Purduked

riday night Andrew and I went to B-dubs downtown to watch the Purdue vs. Duke game.  We hoped for a miracle that night but sadly Purdue couldn't match the height and depth of Duke's team.  Crap bag!! (You know I wiki-ed this hoping to come up with THIS Friends reference but instead the first thing that came up was THIS. GROSS. Someone wrote something up for that. Really really gross.)  But we did have a fantastic time with friends that night despite the loss and the last game we'll see Kramer play as a Boiler.  :(  We still celebrated one heck of a season from the Boilers despite all the ups and downs they had.

Celebrate we did...

You can see our superstitions in these pictures.  Andrew isn't wearing Purdue gear because Purdue won the last two games when he wasn't wearing Purdue shirts.

I'm wearing my lucky Purdue sweater with makeup smeared on the collar.  Yep, there has to be makeup smeared on the collar for it to be lucky.  But evidently it wasn't lucky enough.  Sad.

We also had a dance party after the game.  I wish we took pictures of the Running Man and the other sweet moves we had.

Then there was singing...


Purdue lost but there was singing and dancing? It was a great night.

Irish I Was Drinking Still

What a F-U-N weekend! We spent our first Irish Weekend in Fighting Irish Country.  Downtown South Bend had a tent party on Friday night where we spent approximately 2.5 minutes.  We arrived at the tent party, paid $5 to get in, then promptly left to go to a bar that had TVs to watch the Purdue game.  Whoops.  We did plan to go back, I promise, but it was SO packed we couldn't get back in.  Sadface.

But Buffalo Wild Wings was still fun.

 We went with our neighbors Tom and Jenny. Seriously, with pictures like the one below, why would they want to hang out with a couple of weirdos like us??















They are so normal and we are soooo not. :) Jenny's brother Brian and his future wife Tricia were there and also very normal.  What's wrong with us? Why can't we take a normal picture?

Anyway, we watched the Purdue game on the B-dub Projector Screens (which are really hard to take a picture of).

We won this game but it was a little nerve-wrecking so instead of watching the end, I averted my eyes and went with Jenny to play songs on the jukebox.  We played Livin' on a Prayer and Don't Stop Believin'.  (Yep, neither uses the letter G.) The first song started just as Purdue won the game so we of course cheered for the Purdue win.  As we're cheering, THIS GUY...

(the one who's hiding behind the gray-haired guy)








yells at us from 3 tables away, "IT'S NOT THAT GOOD OF A SONG!"
Nicely done, dude.

Then a couple of Super Fun Self-Proclaimed Cougars showed up and sat with us at our table before we left.

Tom and Andrew were big fans and the ladies felt the same way.

Here is a man in a wolf shirt and super tight jeans.

Just thought you'd like to see.
That wasn't the only interesting character we saw.  There was this guy...

Yep, not really sure about him either.

After B-Dubs, we went to Club NOMA.  (Their website needs to be updated a little.) This club was quite interesting.  They had a VIP area which you see behind me in the picture below.

I'm trying to make an I'm-making-fun-of-the-VIP-section face but it's mostly just scary.
Club Noma freaked us out a little bit.  First of all, we sat a booth where you could only get Bottle Service.  That wiki site is totally correct on the markup... unless you consider $90 for Smirnoff Vodka to be appropriately priced.  WOW. 
So yeah, this little club is little bit out of place with the rest of the bars downtown.  Look, they even had a DANCING GIRL!! WHAT?

We are in South Bend, no? I give them props for trying.  We still had a GREAT time though so I give them credit. 

For the nightcap, we made our way to...

We went to Corby's one time before with Andrew's friend Jake who took us on a tour of South Bend when we first moved here.  It was packed when we went this time.  Wow.  We couldn't MOVE.  But it was still fun.

Look at how much fun we're having! (Tricia, Morgan, Jenny)

Tom, I don't think those are twist-off! Don't worry, I did the same thing. Ouch. They should put a warning on those or something.

This pretty much sums up the night. 

Indeed, Bushmills... indeed.  

Nerf Gun Russian Roulette

I have wanted to play this game for awhile now.  I heard about it online so I thought it was time to give it a try.  Travis, Katie and Wyatt came over this weekend and we finally got a chance to play it.Our neighbor Jenny came over for a bit so we added her to the game too. 

BEST.  GAME.  EVER. We laughed so hard.  Here are some action shots.

From the looks on our faces, you would think this game would be extremely painful.  Don't worry.  It wasn't.  Disturbing? Yes, quite.  But painful? No.

Here's poor Wyatt, looking a little disturbed.

We started calling him "The Situation" because he kept lifting up his shirt to show off his rock hard abs.  Wyatt explained it to us that night:

You can hate on me all you want to, but what can you possibly say to somebody that looks like Rambo, pretty much, with his shirt off.

 Ok, ok, Wyatt didn't say that.  Y'all know 3 month olds can't talk, right? :)

Ok back to the game.   You just have to see it for yourself! Make sure you watch all the way to the end.  (Warning: some language in the video!)





















Brian was banished to the game room because he kept trying to eat the darts.  Maybe we shouldn't use the Nerf gun as a training device.

Here's a battle scar from the game.  You'll have to look pretty close but he did get a red mark from the game!

Jeez.  The look on his face looks like he actually did get shot in a game of Russian Roulette.  Ouch.  But don't worry, no consenting adults were hurt in the playing of this game.
I suggest you try it!  For $10, it's cheaper than Catchphrase!

Come On Feel the Illinoize

Yes, we went to Chicago this weekend... but FIRST!

Friday night we went to an annual dinner that I have to attend for work. We tried to park here. 

Didn't work out so well.   But the dinner was tasty and the entertainment was delightful.

Saturday we made a really quick trip to Chicago to go to our friend Jenny's 30th birthday party.  She is also our neighbor by the way, which is very cool.  What else is cool? Our neighbor's husband, Tom, was a Theta Chi with Andrew.  WHAT you say? Yep, we moved into a neighborhood in South Bend where we already knew someone.  Weird.
Tom rented a condo in Chicago for Jenny's birthday so everyone who didn't live there would have a place to stay overnight.
We used it as Flippy Cup Tournament Headquarters.

We were on the team on the right.  After successfully losing 4 or 5 rounds in a row, it was almost time to head to the bar.  Our team said, "One more round. Winner take all."  They agreed.  Boy were they sorry...

This is half our team celebrating our victory.  YEAH! We won! (Well... when it was important at least.)







Here are Tom and Jenny facing off...

Quite an intense match-up. 

After our sweet sweet victory, Jenny wanted a group picture.  One of the girls had a timer on her camera so she set it up to take.  Well I wanted one too so I ran and set my camera up at the last sentence and screamed for everyone to hit their marks again.  AAAHHHH HURRAY!!

AAAHHHH! Everyone thought it would be fun to scream along with me.  So hopefully that explains why everyone is either screaming or laughing.  It turned out to be a much more exciting picture.

We finally were all set to leave and walk to the bar that Tom's sister picked out for the end of night ingurgitation (did you know that was a word?).
We had reserved booths when we got there.

We all remarked how cool it was to be able to walk into a crowded bar and fill up two booths.  Something we were never able to do earlier in our twenties.  We're old.


The rest of the night was very enjoyable.

Miley stopped by for a visit...

...through the TVs.  They played all kinds of music that was technocized (I made that word up) and had HEAVY bass.  Then they played what we thought was the actual video on all the TVs but then learned quickly it was NOT since we saw naked people here and there spliced in Fight Club style.  Weird.
Anyway, Jenny had a great birthday and we were glad to be a part of it.  Congrats on the big 3-0, Jenny!

Weekend in Chicago: Both a Success and a Failure

This weekend we traveled to the Windy City to visit friends and go to the Purdue/Northwestern basketball game.

With Brian all set for the weekend, we took off.

Don't move, buddy!

The day started out fun with Catchphrase and Ride the Bus as per our usual pre-drinking activities.

In every Catchphrase game, there are always rounds that we continue talking about the rest of the weekend. In this case, the words were: 1.) Iwo Jima, which Jill thought was an island by Cuba. 2.) Lineskeeper, which I did not know what that was until someone made me read it as lines keeper, not line skeeper. Is it scary that I thought skeeper was just some word I didn't know? 3.) Chin Music, which Lower thought was anything that comes near the chin, not just a pitch near a batter's chin. He ended up being right. His reference to "Sweet Chin Music" has to do with Professional Wrestling. You can imagine the fun we had with that. 4.) Funnel Cake, which Lower thought was a breakfast cake.

After that we jumped on the L train and headed out to Evanston.
Since we can't go very long without drinking, we brought some beverages on board. With all the announcements of everything else that was illegal, we thought it might be best to hide the bottles.

Pretty inconspicuous, huh?

Not hiding so well anymore...

Not obvious at all.
















Yep, that was on the way TO the game. We needed it more on the way home (but more on that later).

There were some nice signs on the way to Evanston. (You will probably have to click on the picture) Volunteer to Fight Poverty AND Tooth Decay!













Did I mention anything about Lower's pink overnight bag?? Oh I didn't? Oh. Well he brought a pink overnight bag.

Okay, okay, I'll get to the game. I didn't take any pictures at the game but that was because we sat at the top of a small high school gym and it was completely dark. See the dark area near the ceiling in the picture below?

No? Yeah, we couldn't see either. It was awful. We couldn't find our seats. Then when we did, we still couldn't fit everyone into the seats we purchased. We had to rotate at least 2 people at a time from standing in the back. Sad.
Then the game started out okay but quickly turned sour.


As told by the headlines, Boilers Lose 3rd in a Row and Purdue All Fouled Up. So yeah, we lost. We left before we had to watch the Northwestern student section rush the floor. Ugh. Gross.

But don't worry, Painter's not mad or anything...

Asked if changes were coming to the starting lineup, Painter said, “I’d like to start E’Twaun Moore, E’Twaun Moore, Robbie Hummel, Robbie Hummel and Robbie Hummel. No one else deserves to start, but with that being said, E’Twaun Moore needs to get some rebounds.

So as a very positive fan, hopefully things will start to look up. Gotta look at the silver lining, right?

We still had a blast this weekend. We went to the Red Ivy for dinner and to watch the Colts game. The Colts won, thank goodness for the people we were with. I think at least one member of our party might have had a breakdown. Then the Red Ivy turned into a bumpin' club with terribly loud music and we had to get out of there. We walked down to the Piano Man just north of Wrigley. Wow, that place reminded me of a couple scary bars in Lafayette. Plus there was no Piano Man. Not even a piano or a stage or anything. Weird. We of course got obnoxious and played Zoomie Zoomie as loud as humanly possible. Because that's just what you do when you're nearing 30 and you don't want to admit it.

All in all, we had a blast (except for the game). I didn't take many pictures so I'm going to need to step it up for next time.

Kitchel's Birthday Weekend

For Kitchel's birthday, he wanted to have friends over to drink beer, play KanJam, and watch football.  So that's exactly what we did.
Christina make him a cake, awwww! 

Kitchel tended to the fire.

There were feats of strength.

We played ride the bus. 

The Number of the Beast made an appearance.

The following pictures show exactly how AJ's night went.

1.) Having a good time

2.) Beam time

3.) Drop Cake on Floor, Pick it up, Eat it, Get it on Face

4.) The End

Way to go, AJ! You flew all the way from Denver last minute and passed out at 8:30 pm! Best. Weekend. Ever.

Kitchel made spectacular chili.  Bowman's face shows how spectacular it was.

And because Casey didn't show up, we all took turns wearing his hat.  Way to get sick, Gallagher!

So pretty soon, I will have the video uploaded from that night.  I cut up a few different videos and put them all together. It's my masterpiece.  It's called Drunkest Moments.  (You know, like Precious Moments with just loads of cussing.)  SOON SOON SOON! NSFW!!!

UPDATE THE VIDEO IS READY! YAY!


To finish off this post, I leave you with this picture.  I have more pictures of my husband doing things like this than I have pictures of the two of us.  What does that tell me?