Marissa Explains It All: It's the Freakin' Weekend!!!!

Woo! It's Friday!

I don't have any more tests!

I don't have to spend the night in the library!

YAY!

But I do have 4 glorious days off because it's FALL BREAK! Oh yeah!! Let the party begin!!

Jk.

I still have to study, homework, laundry and sleep to catch up on. And blogging to do! I'm sorry to all my devoted readers that I've been sort of MIA as of recently but I can explain….

But let me start off this blog about how AMAZING my trip back to California and my hometown was!

I went home for my best friend from high school's wedding and I am so glad that I did. She was an absolutely stunning bride and he was a very dapper groom. I remember the very first day they started dating and it was kind of surreal to be watching them tie the knot. (Literally, they tied a knot together, to symbolize their love, just too cute!)

It was on her family's dairy and in her barn and looked like a wedding straight out of pinterest. Just so adorable and cute with fall colors and flowers. Very simple but in a good way and very much like the bride's personality. A good fit all around. The ceremony was very good and really showed their love, and I even teared up after the groom asked for a tissue from the minister before he could continue with his vows. My sister was like "Oh my gawd, stop, you're not seriously crying are you?" and I had to fake like I got some hay or dust in my eye but yeah, I was very emotional watching my best friend from 8th grade to 12th stood up there in a beautiful white dress and vail saying her I do's to the guy who I've also known since my days as a little timid freshman in high school.

To say it hit close to home was an understatement.

Don't get me wrong, I often (Ok, I say this a lot) joke how I'm not ready at all to be in a serious relationship let alone mature enough to even be close to getting married (definitely not while I'm out in Salukiville either) and I mean it. I'm so not ready. But watching my dearest friends and hearing about others getting married, engaged, having families, well it kinda makes a girl go crazy and now all I want to do is go window shopping at the bridal shops!

But that's a long long longggg ways away and so for now I'll just make a perfect wedding in my own little fantasy land called Pinterest. Who needs a groom?

My sister and I had a really good time at the wedding, catching up with some old high school friends and family friends we hadn't seen in awhile. The rest of my stay at home was very brief, as I had to fly back the next day. But it was so much fun to just be with my family and a few dear friends back in my beautiful home state with my mountains and California sunshine. My favorite part of the whole weekend was getting to hang with my siblings.

We're weird. And that's how we like it. We never claimed normalcy and we never will. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

We laugh all the time, we fight, we wrestle, we play pranks and we relentlessly tease each other. How old are we, you ask? A bunch of 10/12year olds? Oh no, almost all of us are out of the house in fact. But when we're all together in that house we act like 3rd graders running around, playing games and chasing the dog and the cat and my mom just sits in her spot at the table sipping her coffee and occasionally looking up and going, 'Hey! Don't break that!' but really she's very happy that all her babies are in one place, home.

Some things I've missed in the 2 months that I've been gone.

My little brother used to be the littlest and his big sisters never let him forget it. But now he's growing like a weed and has shot up to be not only the tallest of his friends but he's now taller than me and my sister! What??!?! That's not ok! He's my BABY brother, not BIG brother!

But alas, I am now only taller than my mom. Dang it. And once again my nickname of Shorty fits all too well.

Another thing- my little sister, who is also taller than me, is still at home as she's attending the local community college, is no longer the younger brat of a sister that she used to be. she and I used to fight and fight and argue and throw dirty glances at each other all day. But now I sneak into her room late at night to talk with her about silly little girly things and we watch countless episodes of Friends and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air together giggling and making Chandler and Joey jokes all the time. When did that happen?? How did we go from love-mostly-hate relationship to stereotypical sisters after I leave? Not complaining but it's odd that the farther I go away, the closer we get.

My brother has also become obsessed with golf. he goes out to the driving range almost every weekend and he absolutely loves it. You can thank me for that one, bro. I took a golf class last spring to just have some fun and I brought it back home over the summer one day when I was super bored and dragged him out to the course with me. And bam! He fell in love with the game of golf and even has a fancy new set of golf clubs to prove it.

But now I'm back in Carbondale and I have lots of laundry to do but I will tell you about my week and ongoing weekend in due time! For now here's some photos from home and the wedding!

Me and my not-so-little, little brother. He can definitely beat me in basketball now…and probably beat me up too. Guess all those years of picking on him are going to catch up with me...