little bits of boston!

best.best grad cap

people i love minus one little brother

little beauty

how to graduate!

go to graduation. find family loves in the audience. smileee! 

 wait for name to be called. have a minor oh my goosh moment. and then a calm excited one.

your name is called! walk on stage. [don't trip, don't trip] shake hand! get diploma! glide down steps in happiness. [don't trip, don't trip]

 

...yess!

"when you're happy like a fool, let it take you over" 

boston & bri!

this little babydoll is my sister. and that's me! vintage us. and this sister, my one and only, is graduating. from college. tomorrow. !!! i can't even believe it. mostly because i feel like i juuust graduated from college! i have to remind myself sometimes thats not true. five years have come and gone! five!  maybe it's because i'm still bff with a lot of college friendsicles and dating my college stone. they keep me young! so anyways. i am most delighted because today i will be flying to Boston to make sure i am front and center with the rest of my family [minus the rockstar] to watch our sweet wish graduate from Boston University! i cant say enough good things about her.  i really cant. i've been asked before if we are close, with me being 5 years older and all. and my response is always the same. yes. absolutely. if she wasn't my sister, i'd want her as my best friend. truly. truly. i always get a bit envious that her friends get to hang out with her so much more than i do.  she's golden inside and out. and patient. and loving. and just makes you want to be a better person. [but seriously. and i realize, love is blind so maybe she's not perfect, but i look up to her in so many ways] i was thinking about her the other day, driving home in terrible traffic actually, and just being so frustrated because grrr traffic! you are ruining my life! i have so many things to do!!  so, sometimes i like to play the mind game, "what would bri do?" and it sort of just calms me down. and clearly not just with traffic. but with other frustrations that life can throw at you.   im thankful for her. and sooo proud of the little graduate!  see you soon sweet wish & baaaawston!

oh welcome, spring!

this weekend brought a lot of outdoor things with my bff who also happens to be my bf too. can't go wrong with that! nope!  it also brought one completely sunny afternoon that was spent entirely poolside! for the first time all year.  this is just big and exciting news around these parts since spring has been all sort of weird and has just not been allowing me such pleasures!

i mean sure, we have had some relaxing after work evenings by the pool in our comfy clothes, but no bathing-suit weekend sunbathin! but it happened.  and it felt so nice to be one with mother nature again, and on mother’s day of all days.  which I suppose helped my overall moral since I didn’t get to spend the day of mom with my own mom! not that you could even begin compare the two. my mom is a million times better than any little sun rays, just to clarify ;)  

charlie got some breaks from his alien cone. which he really doesn’t seem to mind. but still I’d imagine it would be nice to have a little time off from such a contraption wrapped around your head. and we might have snuck him by the pool one evening which he was pretty happy about. now if oooonly it wasn't against all the rules to let him jump in! discrimination!

equally as [un]important. i finally got to take my nook for a spin by the pool. reading made easier. there’s no going back now [where i ended up buying Safe Haven, which has consumed my eyes and mind for the past couple of hours.]

things! random things

one week ago i was in Nashville the beautiful [which at the time, was disguised in showers and gray skies] with an old college roomie bff of mine! boo miss her. but! its friday again and sunny and i am pretty happy about that. happy but tired, which is mostly due to the  lack of sleep that occurred [or didn't] in my world last night.  

this week brought us neuter d-day for my charlie. [just a part of growing up! i like to tell him] so last night he was trying to figure out life in a cone wrapped around his head. but he's doing pretty good despite all that! he's still the cutest. looking like a little alien or a curly head human at the beauty parlor. i have taken a good bit of pictures to document and he has given me a good bit of death looks in return. tough luck, chuck! nobody said life was easy! but we are trying to make up for it with lots of treats and a fancy new leather collar thanks to stone!

so there has been that and then a lot of Mad Men watching this week. [besides the normal work things] we had never seen it before ?!!?!?<--- that just crazy, missing out on something so good! i was a little hesitant after episode 1, season 1, with all the bad boyness of mr. don draper, but somehow we have found ourselves now on season 3. just like that, in no time at all. and i love it, i really do. but i will say, watching it episode after episode it just makes you want to scream stoooop smoking so much!!!

so there you go. happy friday and happy weekend!

mr & mrs!

this past weekend i traveled to Nashville to watch a college favorite of mine say i do. yay! Drew and Andrew. Andrew and  Drew. it's especially fun to say. boy and puppy stayed back in atlanta which is too bad they had to miss this one but really, when rsvp time came many moons ago, i definitely thought boy would have been far away in baseball land.  plus i already had an important date! with a college roomie bff of mine flying in from the windy city!  it was so [so, soooo] much fun to be reunited, like we transported ourselves right back to our college days, which are some reeeeally hard to top days/years!

so, the weather was a bit blah with its raining on and off and things, but that didn't put a damper on any little bit of our weekend. and then there was the wedding. it was beautiful, everything i'd want mine to be.  we had the absolute best time and were so happy we got to celebrate with the bride as much as we did. such big a celebration of love and happiness!  plus the band they had -- Super T.   rkbalptgetroltfg. no words. they were amazing.

 we love you andrewandrew! hehehe  so sooo much! congrats! 

nashville wedding bound!

lovebirds  //  oh and the bride. (a pre-bride) in our college days, after i spilled my water on her. and she was like oh. no problem. and let me take a picture. i mean. friends like that are the best

come tomorrow i will be on my way to the land of Nashville for a college favorite's, Drew's, wedding weekend! ah! tears! happy tears! i'm just mentally preparing this heart of mine. love is the sweetest, most powerful and i'm so happy she has found it. i was thinking about all of this the other day, how we met too and how fate and Gods timing play such a crucial role in our lives. it just made me all bits of emotional. already! geez. keep it together girl

my freshman year at Alabama i lived in a big, big old building full of 14 floors of freshman girls, almost 1,000 girls. i could have been assigned to any floor, next to any single one of them. it's so crazy when i think about it like that. how our paths probably would not have crossed if it weren't for fate and God's timing and everything so wonderful that assigned me to floor 3, and made me dorm neighbors and immediate friends with little miss drew. and on saturday i will watch her become a MRS.  it's pretty darn cool and im so thankful

[plus! i get to be reunited with another college favorite/old roommate/iloveher. i can’t tell you how much i’m looking forward to seeing all their faces]