The Fun In Me

This past week, I have felt like I was 19 or 20 again. My friends make me feel fun again :) I got to spend the last couple of days with them and I have laughed more this week than I have in about 3 months. One of my best friends, Amber has been back in town from California. Although she has only been gone since October, it felt like much longer! So of course I've been spending as much free time as possible with her :) On Monday, I went to my good friend Mallory's parents house to meet her sister's new baby. Amy's son is so cute! His name is Landon and he's just a few weeks younger than my cousin Henry. Laura came over too and then we headed over to Amber's because she had just gotten done with her family's Christmas party.

Amber's step-brother Randy was in town from New Hampshire and her step-sister Liz is in town from MSU so some of Liz's friends and her fiance came over, too. There were about 20 of us hanging out in the living room playing a dance game on Kinect and then we played a mean game of Pictionary. Our team consisted of my friends Erin, Amber, Mandy, Jenny, and myself. Another team was Liz and her fiance and friends, and the last team was Randy, Dean (Amber's brother), Allie (Erin's twin), Lauren (Erin's neice/Amber's cousin) and a couple more of Liz's friends. Mallory was the time keeper because she doesn't like playing Pictionary. Our team won, and then went back around the board and passed the other two teams again!

That was a very fun night. I spent the night at Amber's just like old times and then the next afternoon my Grandparents picked me up and took me to Sagebrush for lunch with my Aunt Steph. After dropping me off at my car at Mallory's, I dropped my Sagebrush leftovers off to Laura who was still at work. Then I went home for a few hours and my friend Sean, who also lives in California now, came over and we met up with everyone at Sweetwater bar in Waterford. We started with one table with me, Laura, and Sean...but by the middle of the night we had added 6 more tables! We had the whole bar basically to ourselves, and I loved it!

Wednesday night, we all went to Luna in Royal Oak. Luna is my favorite club because it's a small place with awesome alternative music. It's been voted best club 5 years in a row in the Detroit metro area. We reserved a booth which was good because by the end of the night I had to sit down a few times! There were so many of us, I don't think we've ever gone with such a big group before! It was myself, Mallory, Angelica, Amber, Jess, Tracy, Mandy, Rei and her bf Jonah, Liz, Randy, Dean, Laura, Christina, Courtney, Joe, and Sean. We were dancing all night! Sean, Jess and I stopped at McDonalds and waited FOREVER for 2 sandwiches. We got to Amber's at 3:30am and spent the night at Amber's again, and me and Dean stayed up til 5 watching "Austin Powers: Goldmember".

The next morning, Randy made strawberry chocolate chip pancakes and we hung out until the family left to go ice skating and drop Randy off at the airport. I went to Sarah Schuch's apartment that evening for pizza and movie night :) We watched "The Art of Getting By" and hung out with Sarah's brother Ricky's friends while they waited for him to arrive from the Detroit airport because he was in Miami visiting their mom for Christmas and they were picking him up to travel back to Tawas.

Today was just a laid back day and I'm making some wreaths out of Christmas bulbs and also spray painting some wine bottles white and covering them in epsom salt to make them look like there's snow on them.