Circle Time.

Welcome back boys and girls!

Everyone take a seat on the circle carpet, and Amy will begin story time.

Today, I have a story of something I am very proud of.

No...seriously though...I am going to tell you all about something that I think I will forever be proud of.

If you all haven't realized by now, basically anything either one of us is invited to...it is basically assumed the other is coming.

My "Aunt" was getting married this March...naturally Christi was my date to the wedding. I am not always invited places with a "date" because...well...I'm very much single. But, it is pretty well known that Christi and are quite a fun pair when together...so that gets me a "date". (This is where #NotLesbians comes in to play)

Anyway...where was I...oh yes...my "Aunt" is getting married.

One day while at work I got this genius idea of HEY you guys can TOTALLY learn the Evolution of Dance video and do it at the wedding! (If you haven't seen this...go on YouTube and search for "Evolution of Dance'. I'll wait.....)

I brought it up to Christi (while we were having a few cocktails) and naturally we thought it would be way better if we came up with our own dance. Sounds easy...right?

We started by writing down all the songs we could think of that we would want to do. We had WAY too many songs on the list, but figured we would figure out what dances we could actually do.

We procrastinated...ALOT. We kept saying we were going to get started, and would end up with some beer or wine and just sitting there talking about it.

Once we hit about 2 weeks before the wedding we decided we really had to get on this.  I downloaded a program that was supposed to help me cut and paste songs together. It sounded easy.

We narrowed our list of songs down...after much bickering back and forth about dances and things.

It took me 2 nights to FINALLY get the song all cut and put together. It was pretty genius if you ask me.

We settled on starting the entire thing with "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus. All Christi really wanted to do was slide in on her knees.

We threw in 11 other songs.

Once we got the song together...we got to work learning the dances. It was about 2 weeks in my basement for a few hours after work. We told no one what we were doing. I'm not really sure what my parents thought we were doing there.  There was lots of music and yelling.

The night before the wedding we were really on crunch time. We were just finishing nailing everything down. We had to go out and get Christi knee pads...we realized that she couldn't do the Gangnam Style dance without her knees getting all bruised. I also had to make the tshirts we were going to wear and the ribbon dancer I wanted for Harlem Shake. They came out pretty awesome if I do say so myself. This is when the hashtag #NotLesbians came about.  A lot of people assume we are couple...and we figured that it was going to be really assumed when we became each other's date's to weddings. 

We also decided last minute that we were going to have my sister and cousin come in and join us on Proud Mary. Then, for Harlem Shake, we were going to include all of my cousins to make it like a real Harlem Shake.

Fast forward...during the cocktail hour. My friend was DJing the wedding...so we had to find him to give him the CD of the song. We found him, and he said he was going to have us be the first thing after the first dance and all that jazz. He told us that once he announced that salad was being served...we should go change. Then after a few minutes he was going to announce that the dance floor was open, and that was our queue. 

We got up when salad was served, and changed as quickly as we could.  While we were waiting outside the room, we convinced the bartender that we needed a shot. (They weren't allowing shots at this venue)

I walked over to the door a few feet away to scope out where I could run in...and before I knew it you could hear "...I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BAAAALLLL" and Christi was gone through the door.  I ran in just in time to get to the end and belt out a few words.

It took a song or 2 for people to realize what was happening. We got a pretty good reaction when it went in to "Gangnam Style". Christi had her knee pads now...so no knees were bruised.

The dance went well from there. I am happy that we did it!

It was a pretty epic evening. It was a super fun wedding...and I'd like to think we provided something that the bride and groom will never forget.

If you'd like to watch...here yah go.

Let The Good Times Roll

-Amy