april away.

if i do say so myself, i've found an amazing number of ways to avoid doing any work today. i've had a lot of good intentions, but clearly things like cleaning out my closet (in preparation for a roommate that won't be moving in for a good four months) should take priority, right? i can't really explain how my mind works much of the time.

so, there's been some delay in getting up the missouri pics (and a mishap with one very unfortunate camera angle), so i apologize for that. i like this one a lot. that's me with erin and heather on friday night at the bowling alley in kansas city. it was a really, really cute place that heather and kevin knew about - a martini-bar-fashioned bowling alley, which meant that between rolls, you could sit on couches and whatnot. anyway, you'll notice that erin and heather have fashioned a "max-style" picture in honor of kara's little guy. max, who will be three in july, has taken to smiling and closing his eyes for every photo that he's in. from what i can tell, it's a semi-frustrating phase for kara, but results in a lot of really adorable pictures. for some reason, nobody told me that this was going to be a max-photo, so i'm still posing like i thought normal people would for a picture. or as normal as this group gets, i suppose :)

the next day was, of course, the wedding. while i strongly dislike how all of the camera angles make me look like a linebacker (a very, very white linebacker. . . insert jokes about iowa and penn state here), matt looks adorable, so i can't very well post nothing. plus, i did like my dress overall, so that seems like it might be worth sharing.

who took these unfortantely-angled photos, you ask? well that would be christine maldonado. i love her, but i'm totally selling her out in this blog post. it's a dog-eat-dog world, christine. and she can't really be mad at me becase - well - look at how darned cute she is.

oh, and speaking of cute, i think that this photo wins for cutest wedding pic:

yep, that's amelia dancing in her wedding dress and someone's top hat. and everyone who knows amelia is thinking . . . of course it is.

you pretty much know the rest of the story. sunday and monday were beautiful days that we took advantage of. . . walking around outside, strolling through a park, and then (of course) ending up at the mall playing blacklight miniature golf.

i just looked at my calendar and realized that i thought matt's graduation was still about a month away when - in fact - it is something closer to 2 1/2 weeks! can that be right? i know there is a lot to do between now and then, but in some ways it seems that that day really can't get here soon enough. i'm beginning to get my "summer fever" or whatever illness it is that makes me think that life will be so much less stressful and more productive between june and august. it never really works that way, but it is always a lot of fun. plus, working in some time with the ones we love is never bad, either.

have a great week, everyone.