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Mom to Iris. Wife to Todd. Our little family lives at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Fayetteville, Arkansas. We love it here and I love sharing little bits of our life.

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Posts Tagged: friends

So Long So Sad

What is UP, Texas?
You keep swallowing our friends.
Just because you’re all big and warm,
have really good food and music,
doesn’t mean you have to take
everyone away.

Okay, Okay.
If you must.
I guess we can at least come to visit.
And party hard when they’re about to go.
Which is exactly what we did last weekend.

Stephanie and Trip have packed their belongings
and made the move to Houston.
Jill hosted a “See You Later” party
and we made a weekend out of it.
Friends from Kansas City came to town
just to say goodbye.
It was bittersweet.

Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning.

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World Cup watching.

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Cupcake eating.

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Smirnoff Icing.

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Bar hanging outing.

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Swimming.

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The farewell party at Jill’s.

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The reading of Winter with Whitecloud.

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Making cards.

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Ending the night with a silly photoshoot.

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So long, friends!
We’ll miss you!

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Never Grow Up

On Saturday we celebrated
our beloved Dustin’s birthday.

He turned 31.
But from our party set-up…

Dustin's Birthday

you’d think he was turning 11.

Except for the buckets of beer.

Dustin's Birthday

We had an afternoon full of
summer fun.

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Once the sun started to go down,
Birthday Boy still wanted to party.
He asked for an adventure,
so off to the casino we went.

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We danced with strangers to a cheesy cover band.

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And with each other.

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I won 50 bucks on the dollar slots.

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And then it was time to go home.

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Other weekend treats included:

Spending time with a friend
who now lives in Austin.

Friday Night

Friday Night

Friday Night

Running into @jfarm
(Razorback basketball player)
outside of a bar.

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And shuffleboard with my pal GL.

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Friday Night

I was still feeling the fun
on Monday morning,
but it was all well worth it.

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.

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And invited my dog.

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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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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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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.

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

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World Record Breakers

Just call us heros, badasses, whatever.

Lazy Lake Saturday

It’s just the first weekend of June
and this is already the summer of
water, sun & fun.

After a night of photos
and last call at the bar,
a few of us headed to the lake.
Just a short hour away.

I get so use to the day-to-day
that sometimes I forget how
pretty Arkansas really is.

Bluffs, rocks, mountains
and water that was surprisingly warm.

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We found a homemade fishing poll.
I used a lime as bate.
And lost the hook.
Immediately.

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Now it’s Sunday, which is typically my
lazy at home day.
I spent the afternoon under the sun
listening to Dr. Dog in my kiddie pool.
But while lounging in my shark-pool-for-one,
Todd surprised me with this

pool

A little trashy?
Why, yes.
Do I love it?
Why, hell yes.

So now you can expect
about 1,000 more summer photos
and for me to have a
crazy awesome tan.