Dinner at Ryan's

Some of my most favorite times with Al's family are during our family dinners at Ryan's. The cute kids don't hurt either...

Serving at PRC

My small group occasionally serves at the Pregnancy Resource Center of Champaign. Tonight, I headed there after work to join the girls in lending the clinic a helping hand. We dusted, we vacuumed, we scrubbed...all with a smile on our faces. Much of this smiling was probably due to Holly's amazing choice of music (Michael Jackson, and plenty of 90s R&B/hip-hop classics!)

Amy takin' out the trash...

and Alyssa Febrezin'!

The place looked great when we left. It's so satisfying to help someone out in this way, and it doesn't hurt to do it with people you really enjoy!

New Wedding Details

Al and I will be getting married on June 25, 2011 at 4pm on the beach at the NOW Jade Riviera Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico.

Our guests' rooms will be booked through Apple Vacations. We are working with Jennifer Wayland at Island Bridal. Feel free to contact her with any questions about your flight or your stay at the hotel!

Pricing for our group is as follows:

	Oceanfront (on beach) 4 nights / 7 nights	Oceanview (view of beach) 4 nights / 7 nights	Tropical View (no view of beach) 4 nights / 7 nights
1 person per room	$1186/$2086 per person	$734/$1280 per person	$692/$1448 per person
2 people per room	$608/$1058 per person	$552/$960 per person	$510/$888 per person
3 people per room	$604/$1051 per person	$548/$953 per person	$506/$881 per person
Child 2 and under	$35 per child	$35 per child	$35 per child
Child Age 3-12	$165/$262 per child	$165/$262 per child	$165/$262 per child

***These prices are all-inclusive (includes stay at the hotel, food, drinks, alcoholic beverages and snorkeling gear) but do not include flights.

Please let us know if you are interested in attending by emailing me at monteer2@gmail.com! We need to have a relatively good idea of who is going by September 1st-ish!

Exasperation

Planning a wedding, no matter how small or "easy" it is supposed to be is difficult and stressful. Al and I should finally have some word to get out to everyone by Wednesday night via email, so be on the lookout! You better believe I will be having a mini-celebration once we make some of these foundational decisions and start getting this in motion for our guests!

Welcome Home Party!

Our friends, Abbie and Weston just returned from their beautiful wedding in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Today, we attended their Welcome Home Party at the Danville Boat Club.

We got to visit with Abbie and Weston's families, hang out with some work friends, and enjoy some delicious food and sangria! Yum! :)

We are so excited for Abbie and Weston and look forward to hanging out with them more when they move to Champaign! Woo hoo!

Luau!

Tonight, I attended a luau thrown by Kim and her boyfriend, Ryan! We especially had a blast playing with baby Andrew, and the million small dogs who attended the party.

Notice Buster Brown's sweet hawaiian shirt!

Everyone wore their best hawaiian get-up!

And, as usual, Kim and I had to take a silly picture!

A great way to wrap up the summer! :)

Sister Fun Day!

Katy and I have a running tradition of "Sister Fun Days". Starting when I went off to college and we couldn't see each other as much as we'd like to, we started planning outings together-shopping, movies, errands, whatever. We usually take lots of pictures and find some way to publicly embarrass ourselves.

Today's Sister Fun Day started with going out to pick up dinner and meds for our sick momma-how fun! :) Then, we decided to head over to David's Bridal in Aurora so that Katy could try on the dresses that I picked out a few days before. She looked beautiful...as usual!

 

Afterwards, Katy and I headed to the theater to see Eat, Pray, Love-thoroughly enjoyable.

As usual, I had an amazing time with my favorite sister. Katy heads off to Marquette in a couple of weeks and I fear that our Sister Fun Days are going to be few and far between. However, I am looking forward to heading to Milwaukee many times to visit Katy in a new setting. Hooray!