Weekend Recap

 Wow what a weekend I had! We finished off the fair week with Maddy and Vincent selling their projects and Molly even got to participate in her first show. All last week was full of so much fun so it felt like the whole fair week was the weekend. So here is the fair week and weekend recap through the profile of my instagram! 

always got to have some corn on the cob from one of the 

church stands.

 Miss Maddy before her first show! she was so nervous

but did amazing!!!

 Watching a steer show together... I love being at the fair

together. It is where we met 7 years ago <3 

 Rough truck contest

 Watching the lamb sale...waiting on Maddy.

 Watching our friends in the rodeo! 

Thanking God that Logan was okay after being bucked off

and a trip to the hospital.

Miss Molly after showing Maddy's lamb! 

she was so excited

Vincent showing his pig

 Aubrey and I at the Kellie Pickler concert

  Joni, Me and Aubrey after the concert

 Saturday we held off going to the fair until the evening. Anthony had his conceal carry class 

all day Saturday and we were jealous that he was out shooting guns all day 

so we decided to shoot a couple rounds too!

 We can't hide our redneck side....

Luke and Mark going on a tractor ride

 We finished the fair off by going to the tractor pulls which was actually Anthony and I's 

first date. 

Yesterday I spent most of the day helping Spiker's on their house on Military, 

just getting it all cleaned up and ready to be put on the market.

Some of the day was spent swinging with this cutie pie! Hard to believe she 

starts kindergarden this week! where has the time gone?

this picture was taken in 2008 on the same exact swing

Fridays Letters

Enjoying the rodeo last night

Dear Friday, you came pretty fast this week, thank-you! Dear Madeline & Vincent, you both did an amazing job this week showing your animals at the fair. You made me really proud that you are following in my footsteps. I know it is hard selling them but that is the whole process of this and just look at all the hard work you have done all summer and now it is paying off. Dear Muskingum County Fair, you have always been so much fun (much more fun when I was in 4H) and have your ways of dragging all the dirty people of Zanesville out of the woodworking for the week. Thank-you though for all you have provided me for in the past and what that you are providing the future of 4H. Fair week is a wonderful time for all the kids to show off their hard work throughout the summer and just have fun with other great kids! Tonight I am looking forward to watching Vincent sell his pig and going to the Kelly Pickler concert with my girls! Dear Dad, Happy Birthday! I know we are always wrapped up in the fair activities and don't have a real chance to celebrate your brithday the proper way. Hopefully we do this year and I hope that you have an amazing day today. I Love You!

Wedding Wednesday

I am back with my wedding wednesday posts!

for now anyways.

well I have officially had my first wedding fiasco...

first off I ordered two gorgeous dresses from Dorothy Perkins 3 weeks ago.

this exact one actually.
After aquiring all my girl's sizes and comparing them to the size chart I decided to just order a 6 and an 8 in order for the girls to try them on and figure out what size they would actually need. On top of finally finding the perfect dresses they also had an amazing price tag ... $44 plus 15% off!

I waited and wait for 3 weeks to get them in the mail and yesterday they finally came. I was so excited opening the package...only to find that they sent me a 10 and a 12! what the heck?! So I waited all day and finally tried one on after I got off work. Well lets just say their size chart is horrible and does not compare to their actual sizes. The dresses are extremely small and I was able to squeeze into the 12 when my measurements matched what a size 6 would be from the website.

I am still waiting to hear back from them on how to return the dresses because they are actually out of London which I did not realize until after ordering the dresses. I am thinking I will actually keep the one dress and wear it for our rehearsal or something like that and I guess if the company doesn't allow me to return it I can sell it on ebay or something.

So I am back to square one and am thinking I am just going to keep my shopping in the US and just get the dresses from the target line like I had planned originally. I mean is $70 really that expensive for a bridesmaid dress? I really don't want my girls to go broke for my wedding but I still want them to look just as gorgeous as I do on the big day!!!

Dear Friday, I am super happy that you are finally here. This week has been quite a lengthy one and I am not real sure why. This weekend doesn't have too much eventful stuff going on other than taking the 4H projects down to the fair which is going to be fun and then Sunday the fair officially kicks off. Dear fishing pole, I love love love you and you make my fishing trip pictures much more fun and pretty to look at! Dear Dorothy Perkins, would you please hurry up and get these dresses here! I know the olympics are going on in your home town but gosh really must it take a full 11 days to get 2 dresses in the mail?! Dear Blog, I am apologizing once again about my unfaithfulness to you but I promise within the next couple weeks summer will be wrapping itself up and I will return to my daily chaos and hopefully find more time to blog on here. Dear College, I am returning to you in less than two weeks! gah..not too excited about this one but what is a girl to do?! really though what am I supposed to do? everything seems so long and with working at the same time its going to be hard to get classes in that start after 4:00. I think my student loans have been done correctly and I won't have to be paying too much out of pocket because if that was the case this girl would be remaining a working girl. Please be nice to me and help me get through this quarter semester successfully without stressing out to the max!! Dear Wedding Planning, a lot of stuff is coming together including my crafty spark has been ignited and making stuff is all I can think about which is lots of fun!! Can't wait to show you ladies what I have been up to next week.

OK I never thought I would say this but I am kind of excited that it is finally August and that summer is coming to an end. I have been so busy this summer that I haven't had much time to just hangout with friends on the weekends. Fall always brings the county fairs, weiner roasts and bonfires! Even though it is a sure sign that winter is right around the corner I am still looking forward to it. It is also that much closer to our wedding day!

Here lately we have been pretty busy but here are some of the fun things we have been getting into via instagram:

Lots of boating and fishing

 In preparation for the fair Tank got a little weigh in after we weighed Vincent's pigs. Can't believe how big my baby is getting

I ordered two dresses for the bridemaids to try on for the wedding and praying that they fit and aren't too short...cannot wait for them to come!

This past weekend we went camping up at Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park

 our campsite

 Where we ended up sleeping for the last night

 Thanks to this big storm

Some stuff not documented through pictures:

-yard work

-garage saling

-cookouts over at Grandma Spikers

-late night olympic watching

All the while we were running around Mr Tank has been doing this!!



I am back! Sorry I have been a little MIA here lately but I have been really busy...with what you might wonder? Well on top of just having fun and enjoying summer I have been getting re-registered for college, making appointments for school and wedding stuff and some little crafting projects here and there. But this past weekend I had lots of fun! Anthony, his brothers and cousin put their money together and bought a fishing boat so Anthony has been getting it all ready for its first trip out on the water and we ended up taking it on Friday! On Saturday Anthony was busy getting ready for an all night cat fishing tournament so Dad and I ended up going yard saleing. I ended up finding some cool stuff including an old suitcase that I am going to clean up and we are going to use it for the wedding along with an old gun book and a metal bucket. I also got some old fishing poles that I am not sure what I am going to do with. My Grandma Kuhn had a lil cookout at her house on Saturday too for a combination of our birthdays and my Aunt and Uncle from Charleston were coming into town for the week! So it was a great time with family and then Saturday night Dad, JK, Grandpa Kuhn, my cousin Tyler and myself all went to the dirt track races because they got switched to Saturday nights and it was only $10 to get in. It was a lot of fun too!! Sunday Anthony and I ended up going out in the boat and I caught a big catfish with my new fishing pole!!

 Hopefully I am back to blogging and not taking too many breaks any more but you never know with summer being here and all! We are always getting into something fun!

Friday's Letters

Dear Friday, must you be so dreary?! I had plans of going to Zoombezi Bay (waterpark to all you non-Ohioans) for my birthday today but obviously that is not happening now. I am not complaining too much though because this rain is really needed for all the crops and everything.

Dear Colorado victims, I am praying for all of you for healing and a feeling of safety.

Dear Me, this is your last birthday as "Brittany Kuhn" next year you will be a married girl on your birthday! There isn't much planned for today but tomorrow we have a cookout at Grandpa and Grandma Kuhn's and then I am going to the dirt track races with my Dad while Anthony is going on an all night fishing tournament with one of his friends.

Dear wedding planning, you have been going pretty smoothly even though we are still just in the beginning stages and not really purchasing anything yet. I did make my first purchase this week actually from Etsy this week. I ended up buying a digital paper pack from Graphic Market. I have been searching for cute mason jar images and never thought about getting something from Etsy to just download and create something of my own. Once we get our engagement pictures I will show you what I have done so far for our Save The Dates and what else I am planning...its going to be super cute!!!

What To Do...

so for the last couple months I have really been racking my brain with what I am going to 

get a degree in at school.

I used to know what I wanted to do. 

I was going to become a speech therapist.

Not real sure why I changed my mind. But a did.

Now I have no clue.

I know what I really want to do but sometimes I wonder how realistic it really is.

Maybe one day I will figure it out

or just follow my dream 

and become a beach bum...

haha just kidding!

but really wouldn't that be the life?

I think I could handle doing this all day every day!

But I don't think Mom and Dad would be too proud.

So this morning as I was stalking on facebook I came across a link to a website

http://wtfshouldidowithmylife.com/

I wandered over there to see what this is all about

this girl is up for anything at this point

well maybe not anything......

 if you for some reason decide that this would perfectly fine you should click the "okay!" button

where you will be directed on how to join a circus.

after deciding that my life is already a circus and that isn't what I have always dreamed of

I went ahead and said hell no!

that might be fun and I know Anthony would join me in this adventure....

Alaska wouldn't be bad either...

well not for a long time...

I would much rather live somewhere tropical...

NEXT..

hey I already do that one...

maybe I am doing it all wrong...

it says I need to make an Etsy shop!

maybe there is something in the near future happening over here

stay tuned

already doing this one

and no I do not need eHarmony to find my soulmate

already have him!

I am not completely convinced that this wasn't meant for Anthony...

however being a park ranger would be fun!

That's why Anthony is already going to school to do this...

maybe I should join him...

or maybe just stick to being a beach bum...

some of my other options were...

run for a local office

be a music blogger

become a taste tester

work on an organic farm

paint houses

work on mammoth mountain

live in a slab city

are you looking for your calling?

maybe this website will help you figure it out

Good-luck!

Weekend Recap

We were pretty busy this weekend! On Saturday we went to Dad's work picnic but I didn't get any pictures there, guess we were too busy having fun. After the picnic we went and saw Grandma Spiker at the hospital. She is doing so much better with therapy and is walking with a walker right now and her personality is somewhat to back to normal. For dinner Dad and JK surprised us with a new BBQ place called Route 62 BBQ and oh my goodness it was so delicious including this amazing peanut butter pie that we got for dessert!

 After dinner we decided to go see the farm that used to be my Grandpa's in Hartford. A different family now owns the farm but it used to be huge and it was so pretty! The family has done a great job at keeping it in tip top shape. I love going to Hartford because it reminds me so much of my Grandpa Spiker. 

 Once we got home Miss Molly came over and we ended up having a fire and a sleepover! 

After we sat around the fire for a while we decided to go inside and watch Marley and Me. Of course I was asleep within 10 minutes of the movie.

 Sunday I didn't get much done even though my list was like a mile long! 

I did end up getting some editing done of a recent couple shoot I did but it isn't completely done yet so pictures just yet. 

It finally ended up raining which was very needed but it did not last long enough but we were blessed with a rainbow afterwards and Anthony and I ended up going fishing.

When we got home from fishing I made us some steak sandwiches and we had some strawberry pizza pie.

Even though yesterday wasn't part of the weekend we still had just as much fun, well as much fun as you can have for a Monday. I came home to Mom making dinner before she had to go to work. She made some super delicious bruschetta, spaghetti and some chicken.

 After I ate I headed up to Anthony's house and we ended up going fishing again. The only thing we caught were some good pictures driving down the backroads and a bunch of mosquito bites which was okay because I got to spend some more time with Anthony! 

Friday's Letters

Dear Organizing Self,
I don't know what came of you but there is no complaining going on over here. You encouraged me to clear my emails of all their junkiness...I was able to get all 500+ junk emails deleted and everything else sorted yesterday and then last night I transfered all 746 pictures off of my iphone. It was getting pretty annoying having to pick and choose what pictures to delete in order to take more pictures at the time. I also sat down and planned out some goals for the month and put a schedule in my phone for my exercises, what I am planning on eating, any appointments I have, stuff I need to do, pretty much my whole days have been planned out. I feel when I do this I am so much more productive. Now if I can just stick to everything and not stray off this path.

Dear Anthony,
I was so happy last night when we both agreed to get Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner! We used to go all the time on thursdays, it was our little date night, but with the nicer weather we haven't been going I was missing them awesome wings! Even better you rode your bike into town to get them and we ate them at home, which kinda takes away from the whole date night vibe but I was already in my comfy clothes for the night and didn't really want to change. Love you babe!

Dear Tim Hortons,
You sucked me in again! I have been to see you every morning this week to get my usual, plain bagel toasted with plain cream cheese and a large strawberry banana smoothie with yogurt. You are no good for my diet or my bank account. You need to stop being so tempting and delicious! Next week I am done with you, good bye!

Dear Friday,
you are back!!! however your weather is not so nice. All week you have been a comfy often a little steamy with the sun shining but right now and your predictions for the weekend are a little cooler which I am not complaining about but there is no sun shining and it is supposed to be raining. Even though we all know that rain is a good thing why can't it just rain through the week and be nice on the weekends?! please and thank-you!