|{ Road Tripping }|

My amazing husband and I really love to go on road trips.  A few weeks ago we went to a wedding in the Chicago area for some friends we have here in Ann Arbor.  On the way there we decided that instead of taking the straight route on the freeway we would take the side streets so that it would take longer.  It was a lovely little drive.  We stopped at a little diner that we found on 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives' for lunch and it was awesome!! The food was great and it was so cute.

We got to the hotel and got a little gift bag from the soon to be married couple that had all sorts of goodies, it was so sweet! :)  Then we met up with some other friends to go find something to eat for dinner.  To our delight we drove by a Chevy's!!!! We have been craving it for such a long time and haven't had it since we lived in California!! We definitely went there and loved every second of it!! Then we went to the mall and wandered around for a while.  Back at the hotel we met up with Travis and Larisa (the bride and groom to be) and helped them load up some gifts, then met some of their family and friends before heading back to our room to relax and then hit the sack.

The next morning we got up and went to Ikea, which was literally across the street from the hotel and wandered around.  It was cool because they had a few rooms that were set up that were 2 story tall rooms with big windows and it was awesome to see how they decorated those.  We grabbed a few things and then decided to go and see a movie.  We saw The Green Lantern, it was pretty good, definitely entertaining.  We then we back to the hotel to get dressed and then headed over to the church for the ceremony.

It was a lovely ceremony, they both looked amazing and it was really wonderful to see the two of them finally get to be together as husband and wife! After the ceremony we blew bubbles as they left the church.  It was cute! Then we headed over to the reception and that was great!! The dinner was really yummy and then there was dancing! Jon and I really loosened up and we had A BLAST!!! Definitely the funnest time we have had dancing since we've been married and it was so much fun!!  Jon even requested 'Bubbly' and we got to dance to our wedding song, he is such a sweetheart! Travis and Larisa definitely seemed to be enjoying their time too!! It was a great day!

The next morning we decided to take the LONG way home! We are about 4.5 hours or so away from Chicago but we decided to go up through Wisconsin, around the lake, and back down and it took about 14 hours to get home!! It was great!! We hit a really bad storm just a few minutes into the drive and that was rough but after that we had a great time!! We also hit 100,000 miles on our car!!

I was getting tired so I decided to try a 5 hour energy thing and Jon thought it was hilarious.  I suppose it did wake me up, mostly it just made me feel all hot and uncomfortable for about an hour. Haha!  We stopped wherever we wanted and got out of the car to walk along the beach for a few minutes.  We chased a lot of seagulls and then for lunch we stopped in Mackinaw City and got some pizza, we listened to our book on CD, and we hit a couple fireflies once it started to get dark, which is pretty cool, they still glow for a few seconds after they are squished on the windshield. lol!

It was a really great trip! We had the best time ever!!

Congratulations Travis and Larisa!!! We are so happy for you!! See you when you get back from Aruba!!

|{ The End Of An Era }|

It's over!! It's all over!! Like all other Harry Potter fans, I am very sad about this fact.

I'll start by giving you a ***SPOILER ALERT**** for those of you who have yet to see the movie (and haven't read the books).

The last movie was FANTASTIC!! I was a little surprised at how quickly the film got to the battle scene at the end, but I was so glad that it did! I feel like it really gave it the attention it deserved in order to end the series well!  There was so much detail that they really didn't leave much out from the books.  The only thing I really missed was that I did not feel that they did the deaths of Fred, Tonks, and Lupin justice.  I feel they were hardly even noticed and it should have been a bigger deal.

We were able to go to the midnight showing and it was so awesome!! There is absolutely nothing like going to a midnight showing of a Harry Potter movie!! To be surrounded by so many people who are equally as big of fans as you are makes the whole experience that much more exciting!! I know that a lot, probably most, people really hate crowds but in the past few years I have decided that I actually love crowds!  There are only a few circumstances when I really wish there were no crowds.  Crowds make everything more exciting!!

Jon and I dressed up as death eaters for the movie! I drew the dark mark on our arms, we wore black clothes and cloaks, Jon wore his graduation robe which was perfect, and I wore my Hogwarts robes that my Mom made me for Halloween one year.  I was ecstatic that they still fit!!  A little more snuggly around the shoulders but that's it!  We even brought some nice chopsticks to use as wands! :)

We did NOT see it in 3D and that was great!  We both pretty much hate this sudden 3D crazy, it makes everything so cheesy.  So Jon saved our seats while I went and stood in line for 15-20 minutes for popcorn and a drink, and I was happy to do it! It was fun to watch all the people and see all the costumes.  A guy even walked by with a big Gryffindor lion on his head that he had made! :)

While we were sitting in the theater waiting for the movie to start it was so much fun.  People started chanting "Snape, Snape, Severus Snape" from the puppet pals video and a lot of people joined in.  Then a guy from the theater came in to announce that they were starting movie and when he said "As you know, this is the last film..." Some guy in the back suddenly called back, "Wait! What?!?" in mock surprise.  It was hilarious.  He also said that we cheered the loudest that he had heard so far that night, take that 3D goers!! :)

When the previews came on you could feel the excitement that everyone had, that is until the preview of a movie that starred Taylor Lautner (Jacob from Twilight) came on and the second you saw his face there were suddenly sounds of disgust coming from everyone, it was so funny! Once everyone heard each other we all started to laugh.  I love Harry Potter fans!

The best though, is during the movie, and this is why going to the midnight showing is better than anything else, the strong reactions you get from everybody makes the movie so much more exciting and more emotional than it would be without them.  The loud cheering whenever a character does something great, the laughter at moments when you won't hear anyone laughing out loud a few days later, it's like seeing a different movie, a better one, and I am really going to miss going to see Harry Potter with so many wonderful fans!

So raise your glasses of butter beer to the end of the Harry Potter era, you will be greatly missed by millions of fans!

|{ Selfie Saturdays- GIFs }|

I was super excited about this weeks Selfie theme! I was one of the many people who asked Elena specifically to do this one and I couldn't wait to try it out!!!

See the post below for my hubby being attacked by a bird! It was that series of pictures that made me REALLY want to learn how to this and I'm so glad I got to do it GIF style!!

So the day after Elena taught us how to do it I went outside with my man and we took this series of pictures for our families back home!  It was also the first time we have done a selfie together, so that was fun.... Well it would have been more fun it we weren't being eaten by mosquitoes the entire time!

Here it is!!
We...Love...You!!