my love

So yesterday I was not feeling very good..

Dustin came over to visit for a short bit, and in the middle of our hang out he turns to me and says, "When are we going to graduate so you can be my wife already?"

precious.

Domesticated

So Dustin has his case competition tomorrow, and the shirt he needed to wear is dirty. So, I did his laundry for him. :) and IRONED his 3 dress shirts, which took me a million years, but now I'm pretty good. So when he was in class I went and put his laundry away and brought him cinnamon toast crunch, milk, and orange juice for breakfast before the competition. It felt really good to do cute little things for Dustin.

love.

Where I left off on my month long account of happenings

So I left off on my birthday.

Bar Golf was awesome. lets leave it at that.

Thursday I hopped on a plane with the panhellenic girls off to AFLV (association for fraternal leadership values, maybe?). I learned a lot, both about being a leader, and about being a hard working council leader!

The next weekend, VEGAS!!!!!

SO Thursday mom, Nicki, Cindy, and I hopped in the car bound for Vegas! We got there, got ready, and went and saw KA- the cirque du Soliel show. It was freaking awesome. My mind was literally blown. Then after we had dinner we went on a casino/hotel tour.

toot toot toot, on the way to VEGAS!

Before KA, which blew my mind

In the Luxor

I believe this was in the Luxor, on our picture-in-as-many-hotels-as-we-can tour

You can get paid to dress like this! In New York New York, our home base

We ended up in this club/bar in Mandalay Bay. Awesome! Funny, Cindy and Mom got hit on way more than Nicki and I. Plus we met Brian- this guy who decided to tell me I have sex with my cousins, have a 1.5 GPA, and all kinds of other annoying things, for about 30 minutes.

The next morning we woke up and talked about how funny it would be to run into Brian again. Well we did on our tour of the strip. haha He felt like a big loser, it was hilarious.

In the M&M's store- NY NY in the background

Brian!

My first time gambling, and our table got in trouble for being too loud...

please notice the parents with us and everything

In this sweet pastry shop in Aria- they had these cute little

mini wedding/birthday cakes you could buy for $20...

they were the size of my fist

Water falls at the Aria

Where we won our big bucks... aka... the first time I gambled.

Friday night Dustin, Julie and George got into town! After they all got ready, we hit up the blackjack tables and had some fun all together. Then mom, Cindy, and Julie hit the hay so Nick, Dustin, George and I hit the strip. Basically this means we went to Aria, which was awesome. We happened upon a table of switch poker- and in trying to learn how to play, the boys ditched us to see if the guys at the table would give us a bunch of money (essentially). So thats exactly what happened. I ended up losing $110 of these guys money (which they gave to me without my asking). And it was a blast.

The next day we all cruised the strip!

Paris!... with the birthday sash!

The group out front of Paris

Paris with the love bug

Girls in Paris!

Out front of the Venetian waiting for the water show!

Friends are for now, sisters are forever.

Cute group shot... well almost! Missing our photographer, Cindy :)

Then we played some awesome blackjack in Excalibur (won some money), and then had dinner at Dicks!

Money, money, money

The group at Dicks

Birthday wishes for Kelly at Dicks!

The nick-nack and I

That night we went out to The Rok - a club in New York New York. Dustin didn't join us until later because he wasnt feeling well but Julie, George, Nicki and I enjoyed some very sweet dancing. Dustin ended up buying this VIP area off these guys, which didn't end up like we thought but it was still awesome.

Random guy wishing me birthday wishes!

Oh birthday sash, how I love your free things

The kids- right after Dustin bought the VIP area

Some Beta boys

Some more gambling that night, won some more :)

The next day we had to say goodbye Vegas but it was a most magnificent trip. Im so lucky to have so many people who wanted to share such an awesome weekend with me :)

sin city.

its been a while

Oh my it's been a while since I have been able to write! Almost a month.

Well... I am going to go in order of what has been going on since then, its just going to be the sped up version, and I'll put in pictures later.

Uncle Eric passed away on March 6th. Eeek that was hard. Ironic that it was one month until his 55th birthday. Im going to come up with a tribute blog post in the future, but I don't have the time to dedicate to that right now.

That same day was Kierens Bachelorette party. It was freaking awesome! I had a blast with the girls! Nicki and I made some awesome bruchetta, we all got to drink out of penis straws, take Kier and her little dirty mind around Fasinations, dance it up at a fun club/bar place, and much more. I'm so happy for her, and maybe a little jealous too :)

Spring Break was a roller coaster of emotions. That Saturday was Uncle Erics memorial service, which I got to help plan, which was nice. We had the ceremony at Calvary- Grandfather, Brandon, Marcia, and I spoke. It was absolutely precious getting to see Brandon and Grandfather speak, I never see them that emotional. Then I cried through my entire speech, which in turn made my family cry (obviously mom) but surprisingly Grandfather too. Wow. Then we went to our house for a kegger (because thats how Uncle Eric would have wanted it- although almost no one drank). It was so nice to spend time with family and friends (especially Marcia and Bo, whom I love but don't see nearly enough).

THEN, I hopped in the car with Dustin, Nicki, and Julie, to head off to Kierens wedding. It was at the most beautiful place in Globe- decorated way too cute. Kieren looked STUNNING. absolutely amazing. It was so exciting to be there for her on such a big day. Dustin and I got to dance at the wedding, and we shared how we both were thinking about what it will be like on our special day.

:)

The next day the family (Dustin included as my mom says), went to the Renaissance Festival. AWESOME. Dustin was IN the Wyld Man show, which was hilarious, and we just had a great day checking everything out, spending time with my family, you know. :)

Still adding more pictures...

Then Dustin and I headed off to California for a few days of snowboarding, beach, hanging out with his family and friends (whom I LOVE), and much more. I absolutely love California and I believe is where I want to go to grad school, officially.

I came back to Phoenix and helped my family move everything out of Uncle Erics house. Eeek. But it got done pretty quick (now we just have to deal with all the stuff we moved out of his apartment and into our garage).

Dragon Ball was the next weekend, always love getting dressed up with the boy. Plus I get to spend time with all the Beta girlfriends, whom I love. Its nice when it works out like that. But it's also weird that I keep seeing so many of them come and go.

Then came, MY BIRTHDAY. It started with my power hour at midnight on the 3rd (which is really 2 hours because of the time bars close). Some of my sisters, other good friends, and my close friends through Dustin were there, which was awesome. I had 14 drinks in those 2 hours, ouch. I did really well, until a few hours into bed time, when I threw up. And commenced to do so (or dry heave) until 6pm the next day.

Birthday- Dustin drove us up to Phoenix, I hit the couch while he and Brandon went to get my NEW CAR!!! That night Mark, Nicky, Kayla, Kieren, and Amanda joined my family (Dustin included) for dinner at our house. It was delicious, until I burned the pinwheel steaks while showing off my new car. I got some pretty ridiculous gifts, including diamond earrings. :) That night we (now minus Amanda, Kieren, and Brandon) went to the Toby Keith bar. also awesome. Jules and her brother met us up there and we had a blast. I rode a bull, it was awesome, and mechanical. Unfortunately I still wasn't feeling well and ended up being the DD. hahaha

feeling better.