August is busy so far!!

It's been a pretty eventful week! First, I went and got a huge haircut on Wednesday. I chopped off about 12 inches and donated it to Locks of Love. I don't have any pictures of it yet, but I'll take some soon - I promise! My hair is really gross right now from going to the gym earlier, so I definitely don't want to take a picture of it now. And it's so short right now that I can't even put it in a ponytail... It's an inch or two above my shoulders. So it's a little shorter than I hoped it'd be, but oh well! I'm sure it'll grow out in no time. 

On Thursday evening I finally got my car back from having it repaired after the accident! They had to replace a lot more than I thought they would, but it looks brand new now. They even managed to vacuum up all of the Guinness fur in my backseat! I don't know how they managed that.... It's kind of a miracle. Kevin was joking that maybe he should go get in an accident so they'll get rid of all of the Guinness fur in his car too! 

Friday night we went to a BBQ at Kevin's friends' house. They live really close to us - only about a 15 minute walk. And they've been married for about a year - their wedding was the first one we went to at the Ballroom at the Ben. It was a super fun and relaxing evening, and the weather was perfect for hanging out in their backyard on their deck. And they had all of these large torches around their deck that burn an oil that repels bugs (I'm guessing some sort of citronella oil?), so we weren't even bothered by any bugs! It was a really great evening. 

Saturday morning Kevin went with me to Verizon to get a new phone! I was due for an upgrade, and my phone had been misbehaving a lot (it was constantly dying on me... even with a charged battery), so I went and got the LG G3. I really like it so far! It's slightly bigger than my Samsung Galaxy S3 was, but not by much at all. I'm still figuring out some of the tricks to the new phone (I've never had an LG phone before!), but so far I really like it. And I got a pretty purple case for it too. 

Saturday evening we met up with McGee's family in town to celebrate his sister's birthday, and we went to one of Jose Garces' restaurants. He's one of the Iron Chefs, and McGee took me to one of his restaurants (Garces Trading Company) on my birthday (if you remember the steak frites dinner?). This restaurant was called Rosa Blanca, and it serves Cuban comfort food. It was AMAZING. I highly recommend it. 

After the super awesome dinner, we all walked over to the theater to see The Book of Mormon. Kevin's sister (Maureen or "Mo") had wanted to see the show for her birthday, so we all went to see it. I had NO idea what it was about, but I'd heard it was a really funny show. Kevin had told me that it was written by the guys that write South Park, so then I knew that it would be REALLY funny (and probably super inappropriate!). It was so beyond funny (and inappropriate) - I loved it. We weren't allowed to take pictures during the show (understandably...), so I took a few pictures before the show started. 

Here's Kevin and his sisters (Mook and Mo)

Here's the ceiling! It was a really beautiful theater. 

Here's the stage - our seats were pretty darn great! 

It was soooo hilarious! 

 And all of those pictures were taken on my new phone! Yay! This week is going to be crazy with work - I'm still working on a huge project. I think we're going to try to make a trip over to the Hiway Theater (the cool old theater that we like to go to) one night though because they have a few awesome movies playing there this week. Oh, and last week we saw Guardians of the Galaxy!!  It was SO awesome!! I highly recommend it.

I hope you're all doing great! I'll try to do an update this week - AND take a picture of my short hair, like I promised.