Best tattoo EVER

-- Post From My iPhone

The Daddy and Mommy song

Loves this.

In NOLA!

Just landed.

Now I'm waiting for Khalil to get his hurr cut.



I flipped open this magazine just now...




And first thing I see when I flip to the center of the magazine? Matty!



-- Post From My iPhone

Off to New Orleans / Katie's Brideshower!

I'm off to New Orleans with a motley crew (Danny Eric Zameer) it should be awesome!



Danny and I will be crashing with Katie and Semmes.

Since they're getting married next weekend, I suppose it's time I caught up and posted about Katie's bridal shower which she had almost two months ago now.

Katie's mom rented out Gregorio's, this cute little Italian restaurant in Chatham, NJ, and filled it with friends and family.



There was a delightful strawberry and goat cheese salad.



A single serving of Megoon.



AND MINICUPCAKES (this was all just to start)



It was a major multi-course ordeal.



And OMG PARMESAN CHICKEN



But not before a full plate of rigatoni appetizer!



And OMG SO MANY PRESENTS.



And a DK designed Newlywed Game Video.



I have never seen any of these people before in my life. Katie has lots of rando Jersey aunts.



PARMESAN CRUSTED CHICKON!!!!!



And dipped strawbrys.



Presents took hours.





And then she wore a hat.

I saw THE BABY

Just a few weeks ago Dan and Emily were totes preggos.



But preggos they are no more.

I went up to RI the other day after the Gastler Retreat to see THE BABY.



He has to wear little braces on his legs because his legs keep falling out of their sockets or something but it should be fine once the ligaments form. Not a big deal at all.

He looks like a little old man.

Dan and Emily are happier than clams**.



**I've never understood that expression. I would hate to be a clam.

Gastler Retreat 2010

The last time we went for a Gastler Retreat was July 4th of last year, so we were long overdue for another group visit.

We arrived at the Gastler estate greeted by 30 pounds of chicken parmesan.

This was just the first 10 pound vat...




These were the other two.



It was nuts!



After eating our faces off, we made a fire by the pool and played beergames into the night.







The next morning we awoke to brunch and had story time with special guest Elin Woods Nordegren reading from her new tell-all People Magazine article.




We played all day in the pool.






Played tennis and beanbag games in the evening.



And then out came foods and wine.




And we changed into our white clothes for a White Party Luau! (Labor Day is next week so it was our last chance to wear white.)







A spread of sausages and burgers and other grilleats and corn salad and chickpea patties for the herbivores and some tortellini and ohmygod I have no idea how Connie and Kristen are not majorly obese.





Everyone looked so pretty!




And we presented our favorite family with a beautiful canvas of themselves.



I love a white party!



Drunkfaced. We went outside to the poolhouse for dancing.




Todd found whipped cream.




So much fun.








Nick is hilarious.



More singing and dancing!









More whipped cream!






Priya was first to pass out. And someone had the idea that we should all touch her and sing to her as she slept.



SO strange.

We sang K-Ci and Jojo's "All My Life" at the top of our lungs.




That's all I remember.

Next thing I knew it was morning again and there were freshly baked banana breads and muffins and I was in heaven.

We spent the day playing Pool Volleyball and getting sunburned.




I love the Gastlers! Thank you for the best time ever!