THE WEDDING

Well, my brother is now a married man...
The wedding was a great time! For more pics of the wedding click here... The Brown-Thomas wedding

I hope you enjoy them! (I stole some of them from my cousin, Erica, and my friend, Julie)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Lamonaca's reunite

Today is Wednesday and there was a mini cousins reunion.... we have yet for the five musketeers to be together, but we had a semi big dinner at the Walter's tonight. So, I have gotten to see Erica, Justin, Tommy, Anna, Danny, and Anthony. Not to mention my aunts and uncles. Anyway, Thursday (thanksgiving), I will get to see Nicki and Mike. Then Friday we will pretty much all be together again. Saturday for sure everyone will be together at the wedding! Plus (shhh dont tell), the five of us (Anna, Andrea, Justin, Tommy and I) are going to perform a little dance at the wedding!! haha. Hillarious.

I feel whole again when I am around my cousins.

Matthew says I need to post something so I am posting something.

SOMETHING

You know what's interesting about assassination.... did you ever stop to think about the people we kill? It's always those who tell us to live together harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Malcom X, John Lennon. They all said live together in harmony... BAM! Right in the head. Apparently we aren't ready for that yet.
- George Carlin

Monaca needs...

I stole this from Julie Clawson's blog (ps- to see really cute pics of Emma, check out Mike's blog):

So there is this blogger game I saw recently. You google your name followed by "needs" and post what comes up. I changed Monaca to Monica since nothing came up as Monaca... but its surprising (and hilarious) what the internet thinks I need!

1- monaca needs a job
2- monaca needs another dress washed
3- monaca needs a communicative parent who is skilled at listening and probing for feelings
4- monaca needs a permanent family who will be involved in her therapy
5- monaca needs to go to work for a rest
6- monaca needs special mention
7- monaca needs the gift of love to help steer her in the right direction
8- monaca needs to move in a new direction
9- monaca needs distraction
10- monaca needs a time out

wow -- those are weird...

I'm Pathetic!

Today I came to the sad realization that I am really not funny.

I think I have always known this, but secretly never wanted to believe it. I find a lot of things funny... so why shouldn't I be funny when I retell the stories.

For starters, I am a horrible story teller. Enough said. More than that, I have a unique sense of humor so the things that I find funny are usually pretty dumb to begin with and then I ruin them even more with my horrible story telling ability.

I'm getting better the longer I hang around Matthew... I've learned to say things like (when getting hit on the arm) "hey, thats my good arm, I need that for arming!" but then I quickly get in trouble when people hit my fingers... Or I've learned the great way to end a story "and then I found five dollars." -- twenty dollars if your story really needs a boost. I find myself often "finding" twenty dollars. If only it were true--I could have paid for my ticket to Spain by now.

So in conclusion, I am working on learning when to shut up (which is probably almost all the time) and I will just let my roommates be the funny ones.

Speaking of funny- I am starting a house quote board... and here is what is on it so far.

Josh tells a story and laughs...
Monaca: I don't get it
Josh: I didn't get it either.... but I laughed!

Gerry: What are you doing?
Josh: Tempting your girlfriend

Monaca: I ran into Dulce at the mall yesterday!
Gerry: Did anyone get hurt?

There are a couple more, but out of context they are x-rated and you are too young to read them.

Man, if you made it this far in my post -- you are a true friend! Because this is the most ridiculous post yet...

My life is sad...

Ariel

That's my boyfriend! :)

ODE TO CELESTE

Friday was my roommate's twenty-first birthday. Yup... the big 2-1. That means she can now legally consume alcohol and illegally supply minors with alcohol. It also means she can legally gamble. So now her and Ari have all these big plans to leave me at home and go to a casino and sit at the nickle machines while they bring her free drinks. That's the dream.

But that's not what is important, is it? What is important is that Celeste is one of my favorite people. I met her sometime in high school, but we didn't become friends until the summer going into my senior year when we went on a church retreat. We were put in the same street evangelizing group and instantly became friends. That whole retreat my new friends, Celeste and Kendra, and I had so much fun... getting on stage in front of three hundred people and performing a cheer that goes like this "form banana, form, form banana. peel banana, peel, peel banana. go! banana, go! go! banana" yeah... I knew I would be friends with these girls for a long time. Celeste and I have had one of those friendships where even though we were away from each other for a long time and didn't talk when I first went away to school--when I came home we just picked up where we left off. And our friendship has stayed strong. I find myself waiting for the times when it will be just the two of us in the house and we can have one of our long conversations about the most random things--but always about the important things in life. I can honestly say she is one of my favorite people. So, here is my ode to Celeste! Happy 21st Birthday, Friend!!

Ode to Celeste
Celeste, my friend
I will love you till the end
You are so great
You are one I will never hate
The End

And now, here are some pics from her birthday party!

Celeste and me hugging

Us dancing!

HAPPY BIRHDAY, CELESTE!
I LOVE YOU!

Cassandra Grace

Mom, Beth, Cassandra, Me, Anna, and Ang

I finally met my niece for the first time in the begining of October. So far, all I have gotten to see are pictures. Sad really. But I just got pictures back from when Beth, my sister-in-law and Cassandra, my niece, were in town. So I will share them with you...

Cassandra Grace Thomas (7months)

Cassandra and me at the Pumpkin Patch

Yeah, I gave her a beer bottle to play with... teaching her young....

And finally, is this not the cutest halloween costume you have ever seen?

She is definitely her father's child... although she has her mommy's eyes. If you want to see more pics of her throughout her eight months of life you can see how she's grown at http://thethomasfamily.photosite.com/CassandraGrowing