Memorial Day Weekend- quite an action-packed time. But the weekend before, Martha and Chris got married- Martha, my roommate and forever-best-friend-Josh's little sister, two years younger than us. Who married a Keenan guy. Who's Italian. So he must be a pretty good guy :) He's from NJ, and they've been out in New York basically since they graduated. Josh and I went to visit a few years ago when it was really cold, and we're going again in March with his fianceeeeeee Andrea. I'm stoked. But anyway, Martha and Chris (who often gets called Roman, his last name) got married. I went. Tiffany didn't because she was in Chicago at another friend's wedding, which was actually in Brown County, Indiana, but she got a ride from Chicago down there. So we went to separate friend weddings the same weekend. Funny.
Here's the groomsmen, including my roommate.
The Basilica looking awesome, along with Uncle/Father Neil looking awesome while saying the wedding mass. I got there JUST in time for the wedding to start because there was construction in the parking lot and I had to go park somewhere else and hurry over!
A picture from the steps of the Dome- its a good wedding tradition to take a group photo on the steps. Everyone was assembling.
This is a great photo because I got a chance to get a picture with my professor from college- she taught me Abnormal Psych and...I think another class but I forget.
She was one of my favorite professors (I think a lot of people can say that), and she was new to ND when I had her. We ended up becoming friends, I asked her for a lot of advice here and there (especially because she was a clinical psychologist!) and the odd coincidence is her husband ended up being Josh (my roommate)'s mom's boss at ND. Then they both moved to Atlanta, so we don't see them much anymore. But she was invited to the wedding and they both came! Which is nice, because they don't have any family in town or anything.
On to actual Memorial Day weekend- my high school, Trinity, always has a varsity vs. alumni basketball game on Friday night and soccer game on Saturday morning- so we went to the basketball game to hang out, watch my cousin coach, and his brother play. We lazily sat in the bleachers. There were a lotta people I knew there from days gone by and it was kinda overwhelming seeing that many old faces...
Saturday morning soccer game. Sweet. As I'd been getting older and less and less people my age were showing up for the game, the recent graduates were hogging the play time on the alumni team every year. So I tried to weasel my way into playing keeper, since I have some experience doing that now. It worked. I played for a quarter of the game (thats me in the back- and the best part is, Nathan is in the shot too!)
And then I basically had the save of the game. The varsity's star player had a wide open breakaway. He thought he was faster that me. He ran around the side of my and I dove full-out and landed between him and the ball right as he was ready to shoot. My sister Jenny got a whole quick series of photos during the save. I made myself proud.
I'm about to belt the ball. It was a little hard to really kick it far cause the grass is always long on this field...
After the game- my dad is always the "lets get a group photo" kind of person- and sometimes he's right :) This was a good picture and its fun that now Nathan and I can play on the same team once a year. My cheeks always turn crimson when I'm hot. And its always hot on Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend.
That's all I got. The rest of the weekend we did what we always do- hung around with family, ate hamburgers off the grill, played basketball and cornhole, drank some cold beverages, went swimming (since we were in SB this year instead of Indianapolis as used to be the tradition...that I hope continues again...) Oops I just realized we definitely DIDN'T go swimming, because the pool was empty (or going to be) because of the next post coming up...
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