Best Friend | Sunsets | Bowling

Ali and I missed out yesterday on getting together, but we were determined to make it happen before I left town. Sooooo, we met up this morning at Crackerbarrel for breakfast. It was pretty awesome, but duhhh, of course it is whenever I get to see her!

love you, ali!!!

After breakfast, we ran some quick errands before she had to head in to work, and I found myself back at Rob's for a continued run at some more packing and cleaning up around his house. If you're tuning in for the first time, the update as of now is that he's moving to Ohio and we've been ransacking his house in preparation for the big haul. Fun stuff, right there... :|

.. taking a break ;)

The evening started to creep in, so Rob and I headed off on an errand run, which wound up taking us out to Horseshoe Lake; I was mad at this point that I'd left my camera at the house, but my cell phone did what it could to capture the sunset across the way..

horseshoe lake..

Anyway, it came time for dinner with some other friends, which happened to be at Sushi Tatsu in Fairview.

... For the second night in a row, Rob and I ordered the exact same things from the exact same place. I'm not mad about it, because I love sushi, but it is kind of funny that I just remembered this place yesterday and now we've been twice. Oh well; the second time with friends was way better anway!

Finally, we were off to bowling in O'Fallon; with this bunch, it's never a dull moment!

my love, the pool shark

his & hers ♥

holdin' down the fort for the girls
fil. haley. anna. cori. jesse......... & bobert, haha (:

And of course, we picked the bowling alley with an arcade, so naturally the boys took to it like teenagers... which was just as fun to watch I'm sure as it was for them to do it.

boys will be boys!

yes.. yes, they will. haha

We're in the fiiiiinal countdown to Christmas. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and thennnnn... Christmas! (:

For now, good night, blogbots!

xo | cmd

Albino Animals

Happy birthday, first and foremost, to my good friend Yong! *Shout out (:

rupert! 

Becky's in town for a few days, over in St. Louis. I don't think I'm gonna see her this visit; she's a little far and this day has somehow managed to get away from us.

On an unrelated note, a friend of mine posted a picture of an albino zebra. Yeah, I told you it was unrelated. Anyway, as random as that was, it reminded me of little Rupert, the albino corn I had years back, and that.... naturally launched me into a search for other albino animals. C'mon, it's me. What'd you really expect?

Anyway, with Google as my trusted aide & Instagram as my trusted montage creator, here's what I came up with...

Anyway, Rob and I headed out into Fairview tonight to check out a house; it's a preliminary hunt for somewhere for him to relocate closer to his work. It wasn't a bad little outing, and made for a good start to the evening. I threw together the buffalo chicken casserole off AITK for dinner afterwards and made our way back to do a whole lot of nothing for the rest of the night.

Yeah, we're partyrockers. I know.

(: It's all good. So far this week's shaping up just fine & I'm okay with that.

xo | cmd

Date Night.... With Ali!

What's the best way to spend a Friday night when you have no other plans?

Well, after you've had a Friday like we did.....

t....g.....i....... f. amen. 

Hang out with one of your best friends and make your own plans. That's exactly what Ali and I did tonight, and it was definitely an outing of which you should be jealous. Haha. 

kid-sized chair? mmmkay. 

It started with dinner. We've not had any success yet with going to Olive Garden unplanned on a Friday. For starters, I always happen to look like the vagabond between the two of us, which could had likely has misled at least one or two bystanders into thinking Ali and I are a couple or something. Haha. OH WELL! Anyway, we had no success with an attempted OG stop tonight; we opted not to wait over an hour, so we journied across the street to Houlihan's. Much better. We wined, we dined, and we were in and out before we knew it. Good stuff.

From there, it was off to start the preliminary shopping for the decor that will be comprise Ali's new room at her new house. I'm pretty excited to help her out. We started at Hobby Lobby & Big Lots checking out pieces of furniture and wall art.

From there it was off to a few other stops to check out some different aesthetic options. She's going with a travel theme, so we managed to pick out a clock and take some other pictures of "ideas" to be considered for final use.

And yeah, I just realized we took pictures of everything we did [and ate], but not with each other to document this evening. Oh, fail. We'll have to fix that the next time we get together. Haha.

Happy weekend, blogbots!

xo | cmd