aye matey

Aye Matey! We spent the Halloween weekend up in Lafayette with family and friends. We headed up and stopped by Matt's mom's, my mom's (where we were entertained with my niece's choreographed dance haha), and then made our way to dinner at Outback with our friends Lauren and J Dan.  It was so awesome getting to spend time with them at dinner. It seemed like it had been way too long since we all got to hang out.  There are always lots of laughs when we all get together. After dinner, we went to a Halloween party at Troy and Ashley's house! We got all dressed up at pirates which was hilarious.  Matt was loving being a pirate :)

On Sunday, we went over to the Hills' to visit with Matt, Ashley, and Madi! Madi gets cuter every single time I see her.  She always has new tricks (ok not tricks, but you know what I mean) and milestones she is hitting.  I love it. She is the sweetest baby girl.  

On our way out of town, we stopped for lunch and then made a quick (yeah right) stop at Lowe's.  We have been talking about getting new ceiling fans and light fixtures for the house and I guess being so close to Lowe's sparked our motivation.  Luckily, Matt's mom met us there after she got off work because she helped pick out the new lighting system for our kitchen.  Right now we have an ugly ceiling fan and Matt is going to install a new light which will really brighten up the whole kitchen. We also grabbed a new ceiling fan (with a light) for our bedroom (the old one doesn't have a light and is stuck being turned on...no way of shutting it off), 4 lighting fixtures for the upstairs bedrooms (which do not have any kind of ceiling lighting) and 2 replacements for the hallways which are now yucky gold.  I am SO excited to see the final product.  Stay tuned for the progress!

all dressed up

These pictures are a little overdue.  They are from our friends Tracy and Sarah's wedding at the end of September.  I saw the pictures on the computer so I had to post! I was a bad picture taker that night...I didn't even get a picture of the beautiful bride and groom together!  So unlike me.  They looked amazing and the wedding was so much fun!  It was like a high school reunion which was awesome. It is fun to see our friends getting married...the next batch is right around the corner hopefully!

Tracy waiting on his guys to get into position

My super handsome hubby behind Tracy...I love seeing him dressed up in a tux!

My partner in crime for the night :) it was a good good night

Hill brothers

Getting a good picture is impossible when we get these boys together...

I can't stop laughing every time I look at Matt's face on the left...click to enlarge for the full effect

Try # 2...nope

Just SMILE!

trying to whip him into shape while he is still goofing off :)

better

<3

QT with the Harley

On Saturday, Matt and I had a day full of riding.  We started off the morning at 10 where we met everyone at Harley-Davidson on 96th St for a benefit ride.  We rode for Kammy's Kause.  It was an all day event.  The ride itself took about 5 hours and then we all made our way to a park in Fortville where there was a hog roast.  I had never been on a benefit ride before, but Matt had.  It was so fun to be out on the bike all day and to ride with a huge group of people.  We had police escorts everywhere we went, in the front, side, and back of us to keep everyone safe.  The first leg of the ride was from Indy to Kokomo Harley.  After I took my helmet off I realized I needed an intervention.  Luckily, Kokomo Harley had an awesome hat I fell in love with so that was my go-to every time we stopped and I took my helmet off.

Pitstop at Kokomo Harley

Matt and his buddy Matt from Central Transport

All lined up

LOVE this guy!  It was such a great day. 

Off we go!

Next, we made our way to Spyke's Harley in Frankfort.  It was about an hour ride.  They had hot dogs, chips, and pop at Spyke's for everyone.  It was awesome!  Then we were off to our last stop, the hog roast in Fortville.

Police escort

What a gorgeous day!!

Another copper

Spyke's Harley in Frankfort

Morse Resevior.  We rode past this and I had never heard of/seen this before,

Park in Fortville- Hog Roast

After the ride, we came home to rest for about a half hour and then we were off to Motorcycles on Meridian.  We had heard about this last year and were sad we missed it.  Luckily, I had off work this time and we could go!  It was so much cooler than I thought it would be.  There were SO many motorcycles down there.  They were all lined around Monument Circle and all up and down the middle of the roads and on the sides.  We parked and went walking to look at other bikes and go check out the entertainment.  They had beer tents and bands and stunt bikers.  It was awesome! I want to go every year.

Drove right up next to Lucas Oil

Bikes everywhere!

Riding down to the circle to park

Matt's buddy Matt and his wife Rachel

Us!

Bikes around the circle

Love this picture!

Checking out the band

It will probably take me a couple days to recover from riding all day.  My back, legs, and butt are sore. I haven't rode like that in forever so I need to break myself back in.  We had such a great day!