hawaiian luau

krista and adam hosted a hawaiian luau yesterday at their place. their parties are always a blast my personal favorite theme has been the ugly christmas sweater party. the weather was not the best but that didn't stop us from going out and having a great time. here are just a selection of the pictures from the event....

did you know that briana and alli are almost the same height? (love you alli)

krista and christa got to meet! yeah!!

fun times with the "marketing committee"


fruit jousting (how a boy didn't think of this first i am not sure)

also i stumbled upon this great new youtube video honoring the newest brave mark teixeira check it out more than once and sing along :) it is amazing how many things rhyme with teixeira! you have to check it out and let me know what you think.

brady debuted last night it pretty remarkable fashion according to both my mom and nicole, i hope this is a sign of good things to come for him!!

fan appreciation day (open practice)

so today beth padgett and myself headed out early to the stadium to check out open practice. now we knew that charlie wasn't going to gather the fans to tell us who the starting qb was going to be but i still thought it would be fun to check it out. not to mention i have an obligation to keep nicole posted on what is going on in the bend.

i learned today that armando allen is one VERY fast kid. he is the only new number that i learned today (thanks to the very informed young man sitting in front of me). zibby was fired up and looked like he was having a great time. when he broke through on a practice punt return nobody was stopping him from taking it to the end zone. remember how there were 4 qbs at the blue gold game, then zach left, so were down to 3, but at practice today there were 5 guys in red jerseys. couldn't tell much of anything about any of them although the crowd was for sure most interested in mr. clausen (give the people what they want charlie!!). demitrius, evan and jimmy all saw about equal time at different places (but i didn't see jimmy really air anything out). carlson was back and making some great catches and grimes looked good as well. i will say that for me the hightlight of the entire practice was when the defense had 10 players on the field and charlie made them all take a lap that was good for them i am sure, maybe he should do that in game too it would for sure cut down on penalties. you can take a look at the rest of the pictures from today here. so all i really can say for sure about practice today it was a great chance to be in the stadium for free and speculate on the upcoming season just like everybody else.

also, i was talking to my brother last night and he informed me of the following observation he heard from a co-worker. sorry i couldn't resist....

the first 4 games on tOSU schedule in order are:

Youngstown

Akron

Washington

Northwestern

well that is all from the college football front today, GO IRISH only 21 days and a couple of hours until kickoff!!

ps i just read that dayne christ was at practice today, nothing like keeping the pressure on. (for those who don't know dayne is a rising senior at nd high school in california, he has already committed to the irish and is rumored to be better than jimmy at least that is what my sister says :))

from the lakes of minnesota

it has been a tough week here nicole left for pitt on sunday and melissa leaves tomorrow for st. paul, minnesota. melissa and i have known each other since a fabled day in 1992 (yes folks we are old) when she came to visit corpus to see if she wanted to join the insanity. we clicked instantly in april of our 7th grade year and have been best friends ever since. we have been through a lot from the joys of middle school, the craziness of high school coaches (hoffman, jimmy and murrey) about a million crushes (i honestly don't think there is a single guy at st joe we didn't have a crush on at some point), several broken and in some cases shattered hearts, proms, y2k, countless nights at the bar, dozens of sleepovers and just about everything in between. so as she takes off our her next adventure we had to live it up at least one more time. we had a relatively calm night last friday at corby's and then onto backer



but something told me weren't done yet and we weren't. last night we sent our girl out in style...there are very few people that can convince me to rock out until 3 am on a work night but mel is for sure on the very short list... here are a couple of the pics from last night, the rest you can check out on my newly created (much to my dismay) myspace page...




words cannot express how much i am going to miss both nicole and melissa, but with football right around the corner i know nicole will be back soon and we are already planning a trip to the tundra for mel's birthday, if you want to join let me know :)

love ya girls south bend isn't going to be the same without you this song is for you both...

strike me dead if i say rebuilding

my favorite source of nd news without a doubt had a great article from media day including translation, check it out...no it doesn't say if the jimbotron will be starting but it is pretty optimistic.

also this is the FUNNIEST video i have seen on you tube in about forever!

enjoy and go irish!! (24 days til opening day kickoff)

stupiest thing i have EVER seen in my life

so about a month and a half ago jacque's "brilliant" boyfriend decided this was a good idea and thanks to didk it will live forever on youtube...

the birth of my blog

while beth, alli, brett, nicole and i were at the st. joseph county 4h fair last night celebrating the blogiversary of Nicole's page i was being heavily encouraged by nicole to start a blog, i told her i thought i would be copying off of her but she insisted i needed to do it for four reasons....

1.) we are two totally different people
2.) she for some reason thinks i am funnier than her
3.) people want to hear about all the nd football things happening in south bend AND
4.) she won't have time to blog anymore (there was an audible GASP as she said this, she admits today this is absolutely not true)

while i will promise i can't hold a candle to nicole's page i am going to give it the old college try and we will see how it goes. i am not sure what i will have to blog about but with football season right around the corner and the braves fighting for first place i am sure i can come up with something.