i'm thankful for you...

So this week was thanksgiving, and in true Polak fashion, we celebrated it on the wrong day...

welll tony and i had to come home for some weddings so we decided to celebrate thanksgiving the sunday before so that we could see everyone and not have a depressing time at home alone on the real thanksgiving...

man it was a long weekend...it seems like whenever we come home, we have so much to do that my head is spinning..

first we got out of work early friday morning and headed to the airport..after a brief sit at the terminal we got on and tried to sleep, but the flight was only 1 hour long, so that was not too helpful...we got out of the airport to be greeted by my daddy bearing water for me and a diet pepsi for tony ( and a lighter-dammit i wish he would quit)

we got to my mom and dad's and slept for a whole 1 and a half hours...then we had to head out to a wedding...

we missed the ceremony-whoopsy.. but we got there in time for champagne and hors derves but we were too tired to enjoy it like it was meant to be enjoyed...

we did get to have dinner, some speaches and get to see them in the first dance together.... it was so cute, instead of a speach, her brother played a song for her..it was beautiful. we stayed long enough to say hi to a few old friends and some acquaintances ( i got some great shopping tips for the washington area.) one of carina's friends lives really near to us!

we stayed until our eyes wouldn't stay open anymore.. man, everytime i think my friends are as cute as they ever will be, they just get better! in high school caraina was so cute, in college she was a hot little chick, check her out now all grown up and married !!!

so we left the wedding and my dad had brought home the best pizza on the dearborn/detroit border... gracie see's.. i am not much into pizza, but being that there was not too much for the vegetarian palate... i was ecstatic to see that pizza... tony and i had some, hung out with my dad and waited until my mom got home from work.. gave her a quick kiss, chatted a bit and then we finally crashed out... after being awake for 36 hours, the new memory foam mattress topper on the futon welcomed us with open arms!!

it's such a weird phenomenon....when we are at my parents house, i alway get up early and tony always sleeps in... when we are at our apartment ( no matter what state so far) i ALWAYS sleep in... if there is one thing that tony has taught me thus far, is to relax.. i always needed to be doing something and one day while we were at his house, tony was like, let's just lay around and watch tv.. or just lay around.. and man i am getting to be a pro at it!!!anyway so i got up way too early, hung out with my dad ( who took a "5-day-off" day off--don't ask) while tony slept.. i had to get ready for more stuff to do! i had another wedding to go to and i wanted to take barbie out for her birthday since we wouldn't be home when she really had a birthday!!!

so when tony got up, we rushed around the house to get ready for another wedding.. which we only stayed for a bit.. we had way too much to do...

afterwards ( with a change of clothes in the car) we met barbie and a bunch of others at chicks! we ended up with a full house... sue and tim had been there for a few hours by the time we got there then a bunch of folks trickled through the door, mike, nick, scott, megan, my mom, furious j, chris, jeff baker, maria, eric... it was so fun we had drinks and sang all sorts of tunes from the juke box... we didn't make it too late of a night because sunday was our thanksgiving... well i guess we went home at like 1:30 ish...

so sunday we had dinner at my mom and dad's house.. i love when we have people over when tony and i are home, we get to see as many people as we can and we can and be relaxed and not rushing around to all sides of the state...

so we had tony's parents and a million others over for dinner. afterwards, we put away all the turkey and turkey like food so that we could get down to what thanksgiving means- MAKING PIEROGI

we had a lot of people in training this year, it was really fun... new to the walkuski ( and now bono :) ) trainging circiut we had barb, megan, and melissa...here are some shots of us, in true polish style drinking too much and making the best of adult play doh that you can eat!!

Monday i changed my name. so i am now officially Angela Walkuski Bono ( walkuski is the middle name, no hyphens) so not only do i now get an amazing husband, a wonderful new family, but i FINALLY get a middle name.. it's not quite what i wished for when i was small, but it will do.. i just couldn't give up all those years with that name. Plus the only way i can get any more polish is if i can say more than curse words and i eat keilbasa!

After i changed my name, tony, eric, maria and i made the meat pierogi ( in a bit of a hurry) and then tony and i met tara and nicole for dinner...i have such great friends,,, tara bought dinner! love her!!! and not just for that... :) and my friends kept telling me that " marriage agrees with me" that i looked cute, etc, etc... now i know why they were my best dolls: )

we went to tara's for a a little bit to check out her new basement!! it looks great by the way, stop over and see it if you have a minute!!

Tuesday we came back to virginia, although right now it is home sweet home, i know that home is where your family is, and i can't wait to be back there!