Catie Hits STL

TGIF, dudes & dudettes!

No, seriously!

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatie is here!!!!!

I took an extended lunch break to trek over into STL to pick her up from the airport. It was a grueling 2 hours before I left early for the day and we made our way back to Belleville.

We did a quick stop at the mall and back to my house to get ready for some dinner and other miscellaneous adventure; Ali and Rob both made their way to the house and the lot of us piled into Rob's truck. Houlihan's it was, and a great decision at that. Deeeelicious, as always.

With bellies full, we were ready for some music and jigginess.

hi, you (:

A few of the folks from Rob's company were over at Silvercreek Saloon, so we headed that way and made a night of it. Not a bad time (: !

my two favorite gingers

double ♥

Oh gosh. I love 'em.

It's gonna be a great weekend, kids.

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