The Life of a Dress.

In my last post, I mentioned that the dress I wore at Sean's wedding is my favorite dress. I love when I get a chance to wear it. So, I thought we'd follow the dress through the years!

2005: I originally bought the dress from Banana Republic for a semiformal in December. Here I am wearing it for the first time!

2006: I went to my sororities National Convention in Nashville with my friend Emily since she was President and I was VP of our chapter. We had to have a semiformal dress so I wore the one I already had. You can't see the whole dress in this picture, and I'm pretty sure that is a good thing. This was during my weight gain period and I was very close to not being able to wear the dress! Thankfully that was only a phase!

2008: When it was time to think about a dress for my rehearsal dinner, I couldn't think of a better dress to wear than my favorite. I know it was the perfect time to buy a new dress, but I looked and I couldn't find one that I liked more than this one.

2009: Here we are at my friend Amy's wedding. I think this was the first wedding where I wore this dress. I have worn it to a few more weddings. I know it is probably getting stale, but I love it so much! Note: I don't wear it to every wedding! It is just the one I wear most frequently.

2012: Here we are at my most recent wearing of the dress. Thankfully the weddings I seem to wear it to are for different groups of people, so hopefully no one is thinking I only own one dress.

So there we have the dress through the years. Hopefully the dress will continue its story. If I ever get to the point where I can not fit into the dress, it will become my goal to fit back into it. Hopefully, thought, that will not happen!

Basketball

JP and I have always enjoyed watching basketball.  We've also played fantasy NBA basketball. In the NBA, JP cheers for the Suns, and I cheer for the Mavs. Although I like NBA basketball, I love college basketball, especially March Madness. Go Duke!

Here we are after the Suns Mavs game in Phoenix. I was the only Mavs fan in the group!

So, we've always watched basketball, but over the past few months JP has started to play basketball.

It all started with the CPA league this past spring. JP played for PWC and discovered that despite his height, playing basketball is much different than watching. He asked me why others were so good. I told him probably because they played in high school- something he never did.



Once the CPA league ended, it seemed like other opportunities to play basketball started to present themselves.

On Monday nights, guys from our church meet to play basketball with some of the middle and high school guys that live in Woodlawn and at the Hospitality House. They have been doing it for a while but JP was unable to go when he was taking classes on Monday nights and then work interfered. But in May, he no longer had commitments on Monday night so he was able to start playing. He really enjoys getting to play basketball but also getting to know these guys. One thing that made us laugh- one of the high school guys told JP, "You ball above the knee" pointing out that JP's basketball shorts fall above the knee. Now not by much but they don't go over the knee.

In August one of the guys from church started recruiting guys to play basketball on Tuesday mornings at 6am. JP has consistently participated in this. Every Tuesday there are 10 guys that play. I was kinda surprised that many guys are willing to wake up so early. That start play at 6am but get there at 5:45am to pick teams! This event was such a success, they started doing it on Friday mornings too!

To help improve his skills, JP frequently goes up to the church near our house which has a basketball goal in the parking lot. I sometimes will go with him but I really have no basketball skill. I would much rather watch the sport than play.