august 2015

August 2015 brought about my cousin Andrea's graduation from Auburn! Of course I had to make the trip. And wear orange and blue. :)

The fam jam that could come: 

Aunt Robin, Aunt Dale, Uncle Clyde, Shelley, mom, Andrea, Brother, Aunt Terri, Uncle Al

me and Neanie 

I had nicer shoes, but I was running late and had to SPRINT from the track to the Auburn Arena. 

All the Auburn cuzzies that were present! 

Shelley, Andrea, moi

I've been to several Auburn graduations, and my most favorite part is when they ask all the alumni in the audience to stand. (I'm a dork, and I'm proud of it. )

Our whole group including the Yelverton's neighborhood family. 

We had lunch at Shelley's cute little house afterwards. Aunt Robin had made this cake that was delicious. 

Brother decided to take the best looking piece! :)

Cuzzies!

Now with the Neanster

I went to the lake after the ceremony and hung out with my daddio and the pups. 

This boy loves to boat ride!

I made another two state string art when I arrived home. Bo is never far away when I'm taking pictures. 

Or anytime really.. here is is waking me up by sitting on my back. 

I made this logo for Tootie Greens, our farmhouse that we built back in the day. My mom worked to get it ready to rent out for events, and of course I helped with the logo and social media! I need to write a post about it to show y'all the interior shots. 

MOOSE! My roommate Mollie's pup. Such a cutie cute!

I got to meet my friends Brittany and Drew's little nugget Collins! She is precious! Of course I am not a natural, so Britt took my pic in all my uncomfortableness. lol

I headed back to the beach towards the middle of August. Naturally I got some drinks with my bestie Caroline!

Honks and I drove over to Tallahassee for his grandfather's 90th birthday.

I finally got to meet Maverick!! Sally (Honky's sister) trains horses, and this was a baby of one of her mares. He is so stinking cute. I stalked him daily on facebook from his birth until I got to meet the sweet nugget. 

I want one!

Clearly best of friends, we both love bud light. 

He's spotted on one side, and completely white on the other. He needed a bath this day, but he cleans up real nice :)

Just hanging with his mama!

He didn't want us to leave! Sweet bb!

Here's my sweet baby once I returned to Bham.

Jenny (one of my friends from high school that also lives in Bham) had a bday party for her sweet little man Quinn who turned two. He is so smart, y'all! Future doctor like his parents, I'm sure. I tried to get him in a pic, but he was too excited about the bubbles and kiddie pool to get in the shot.

There had to have been 30 kids there. Of course I brought mine: I got a picture with my "newborn" Bud below. :)

I received a new big ol' 70lb shipment of nails! 

Very much needed for the forrest of trees I needed to create. 

I made these new paw prints. Love! 

One day in August, facebook alerted me to the fact that it was national dog day, so I went outside to get some pics of my babies. I got this gloriously happy shot of Cotton ball! 

I got one of them both looking at the camera (after dozens of outtakes).

Later in August, mom, the pups, and myself traveled to Nashville to visit Binky. 

The poor pups had to sit on top of each other because I was taking part in this art show of sorts. 

It was a dinner for the Auburn women's club in Nashville. There was a catered dinner, speakers, giveaways, and different vendors. 

Sweet Binks and mom totally helped with the mad rush of people coming to my table! I think I was the only one selling stuff, which was AWESOME for business! 

They had a little tree to roll like Toomer's Corner. 

Binky and I went out that evening and had tons of fun. The next day, we helped Binky go purchase stuff to bring her room together. I got to flex my interior design muscles for this, and loved every second of it! Sadly the only pic I got of the room was one bink took of me laying on the new bedding. Not pictured were new curtains, rug, lamp, etc. 

We headed home that Sunday. 

Back to the real world again. Wah wahhh! 

july 2015: lake and slossfest

I've decided to consolidate the next few months into their own monthly post instead of breaking down every little thing in yet another effort to catch up, so here goes July 2015! 

A bunch of us went to the lake for the 4th! One of my favorite traditions! 

Mollie, Carl, Colbs porch sittin

My room at the lake is still outfitted with a couple of twin beds, and both my doggies love to get on one with me. Of course Bo is always the most protective. 

Sweet Cotton ball LOVES the lake!

Bo is ok with the water, but not so much with the fact that he has to be chained when we're all outside together. Even with his mother (moi) hanging out with him, he feels the need to go on adventures around the neighborhood. It's not safe during holidays (ie more cars driving around, more people, more dogs about, etc.) for him to roam, so he is put in "time out", which isn't so bad bc he still gets in the water, has shade, and can dig in the yard til his heart's content. 

This particular weekend, my aunt, uncle, cousins, and their friends were at the lake, so they came over for a boat ride to Chimney Rock! 

Colbs, me, Caroline, and human Bo (lol)

Carl and Candace

Mollie, Candace, me, Aunt Ruby

The pups are always pooped when we return to Bham. A rare moment of lying close to each other. 

Bo bear loves to lay in the shower. I think it's the cool tiles. 

Such a happy boy! At least when he's with his mama :)

So on the previous beach trip I took, I somehow broke my glasses. Mind you, I've only had 3 pairs of glasses my entire life: the ones I got in 5th grade, 7th grade, and 11th grade. The ones I broke were my 11th grade ones. For some reason, I had my 7th grade ones with me in Bham (thank goodness), so I documented my Harry Potter-chicness below. I only wear them at night when I'm watching TV before falling asleep, so no one really sees them, but I feel the need to explain in case you wondered what decade these were from.. (1997). Check out that cool case too. I loved it then and now! 

July brought about SlossFest! It was the inaugural year for this music festival held at Sloss Furnace near downtown Birmingham. 

There were some crazy clouds, but we didn't get caught in the rain!

I just love this venue. It was an old factory that is now used for festivals and events. Super cool and industrial.

Our group: me, Lisa, Austin (Honk's cousin), Mollie, and Binky

They had an area where people were demonstrating iron pouring. 

Super awesome! You could create a mold (for $20 if I remember correctly), and they would pour the metal into them for you to collect later. You KNOW I had to do one myself!

There were three stages. One was here under the overhang.

Me and my weekend guests!

Sadly I can't remember who was who since almost a year has passed! :| I believe this was Band of Horses. 

We returned Sunday around lunch. 

I created my iron mold on this day! :D I couldn't think of something off the top of my head, and since Bink was with me (and we refer to anything we do together as Herring Sissy ___), I decided to write Herring sissy fest. The mold was made of sand, and you wrote on it mirror imaged, then scratched the pencil marks with a nail to create the raised portion of the piece. 

I was super pumped!

I had to wait until the end of the show to pick up the finished product. 

This day was EXTREMELY hot. We had to take a break and sit under a tent with a fan. 

We ended up running into some Dothan people, so it was for the best!

We walked back over to the iron works area. They had to be burning up in those jumpsuits handling that molten iron. 

The show ended with the Avett Brothers, one of my favorite bands! It was glorious! Somehow I got left alone, and found my Dothan friends to watch the show with. Lucky Binks got a hold of some VIP tickets, but we found each other after the show. 

The rest of July was filled with this baby,

(gosh he looks so small here!)

stringing some beachy string art,

and going to see my beardy again! He so nicely let's me braid his beard from time to time. So manly!

Honks and Gord!

On this trip, we hatched the idea of Big Beard BBQ! Honks really wants to have his own restaurant someday, and we decided to grab up the domain name, facebook page, instagram username, etc. Of course I couldn't resist making a logo ASAP! 

The scripted font here wasn't the final one used (you can see the final below as the profile pic). This is a long ways away from coming to fruition, but by god you know I had to grab up all the social media things for my future head of marketing position :) 

There was one final lake trip to finish up the month of July!

Can't beat this view!