Wednesday 9.5.07

We arrived on Wednesday late afternoon to a beautiful house of course not before our Cab driver dropped MurDogs laptop on the ground, that was not sweet.


We got all settled in and A of Fave couple and I walked to Stop n Shop to pick up a few goodies for the house but mainly beach eats. The boys headed for a Miller Lite & Coors Light run. We got back and all sat outside talking about what a great few days we have a head of us. Mainly the Raw Bar party at the brides fathers house that evening.

One of many goodies were our Welcome Bags. I will have to post pictures of the gifts inside. They are to die for! Most of it is branded with their circle K! No one can top that!



Here is a great picture of the brides father's view of Sconset Beach and beyond. Oh and the raw bar. This house was breathtaking!

The Sconset Sunset

We left their and went to The Chicken Box, I was praying for a surprise guest to show up, but no luck! Maybe next time Jimmy!

Thursday 9.6.07

Today was a Town day.

Our house was only about a 10 minute walk to Main Street and we made the most being that close. A and B of fave couple and I walked into town to do some shopping. Music Guy met us a little bit later for lunch at The RopeWalk. We were lucky enough to score a table outside, that is the best way to do lunch there! A got a super cute Nantucket basket necklace charm, I'm now wishing I would have gotten one. Guess I'll have to go back soon!


We had a Kick-off BBQ at the mother of the brides house that evening so we spent the day in town and before we knew it, it was time to get ready!


Cute shot of A & B of Fave couple


Music Guy and Kimba. Not the best, but hey we're on vacation!

It was a great party, we got to meet some many new people and by this time all of our friends (sans J Leaster, J & G arriving Friday) were finally all on island. It was truly "kicked-off" the weekend! After the party we all (the "kids") headed to the Boarding House and took over their patio. At one point the bar broke into a dance party and after a song went back to normal, very strange!

**also this evening is where my fave vv pink fleece went missing, 4 years strong with that fleece**

Friday ACK 9.7.07

Friday seemed to be the only beach day it was warm and not as windy. A had some friends vacationing on the Island (with cars) so we tagged along with them to Nobadeer Beach. One of my favorite things about Nobadeer is that you can drive on the beach and they are pet friendly. It also is right by the airport so it gives you a little action. I also feel not many people pick Nobadeer as there are no lifeguard or no facilities which is not ideal if you're with kids.

I had to be back and ready by 5:30 so we had to pack up a little earlier then we all wanted to. But we got some good beach time in!

Becky and I met for a drink at the The Gazebo as both our guys were in the wedding party and we figured we'd meet up and be each others date! (The Gazebo also sells cigarettes for $9.00 a pack if anyone is interested)



Here is a picture of me with Becky and her boyfriend the Best Man Rufas at dinner



The Rehearsal Dinner was at Caption Tobey's in town. It was so much fun to have the true Nantucket feel. I only have this one picture for now.
It was a lobster theme complete with lobster suckers with their names attached!

After our Rehearsal festivities the plan was to meet the rest of the wedding goers at The RopeWalk which is my favorite bar on ACK! It was a blast!

On to the big day!

Wedding Day! 9.8.07

I only have a few pictures to show for the wedding day as most of them are people pictures, but you can see the fab detail!

Here are the handsome groomsmen...Coors Light and all! They were wearing Seersucker pants, navy blazers and a Raspberry vv crab tie! Which I am so happy Music Guy now owns!

Bridesmaid flowers

KEP's dress was very pretty! Eyelet, perfect for Nantucket

A view of the Bridesmaids walking down the beach like stairs to the cocktail hour

Cheers

The circle K was their wedding logo

Cocktail table with seersucker table clothes great centerpiece

Another look

Here is a view from the stairs, in front of the tent was a pool, sorry no one ended up swimming

Name cards in sand

In the shells on the table were candles

What would a post be without a picture of dinner: they had fillet, halibut with lobster sauce and a potato "pancake". It was delish!

Raspberry Wedding Cake

Of course a sparkler send off!

Many more details to come!

Recap on hold

When sitting down last night to give a recap on our fantastic weekend, I thought tomorrow is when most of you will be reading it and that was not the time for the recap.

For me today is about remembering those who lost their lives, the families we keep in our prayers, the soldiers who fought and are fighting for our wonderful country. I am sure most of you are like me who think about them everyday but today it hits home even harder.

I'm back.....

I will send a recap of our ACK vaca this evening.

I was able to catch up with most of your blogs yesterday so I don't feel so out of the "loop"!

One quick funny story, Wednesday night at the Kick-off Clam Bake I ran into a girl (whom I do not know) that told me she reads my blog! Her husband told her to introduce herself, it was great! She called Music Guy "Music Guy" all weekend, he was a little freaked out at first but quickly was able to adapt! We're going to refer to her as "T", she is friends with the groom and lives in London, I do love my readers!

I am able to grab a quick lunch with All Things Sketchy, and I mean quick, but we have a few things to catch up on that just cannot wait.

Any thoughts on Britt at the VMA's last night, didn't think so it was again another train wreck courtesy of Ms. Spears.

One more wedding to go this coming Friday, it will be another fabulous affair!

Friends and beaches

I didn't end up going to the Cape this weekend. I had too much to get completed around the house and at work before we take off for our next wedding round. But of course I made the most of staying in the city!

I headed to visit my girl All Things Sketchy in Marblehead to check out her new digs. Sara and her man Ben just bought a wonderful new house and I was so happy to finally see it. Because of course when they're having their house warming party I can not attend, yes you guessed itI have a wedding.

We went to a bunch of little super cute shops and got a bunch of little super cute things. I got a pair of crystal starfish earrings which Sara said "is so Kimba" and she got a pair of silver starfish earrings to match her necklace. If you know her she loves starfish! It really is no wonder we get along so well! Our next stop was an accessory store that was having a 40% off summer sale, I got a bracelet that matches the earrings and necklace set we wore in J's wedding. And Sara got a pair of madras flip flops.
Our final stop was the best In The Pink. They were also having a 40% off sale on their summer items. I got two dresses and a clutch for the price of one and a half dresses. Both I will be wearing to the rehearsal dinner and wedding this weekend. The rehearsal dinner dress is from Day Lilly the Kinsey Dress Seersucker I am going to pair it with the jewelery I wore to J's wedding and strappy silver heels. They show it with gold in the picture but when I had it on silver dressed up the look. **Side note I prefaced in my last post I will still be wearing white, linen and seersucker this weekend, so no comments about it**
The next dress I will be wearing to the wedding is from Social Butterfly the Laurel Dress Solid in pink. The bamboo ring is gold so that calls for gold stud earrings and strappy gold heels. To top off both looks I got the Patio Clutch in parade pink.

After that it was time to go home! It was such a blast to see Sara outside of our once a week quick lunch! She's just wonderful!

Sunday morning Kateson and I went to Cranes Beach in Ipswich. It is her favorite beach and I can see why, every where you look was the most breath taking sights!

Monday was spent cleaning and packing and the evening ended with Music Guy and I having a "cookout" (just the two of us) with turkey burgers and a potato veggie bomb and watching the Sox!

I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and have a great week! I hope to check in from ACK along with a lot of great pictures!

Cheers!

What to do...

As some of you know we're heading to Nantucket on Wednesday. So that means it will be after Labor Day. I have convinced myself that even though it is after Labor Day I can still wear linen, seersucker and white. No if ands or buts, i'm doing it.

In other news, we're not leaving for the Cape until tomorrow. Being gone last week, having guest staying with us and leaving for 5 days it might be a good idea not to be sitting in Cape traffic after a day in the office.

Speaking of our trip to ACK, A and B from Fave Couple, the Lesters and the one and only Murdog rented a house and we can't wait! I got an email from the owner telling us they have beach chairs and a cooler on wheels, I love these people!!!

I hope you guys have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

And thank you so much for all of the VERY sweet comments, you guys are too much!

By request

Libby has requested that these two pictures be posted! I asked KB (to Music Guy's left) if she would mind and she was ok with it!

One of the only times Music Guy and I danced together, at least we made the most of it!!!

I've been getting more pictures, i'll post more after my 3 hour training! Giddy Up!

A few wedding pictures!!!

As you can imagine I have over 200 pictures, but to be fair to non bloggers I am not doing any real people shots until I get the ok! But Music Guy is fair game! Hope you guys enjoy a few I picked out. It was the best wedding ever!!!!!

Here we have Music Guy and Kimba. It was at a marina and every picture has a boat in it!

Now we have some of my hair shots

I'm getting a little touch up.

I will tell you all of us gals did perfectly with the brick with heels.

I dare anyone to find me a more Cape wedding than this. Getting married right in front of a lighthouse.

I love the place cards in the Nantucket basket with sand.

A view from inside the tent.

You would never know I was just stung in the eye.

The flowers were so beautiful.

I like how they didn't give people a choice they got both, I can never remember what I put down.

Lobster trap for the cards

A little fog rolled in but it set the mood.

Another view of the tent from the lighthouse.

View of the cocktail tent.

I will post more later! I hope you've enjoyed thus far!

BEE-uitful

I'm still on the Cape getting ready to head back to Boston. The wedding was out of this world, I can't wait to post pictures and fill you in!

One funny story...

I was stung in the eyelid by a bee during the father of the brides toast.

I was sitting right next to the bride so I took one for the team! Now that is a good bridesmaid.
I did not get up and tend to it until after the speeches. I hung out in the cocktail tent or a while with ice on my eye. It swelled up pretty bad but in the end it was just fine. We had such an amazing time, that bee had nothing on me!

I promise a full update from start to finish!

By the way I said to the Maid of Honor (who reads my blog) I can't wait to blog about this!

Wedding # 1

I'm finishing up a few last details here in the office and tomorrow morning it's off to the Cape for Music Guy's sisters wedding! We have been waiting a little over a year for this day and we are so excited and honored to be a part of their day!

I pick up the bride and we head to Logan to get one of her bridesmaids then it's off to the Cape to meet up with the rest of the ladies (sans one coming Friday) to get our nails done.

After that I'm hoping to get some sun to fill in a little tan line I have. But no worries, self tanner can take care of it. Tomorrow evening we have a little BBQ with the Bride and Groom and whom ever is down by that time.

Friday: we have our bridal luncheon and soon after we'll be getting ready for the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner, which I cannot wait for! And the hotel bar might see a few 100 of our nearest and dearest after the dinner!

Saturday: it's a normal day of, hair, make-up and getting ready for the best wedding we'll ever go to! It's an outdoor wedding and the weather looks wonderful!

Sunday: formal brunch and who knows from there! Music Guy and I do not have to be back in the city until Monday afternoon.

Have a great rest of the week and weekend!

Lots of love!



Cheers G & J!!!!

Music Guy's baby

Here she is, our 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited!

Like I said on Sunday, my mom and I had to pick it up in Sandwich. I got out of work early and we took the trip down Rt 3 and 6A, here I am waiting for the plates to get this baby home!

Kimba giving it one last look over before we pull off.

Our Jeeps first of many times over the Bridge. (Note my mother is taking this picture while driving, she is crazy)

Music Guy about to give it a spin!

I'll have many more pictures from the wonderful Wedding weekend a head! Music Guy and I had a blast taking it to work this AM. One neighbor asked how we liked it as they rented one and now want to get one. People do love Jeeps!

A few things I have to get down:

1) Taking the soft top off

2) The Jeep wave

After I get those down, I'll be good to go!

VERY HAPPY

Well we finally have our Jeep! No not the green...but black! Which i'm actually happy we didn't get the green, we're planning on keeping this car forever. It' s going to be one of those old school Jeeps you see on the beach, and the green would get tiring after a while i'm sure.

I pick it up tomorrow! The only thing is we bought it on the Cape so I have to come back down here tomorrow night and then again on Thursday with the Bride!
Can't wait to post pictures!

I can't believe it's less than a week before the big wedding! We've had a great weekend hanging out with the Bride and Groom to be. Only a three day work week for me so these next few days will be uber busy. But of course i'll be checking in!

Hope you guys had a great weekend! Crazy here on the Cape it's been only in the 60's.

One week

Til J's wedding. We are so stoked, it can't get here fast enough!

Here's to a wonderful weekend ladies!

NOT happy

There are NO green jeeps left in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Yep, you heard it correctly...zero, zip, zillch...

Weekend recap on a Thursday?

HOWDY!

Thursday already? Though all day yesterday I thought it was Thursday!

So as for last weekend, we didn't go down Friday evening as it was suppose to be crappy on Saturday morning and we wouldn't be able to get out on the boat first thing. We had a fun evening in the city, stayed home and caught up on some DVR and cleaning! I was so happy when Music Guy agreed to call Suz, they had a very nice chat! Pretty classic.

Saturday we got up early and headed down to the Cape, stopped off in Plymouth to check out some houses. Though we love the area, we just can't leave the city and are looking for places in Charlestown to buy. That's a whole other post!

We got out on the boat in the afternoon and stayed til about 7:30, it was great, we got on some good sized blue fish but that was about it. Nice to be out, not a cloud in the sky and the water was dead calm.

We were super lazy on Saturday night, as some of you know I just finished reading In her Shoes and have not seen the movie. I went to a local video store on the Cape hoping to pick it up well...I walk in and the older guy at the counter tells me they're having a sale on adult DVD's, great thanks. Shocker they do not have the movie. I head a little farther down Rt. 132 and stop at the Hollywood Video look for a good 10 minutes can't find it finally ask they tell me it's in the Drama section, guess I should have looked there. Ok great, they have it I go to pay for it, "no I do not have a card, can I sign up" video lady "no, we're closing tomorrow and we can't take any more memberships". Fantastic, second video store and this movie can't be that good. So now I'm on a mission. I finally go to Blockbuster (should have gone there from the beginning) and they have it and I can rent it. Well it seems the last time I rented from Blockbuster was in Wisconsin so they have to set up with with a whole new account. And wouldn't you know the kid helping me has zero idea what he is doing...about 15 minutes later I'm out the door with the movie!

We decided we were going to order pizza, quick and easy. I stop by Jack's Pizza to place our order and have it delivered. I waited a while before they took my order, then the credit card machine was not working, so they ran my card about 5 times charging me all 5 times none the less, so they had to figure that out. Finally I had my order placed and I was on my way back to pop in the movie. About an hour later Music Guy says, I think you should call about the pizza, so happens they had it sitting there for me to pick up, even though I was charged the delivery fee and it said "FOR DELIVERY" on the slip. So after all that we got our movie and pizza and were in bed before 11:30pm.

Some wonderful text came through later that evening...errr morning! Thanks Suz, that's my girl!

Sunday we hit the outlets and I came up empty handed, which is a good thing as I don't really have room for any more clothes! Music Guy made out well on Tax Free day, thanks Commonwealth!

This is the last weekend before Music Guy sister J's wedding, he's already sending me 10-15 day forecast! :) We can't wait!!!!! One week from today the festivities kick off!

Happy Birthday!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Music Guy's dad!!! Looking forward to celebrating next weekend!

Hurts to be pretty

I'm kind of bummed, I am getting my hair highlighted (read as bleached) and I had to move my appoitment up to 5pm so I can't hit the gym before hand. The last thing I want to do when I get home at 8pm is go for a run. So I've decided I'm going in the morning. That still kind of counts? And i'm walking to my appoitment so that will get the heart rate up!

I have a very busy week ahead of me, with an even busier week a head next week. I'm ready for it!!!

I'll post a weekend recap, fun fun fun!

Blister in the Sun

I went for a run walk yesterday afternoon along the Harbor and Seaport Blvd and was thinking I need to tell more people about The Daily Catch. It is a super great restaurant right on the water (for those of you in the Boston area it's right next to the Barking Crab) the outdoor seating is the greatest!

A few years ago we threw Music Guy a surprise birthday party there and it was fantastic. They do a great menu for large groups, the owners are top notch! Open bar...for a 30th birthday, it was over the top!

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!

We're headed to the Cape tomorrow morning, and Sunday evening we're going to the Outlets!

***I got a bigggg blister*** Stupid working out