my worm bucket!
5.17.2010
wedding season
my dear roomie from college got married this weekend in natchez, ms. here she is, beautiful on her wedding day!!
this was our hallway. we stayed in a plantation home where the two got married. it was wonderful! our room was on the top floor, and there were only 3 other rooms up there.
our stairway...i look frumpy, and i apologize.
the second floor sitting area. there were 4 rooms of this hallway.
cool stairs down to the check in house.
it was a little cloudy outside, sorry for the fogginess.
cool handle to the check in house.
front porch. adorable!
this leads to a restaurant on the grounds.
the front of dunleith plantation
look how pretty the land is! beautiful!!
me walking in during the ceremony...
getting announced at the reception!
fountain at the reception
this little lady just sat in her doorway and watched the party.
me and the husband
with the newlyweds!
old roomies!
the wedding was supposed to be outside, but due to the rain that wouldn't go away, we had to rearrange some plans and move the ceremony inside. the bridal party stood on the porch, and the guests all had to cram in to watch through the front door. it was still beautiful!
this was our hallway. we stayed in a plantation home where the two got married. it was wonderful! our room was on the top floor, and there were only 3 other rooms up there.
our stairway...i look frumpy, and i apologize.
the second floor sitting area. there were 4 rooms of this hallway.
cool stairs down to the check in house.
it was a little cloudy outside, sorry for the fogginess.
cool handle to the check in house.
front porch. adorable!
this leads to a restaurant on the grounds.
the front of dunleith plantation
look how pretty the land is! beautiful!!
me walking in during the ceremony...
getting announced at the reception!
fountain at the reception
this little lady just sat in her doorway and watched the party.
me and the husband
with the newlyweds!
old roomies!
the wedding was supposed to be outside, but due to the rain that wouldn't go away, we had to rearrange some plans and move the ceremony inside. the bridal party stood on the porch, and the guests all had to cram in to watch through the front door. it was still beautiful!
5.09.2010
fitzgeralds
so heather, my dear sms friend, asked me to take some pseudo-engagement pictures for her. this is heather.
last night she and jace had a party at a friend's house, so we decided to take some before the party. i warned them that i am by no means a professional, but i would love to do it! so here are some preview pictures...
we had so much fun. the party was a shrimp boil, and the shrimp was amazing!! here are a few fun pictures from the night...
heather looooves red beans and rice, so there was a bar for it! amazing.
shrimp tables. YUM!
i dont think all of our eyes were open.
me and heather.
me and the husband.
last night she and jace had a party at a friend's house, so we decided to take some before the party. i warned them that i am by no means a professional, but i would love to do it! so here are some preview pictures...
we had so much fun. the party was a shrimp boil, and the shrimp was amazing!! here are a few fun pictures from the night...
heather looooves red beans and rice, so there was a bar for it! amazing.
me and the husband.
5.07.2010
lust.
i rarely lust after things for long. these however have been lusted after for a while. not only does PW wear them, which is reason enough for everyone in america to go buy a pair, but they're just beautiful! and on top of that, they're totally worth it.
i could wear these with jeans and a tshirt, jeans and a going out shirt, dresses, skirts, everything. if i had had them at the time, these might have been the boots under my wedding dress, instead of my these lookers...
i could wear these with jeans and a tshirt, jeans and a going out shirt, dresses, skirts, everything. if i had had them at the time, these might have been the boots under my wedding dress, instead of my these lookers...
so for all those readers of mine, if you're really loving me today, here's what i want. consider it a birthday present to last the rest of my life. i'll take a size 8 in redwood. thanks. until then, i'll be looking online for cheaper versions of the my loves. i'll keep you posted...
wish me luck! tomorrow i am officially taking my very first set of non-professional engagement pictures! my dear friend heather has asked me to take engagement pictures for her and her fiance, and i have said yes. this is sarah, heather, and me at heather's lingerie shower. excuse the horribleness i was feeling that night. not a good picture night. they both teach at sms with me, and they went to ole miss too! perfect!
i looooove photography, but i haven't had much time to take fun shots. i'm looking forward to it, and i'm doing it for free since she is my friend, after all. i'll post some sunday, since we'll be busy tomorrow and she has a party tomorrow night. i hope it's great weather!
5.06.2010
cinco de mayo
i actually had a teacher walk up to me yesterday and ask what the date is. is it the 6th she asked? no, i said, it's the 5th. Cinco de Mayo! she looked at me like i had lost my mind. cinco de mayo, i tried again? still a blank stare... so i said it one more time, because maybe she just is old and hasn't woken up yet...cinco de mayo! the mexican holiday? nope. nothing. she had no idea. how does that happen? i thought everyone celebrated with mexican food and beer. maybe that's just me. apparently mexicans don't celebrate it, and it's their own holiday, but leave it to americans to kick mexicans out of the country, then celebrate one of their holidays. i'm for it. and i'll keep doing it. in celebration for the wonderful cinco de mayo, i made a mexican lasagna. my sister got to see it going into the oven, via gchat video. it was scrumptious. i also made some mexicanish hominy...although i don't think hominy is at all mexican.
i ended up eating alone because our air conditioner was being fixed, and trust me, i would rather eat alone every night than go without heat at this time in memphis. so i ate alone, and drank my beer alone, while the husband vigilantly watched the sketchballs who were sent to fix our AC. i suppose i shouldn't say he vigilantly watched, since he was working in the garage for the most part. this is what my garage looks like most afternoons...
now he is a wonderful husband, so he moves both cars out, works, then moves them back in. but still. this is my life.
i ended up eating alone because our air conditioner was being fixed, and trust me, i would rather eat alone every night than go without heat at this time in memphis. so i ate alone, and drank my beer alone, while the husband vigilantly watched the sketchballs who were sent to fix our AC. i suppose i shouldn't say he vigilantly watched, since he was working in the garage for the most part. this is what my garage looks like most afternoons...
now he is a wonderful husband, so he moves both cars out, works, then moves them back in. but still. this is my life.
and these two pictures show the sides. they're like this all the time. we just got a lot of this wood the other day though, and john's going to build us something glorious from it.
beautiful tongue and groove boards for a new kitchen table.
isn't that so pretty!?
see the tongue and groove?
both ends have tongues. perfect for teaching children not to stick their own tongues out. good thing we don't have to worry about that yet.
5.04.2010
adventures in babysitting
so usually i'm used to babysitting perfect angels, such as this one ...
he literally ran into his room, stood there waiting for me, pointed to his bed, and again waited. i put him in the crib, and this is what he did. what a kid! and he's only 1 :)
well i recently took a nannying job for this summer, and i was over there babysitting last weekend. there are 2 girls and a boy, and the oldest girl had a friend over. they decided to play beauty parlor. i of course was chosen as the victim, and i was warned that if i didn't like the hairstyle they gave me, i would be sued. that's right. 3rd graders will sue me. well this is how my hair style went ... in case you can't tell, they took a comb and began teasing my entire head. i have a long summer ahead of me.
for those who don't live in the area, you may or may not know that tennessee was hit by horrific storms this past weekend. for some reason it hasn't made national news very much, although almost 30 people were killed just in TN. anyhow...it was awful. the husband and i woke on saturday to the sound of sirens. tornado sirens. if you don't know me, you don't know that i hate storms. when i say hate, i mean despise. they nearly kill me, from miles and miles away. i begged my dad to build a storm shelter in our old backyard. it didn't happen. so this storm comes, and the husband just lays there in bed. i'm warning him that dave brown says we should be in the bathroom in the middle of the house with shoes, clothes, and an ID on us. he doesn't move. i'm preparing my escape, planning my outfit, wondering if i should call and say goodbye to my family. he doesn't move. i turn up the volume, turn off the fan so he can hear the sirens. he doesn't move. for about an hour i am glued to the viper radar on channel 5, and i'm trying to heed dave's warning to take cover, but the husband just sits. it finally slowed down, and the tornado went away for a while, so we ventured out to the living room. i looked out the window, and this is what i saw...
yes, that's a portion of the mississippi river flowing through our front yard. and this is about 2 hours after the rain stopped.
well we ended up making it outside and went to run errands. it was a fairly eventful day, and we did somehow manage to live through it. then at 1:30 am that night/next morning, i again sat up to turn off the fan, and yes, sirens were going off. again. they said we wouldn't have more storms! not so. i made the husband turn on the news, and we watched as the storm raged through the area north of us. good thing we lived through that one too. i think we're in for it the next round...
well on monday after school, the husband picked me up and we went to oakland to get wood. now, 2 years ago, that sentence would have never been uttered from me. i couldn't have even told you where oakland was, and i never would have been going to buy wood so that i could make something on my own. i would have been heading to east memphis to hit up pottery barn for some good ole original antiques. not so anymore. i have learned to bargain hunt and watch lovingly as the husband builds me things.
so we went to oakland. he has a friend there who tears down old barns and sells the wood. he goes to illinois because those barns are made with wood. that's it. not like here in memphis where people use steel and such. he likes the old beams and neat pieces of wood. and so do we! so we went to get some.
this is his place. there's wood everywhere. it's pretty cool really! maybe we'll go back when we have more money.
he literally ran into his room, stood there waiting for me, pointed to his bed, and again waited. i put him in the crib, and this is what he did. what a kid! and he's only 1 :)
well i recently took a nannying job for this summer, and i was over there babysitting last weekend. there are 2 girls and a boy, and the oldest girl had a friend over. they decided to play beauty parlor. i of course was chosen as the victim, and i was warned that if i didn't like the hairstyle they gave me, i would be sued. that's right. 3rd graders will sue me. well this is how my hair style went ... in case you can't tell, they took a comb and began teasing my entire head. i have a long summer ahead of me.
for those who don't live in the area, you may or may not know that tennessee was hit by horrific storms this past weekend. for some reason it hasn't made national news very much, although almost 30 people were killed just in TN. anyhow...it was awful. the husband and i woke on saturday to the sound of sirens. tornado sirens. if you don't know me, you don't know that i hate storms. when i say hate, i mean despise. they nearly kill me, from miles and miles away. i begged my dad to build a storm shelter in our old backyard. it didn't happen. so this storm comes, and the husband just lays there in bed. i'm warning him that dave brown says we should be in the bathroom in the middle of the house with shoes, clothes, and an ID on us. he doesn't move. i'm preparing my escape, planning my outfit, wondering if i should call and say goodbye to my family. he doesn't move. i turn up the volume, turn off the fan so he can hear the sirens. he doesn't move. for about an hour i am glued to the viper radar on channel 5, and i'm trying to heed dave's warning to take cover, but the husband just sits. it finally slowed down, and the tornado went away for a while, so we ventured out to the living room. i looked out the window, and this is what i saw...
our poor swing is under water. if you look right above the black grill in the middle, there are 3 sections of fence that are pouring water into our back yard. turns out we got over a foot of rain that day.
well we ended up making it outside and went to run errands. it was a fairly eventful day, and we did somehow manage to live through it. then at 1:30 am that night/next morning, i again sat up to turn off the fan, and yes, sirens were going off. again. they said we wouldn't have more storms! not so. i made the husband turn on the news, and we watched as the storm raged through the area north of us. good thing we lived through that one too. i think we're in for it the next round...
well on monday after school, the husband picked me up and we went to oakland to get wood. now, 2 years ago, that sentence would have never been uttered from me. i couldn't have even told you where oakland was, and i never would have been going to buy wood so that i could make something on my own. i would have been heading to east memphis to hit up pottery barn for some good ole original antiques. not so anymore. i have learned to bargain hunt and watch lovingly as the husband builds me things.
so we went to oakland. he has a friend there who tears down old barns and sells the wood. he goes to illinois because those barns are made with wood. that's it. not like here in memphis where people use steel and such. he likes the old beams and neat pieces of wood. and so do we! so we went to get some.
i really wanted these beams, but since we aren't building a house, i don't know what we would do with them.
here are the friends. we bought a bunch of this because the husband is going to make us a corner cabinet for our pyrex. in case you didn't know, we collect it. pictures of the actual cabinet building to come later...
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