T N' T Dynamite!

OK, so I know we said we'd be better...  it's just that life has gotten in the way.  Thank God we don't write this blog for a living or we'd be B-R-O-K-E.  Especially after all the wedding and baby and birthday presents we had to buy in the last month.  Just kidding ...sort of.  Living life is more important than documenting it, and we had a wonderful May.  To make up for our absence, this post will be extra long.  Yay!

The first stop on our 3 weddings, a baby shower and a birthday party tour was Chicago.  Our friend Lizzie married a wonderful guy, Tony, who Randy and I both love.  Randy and I went to Villanova with Liz, and she was our roommate for a while when we first bought the house.  She was also a bridesmaid in our wedding!  

Liz at our wedding.  What you can't see here is she is sitting because she cut open her toe on the threshold of the door walking into the country club a few hours before our wedding.  Yet she still walked down the aisle.  She is one tough cookie.

Liz is a hydroplane race boat driver, one of the few women in the sport.  She is very talented, and a super star in Australia.  

Although we have not known Tony for as long, we like him too.  He's like another Randy, but with an actual filter between his brain and his mouth.  Super hilarious and better behaved, really laid back.

Liz and Tony at Mr. Bill's in New Jersey

The wedding was a Mardi Gras theme.  These are the masks for the bridal party.  Fun, right?  This wedding was totally worth the hell we went through to get to and from Chicago.  American Airlines + O'Hare airport + four days of thunderstorms = colossal suckiness.  But lets not dwell on the unpleasant. I'll just say don't fly American Airlines into O'Hare EVER. 

The rehearsal, wedding, and reception were all at the Eaglewood Resort in Itasca, Illinois.  They did a great job.  If you're getting married in Chicago, check it out.  We didn't even have to go off site for hair or getting our nails done.  There is a spa right in the resort!  Not that I got my hair done, but we did go to the unique rehearsal dinner in the on-site bowling alley.

Look at this handsome guy.

Lizzie looked beautiful.  Funny thing about Liz:  Randy and I are the only ones who call her that.  It wasn't until we met Liz's parents at a boat race a couple of years ago and they didn't know who "Liz" was that we realized no one calls her Liz.  It turns out Randy started calling her Liz in class and she never corrected him.  So then when I was introduced to her, I called her Liz too.  I can't call her anything but Liz or Lizzie now, even though she is Elizabeth or Tizzy.  So this was the wedding of Tizzy and Tony, or T&T.

Yeah, I blinked, but I'm ok with that so we can show us with Lizzie.