I Can Hear the Bells and Boyers Tradition

Good Evening Friends!

What a weekend! I hope you survived the 95 degree weather today and that you have cooled off since mid-afternoon! I had a weekend full of wonderfullness, the biggest news being one of my absolute best friends in the whole entire world is ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although I knew it was coming, when I saw her the same excitement and emotions overwhelmed me and I couldn't help but scream like a little girl and give her the hugest hug in the world! I was soooo proud of Ethan (her now fiance, that still sounds so weird!) for pulling everything off. He had every detail planned and he fooled her GOOD! (She thought they were spending the weekend in KC, but instead he made a pit-stop in Manhattan to propose first :) As I watched them this weekend, I saw their love illuminating. They have always been a fabulous couple, don't get my wrong, but this weekend there was something different. There was a twinkle in her eye, and he looked at her adoringly. It was so cute for me to watch them together and I can only hope that I have that same look someday :)

ENGAGED WITH A RING AND ALL!!!!!!

See, isn't she just glowing?!?!?! I'm so lucky to call her a best friend :) :) :)

Since I have a recent obsession with blogging, I have found tons of great blogs to follow and gain ideas from. I follow a blog called "Your Cup of Cake" and it is full of fabulous cupcake recipes! I was just yearning to make cupcakes for something, so Shelbi and Ethan's engagement was the perfect opportunity! When they got into town, I greeted them with...

...chocolate banana cupcakes with a peanut butter icing! They were mighty good if you ask me, but I cannot take credit for the recipe. (At this point, if I was a tech savvy girl I would post a link to the blog where I got this recipe, but my name is Brittany Boyers, so I will just reference the site and you can go to it if you so desire :) Your Cup of Cake is the name of the blog!

Shelbi has also never bought a wedding magazine (...I wish I could say the same for myself, whoops!) so of course I had to purchase a few wedding magazines for her to get started with this fun process that is ahead!

^^^^^^Pretty artsy right? RIGHT.^^^^^^

We spent most of Friday and Saturday morning catching up and talking about the proposal, and then went to an authentic KC barbecue place for lunch, and then off we headed to a Royals game Saturday night!

We met up with Allison and her brother, Will, when we got to the game! We were definitely enjoying some sun rays at this time, yikes it was hot there for a while!

AH the happy couple! I spy a pretty, gorgeous, shiny ring!!!

My sweet boy :) :) :)

After the game some other friends came over to see Shelbi and Ethan and we played a game of Z-Ball which is basically the best game ever! It is played on a pool table and it is super easy to learn and way intense. However, it can be dangerous, so be cautious as you play ;)

Today, we tackled moving my big stuff up to Manhattan. I am going to attempt to re-create these situations that occured today to you, however I will probably fail miserably. As you read, try and create a mental image of my family participating in these events.

We rented a Uhaul, and thus begins the Boyers tradition. We cannot go ANYWHERE without having some sort of drama. Someone is running late, someone is sick, someone is mad, someone is frustrated, someone is lost, something doesn't go according to plan, etc. etc. etc. So why would I think that a simple trip to Manhattan would be any different than any other trip we have taken? It took us literally an hour to load everything into the Uhaul, and all we had was 2 couches, a TV cabinet, a desk, and some random knick knack crap. Oh wait, 2 couches you ask? Why do you need TWO couches? Welllll, of course the couch I wanted to put in the house was most likely too small to fit through our small, old fashioned doorways. So we spent an hour loading TWO couches into the Uhaul on the off chance that the first one would not fit. Okay, stick with me, now the story gets really good.

We finally arrive to Manhattan, and it is the hotest, most humid day KC has seen in a month, topping at 95 degrees. We take the preferred couch out of the Uhaul and attempt to get it through the back door. It goes through that doorway pretty easily, however we sat with the couch in the kitchen for about 30 minutes strategizing the best way to fit it into the family room. My father, being the brilliant engineer taht he is, decides we should flip the couch vertical so that we can turn it and try and slide it into the room. Good idea in theory, but not when you have my dad and Cameron, and two weak, not work horse women like my mother and myself. My dad ends up getting trapped on our stairway and is hidden from view of everyone else. He is yelling orders at us trying to get the couch turned the right way to get the dang thing into the room. Everyone is now hot and sweating and my father threatened to take his shirt off, so that was our cue to hurry up and get this couch in before things got real awkward! Seriously, after about an HOUR of this, we managed to slide the couch into the room. We then spent 15 minutes talking about what we should have done, and what we should do in the future to get the thing back out of the house! (That will be another adventure that will be discussed later).

Here the couch is in the room. Next time you see this couch, please remember this little story I just told and the absolute TURMOIL we went through to get it into the stinking house!!!

Overall, it was a FABULOUS weekend with so many great memories!! I can't wait to start wedding planning with Shelbi, and I can't wait to use the new couch in our house in like a month and a half!! Have a wonderful week!

Until then,

Brittany