fishin' in the dark

a photo montage from fishing at the grandparent's farm...

my worm bucket! 

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!

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.

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...

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! 

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.

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.