Full Week of Fun

Although I am off during the days, I have stayed really busy at night!  Last week we had more catching up with friends and some great nights out.  

Tyler's paternal grandparents live in Texas and are here during the summers so we planned a dinner out with them to spend some time with them before they make the trip back.  Luckily, Tyler's other grandma was also in town so she and Renee were able to join us.  I wanted to try a new restaurant in the middle so Tyler picked Woody's off of 494.  The food was great and we had a great time!

 My mother-in-law :)

 Tyler and his grandparents 

The next night was my delayed birthday celebration with Tyler.  He had booked us tickets to Cirque Du Soleil - Dralion.  We had a gift card to the restaurant Crave so we went and had a nice dinner there before the show.  We had seen another Cirque Du Soleil show a few years ago so I was worried that I would be comparing the two the whole time, but both Tyler and I LOVED the show.  I didn't take any pictures there so I found a few online that show some of the acts that we saw.

These made me nervous because there was no net below

On Thursday night, Thompson Square was at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill.  I have not been to a concert in forever so I was excited for them and to see them up close! 

 Me with Kinz during the opening band 

 Tyler and I 

They were amazing and great performers.  Their second album is coming out soon so they played a lot of their new songs for us!  Here are a few pictures...

 "Are you gonna kiss me or not"

And on to the weekend - Tyler's good friend works for a hunting company that owns some land in Elk River and Tyler was fortunate enough to be a "guest" this weekend for bow hunting.  He went out Friday night, Sat. all day and night and Sunday morning so I was all on my own for the weekend.  On Friday night, a bunch of my high school friends met up in the cities to celebrate Amber's golden birthday by going on a peddle pub.  Some people thought it would be fun to have a theme so we were all supposed to wear fun hats.  Tyler and I ran the warrior dash last summer so we had some "warrior" hats that I pulled out for the occasion.

 Stepka and I before heading out

Birthday girl

Megan and I

Megan wanted to act like bulls when we had these hats on and we accidentally hit heads really hard ;) 

 View from the back - Scott bartending in the middle 

We had 16 people in our group and there were only 10 peddles so instead of people getting tired, we had to take turns on who got to peddle.  I peddle the first shift and was fine sitting in the back for the next two ;)  We had the peddle pub for 2 hours.  We started in the Warehouse district and peddled to Northeast until we arrived at Otters.  We had 20 minutes to go inside and get some drinks and then jumped back on and headed downtown to our second and last stop at Kieran's. 

Megan, me and Sara 

 Stepka (with food in her mouth), me and Troy on the "princess bench"

 The girls in our hats 

 The whole gang - the girls definitely did better in the hat category 

After, we all went to Stadium Village (I didn't know they had one downtown) for a free pizza and some drinks before heading to Pour House.  

 Amber and I - turning 26 on the 26th!

I was so excited on Saturday to finally not have a wedding! Yay! A Saturday all to myself to do whatever I wanted - which happened to be NOTHING!  I had planned to go tailgate and go to the Gopher game by opted against that to have a movie night on my couch.  Sara stopped by to pick up her bag and she ended up staying and chatting for four hours! ha Afterwards, I ran and picked up some food and movies before Stepka came over for the night.  We watched 'The Lucky One' and I joked that watching love scenes with her is like watching them with my parents.  She gets all squirmish and makes awkward comments ;) 

Sunday morning I met Stepka for church and then came home to cheer on the Vikings. Yay!  Gophers and Vikings wins this weekend!  Tyler finally was done hunting so I recruited him to go grocery shopping and do a Target run with me.  He has been seeing tons of deer and even some bucks so he is having fun and waiting to get a good shot...I'm hoping it is soon so we can get some meat in our freezer and he can be DONE with hunting for awhile!  Sunday night, my friend, Sara (the one that is still visiting from Europe), and I went to Kacie's condo to hang out for the evening.  What a fabulous weekend with friends :)  

Today I FINALLY finished the photo book I created from our wedding (16 months ago) that is a gift to our parents.  I spend around 18 hours on it and ordered one for myself too so I can't wait to get them in the mail!