Pooling it at the Galt House

We spent Saturday afternoon at the rooftop pool at our hotel. It was crazy windy and the lounge chairs were all chained together to avoid blowing onto the highway below us! We had such fun chatting it up with fruity frozen drinks.

I did a swaying dance to apply my spray sunscreen. For those of you who live in Indy, you are familiar with the swaying woman who resides on the corner of Mass Ave. She is a computer animated lady, who sways in the most mesmerizing way, and she transfixes me whenever I drive or walk by. I was recreating this for my friends, and everyone else at the pool.

* Sidenote for this ridiculous pic:

Trinity bought me a new swimsuit for our honeymoon for my birfday. He let me go shopping alone, but gave me some fashion advice. It went like this:

"Betsy, please get a solid colored suit. Everything you own is so bright and printed. I'd like for you to tone it down a bit. I like you in simple colors. Not so loud."

I came home with this. I can't fight my inner Mrs. Roper. He was a sport, and told me he liked it. Then he handed me my new July issue of Instyle, and turned it to a fashion poll inside. 59% report that they prefer solid colored swimsuits over 41% who like bold prints. "See, see? Instyle and I agree!", he argued. You lose, T.

This is as close as I dare get with swimsuit photos. My friends, all beautiful, would kill me.

4th Street Live

My pals and I went to Fourth Street Live and to Z Fusion for dinner. I won't lie, we were back at the Galt House by 11:45. I am a short hitter when it comes to boozin'.

Allison, Jamie, Megan, Kate, Marinda and Nicole

My momma

Marinda, Jamie, Allison

Howl at the Moon with Court, Jamie and Laura

Kate and Courtney

Sista and Laura

Couples Shower

Trinity and I had a beautiful shower in my hometown, hosted by our dear friends, Teri & Ken, Ernie & Mary, Allison & Steve, and BFF Court. It was a pizza party held outside on their beautiful patio, site of many fun events over the last 25+ years.

Mom and Ken

Chortle, chortle, Court and Bets

Dad and Ernie

My family and Trinity's, soon to be joined-

Eddie and Pat, Trinity's parents

Court and Teri, clones

Tim and Steve strolling

Marinda and Jamie

Kirby, Grant, Rob, Meghan, Thomas and Tiny

Court and Nick

Presents!

Allison, posing with her fabulous "cupcake" theme gift

* Events not pictured: 4 wheeler rides, John Deere Gator rides, potato gun shooting, fireworks and cannon blasting. These events got a little crazy.

Our Engagement Photos

Trinity and I got a wonderful present in the mail today from our wedding photographers, Kurtis and Jen Bowersock. They sent us "web ready" photos from our engagement session. We started the fun at our house, trying not to look too awkward smooching on the couch.

Then I had to include our 3rd family member, the beautiful Kashmir. I love how blue her eyes look here.

I couldn't find her Target trenchcoat that I often make her wear, but I did locate her fish hat. She looked thrilled as we shot this. I love her face and I'm digging my hair.

As I have joked before, my house literally sits on railroad tracks. We usually get one train a day, and it just so happened to roll by while we stood in the backyard.

We also went to my favorite cupcake spot. Everything is pink and I love it!

Downtown

This one was also artsy and fun.

Big nostril-flaring Betsy snort/laugh.

More snort/laughing. I am so delicate and petite.

We had such a fun evening with Kurtis and Jen. We can't wait for the wedding.

Necessary Orthodontia

I really don't like my teeth. They never look white enough or straight enough to me. I am always worried about my teeth. So why am I so nutty about them? They were once awful. I know that you probably think I'm being dramatic. I assure you that I am not. They were bad. Like really bad. Like get retainers in 4th grade, have braces from 6th-10th grade and then continue to wear the retainers that you got post-braces in 1995 nightly as a 30 year old woman. I have this fear that the Snaggletooth Fairy is once again going to sprinkle her snaggle dust all over my tooths in the night and make me all fugly again.

When I was home for my shower a couple of weeks ago, I bounded up my parents' steps 2 at a time like I do, and have done since I was about in 2nd grade. I stopped in my tracks when I came face to face with this:

Betsy in the 6th grade at the height of her awkward phase that lasted approximately 4.5 years. Why, oh why, mother dear, would you hang this in your home? Where do I start? Rob is looking pretty fly with his bowl haircut. Mom is rockin' a total teacher sweater. I am "jumping for joy" in my green jumper complete with teeth issues. Everyone else looks normal. Cut to Katie, older sister in the purple dress. She is 13 years old in this picture. Are you freakin' kidding me? Now does everyone understand why I had a complex? Not only was I a tooth trainwreck, but Katie looked about 20 and was Hot with a capital H.

Close up of the main tooth issue. See that thing sticking out of my gums? That's a toof. Yes, a toof. Growing where toofs shouldn't grow. If I had a nickel for every time someone said, "hey, you've got a piece of lettuce, right here..." and it was my ogre tooth, then I'd have about 45 nickels. It was terrible. My orthodontist, who was really an 80 year old dentist, used to imprint his Rolex on my forehead biweekly as he labored over my pearly whites. Pull that mo'fo? No sir! Let's bracket that biotch and pull it down to meet its friends! Brilliant! Words cannot describe the tears that preceded my current teeth. I guess I shouldn't complain.

I think this photo is way better for display:

Zoo Trip

Today I took two students that I worked with this past year to our zoo. Bawi Dawt and Bawi Sang are both from Burma. They are cousins and are going into 3rd grade. Bawi Dawt does not speak much English, but certainly knows his colors, big, small, lots of animal names, and my name. What more do you need to head to the zoo?

They dried their hands after petting sharks.

Why does this crazy big teacher woman keep taking our picture?

Racing cheetahs

My favorite