted in on what we were doing, but he shouldn't have alcohol : ) They brought the decorations, which were alot, and Kate had given me a "bachelorette" sash, camera, wine, vodka, and a book for everyone to sign. Angela brought Hawaiian theme plates, napkins, cups, and a ton of jello shots.

These are our feet when we were finished with the pedicure. Mine are a bright pink for the wedding!! After we left, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch and beers. I had a nap after.

Kate got a Pure Romance lady to come over for a party. If you don't know what that is, google it. I'm not explaining on my blog!! I got ALL KINDS of gifts!! I was told to have a "wish list"and not only was that all bought, some people bought me things that weren't on the list. However, the Pure Romance lady didn't bring much stuff, which was very weird and I'm not sure why, so I won't get 90% of the things bought for me until AFTER we get back from Florida!! Hello, those things were supposed to be for the honeymoon!! Oh well.... There were alot of games and laughter!!

After the Pure Romance party, most ladies left to go home, however there were a few of us who were ready to party! We drove to an area in Indianapolis called Broadripple. It's mostly bars and college kids. We went to a bar called Peppers and danced until about 1am. We took a cab home and about 4 girls slept over. We talked until about 2 and headed off to bed. It was such a great night! About 15 women were at my party so it really was a ton of fun!

John had his bachelor party last night as well. John, his dad, best friend Bob, Bob's boyfriend Mike, and his friend Glen went out to eat and to a place called the Rathskeller. It's a beer garden and it has a dome outside to sit out, drink, and enjoy music. He had a great time and was home in bed by 11:30. We both had great nights! We woke up about the same time and I rolled over and said "one week from today". YaY!!!

Read blog after this one first!!!!

Ok, read the blog under this one before you read this one. This is continuing from the last post. I took a few of these and sure enough, an orb showed up in the mirror at the top. John was probably tired of being in all the pictures but we would call the ghosts over and sure enough they were in the pictures. One time I told them to come sit by me and John took the picture and we couldn't see anything in the picture. When we put it on the computer and it was bigger, there were orbs all above my head.
There is a picture where they are all on the ceiling. John said "There isn't any way that there is that many ghosts." I said it looked like it was one ghost that was moving. Sure enough I looked it up and they said that happens alot in pictures. John took 2 pictures in a row and it looked like it was moving closer to me.

This is the one where it's on his shirt. I think if you click on the picture it may get bigger for you to see. But I took about 5 of this particular picture because they were all over the place. This is the attic we were able to tour. I believe this is the second picture of the ones I took. It's on the right side of his shirt, kind of blending in with the words but on a bigger screen, you can see it clearly.

This was the first of 5 I took. Are you kidding me??!!! On his left it looks like there are 4 orbs, however, in a bigger picture there are about 8. This attic was FILLED with them!

I had to pick and choose pictures for this posting. I really couldn't choose, so I tried to find the pictures with the best orbs in them. Of course I have a few more shots of just this picture and there isn't anything on the armoire on any of the others. I know it's hard to grasp what your seeing, especially if your not a believer. However, I am a big believer so it's a little easier for me. I can just feel them in that house. John is not someone who believes in ghosts however, he was a little put off by the time we left. I think he believes just a little now : ) Also, "someone" turned off our AC in the middle of the night. I had the dress I wore today hanging in the armoire last night and in the middle of the night I thought I heard John going to the bathroom and opening the armoire and messing around with the hangers. I was wondering what he was doing with my dress. I asked him about it this morning and he said he never got up to go to the bathroom at all during the night. So, that's my story!

This was the very first picture I took that I noticed right away had an orb in it. John didn't believe me at first because I kept shooting picture after picture, and of course it wasn't there again or it was in another place. His exact words were "You should have seen your face when you first saw it." I think my heart stopped. It was so big!! Someone pointed out the windows behind John but those are the locks on the windows. Just the one orb on left side of picture. It was absolutely crazy. I think I uploaded 90 pictures this afternoon just from the B&B : )

It was an amazing experience and I thougth about my grandma the whole time, because I know she would have enjoyed the whole experience with me! I think that's where I get my ghost loving from : )

So, I hope John had a great birthday. We had such an adventure and I cant wait to stay there again!

Happy 34th Birthday John!!

I hope John had a great birthday, I know I enjoyed it!! We drove to Vevay, IN to stay the night at a Bed and Breakfast. After we checked in we met his mom, dad, sister, and brother-in-law for dinner at the local winery for a steak dinner. It was delicious!! Each couple got a steak, potato, dessert, and a bottle of wine for a set price. We had such a good time! The winery is located on the Ohio River so John and I posed in front of it. It was a beautiful night to eat outside on the deck.

This was taken after dinner and 4 bottles of wine : ) John and I bought a bottle to share at the Bed and Breakfast for later on that night.

This was just showing what we were really there for. We had a great time and even met some people from St. Francisville, LA there! They saw my car's license plate that says "Louisiana" on it and they had to find out who it belonged to. After we left, we went back to the B&B.

It was built in 1874. It's on the Indiana Paranormal Registry. We did not know that going into it. John asked when we checked in if it was haunted and they guy, very casually, mentioned it may have a ghost or two. Once we got into our room, I started to read the guest book from previous guests. It really started to perk my interest when almost every post said something about "friends" in the house. Whether it was seeing their "friends" again, or hearing music from their "friends" during the night, and so on. I was very intrigued to also learn that a Paranormal group stayed there in February. Obviously this place had a little more than a couple of ghosts. The B&B had a wine tasting when we checked in so of course we had to check that out as well. We met the owner Lisa who was very nice, but not really excited to tell us about the ghosts. She just said there were 7 ghosts total and that they were very nice. She also said one of them was a woman who likes to flirt and if she thought John was single, she may kiss his neck during the night. I was cracking up and John wasn't really laughing at all. When Lisa realized I was very much into learning about the ghosts and the house she was more than willing to open up.

She said they make themselves known quite often. They like to hide her puzzle pieces, turn tv's on and off. If she leaves the house, they get mad and things stop working until she gets back. Lisa said she has a bunch of pictures with orbs in them. If you don't know what an orb is, it's when the spirit is in your picture. It's a white circle and they can be different sizes. She said we should take a picture and wait a second and take another and we'll see orbs. Well, she wasn't lying. I took pictures Sat. night and wasn't quite sure what to look for so I didn't think anything of it. At breakfast this morning she showed us alot of pictures and I knew what I should be looking for. Holy Crap! Almost every single picture has orbs in them. It was crazy.

This is a picture of the dining room. I thought I would take it and blog it, not realizing that the white circle on the left side of the picture between the candle and door is an orb. It's not showing up to good on here because it's a small picture but John and I had them all on the computer at a large size and we saw soooo many. There is even one that looks like it's on John's shirt. This is a continuing blog. You have to see more!!

Happy Birthday John!!

Happy Birthday to my soon-to-be-husband! I hope you have an absolute wonderful day. You deserve it. I love you and I can't wait to see where our lives will at this time next year. You are one of the best people I know. Have a great 34th birthday! Just remember, the best is yet to come : ) I love you!!

3 weeks

John and I have been getting ready for the wedding/vacation. I finished the favors and programs last night. Those favors were a 3 month deal. They took forever! We used to make one day a week about the wedding. We would shop, usually on a Saturday, and that would be it. However, the closer it gets we have to talk about it alot more. From the beginning we said we wanted our life to be about us and our relationship and not revolve around the wedding, and we've done a great job with that. Now we almost have to make a night Not about the wedding. There are so many things we still have to do and think about. Craziness. This is one corner of a room! Between wedding gifts, fathers day, and John's birthday, we have alot of things going on. Tonight we're going to his aunts house for dinner and tomorrow we have a b-b-q at Bob's house. Bob is John's best friend. Next weekend is John's birthday and we'll be going to dinner and a bed and breakfast Sat. and Sun. The week after that is Wicked play Friday night and then our bachelor/bachelorette parties Saturday night. The next weekend we're getting married! So, our lives are so crazy right now!

We are looking forward to the wedding but I think the biggest and best part is being able to see all of our families and spend the week at the beach. It is (hopefully) going to be really relaxing and laid back. I'm looking forward to alot of reading and hanging with family. We'll be there for a week and 1/2. I hope it doesn't fly by.

We're already starting to pack. Our list of "To Bring" is getting longer by the minute. Well, I hope everyone has a great week and I'll see you all in 3 weeks!!!

Painting and the Weekend

We had a great weekend. Friday night I went to a Couples Shower with my friend Kate. He boyfriend had to move a few hours away for 6 weeks to do clinicals and she needed a date. It was a cocktail party and was lots of fun! I got home about 1am and had to wake up at 8 for a garage sell. John's aunt had a garage sell and we took some of our things there to be sold. We made $18!! :) Sunday was spent doing some wedding shopping. I can't believe it's only a month away. These pictures didn't turn up in the order that they should have so try to bare with me. John and I decided to paint. When I moved in it was totally his room and I didn't really care about it until I thought we're getting married, the bedroom should be "our" bedroom. So we decided to paint. When I say we, I mean John. He did 95% of all the painting and he did an amazing job!! The walls couldn't be more perfect!! We're still not done with the room yet. We're looking for bedside tables and we went to Target and bought a bunch of black frames for our Europe pictures. I'll post when the room is really done but that won't be for awhile so I thought I'd just show the walls at least.

This is the after picture. Right below is the before. I LOVE the plum color. John picked it out and it's perfect!

Before.

This is an after picture. Like I said, we're still not done with the room, we're just looking at wall color : )

This is before.

This is after. Our new quilt matches perfectly! We got 2 large black frames for the plum wall.I can't wait to see how it all turns out! Thanks John for working so hard on this!!

Next weekend is Memorial Day and I have a 3 day weekend. Yay!! We also leave school early on Thursday and no school next Friday for Shavuot (Jewish holiday). 3 1/2 day week next week so I'm really looking forward to that!

Indy shower and mini-vacation

Last weekend was my Indianapolis shower. John's sister, Amy, and his 2 cousins, Joanne and Jerilyn, threw an awesome shower for me!! They put alot of work into it and it was amazing! My mom and Keith decided to surprise me and called Saturday morning to let me know they were on their way. It was so exciting!! Lots of people came to the shower and John and I got lots of great gifts. We played a game called "How well does the bride know the groom". Thank goodness I did well or John would never let me live that down!!! Mom and I at the shower. I'm so happy she was able to come. She was the only person from my family that was able to make so I was thankful for that : )

This is a picture I got from Jerilyn's facebook and I can't seem to make it a bigger size. But it just shows how much work and thought they put into everything to make this day special for me.

We FINNALLLYYYYYYY had a warm/ sunny day last week! We grilled out, had the windows open, and got to wear shorts!! I can't believe it's freakin May and it's barely 60 degrees. I'm having a hard time keeping my true feelings about Indiana to myself but my momma thinks I better get over it because I'll be here for awhile. I hope John realizes how much I love him. There aren't many people in the world that I would live up north for.

Anyway, HAPPY MOMMAS DAY TO ALL THE MOMMAS OUT THERE!! I knew my mom wouldn't have her kiddos with her this year for mothers day so i decided to try and see her. I found a pretty cheap ticket, booked it, and set off Friday night after work to Charleston, SC. The weather was perfect. In the 80's and sunny. We shopped downtown at the market Saturday and ate real food (seafood) and shopped the rest of Saturday. It felt so good being in Charleston. When I spent 4 summers in a row there when mom lived there before, they were the best summers ever. I lived at the beach or downtown. I have so many great memories that it was fantastic being there again. Sunday was beach day. We were out there about 2 hours and needless to say I am burnt. I was told to put on sunscreen, but did I listen? Of course not. There was alot of good eating and relaxing. Now I'm home, getting ready for the rest of my week. Every weekend is booked until the wedding. It's crazy. But I hope everyone has a great week!!!!