weekend scenes :: my sunny and me

* warning *

there will be many pictures of my dog

sunny and i hung out all weekend.

we went for a walk.

watered the flowers.

threw the tennis ball.

cuddled on the couch.

and..

went to mj and pj's for dinner and dessert.

exciting, i know.

pretty little things :: hydrangeas

these are my beautiful hydrangeas my friend, mary v, brought me from her house.

i couldn't stop staring at them. 

i've almost wrecked the car looking at hydrangeas in everyone's yards.

i love the blue ones. and the ones that turn purple.

happy friday

i hate to boast... but i have a 3 day weekend!

and its supposed to be nice weather.

im going to see friends on saturday...

hopefully the lake on sunday.

hooray!

the other day i sent greg an email saying that i wanted to pick wild flowers...

do flowers from people's yards count as "wild?"

i dont know why, but when i go for a run or just driving around, i have the impulse to pick flowers from people's yards or trees.

right now, all the blooming dog wood is really tempting me.

are there laws against this?

just asking... not that i would ever act on my impulses :)

i hope you have a splendid/swell/super awesome weekend!

pretty little things

spring is finally (almost, about to be) here! 

it makes me want a tan.

but im happy about having plants on my porch again. 

ahhhhhhh :)

weekend scenes

 

it did snow after all!

i got a whopping 4 day weekend! hooray!

sunny loves the snow. she gets so excited...

  

and then there was a BEAUTIFUL sunset...

for v-day... since my valentine couldnt be in town, i threw a dinner party for my "single ladies." we had french onion soup with grilled cheese sandwiches, chocolate covered strawberries, poundcake with ice cream and topped with more strawberries. 

  

i also gave them valentines...

  

and made up a game for us to play.

 

i had a lot of fun doing it all and i think they enjoyed it as well.

happy day of hearts and love!

via style me pretty

who wouldnt want to go to this party? 

i want to have this party.

the gorgeous table...

decorations...

 

and cakes...

i can dream... ♥

 

♥ my valentines ♥

birthdays were had

if you didnt already know, i had my 25th birthday. it was all i expected it to be... just another day with more text messages and presents. it started with a kind birminghamian (?) running me off the road on the way to school. but, i did get out of school an hour early, greg came into town, and i ate dinner at california pizza kitchen (or chicken) with my grand parents. i got all my favorite things: cook books, wine, flowers, skinny cows, starbucks, and money. hooray! so it really was great. 

over christmas, my friend hamp and i and his family were talking about age. we all finally came to the consensus that 25 really is younger than we all thought it was going to be. hamp, 27, used to think he would be married and have one kid by now, brut (hamp's brother) thought he would be married and thinking about kids, and i thought i would be married (during my 25th year... not going to happen). hamp's older cousins (who just had their first child at 37) had the same ideas. but kate (cousin) said she really needed her 20's and 30's to figure her life out. it was an interesting and enlightening conversation. as trite as it may be, age really is just a number and personal perception. so im going to stop feeling bad about being 25, still in school, still being supported, and working for an hourly wage. yay!

other events of note: 

papa jack turned 82 yesterday! he celebrated with dinner at logan's roadhouse and probably 6 hours of fox news on repeat. 

he said he had a lot of phone calls and cards. 

happy bday, pj!