I had another good night, my friends. So I told you it was Mikes 30th, but it was also his sisters 18th! So we had Jen and my cousin Brandon (his sister is dating my cousin, crazy huh) over to Mikes house for his first ever dinner party in his own house. It was a success. Oh and in case you were wondering we had bbq ribs that were in the crockpot for hours and hours and Mikes family's infamous cheesy potatoes. Delish.

I finally got to tell mike what he was getting for his birthday. Unfortunately it didn't get here in time b/c it is backordered for another half a month still but he was still pretty excited about it. Here it is:We're going to be a pretty rocking couple on those four-wheelers aren't we? :)

Join me in saying Happy 30th Birthday to my bf, Mike! I heard thirty isn't so bad.

I had a really good weekend, when I wasn't at work anyways. I finally got to hang out with Aaron and a couple other cool people. We had some awesome drinks at home, thanks to Adminstrative professionals day, and then headed to the bar where I got 4 *yes 4, bullseye's in a row and got to dance to rod stewart. Good times. Also, Mike and I have now been together for nine months :)

Now I'm sitting here at Mikes house while he's at work and he has all kinds of new photos on his desktop. I'm going to share a few with you:



Okay, I'll stop now....but there's a lot more :)

Here's what my boss gave me today (for the second year in a row now):



Here's something I found while searching for a picture of J.D.:

I FINALLY got a response from Ride Gear, the original company I tried to order my helmet from.

Here's one of my angry emails sent to them well over a week ago (notice the all caps :)) :

PLEASE CANCEL MY ORDER. I can't believe you guys call yourselves a company. CANCEL MY ORDER IMMEDIATELY. I expect to get an email from you soon saying you have done so.

Here's their response(that I just got today):

Nicole,

Your order has been canceled. If there was anything else we could help you with please feel free to contact us at anytime. Thank you and have a great day.

Aaron
RideGear Customer Sales

Ha! Feel free to contact them any time!? I tried to over and over again.

Ever since Mike went golfing in Florida he's had the itch to go. After a successful 1/2 off! purchase of some new clubs he's really had the itch. Our golf course finally opened this past weekend complete with rain and intense fog. So yesterday was the first day to go. I went with.

We went to the driving range and I don't think I've swung a club since about senior year of high school...and mind you I barely did it then.

I did just what he told me to do and swung and missed over and over again. Finally I started to connect with it...the top of it. Thus, sending it a few rolling feet forward. I did finally get a little bit of a hang of it and the ball managed to make it in the air but I couldn't ever find it once it was there. So I have no idea how far they went...my guess is not very far. I really had a good time though and would love to see if I can actually continue to hit the ball....maybe even forwards instead of sideways this time.

Mike begrudgingly let me take a picture of him for blog fodder.

This little girl and her dad were so cute. She'd throw a ball to him when he needed it and then she'd yell 1, 2, 3,....GO!....right as he was swinging :)