my weekend was amazing! we had so much fun and it was just a good chance to get away from everything. a weekend to get away from the stress of trying to find a teaching job and nothing coming from it. a weekend away from school for drewby, who is still waiting to hear if he passed his certification test or not. just a weekend to connect. for the most part everyone knew each other before hand. of the 13 people in our wedding party-not including drew and me, everyone but 1 person was a "lakeshore staffer" so it was just a great weekend to hang out, tell stories, play on the boat and get excited about novemeber. on saturday we took the boat out and drove around, went to the waterfall and some of the boys jumped off, the girls just played in the water and watched. we got to watch some teenage girls freak out up there and that was entertaining. we then headed to goat island to feed the goats and apparently i turn into a 2 year old around them cause i get so excited. i even got off the boat so i could hand feed them-so much fun!!! after that we ran back to the boat house to grab the tube and knee board to go have some fun. after 2 runs on old "bertha" she, and her rope decided they didn't want to play anymore and the rope snapped. drew, john, and i were sitting in the back of the boat and the 2 boys got hit with the snapped rope. luckily no broken skin, just a scare with john's eye, but he was ok! so during lunch tres and ginger went to the store to pick up a new tube, and this is what they came back with ...

oh how, intimidating was this thing riding on top of the suburban. when we headed back out katie and i volunteered to be the first to ride this monster and it was sooo much fun! we spent the rest of the afternoon riding around and eventually knee boarding. dinner came next and we went to hagey's catfish hotel in shiloh for dinner...sooo good! we had to wait a bit, even with reservations but the wait was so worth it!
over all the weekend was a great relaxing getaway with some great friends and i can't wait for each of them (and the ones that couldn't make it) to stand with drew and i when we get married.
we love each of you so very much and thanks for hanging out this weekend!
"let all you do be done with love"