happy friday

happy friday, y'all!

this video is from the other night.

a group of us played catch phrase.

if you can't tell, shundale was the best player.

she really got into the game.

t.m.i. tuesday :: story time

here are a few stories i heard this weekend that i thought were worth sharing...

"who's your daddy?"

my friend wade works at the sheraton in downtown birmingham. she is a catering sales manager. if you wanted to have an event at the hotel... she is the girl that would answer your questions. she was telling me that she has had some interesting inquiries for events. wade said that she answered the phone and a lady wanted to know about having her event at the hotel. wade asked what type of event she was thinking (usually, birthdays, weddings, showers, etc). the lady responded with "a baby daddy revealing party." wade said, "ok, and how do you see this event unfolding." basically, the lady said there would be 5 guys (potential baby daddies) on stage with spot lights that could be turned on and off to reveal the daddy. long story short... this event did not take place. i wonder who the daddy was? 

"night terrors"

greg and i were having a discussion on snoring (a certain friend's husband is a snore-er). greg and i both said we had relatives that could one up this husband on the snore meter. mine is my grandmother who has to have a separate hotel room any time we travel... there is some story about me getting real upset with her when i was little while staying at a hotel. anyway, greg said, no that his uncle owen was the best snore-er. why?, i ask. uncle o screams between snores. (i wish i had video of greg doing the impression, it was awesome). greg continues to tell me that uncle o has night terrors and ran through a wall when he was in high school while asleep. also, he spent time in bolivia and the group he was with moved his cot outside while he was sleeping because of his snoring/screaming. greg won.

"i like to have fun?"

wade recently got married to robert. wade and robert frequent a gym down the road from where they live in birmingham. wade noticed that another couple was often there at the same time working out. wade also noticed that she frequently made eye contact with both parties of the other couple and mentioned it to robert. one day wade and robert were leaving the gym when the other couple approached... the woman initiated the conversation with the usual "hello, how are yall?" "fine, good, " say robert and wade. then the woman says, "do yall like to have fun?" wade said "yeah, we like to have fun. there are a lot of places to go out. we like to go out and do stuff." then the woman said, "that's good but do yall really like to have fun?" robert catching on says, "no. no we don't." and led wade out the door. hmmm...

"a bad episode of cops"

an acquaintance of mine is a cop in carrollton, ga. i ran into him (chris) at the wedding this weekend and asked if he had any fun stories from being a cop. he said that he and his new partner were chasing a bad guy and the guy got out of his car on foot and ran into the woods. he tells me that when that happens, the cops are supposed to stop where they are and send out the dog. another cop had the dog and that this a new dog that hasn't been out in the field much. the dog's handler is getting the dog all psyched up to catch the bad guy. the dog is all antsy and ready to go. chris's partner is weary of dogs and is kind of getting freaked out while the dog is getting psyched up. the partner takes a few quick steps away and the dog locks in on him. when the handler lets the dog go, the dog attacks the partner (the partner also ran). chris says the dog jumps on the partner and he freaks out screaming "get him off of me! get him off of me!" and everyone just laughs. they get the dog off and the partner wasn't hurt. just had a lot of drool on his vest. a few moments later, they hear a whistle from the woods. it was the bad guy... he surrendered because he didn't want to get attacked by the dog! 

weekend scenes :: introducing the kents

and another friend gets married...

this time it was kati lanier and will kent.

i met kati our sophomore year at auburn.

we both made cheerleading and pretty much became instant friends.

i met will shortly after.

they started dating a little bit and then kind of dwindled off...

he dated another girl (we had to pretend not to like him or her).

but i wont forget the time we went to chili's and will saw kati (he was with his gf) and he stopped by our table and never took his eyes off of her (not even to speak to me and collier!).

a few months later, kati and will became an item during the summer we have dubbed... the summer of love, 2007 (wade and robert also started dating).

crazy enough, will and kati grew up a few short miles from each other and never knew it until they met at a football game in auburn. and that is where they fell in love, got engaged, and married!

the day begins!

i modeled the bridesmaid dress a la lady gaga.

the rest of the bridesmaids...

and kati with her sister, jami!

here are my new best friends, the flower girls. 

they wanted to take a picture of me with my camera...

but couldn't quite get me in the picture.

my sweet greg made it!

dream come true: photo booth!!!

we had a really good time in auburn. kati's family knows how to plan a wedding... they've had a lot of practice this year (jami got married in october!). 

greg and i hadn't seen each other in 3 weeks so we decided to hang out in auburn on sunday before i had to go back to the birm. 

i hope you had a great weekend!

happy friday

heading to auburn this morning because...

they're getting married!

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.

mid-week jam :: i love the name marina

happy birthday, mary v!!!

meow, meow.

weekend scenes :: bachelorette squad

another bachelorette weekend...

bethy and colls relaxing on friday

this time in panama city beach for kati;

"green eyed girl" a la billy

there was a lot of stage time.

linda gets the only country song she knows serenaded on stage

and special song dedication. 

me and bethy

then, there was the lingerie shower and night;

the whole gang minus colls :(

kati got a lot of good stuff!

kati and her booty

mollie and friends take panama city beach.

amanda, me, brett, bethy, jami, kati, and wade

my jeromey, brother from a another mother.

 ^^ and look who came to party! ^^

another fun weekend with all of my friends.

too bad there has to be a wedding for us to get together so often.

beth and i are going to have to marry each other so we can hang out again!

we were supposed to go to orange beach but because of the tragic oil spill, quick change of plans, and we went to pcb. lucky for us, the weather was pretty cooperative and we got some good sun time. i managed not to get burned (which is a miracle and took a lot of dedication). we went to all of kati's favorite pcb spots (minus club la vela, sorry brett!). beth, our real single lady, got the singer's (billy) number as well as another guy that went to auburn. the rest of us got hit on by 18 year olds pretending to be 21 year olds and by canadians that made fun of me for saying "y'all." 

it was also a kind of high school reunion for me. the bartender was actually one of my good friends in high school (hello, free drinks). then i talked to an ex-fiance of a girl i thought was married, followed by a guy i havent seen in 8 years since american history in 11th grade, and then i saw another person acting a fool.... who i also went to high school with. only in pcb.

on the last night, jeromey met us for dinner and surprised kati and all of us by paying for our meal! his mamas raised him right :) and then of course he was rewarded with free drinks and our company.

note to self: im not 21 anymore.

mid-week jam :: i've got 97 tears

i wanted to post "sha la la" by question mark and the mysterians but apparently that one wasn't a hit but with me. so... download it. 

and personal note: christina, listen to the freaking songs. 

k, thanks, bye!

weekend scenes :: helen's wedding

flower girl and one of my gymnast, emily

this weekend, my friend helen got married.

she is super awesome and is a coach at the gym where i work.
she was an alabama gymnast and has only known her husband for like 6 months!

there was a lot of paparazzi at the reception...

kendall, ky, mal, becks, helen, michael, tina, whit, moi, jennay

coaches or mountain brook gymnastics!

greg was super pumped to be at another wedding.

he loves them.

we went to the rock climbing gym again.. i really liked it more this time.

i got us a coupon off groupon and it was a good deal.

also, one of my students i had at the high school works there.

he tried to give us some tips.

booyah!

then later we topped our evening with a trip to the bookstore and dinner at FLIP burger. yum!

weekend scenes

kyla, christanka, helen, moi

this weekend, i went to a recipe and bbq shower for my friend helen.
it was at her grandparents house here in bham. her g-rents house was crazy! it didnt look that big from the outside, but it kept growing as you walked through it. it was like a museum. there were cabinets EVERYWHERE housing dolls, figurines, and knick knacks. they also had two old juke boxes and a piano that had other instruments connected to it. besides all that stuff, there were three pinball machines. and one i have plans to steal:

it was a dolly pinball machine!!!

yes, i played it. and it was awesome. it would "mess up" and just keep giving you points. i like to think we had a connection.

on sunday morning i drove home for mother's day.

we had a photo shoot.

i wore my uber dressy white tshirt.

uncle nick, moi, daddy, mama helen, cousin delaney

later, we picked two strawberries.

and played with the dogs.

then i had to drive back today! but i had a navigation system to help me make it back thanks to my sweet parents! i'll never be lost again!

t.m.i. tuesday

im having one of those days...

today i would like to dine here:

wearing this:

eat this:

drink this:

indulge in this:

all with my friends and him:

sigh...

**UPDATE**

i cooked the pasta recipe and it was delicious! christina came over and ate it with me. we also drank the wine and had a 3 way phone call with whitney. good times!

weekend scenes

wade and robert's wedding weekend!
my friend wade got married this weekend at her parent's home and marina on west point lake.

beth, britt, & collier

i got to spend time with some of my favorite people.

the rehearsal dinner was at some billionaire's lake house.

we ate really good shrimp and grits and i amazed the crowd with my speed drawing of random animals.

wade getting her make up done by colls

the day of the wedding, wade, collier, kati, and myself went into the lovely town of lannett to get our nails done at ten perfect nails. lannett is a very small town... think defuniak minus a couple thousand. the nail place had no air conditioning. a little girl asked me to paint her nails. i just wanted one nail painted and they jacked it up and blamed it on the weather.

wade wore the flower collier wore at her wedding almost a year ago. we are thinking about making it a sisterhood of the traveling pants thing. it will probably be dead by the time i get it (yes, its fake).

greg is a messy eater and i need my hair done

greg drove up to accompany me to the wedding. he was such a trooper. he had to go to gainesville, fl the day before for his brother's graduation. he's the best!

robert and wade are on their honeymoon in st. john!

wade is catholic, so they had a priest at the ceremony. greg and i laughed through the whole thing because the priest sounded like his old stoner roommate/will ferrell as robert goulet. so, i thought my odds were good at the bouquet toss considering everyone there was married or engaged except for me, beth, britt, kimmie, and the 8 year old flower girl. guess who caught the bouquet????

the 8 year old flower girl.
there's always next week.

the soon to be will and kati kent

 next month, i will be in their wedding!
all my friends are married!!!!