My 25 Things

In two days I will be turning a quarter century old!!! The big 2-5!!! I feel like this is a big birthday for some reason (not as big as 21 of course ;) ) but more like "Kala, you need to start acting like an adult finally" big. Riiiiight.

I LOVE birthdays. Anybody's birthday really. I'm that girl who claps and sings along at Applebee's for people I don't know, the girl that buys a shot for a 21st birthday guy/girl I've never met, and the kind of girl that likes to stretch birthday celebrations out for a full week... right Mom? And I especially love that I have a summer birthday. Back in the day in G-town all the best birthday parties were the summer birthday parties. Flashback to some of my favorites...

1998 and the best party of the summer was for the birthday blondes turning 13 woop-woop! Katie's birthday in June, me in July, and Kinsy's in August. Man, what that a party. We PACKED the Gardner pool with pretty much everybody from our grade. It was awesome!

2001 and the last to turn 16 and get that driver's license! For my Sweet 16 my parents let me invite a group of friends on a canoe trip in Missouri! Lots of fun, sight-seeing, and tanning :) Perfect birthday!

2006 and I finally was the last in our group to turn 21. Sometimes it stinks to be the youngin'. This birthday literally did stretch out for a week because I celebrated on the actual day down in Emporia but had the big bash that weekend at my parents' house. I have pretty awesome parents who let me host a keg party/pool party/overnight campout for all my friends... it was the highlight of my summer.

2008 and I turned 23 just two days before our wedding. My last birthday I would ever spend as Kala McMillan :) This birthday kinda got overshadowed by the whole wedding business going on... but that was a-okay with me!

So to document my quarter-century year I made a mini-album of 25 things I want to do during my 25th year of birth. I made it like a month ago and have been dying to start but it doesn't count until July 10th.

On the first page are all the things I'm going to try and accomplish from 7.10.2010 - 7.10.2011. Each goal has it's own page where I will stick in pictures, memorabilia, journaling, etc. Can't wait to get busy!!!

And a birthday shout out to my friends who also celebrated their birthdays this week...
Parker, Dave, Kenny, and Fritzy!!! See... all the cool kids have July birthdays ;)

4th of July Weekend

Harlee loves when her Daddy takes a day off for fun... extra cuddle time :)

Bentley and Harlee love to maul Trent when he gets home.

To start the holiday a little early we headed to the newest water park, Schlitterbahn last Thursday with Ashley and Jerad.

Schlitterbahn was awesome! It was still nowhere near complete but had some awesome slides and a crazy cool tidal wave river (like a lazy river but with huge waves!). It was my favorite part except for the one time that Trent positioned us wayyy too close to the wave machine and it hit our double raft like a semi truck and I literally rode the wall instead of the wave. Hello headache.
On Friday, me, Trent, and my mom headed down to meet up with my dad, brother, and his girlfriend at our neighbor's cabin on Lake of the Ozarks for a nice lake weekend. Out of all the space in the car this is where Bentley chooses to ride. Ridiculous dog.

Saturday morning boat ride with my fur babies!

Bentley literally swims in the wind... it's hilarious. Unfortunately, on our first boat ride of the weekend our neighbor's boat had something go wrong with the motor so we had to get towed back to the boat slip. Bye bye wakeboarding, tubing, and skiing... maybe next time :(

But a boat mishap didn't ruin our weekend cause my brother had 2 nights of racing we got to go see! Brent's a mini-sprint car racer on the weekends and him and my dad love it. They got started in it a couple years back while Brent was in college and he keeps improving every season. It's a blast to watch those little things go flying past y0u!
Putting on the gear to go racin'! Brent's only allowed me to drive his car one time. He had his car at my parent's house and since they live in the country we can drive in our backyard. I hopped in, floored it and started spinning doughnut after doughnut. My dad and Brent were all freakin' out thinking I was gonna put myself in the pond. So even now Brent won't let me near his car anymore cause he doesn't trust what I might do ;)#55 Brent McMillan!

He's out there somewhere!

Trent took this as I was hollering and getting rowdy. I tend to be an overly enthusiastic fan at most sporting events ;) I'm going to try and get better before I have kids and become that kind of mom in the stands haha.

Sunday night races... a whole wopping one picture. I stink. After all the races were over we didn't get back to the lakehouse until 2 a.m. but still wanted to do fireworks. It was the fourth afterall. So the whole family stayed up till 4 a.m. celebrating how great it is to be an American! Needless to say all we did on Monday was sleep sleep sleep!

Twilight+Diehard= TWIHARDS!

If you are not a Twilight fan then you'll want to stop reading this post right now. And it's also like the longest blog post in history. Sorry.
Anywhoo... another radio win... this time for advanced screening Twilight tickets! Trent's boss actually won the tickets but couldn't go. Lucky us got to see Eclipse on Monday night!
At the theaters I answered some Twilight trivia and won a pen!

But 2 months back I made plans with my BFF Jobeth to camp out and go to the midnight showing. Even though I'd seen the movie already that didn't mean I was missing out on the Twihard mania with Jo! We arrived at 3:30 and were like the 20th people back. It was hot and we were unprepared (thinking we'd be inside) so Trent had to bring us lawn chairs, an umbrella, water bottles, and shorts.

I also brought our portable DVD player to watch Twilight and New Moon in line :)

Jo stocked us up on magazines, pop, and candy!

1 hour down... it's 4:30

2 hours down... it's now 5:30

3rd hour down picture got deleted I think? But now we've survived 4 hours and it's 7:30

Afton's arrival!

5 hours later and the sun is finally set. 8:30

In the fifth hour is when a dad next to us gave his spot to his birthday daughter and her 10 screaming/annoying/singing 13 year olds. They seriously sang "If you're happy and you know it" at the top of their lungs. This is why teachers need the summers off... annoying children!

Soooo then all the news crews that had been there all day brought lifesize cut-outs of Edward and Jacob. We may or may not have been on Fox 4 news. I may or may not of screamed like the 13 year olds while bobbing Jacob up and down in the air. I'd like to think that what happens at AMC 30 stays at AMC 30.

Ashley arrived and we completed our wolfpack for the evening. Yes me and Jobeth are wearing Twilight T-shirts. However, before you roll your eyes and say "Really? How old are we Kala?" they are both Jobeth's and were gifts that she received. We HAD to wear them!
Hour 6... it's 9:30!

Total madness! And we're in the front!!! The line seriously wrapped all the way down the front of the building, around the side, and around the back almost to the dumpsters. I know this because the hubby came back up and did a drive-by to check out all us crazies.

Protestors even came out, what?! These kids were anti-Twilight, pro-Harry Potter. I say why can't you be both? I am!

Hour 7... 10:30... still outside. Seriously? We have the biggest/best theater and out of the 17 theaters that were doing midnight showings 0urs was the last to be let in. Of freakin' course.

YES!!!! We made it inside to the comforts of our comfy leather chairs :)

8th hour, 11:30... the movie finally came on around 12:15 and was just as good the second time around. I'm willing to go see it a third time for anyone who hasn't gone yet... and Jo's in too :) Now I know most people think Jo and I are certifiably insane for doing this and camping out all day. But we're all about having "life-experiences" ;) and we can now take this one off our bucket list. And hey, we're both teachers, what else do we have to do on summer break?

Bikini Baby

On Sunday, I went with Trenton, Ashley, and Jeryn swimming at my friend Monica's house. This was the first time that Trent and I got to swim with our favorite niece. How cute is she?!?

Uncle Trenton did so good with her :)

She has an awesome raft with a canopy and everything!

Jeryn and her momma
Aunt Angie got Jeryn her first bikini... just in time for the 4th of July. She is the cutest thing in it and she LOVES the water!

Michael Buble

So like 2 months ago Ashley bought Jerad tickets to Michael Buble for his first Father's Day... which meant we got to be the lucky babysitters! I had been looking forward to this for weeks... and then I got a phone call on Friday. A good phone call! My friend Tyler called me and said his girlfriend Dani got four free tickets from her boss for Michael Buble. And asked if we wanted to go with them! But remember that whole babysitting part? Yeah. So luckily, Jerad's brother ended up keeping Jeryn overnight and we all went to Buble. Happy ending for all but I still need a makeup babysitting gig soon!

The opening act was Naturally 7. Youtube them now cause they are crazy good! They don't even use instruments... everything is done with their voice. It was ridiculous. Seriously... youtube them now before you forget ;)

Our awesome friends Tyler and Dani.

Please excuse the tomato face I'm rocking. Some moron went to the pool from 10-5 with no sunscreen.

Tyler and Dani
Michael Buble was awesome!!!! And he's suprisingly funny too. I wasn't expecting that at all based on his music and stuff. But he put on a heckuva show, cracked jokes, and cussed up a storm... didn't expect that one! After the concert we tried to hit up P&L but that place was insanely packed so we headed to The Other Place for food, drinks, and catch up time with our wonderful friends... just wish they didn't live in Wichita!!! Thanks again for an awesome night out guys!!!!!

Harrah's and Harley's

Trent and his boss Steve are radio contest junkies. Like... stage 5... they need an intervention type obsession. They have the radios on speed dial on their office phones! I can't even have a radio at my job!!!! Granted... I teach kids... but whatever ;)

So Trent's fave station, 98.9 The Rock, has this contest a couple times a year where you call in to win a Harley key. Then they have a concert and the key winners come up on stage and try their key to see if it's the winning Harley key. AND if you're a Rockaholic (which of course Trent is) you get the keys to a car thrown in too. This year the prizes were some type of Harley motorcycle and a black-on-black Camaro SS.

Trent's boss also won a key so the 3 of us headed to Harrah's last Thursday to try and win it all. It was also my first time at the casinos. How sad is that?!? So after registration we had time to kill before the concert started. I came to the casinos with $20 and only gambled away $10 of it! High roller right here folks!

After spending $10 on the quarter and penny slots I won it all back with some Triple 7's (like I know what the heck that is) and won $10.70. You'd think with the whoop that I let you that I'd just won a million dollars. As if I hadn't embarrassed Trent enough with my whoops, hollers, and way too forceful pulls on the levers, I HAD to get a picture with my winning machine! So I guess after you subtract the $10 I'd already spent... I walked away $0.70 richer. I'll try not to spend it all in one place!

There were 300 people there that had won keys and Trent was #207. Steve was like 243 or something. But unfortunatley we didn't go home with a new Harley and a Camaro that night. Stupid #57 was the big winner. Trent didn't even get to go on stage :( He was so funny cause he said "I didn't even really want to win since I already have a Harley, I just wanted to go on stage and shake Johnny's hand." Maybe next year Trent can win another key to meet his favorite DJ AND be the big winner!

Mr. & Mrs. Farris

This weekend we headed back to GB for another wedding :) This time it was Lacey Moore's wedding... she's a longtime friend of Trent's and they did track together from 4th grade-senior year! As with all GB weddings we had a great time!!!

Trent and Caitlin


My fave fellow blogger- Miss Callie

Best new game- getting Iced! Poor Tony and Callie fell victims!

Lots of dancing!

Tony and Jesse both got Iced haha

Gina and her bouquet... how many is it now Gina???

Funniest garter toss ever... what did Hunter find under Lacey's dress? Another Smirnoff! Yes his wife of a few hours just Iced him. Awesome.

Gina, Christy, Callie, and me

Gina and BigO

The boys holding the table down

All the crazy GB gals!!!

Blake doesn't trust me and my creeper cam for some reason ;)

So I pretended to be the creeper for once for him.

Father's Day... spent all day Sunday in GB to celebrate Father's Day which meant nap time for Bentley and his daddy :)