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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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Weekend Getaways

Just a quick post on how
I plan to spend the rest of my summer
– with many mini vacays!

A weekend in
Kansas City.
(celebrating the birthday of a friend)

Kansas City

A long weekend in
Memphis, Tennessee.
(a girls road trip to my hometown)

Memphis - Girl Trip!

And a getaway to
Las Vegas.
(an anniversary trip to the Red Rock Resort with my husband)

2009 Las Vegas Girls Trip

I’m just as excited about the photos
I plan on taking as I am about actually
visiting these places.

Watch for posts to follow…

Southern Girls Road Trip

Mississippi - Girl Trip!

I love a good road trip with girl friends. This past summer myself and three other friends hit the road and headed east towards my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. Once we arrived at my mom’s house, we ordered take out from my favorite Vietnamese restaurant and visited with my favorite girls (and their babies) from M town.

Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

We spent the rest of our time in Memphis exploring thrift stores, visiting the Stax Museum, eating tons of delicious food, walking down Beale Street, and getting overdressed to go out to the local bars.

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

My mom trying to use my camera. HAH!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Memphis - Girl Trip!

Even with all that fun, my favorite part of the trip was heading down to Oxford, Mississippi for a spell. My dear friend Erin lives in an amazing 100 year house down the road in the tiny, yet oh so cute, town of Water Valley. We spent an afternoon in Oxford and then danced the night away at the only bar in Water Valley. We had to enter through an unmarked backdoor – no signs or anything. Turns out liquor sales aren’t very popular in this little southern town.

Outside of Erin’s house

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

Oxford town square

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

B is for Brandy. S is for Sarah.

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

Window shopping on the square

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

Afternoon drinks at City Grocery

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

Erin with Penny

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

Tears at William Faulkner’s grave

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

How many Arkansas girls can you fit in a Mississippi phone booth?

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

Playing dress up in a toy store. Hillious moment of the trip was when Laura said, “Something is giving me a mustache.”

Oxford, MS - Girl Trip!

Cozy bar in Water Valley

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

The bar had awesome games.

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

Erin’s house

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

Water Valley, MS - Girl Trip!

On the drive back to Memphis from Oxford we passed a graveyard of bathtubs. We immediately made a U-turn and had an impromptu photo shoot.

Mississippi - Girl Trip!

Mississippi - Girl Trip!

Mississippi - Girl Trip!

It was a lovely summer trip. Lots of photos taken, with even more memories made. You can view the complete set of photos here.

The Last Hurrah

With only a week left until the fall semester starts, I said goodbye to summer in style w/ a trip to Tybee Island with some of my bestest peeps. For more detailed look at our days, check out crasymaker.com.

With a 15 hour drive there and back, we had a short layover in Memphis
(thanks again Mom & Tim for putting us up)

Kerri & Joel joined us for dinner

Crazy long drive the next day

Finally there!

Our “Oceanfront” condo

Night walk to the inlet by our condo.

Beachin it!

hurt knee

Livin it up at the condo..

.. with mojitos & more.

Our own private bar in the basement!

Exploring Savannah, GA (right next to Tybee Island)

Ebay Street!

Bonaventure Cemetery

Spanish Moss everywhere..

Trolly Tour of the historic district

This tiny house apparently just sold for over $850,000.

Haunted Pub Crawl (it’s legal to walk around w/ open containers of alcohol there)

On to the Polaroids..

Sophia Coppola sparkling wine!

My sweet boogie board

My sweetie on his boogie board

I built a sand castle.

Headed home…

I had an amazing time, but it just went by way too fast.

Luv,

Julyin Around

This summer rules it!

+ mini trip to Memphis
+ afternoons at the pool & lake
+ Superman Slip & Slide
+ night beers on the front porch
+ Project Runway party
+ Paper Hearts & The New Tragedy shows
+ the White Whale CD
+ Weekend in Lawrence/Kansas City
+ Take out from Saigon Le to Fayetteville
+ Tab energery drinks mixed w/ champagne
+ Todd’s eye finally showing some improvement
+ getting paid to shop at thrift stores
+ party planning for Kerri
+ Baby Cole’s dance moves
+ dance party at an accoustic house show
+ winning $100 in Tunica
+ shopping
+ taste tester for Darling Deserts
+ vacation planning
+ hangin w/ Deets
+ fake cigarettes
+ marshmellow cheese burgers that taste like cherries

Floatie Girl

“No Loitering”

Kristen & Me – Cha ching!

The New Tragedies (Fayetteville)

The Paper Hearts (Fayetteville)

Cory Branan house show w/ the Early Morning Bourbon Girls

Turned into a dance party…

Road trip to Kansas City!

White Whale CD release show (Lawrence, KS)

Shoppin at the Plaza in KC

Seth’s loft

Dumpling dinner for 20

Brains

Cathy & Laura

Putting my cig out

The Paper Hearts (KC)

The New Tragedies (KC)

Follow That Bird

My favorite graffiti ever

BB’s fantastic parking spot.

Sunday breakfast

Burrito of Love (pancake w/ eggs, cheese, & bacon inside)

New purse & wallet!

Sayin goodbye…

Cha Ching

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Todd, Jessica, and I drove the 4 hours up to Kansas City on Friday to meet up with friends and have some out of town fun. That night we saw Lucero, Decibully, & Blackpool Lights (the old singer of the Get Up Kids’ new band). Although the show was great, the venue was pathetic. If you wanted to drink, you had to stand in the back – in a CAGE. Then on top of that, the “bar” menu consisted of a piece of cardboard with PBR and about 3 other drinks scribbled on it. Then, of course, the “bar” ran out of drinks. So before the end of the night, the cardboard had lines drawn through just about everything. After the show we were all starrrving, so we ended up eating breakfast at 1 am. Once safe & sound back at Seth’s loft we slept till almost noon the next day.

Anne & Jessica lookin cute before the show
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Lucero
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Decibully
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Although it looks like a picture of a Suicide Girls flyer.. I really meant to catch the flyer underneath, which I first thought was for a metal band called:
Oprah!
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Waiting around
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Bev, Me, Jess, & Seth
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Aaron, Bev, & Blackool Lights
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What the H?
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breakfast & freezing
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The next day a bunch of us met up at a breezy lil pizza joint that had THE biggest slices of pizza I think I’ve ever seen. We ate every single one of them too.

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Round the corner..
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From there it was on to the first casino that I’ve been to since I won enough money to buy this little iBook that I love so much. The only big winner this time was Aaron who hit the jackpot when he won 10 bucks on the penny slots. I only lost 15 dollars, but still managed to have about 2 hours worth of fun.

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I didn’t think anything could be as fun as slot machines and bloody marys, but I was most definitely wrong. We headed straight out into the fields of Missouri for a Corn Maze adventure…

View from above… It’s freakin huge.
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Rotten corn everywhere
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Overall, the weekend was simply spectacular.
Life is good.