weekend recap

Friday: Russ and I helped babysit his sister's 2 kids, Ryan and Sadie. They are SO adorable and Russ was even more adorable when he played with him. He is so good with kids. I am positive he is going to be an amazing daddy to our 12 future children.

Saturday: We FINALLY picked out and ordered some invitations. What an ordeal. Why is paper so expensive these days? And why do I have so many fonts to choose from? So...this is how things typically go when it comes to decisions like this for the wedding. I know for a fact that Russ has absolutely no opinion about what color the invitations should be or if they should be rectangle or square or trapezoid etc...but I still ask him just to be nice and to make him feel included. He, as i previously stated, has not even a trace of an opinion but, to please me he fakes an opinion (or basically points at random colors or fonts etc.) So basically we put on this big show for who knows why. After choosing invites we stopped by to see two of my favorite people, Jessica and Reece. It was good to catch up and receive some good marital advice (for some reason this involved talk of a cat and Jessica's lingerie). I also became reaquainted with a book that I gave Jessica for her birthday last year called DELIBERATE ACTS OF NEEDLESS MEANNESS (buy it for $0.75 on half.com), which is full of purely rotten (and hilarious) things to do to other people. I have to admit that I am a huge fan of "The simple life" with paris hilton and, although I loathe her as a human being, I think that she does some pretty funny (and terribly mean) things to other people and this book reminds me of her.

Poor Russ then got roped into shopping with me for the next 5 hours, by the end of which he could barely walk...the male body simply wasn't created with enough endurance for such tasks. We did take a break from shopping to eat dinner with the parentals. His had never met mine, so we met up at Texas Roadhouse and soon discovered that Russ and I are most likely very distantly related. Both of our old men are from small cities near Dodge City, Kansas, are of partial German heritage, and both have ancestors who are mormon-killers.