Everyone loves a birthday girl!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful Mom! I love you so very much!

Happy New Year! (11 days late...)

I have never really been one for New Year's Resolutions. Sure I think about how I might want to change a few things here and there, but actual, steadfast resolutions? Nah. I guess a few things I would like to see in the new year though would be a more "fit" me and possibly a new job. I gotta work on my arms, a.k.a my guns, before my sister's wedding in November. So I figure I got enough time....I hope... :) damned sleeveless bridesmaid dress.

I hope everyone had an awesome New year's, I know I did.

Myself and one of my best friends, Tess

Myself and my handsome man

All the girls, love them!

Told you I had a good time.

You'll shoot your eye out!

You know what is possibly my favorite part of Christmas each year? The 24 hour long marathon of "the Christmas Story" on TBS. I have been known to watch it at least 4 times in one day. I love it so. I hope I never get sick of it. What a great tradition, TBS!



Deck the halls wif baws of howrry, Fa ra ra ra ra, ra-ra ra ra!

Oh, Anthropologie, how I love thee!

Can someone please please please be my sugar momma/daddy and take me shopping at Anthropologie?!

Love, I call it love:

sweet love!

To be continued...

Just got back form california last night (at midnight!) and was at work by 7:45 this morning. Big update on my adventures will be broken up in a couple of posts to come.

To keep you entertained, a fun photo form the weekend at an Internatioal food/beer festival.
 Cheers!

Hell to the yeah!

FSU- 59 Samford - 6

Thank you boys! See ya next week in Oklahoma!

Come on, Who do ya love?

Bring it on!

The last month (august) was a very very good month to me. I was officially all moved into my new apartment with my best friend, got all my loose ends tied up, really got some good things done at work, and met some new people in my life that are making things that much better. I'm in a very good place right now and I don't ever want to leave! September is going to be good too, I can feel it. Mostly because football is back and I'm going to California in 24 hours from now.

Every year I make a trip out to California to visit one of my best friends from college, Gena. She is one of those people that if we didn't speak for a month for some random reason, or life got crazy, we would still pick up right where we left off. She has often played my sounding board and is has always been my motivator to be more organized. I wish she didn't live so far away form me, but thanks to technology we speak almost every single day (woohoo G-chat!). I'm so excited to go out there I can hardly contain myself! I started flying out there in 2005 and have never missed a year since (twice in one year fro a Vegas trip and another for her wedding).

Time for flashback photos!

bachelorette party

first time in LA

Very nice

In true girly fashion, myself and two of my girls watched the Emmy's on TV last night and loved and hated the winners/losers and what they were wearing. I am such a evening gown junkie. Not that I ever wear them, lol -  I just love admiring them. Some of my favorite things from the awards last night:

greatest celeb couple

Tallahassee native represent!

one of the most beautiful women in the world

and I DIE for this dress, even though it would look horrible on me!

Wa-kulla? Wa-koola? Wa- what?

This weekend myself and some friends decided to spend a relaxing day in Wakulla Springs, just south of Tallahassee. I love going out there and just enjoying my surroundings and the good people I love to be around. I felt like I was in fifth grade all over again taking the boat tour rides around the river and taking pictures of the gators, birds, and snakes. A good time was had by all.......except when the group would incessantly make fun our friend Blake and her oversized hat. Never mind the fact that I own the very same hat....just saying....


some fun pictures from the day :)

Congratulations!!!

My big sister, Brittany, got engaged last night! I'm so happy for her, I cannot express it in words! It's been a long time coming..... ;)

Who wants to be my best friend?!

Or someone that is just insanely nice and would by me some jewelry from the Stella & Dot website?

Please?! Pretty Please?!

$59

$98 73

$178 98

$98 73

$178 98

This B*$!# right here!

She is 40 YEARS OLD. What?! I only look this good with photoshop and a coverup,lol.

How I love you Charisma Carpenter....but hate your 40 yr old body. GRRRRRRRRR

You're my boy!

I can't wait to see this man make a fool of opponents special teams and offenses :)

You are my sunshine

I've been feeling rather nostalgic lately. I don't really know why or when it started, but it's been taking over slowly but surely for a while. The last few days I've been thinking more and more about the relationship I have with my father.
It's no secret that I have ALWAYS been a Daddy's girl since day one. My father has two daughters, my older sister and I. I was much more of a tom boy than my sister growing up and I always loved doing things with my dad that traditionally he would do with a little boy. Sure I loved dressing up and playing house, but I LOVED going to the woods with my Dad, playing with the BB-gun my mom didn't know he taught me how to shoot, fishing whenever possible, and watching football with him every weekend. I think some of my favorite memories of us together is driving around aimlessly with him when I was a little girl in his Bronco on the weekends.
It would always start out with him saying we were going to go visit our Uncle Bob (yes, I have a great uncle Bob) and inevitably we'd end up driving around back roads and woods for HOURS. Sometimes we'd end up at a lake, or the coast and he's let me run around like a wild child while he shot the breeze with whatever old timer was around. He'd always tell me these stories of when he was younger about places he'd been, things you need to know about the area if you want to fish here or there, or all the crazy characters he had met over the years. And let me tell you, my Dad has a MILLION stories to tell. I always loved that part of having an older father. My Dad was retired by the time I could drive while most other kid's parents were freaking out about turning 40/45/50 at most. I now often find myself closing my eyes and thinking about those careless days when I'm trying to relax. I will always be a Daddy's girl. He was, and continues to be, my partner in crime in my family and it breaks my heart to see him slowing down so much in the last couple of years. I will always get nostalgic whenever I hear the song "You are my sunshine". He used to sing it to me on those days in the truck or when I was scared. I will always treasure those days. I wonder if he ever knew how much it meant to me then...

You Are My Sunshine

My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away

Wishful thinking...

If you know me, then you know my great love for fabulous shoes and purses. I love them, but their price tags do not always love me or my measly budget. :(
correction
BIG :(

I decide to torture myself and look at some of my favorite websites and look at the stuff I most definitely CANNOT afford, and probably will never afford. A girl can dream, right?

Marc by Marc Jacobs, Saddlery Sophie bag (retails on piperlime for $478.00)

Linea Pelle, Dylan Messenger (retails on piperlime for $385.00)

Dolce Vita, Noah (retails on piperlime for $180.00)

Juicy Couture, Anita (retails on piperlime for $250.00)

Cynthia Vincent, Berkeley (retails on piperlime for $395.00)

Elizabeth & James, Linda (retails on Piperlime for $340.00 $159.00)

Le sigh, I will continue to dream.....

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the best big sister I could ask for!
I love you!