Playing catch up...

Things happen faster around here than I can write about them! (was that proper english??) anyhow, let's play some catch up...a few weekends ago, we went up to boston to celebrate joclyns (my college roommate for 3 out of 4 years) engagement! we had a nice dinner with joc and her "fiance" and jamie and her husband. On our way there we dropped a rescue lab off with it's new foster parents...that was an adventure! rex is a chocolate lab, 110 pounds, and loved running around our backseat. total opposite of champ who just lays down in the car. he was great though, a fun loving guy! i hope he gets a great forever home! anyhow, the rest of that weekend was pretty low key, hot dogs at gram and gramps, a trip to ikea with bri and my sisters followed by dinner and hanging out. the next day we went to a mass for my grandfather and then had a picnic at my parents house, it was a great low key afternoon. the next weekend we were at gillette stadium for the country fest featuring kenny chesney, keith urban, and leann rimes...it was an awesome concert! long day though...left around 730, picked up some friends along the way, and finally got settled in our prime tailgating spot by 11 AM. it was wicked hot...great weather for a couple drinks! i'll post some pics when i upload them. the concert started at 4, didn't end until 1130. LONG LONG DAY. but totally worth it! for the next three days after that it was birthdays galore! sunday was shannons (my sister) bday, went to the movies and had dinner and cake, the next day was amandas (my other sister) 21st bday! had a great dinner at Hot tomatoes in hartford with the fam, then we all went to a bar nearby (pigs eye for the locals reading this) and things got a litte crazy! to give you a quick idea of how the night went, my mom was behind the bar ringing the tip bell, amanda was swinging from the lights that hang over the pool table (per the bartenders request), there was some dancing on the bar thrown in there somewhere too. it was great, so much fun. it was a monday night so we had the bar to ourselves pretty much. brian and i left before my parents did...sad! the next night we were at the casinos for brians best friends bday. crazy few days. this past weekend we were 8 hours away, the most eastern part of the US pretty much, in Calais Maine for a wedding Brian was in. drove all day friday, rehearsal dinner friday night, wedding from 130-12 (yup, you read that right), then drove all day on sunday. needless to say, we're still recovering! so there ya go, in case you caught yourself thinking "hmm, i wonder what brian and emily have been doing with their lives" there's your answer =) meg told me the other day she hopes our future kids are easy going b/c we're always on the go...i'm looking forward to them slowing us down!!