*Sigh*
I never have time to Dis on the weekends anymore. Perhaps
someday life will slow down, and I will be able to. Anyway, this weekend myself and 5 other women in my family hosted a bridal shower for my cousin Jared's fiance. Jared (one year younger than me) and his brother Josh (four years older than me) are both getting married this year. If you remember, I posted a photo a while back of my Josh proposing to Sarah at Christmas. Anyway, we had a shower for Megan this weekend at my Aunt Janet's house (not Jared's mom). The theme was Kentucky Derby Hats, so we all wore big hats that we had made. My cousin Misty, who really organized the whole thing made this video of Jared with her asking him questions. We played it, but stopped before he answered every question to see if Megan could guess what he was going to say. Kinda like the Newlywed Game. She did really well! I think she really only missed two,"What kind of animal would you and Megan be?" - this one she got what he said for her, but missed what he chose for himself. And "What superhero would you be?" It was really sweet. I have some photos from the shower to share....nothing life altering, but we had a good time. There was a contest for who had the best hat, and we all voted. My Aunt Sue (Jared's mom) won. Her hat was great. (I voted for it!)
Megan and Sarah, soon to be Sisters-in-law, and soon to be cousins of mine!
Kelsey, Mom and I in our hats
Mom said to make a funny face, and then she didn't! (I was being embarassed)
Aunt Sue (mother of the groom) and Sarah
Me and Mom. My hat has a music theme. If you can see the rolled up music n the front, it is actually the sheet music to "The Wedding March." I thought it was appropriate.
Kelsey and Amanda being goofy. Kelsey's hat has a princess theme - tiara and all!
Myself and my cousin Crystal!
Some of the girls.
The grandgirls!
Left to right, it's Misty, Kelsey, Larissa, Crystal, Me, Amanda. Kelsey and I are sisters(duh). And the rest of the girls are all sisters. Misty and Amanda are sisters, Larissa and Crystal are sisters. L and C's Dad (my Dad's bro) married Misty and Amanda's Mom, now they are all sisters. And Tara (Larissa and Crystal's younger sis) was not present.
Grandgirls, soon-to-be grandgirls, and Nanny!
It really was a nice shower, and we had a lot of great food, too.
Sunday night, Kelly and I went to the make-up Kenny Chesney concert at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco. The story behind this concert is that Kelly and Brad had tickets to this concert originally scheduled for May 2nd. The torrential downpour that we had that night caused the concert to be rained out after KC had played for about an hour. Also on the bill were Sugarland, Lady Antebellum, and Miranda Lambert. So, he (Kenny Chesney) rescheduled the concert for May 17th (last night) and invited all the other bands to come back with him. Well, because it was Sunday, and Brad works in San Antonio, he couldn't go, so Kelly invited me to go. It was an A-MAZ-ING concert. None of the other acts could be back in Dallas, so it was four hours of Kenny Chesney bliss. He was just singing whatever he felt like, including songs that he hasn't played on tour in 6 years! It was funny, because he was saying stuff like, "we're just up here having fun, this is the summer time party we always wanted!" and "oh, we think we might just play for 3 or 4 hours." It really was great. They even made special t-shirts for the evening with a photo of him in the torrential downpour (literally from May 2nd, because they played the clips) and it said "There's something sexy about the rain, lightning, and a Dallas, Texas makeup show!" They were very cute. I got a t-shirt, I'll try and take a pic and post it later. Sadly, I have no photos from last night because
someone *ahem, me* forgot to recharge the camera. But I do have some videos from the torrential downpour concert! These are great!
Singing "I go Back" in the rain
Singing "Something Sexy About the Rain" in the rain!
*I do not claim credit for these videos...found 'em on youtube!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and I can't wait to get all caught up on what you've been doing!
But I wanted to make a few comments before I forget.
I think your new hair cut is very nice. That sucks that the stylist didn't do it exactly how you wanted but the picture you posted of your hair all curly is very pretty. 
Congratulations on moving back to TX! That is just great! And congrats on the job with your Dad. I too work for my father. I'm his General Office Manager. Working for family for sure has it's advantages. I'm so jealous that you get to go to Europe in July! I can't wait to see pictures from that trip! Happy belated birthday! I absolutely love the dress your parents bought you! Oh yeah, congrats on the great and fantastic weight loss! I can't imagine how great it must feel to be able to wear your "little black dress" again 
And the pictures from your friend's wedding are georgous!! I just LOVE the pink and black color scheme! Very very cool!
Masquerade automatically makes me think Phantom of the Opera, and I'm going to see RENT with Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp when it comes to Boston in July, so I was super excited to see the pictures. I'm really hoping that we can catch them like you did.
