{Sunday Dessert}

breakdown:

dress: Calvin Klein, found at Burlington Coat Factory: can't remember the price, but it was probably around $30 (also seen here for Daniel's wedding '09)

shrug: I think I found this at Ross for $7

shoes: wore these to my senior prom; also found at Burlington- $15

headband: Forever 21 [online] $3

We're Awkward!

...and Awesome!!!

or is it only me that's the awkward one???

Lovin' on the Littles

Oh how I love being an auntie to these littles!

These two (and baby Lydia) have been gone for two weeks!!! I miss them! Shelly, if you're tired of them after your long drive home, I'd be more than happy to take them off your hands for the day. :)

I wish I had a picture with her cradled in my arms, but this will have to do for now:

Sweet baby girl Roslyn Stolworthy was born yesterday!

Can you even handle that so much cuteness exists within one big happy family?

{Hairy Thursday}

no tutorial today. sorry! 

but really, a braiding series is in the works. 

For today's {Hairy Thursday}, I need to make a public vow to never wear my hair down for a wedding EVER AGAIN! 

The pictures always are outside, and it seems to always be windy. And my hair and face always look ridiculous. For example:

I look much better here sans make-up and not yet having touched my hair.

And then I always end up pulling my hair back in whatever possible way given however many resources I have (i.e. bobby pins and elastics)

I must admit that this is not the first time I've set myself up for the heat and wind to shed light on my ridiculousness on special days. Let us look to the past for pictorial proof:


 

Brianna's Wedding:

See me? In the back? With my hair blowing in my face!?

Between the temple and reception venue I pulled away the hairs that were stuck to my lips and eyelashes (and also grabbed a date (a handsome and charming one to boot!)

Dia's Wedding:

holding back the hair

out of the way and wrapped in a braid for the even windier, but absolutely lovely,  reception!

Paige's wedding!

shortness of hair! I got out of the shower and hopped in the car the morning of this Idaho wedding where I was subsequently wedged in the back seat between Regan (pictured above) my mom, ...and someone else. So, hair air dried on the drive (which you can't really pull off very well with short hair) and when we got to the temple I ran inside [wearing sweats], changed into "nice" clothes and put a braid in to hold back the bangs. ay yi yi yi yi!

Breezy's Wedding!!! Although this was a rather windy day, I don't look quite as ridiculous as I feel.

Erin's wedding:  I don't feel too ridiculous; however, the sunshine on my blonde hair is making me look like I have a sweet bald patch. Awesome.

At least for these two I got it right:

Keith and Keri wedding '08: a quick french twist

Daniel and Tricia wedding '09: hair done in the car on the way to the reception. while driving, just kidding.

Concluding thoughts:

1- That's a lot of wedding in two years! Wowza!

2- I now remember why I try to avoid pulling my hair up or to the side for wedding days. I feel like the bride will have a similar hair do and I don't want to step on her turf and have the same hair did!

3-So, sisters/friends/brides, are you happy? I allowed myself to look ridiculous so that I didn't risk copy-catting your hair! 

4- Luckily for Courtney's wedding I remembered that I never fair well with wedding pictures if my hair is down. Alas, I have no picture to prove that [yet]. 

5- I am tired and writing in a silly manner.
6- I'm on Facebook a lot more often now [the last week or so ish], and it's strange. I'm hardly ever on there! I don't know what happened to me. 
good night.

{Wordless Wednesday}

I'm sure I'll regret sharing this photo someday...but today is not that day.

{Sunday Dessert}

this is my "it's hot and humid and i'm hungry" face. the triple "H" threat.

 The Breakdown:

dress: (too lazy to look at the brand on the tag) found at Plato's Closet- $8

Shrug: Forever 21- $12

Shoes: (too lazy to look at the brand) found at DSW clearance!!!- $20

Eyes too big for the stomach; a double whammy!

 I didn't take any pictures of our camping weekend for the 4th. Well, that was a semi-lie. I did take pictures, with Felicia's camera. So I should say that I don't have pictures from the 4th fun, until I steal some from Feesh. 

Good thing though that Zach was on top of things and made sure to document this:

We caught the same fish!

We both felt a tug on our lines one right after each other. We each hooked the fish and started reeling in, excited to see who had the bigger catch. Soon enough we realized we were reeling in the same thing! No, we didn't cross lines. The fish took both our baits and hooks. Poor guy, as if getting hooked in the mouth isn't bad enough, he got one right after the other. I'm telling you, those trout were going crazy for the Pink Lemonade PowerBait. 

Other fishy info from that trip worth documenting: shortly after catching the above pictured fish, Giulia finally gutted and cleaned her other catches from that day. She usually just makes David do it, but she "manned-up" this time 'round. If you didn't know this already, let it be a service announcement for you: fish have sharp teeth! My thumb is just now recovered from the multiple bite marks left from breaking the jaw and pulling the gutsies down and out (if you've never seen a fish get gutted before, you probably don't know what I'm talking about, and I'm too tired to explain any better. hmmph). After that first teeth encounter, David informed me that putting my thumb farther down the throat would help prevent my thumb from being stabbed. And it did. Thanks for the heads up lovie. But in retrospect, I'm sure he did mention that when he was showing me what to do, I was probably just still shocked about how I was holding a slimey fish in one hand and a knife in the other and thinking that slimey fish feel real gross.