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YES! Our invitations arrived today and they’re awesome! We were nervous. Zazzle wins again! Under $100 (not counting stamps) for 175 rad invites.
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Yay! Flowers! My coworkers are the best. (Taken with instagram)
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Celebrating Benny’s graduation at Benelux (Taken with instagram)
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Birthday Bonfire! (Taken with instagram)
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Engagement Photos!
Yes, it’s 2 months before our wedding and we just took our photos now, but check out how good we look!
We didn’t plan on having engagement photos done, but we decided on an invitation that requires a photo and our amazing friend Caleen offered to be our photographer at a reasonable price (free - the most reasonable price). And she did such a great job that we just had to share.
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Makeup Practice! I visited Macy’s (Mayfair Mall) to get my makeup done and see what I like and don’t like. The stench from Hollister right outside the door made this almost unbearable, but at least it was the right price!
And, the woman who did my makeup - Rennie - was amazing! Seriously, everyone should be so lucky to have her do their makeup. I liked my look; it was weird to have so much makeup on. I think I’m going to change a few things. Maybe a brighter lip to go with my 50s dress, and less eye makeup.
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Congratulations, Joe & Kirstin! We had a fabulous time at the Yeado wedding last weekend, and were so excited to see our favorite American-Italian, Meara. A wonderful weekend filled with wonderful people… and the Brewers.
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Brad Jones, Liverpool’s third-string keeper, started the FA Cup semifinal due to suspensions of both the first-string keeper Pepe Reina (seen above hugging Jones) and the regular back-up, Doni.
It was only Jones’s second start this season, whose 5-year-old son Luca died a year and a half of ago of leukemia. (Jones and his wife just had another baby, Nico, ten days ago.)
Liverpool won the game 2-1. You always want the club you support to win, of course, but it was really special to see a hard-working, likable third-string keeper play a very good game in goal in front of 80,000 people.
Great work, Brad! YNWA.
(Source: underthelightsofanfield)
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Ben & I got to attend our first ever Opening Day this year. What a great way to kick off my spring break!
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Thoughts on The Hunger Games
After waiting forever, Ben & i finally went to see The Hunger Games last night (with our awesome friend Caleen)… and we LOVED it! Here are our thoughts:
- So emotional! We were so excited and nervous and maybe that’s why I couldn’t stop crying. I must’ve cried 5 times in the first hour!
- Extremely true to the book, except of course that some things had to be cut. Understandable. Violence was definitely there, which we were concerned they might gloss over, and the message of the book came across loud & clear.
- We were curious about what people who haven’t read the books would think. We both thought the story might be confusing if you didn’t have background from the books.
- Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickmann: perfect. Enchanting.
- Jennifer Lawrence is hot (Ben), and deserves an Oscar (Ben & Danielle).
- Cinematography (or as Ben pointed out - Cinna-matography) = a. maze. ing. Seriously. Really, really impressive camera work (except for the first 5 minutes or so which were unnecessarily shaky and made us a bit nauseous).
- Costumes? Oscar. For sure. Although we were just a little underwhelmed by the costumes on fire.
- The length was just right and the ending was perfect for a movie. I can’t wait to see Catching Fire, but Hunger Games felt like a complete movie too.
- The casting of all the child actors was awesome. They all did such a great job and non seemed to over-act or be annoyingly theatre-y. Ben thought Prim & Rue were especially impressive.
There were a few things we didn’t love (in addition to the shaky camera work at the beginning). The casting of Gale seemed a bit off. I loved seeing Liam Hemsworth, but in comparison to Peeta, Ben thought Gale should have been much skinnier, starved-looking and Peeta should have looked big & strong next to him. We were confused about why Lenny Kravitz played Cinna so straight, and so non-Capital-y. We were really annoyed by Haymitch’s hair and the way Woody Harrelson wouldn’t stop playing with it.
Danielle’s favorite scene: Tracker Jackers. Cool scene and very similar to how I interpreted it while reading the book.
Ben’s favorite scene: When Katniss rides the elevator into the arena. Jennifer Lawrence really sold it. (Danielle loved this too)
Can’t wait to see it again!
