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Posts Tagged: Arkansas

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Coincidences

What does the
Chelsea Clinton & Marc Mezvinsk wedding,
Bill & Hillary Clinton wedding,
and the Todd & Sarah Gill wedding
all have in common?

Amongst other things, really unique timing.

Chelsea Clinton was married yesterday and my wedding anniversary is next week on August 11th – the very same day that former president Bill Clinton will be in Fayetteville, Arkansas stopping by the very same house where Todd and I were married three years ago to the day. Of course Bill and Hillary were married there too, which is what brings the coincidences full circle.

Check out this article on politicsdaily.com about it all:
Bill Clinton’s Marital Tips to Newlyweds

The letter Bill Clinton wrote to us…

Bill Clinton - Wedding Letter

Me next to the replica of Hillary Clinton’s wedding dress.
Chelsea’s looked a tad bit different.

Cheers, Bill!

Holiday Weekend

The end of a long weekend is here.
I had the house, and the day, to myself.
As nice as it was,
bordom did sneak up on me.

After a couple hours in the pool,
I felt like getting a little crafty.
So I made my backyard
a little bit of pretty.

I gathered
construction paper, string
and my puppy too.

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As dusk settled in
so did my hunger.
Made my mom’s mac & cheese
with fried okra
and dinner cupcakes
(corn bread, mashed potatoes, & bacon sprinkles).
This was a last minute idea
that is already a new favorite.

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The lovely day came to a close
with a rainbow!

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The rest of my holiday weekend in photos:

Fireworks on Dickson.

3rd of July

3rd of July

3rd of July

Vintage shopping.

First Week of July

First Week of July

First Week of July

First Week of July

More swimming.

First Week of July

Fair food.

First Week of July

Sparkers.

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Girl time.

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Real cupcakes too.

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And turning this floor length
vintage dress into a mini.

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Hope everyone had the best
4th of July weekend ever.

CCH

What do you get
when you give four girls
Champagne, Cupcakes, and new Hair?
A ton of self indulgent pictures
and a whole lot of sass.

But what else is new?

Salon Day

Salon Day

Salon Day

Special thanks to Taylor
for letting us get a little cray-zay
in her corner of the salon.

I may have shattered a champagne glass.

Salon Day

And invited my dog.

Salon Day

But that’s just what happens
when you put that mix together
on a random Thursday afternoon.

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We had so much fun that we
just had to keep the afternoon alive.
Oh, and show off our hair.

Onwards to a Kingfish for patio beers
and take out hot dogs from Hammontree’s!

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We (Sadie included)
met former Razorback football coach,
Ken Hatfield.

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Salon Day

I gotta say,
I like these ladies.
Can’t wait to do it all again
in 6-8 weeks.

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But I’m not sure about you, Miss Sadie.
You might need to cut back.

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Sauced

Lord.
Have.
Mercy.
On my belly.

Wingathon

This past Saturday
I spent a full
eight hours
eating hot wings.
And drinking beer.

It was a very tough job,
but somebody had to do it.
Fayetteville Flyer‘s Flyer Foodie
collected a few fine folks
and led us on an adventure to find
Fayetteville’s best hot wing.

We did this last year
with the quest to find
Fayetteville’s best taco.

Tacothon 2009

Tacothon

Tacothon

Wingathon 2010
consisted of ten restaurants
with two different wings at each location.
Exhausting, delicious, and messy.
Just my style.

I’ll link to the results
once they’re published,
but for now here’s our journey
in 140 pictures or less.

The girls rode in the way back.

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Even though there was no need to.

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First stop,
Louie’s.

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Second stop,
Buffalo Wild Wings.

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World Cup fans
out in full force.

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Headed to Wingstop.

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Next up,
Slim Chickens
.

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Risked our lives.
Running across College Avenue
to Foghorn’s
.

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The day (and food babies)
started to drag us down.
It was just halfway over.

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Next on the list
was my personal fave,
JJ’s Grill-N-Chill
.
I had never been here before,
but the wings were great,
the margaritas were two bucks,
and the girls all wore cowboy boots.
Which all helped us get
our second wind.

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From there, we just walked
across the way to Boar’s Nest.

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Where our drinks came in
Mason jars.

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By this time a few of us were were
feeling just a little silly.
So we made a pit stop in Dollar General
And the laundry mat.
Duh.

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Finally at Lucky Luke’s.

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Xaxby’s was second to the end.
And boy were we excited.

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Our final stop
was on Dickson

(either genius or worst idea ever)
at the lovely Hog Haus Brewing Co.

Wingathon

Where we drank blueberry beer.
And continued to act silly.

Wingathon

It was quite a day,
which led to quite a night
given our ending spot
right on bar row.

We rolled (literally) to Kingfish
where we watched Razorback baseball
with a couple friends.

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We didn’t win.
As if you couldn’t tell from
their faces.

Somehow,
before the night was done,
I was able to fit in
frozen yogurt from Orange Mango.

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Orange Mango.

Great.
Now I’m hungry for frozen yogurt.
And hot wings.

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Record Breakers

When I was little
I use to fall asleep
flipping through
the 1987 version of the
Guinness Book of World Records.

Many of the records were awesome.
Others were ridiculous.
Oh, and some were just gross.
I was mesmerized by it all.

So when there was a chance to help out
in breaking a world record here in Fayetteville,
I had to be there.

The brave citizens of my town
were attempting to break the record
for world’s largest swim lesson
at the city pool in Wilson Park.

World Record Breakers

And with 262 people,
we did it!

I was a little apprehensive
of being in the pool with that many people
(that much pee).
Especially when part of the lesson
was to blow bubbles under water.

World Record Breakers

But as two of the oldest participants,
Brandy and I did our part.

World Record Breakers

Now, we are a part of
(random) history.

World Record Breakers

World Record Breakers

Just call us heros, badasses, whatever.