Drinks at City Grocery.

Sweet potatoes at Ajax.

Visits to William Faulkner’s Grave.

Square Books.

And now one of the cutest places in Oxford
is available on the ole world-wide.
My amazing friend Erin Abbott Kirkpatrick
just launched the website for her
adorable shop, Amelia.
And it’s just as cute & creative as she is.

If you ever find yourself in town,
you must stop by, have a cupcake,
& buy something cute!
In the meantime, check it out online.

xoxo

Filled our time with
good friends.
watermelon.
40s (excuse me, 32s).
dive bars.
stupid sunglasses.
no sleep (not before 4 am anyway)
sweet tea vodka.
swimming pool.
fried food.
more beer.
the river.
the bo-keys.
bbq.
even more beer.
and dancing at wild bills.

Our cute little pit stop.

After being officially welcomed into Tennessee,
Ginny Lauren and I met up with old friends at
The Cove

Lil @bethykins

And good ole Cory Branan

The Lamplighter

I promise I’m not scaring this guy.
He asked me to use my camera.
Although, I’m pretty sure he thought it was a video camera
(despite the flashes).
Cause we got a pretty good song out of him.

The P&H

40s & Watermelon.
The new Champagne & Cupcakes.

Girls dinner

Me and my BFF @kerrisnead

My other Memphis BFF, Brandy.

The talented Nina

…Who took this purty picture

©Nina Westervelt

The damage.

The legendary Wild Bill’s.
If you’ve never been,
you should.

Wish I had taken more photos,
but I don’t think I could have
captured it properly anyway.

Recovery the next day.
(with the help of sweet tea vodka + a new friend’s pool)

Last night in (mid)town.

Blues on the Bluff
Memphis music by the Mississippi River.

Goodbye breakfast
at Otherlands.

It was so great to spend
a bite of the summer
in my old town.
Now I’m back towards the Ozarks
worn the eff out.

Once we arrived, we met Seth and Ashlee’s
new kitten Mike McNugget.

Sadie was a bit unsure of Mr. McNugget.

We enjoyed drinks with friends
and played with iPads.

We got late night greasy take out
from Town-Topic.

And when we got home
mine looked like this.
Boo.

We went on a field trip to Costco.

We tailgated outside of the
T-Bones game.

Thanks to Ashlee, everything was already set up
for our group to get into the baseball game.
(and with awesome seats)

There wasn’t much sports watching,
not by the girls at least.
Instead, we walked around the ballpark
convincing vendors to let us into their
beer huts & popcorn stands.

We even played some
basketball with strangers.
(and one of us in heels)

Good times.

You can donate five bucks
and request that they make an announcement.
We had fun with that.
“Welcome members and guests of Seth’s Dance Studio”
We threw done another fiver to add,
“Correction, Seth’s Pants Studio.”
Random, but funny to us.

Birthday boy goes
cray-zay.

I’m sad to report
that the T-Bones lost.
But this guy sure had fun…

And so did we.

A weekend in
Kansas City.
(celebrating the birthday of a friend)

A long weekend in
Memphis, Tennessee.
(a girls road trip to my hometown)

And a getaway to
Las Vegas.
(an anniversary trip to the Red Rock Resort with my husband)

I’m just as excited about the photos
I plan on taking as I am about actually
visiting these places.

Watch for posts to follow…

Sure, besides kids there are
puppies
kittens
unicorns
boats
and ballerinas too.
And not all of them have big eyes
(or any eyes at all for that matter)
but that’s what I’ve always called ‘em.

Here are some of my favorites
Yes, I said some.
I have more where these came from.

My favorite part about these weird little things
is that I remember where each one came from
and the stories these lurkers brought with them.

View the larger images (here).

Please don’t report me. ♥

After a couple hours in the pool,
I felt like getting a little crafty.
So I made my backyard
a little bit of pretty.

I gathered
construction paper, string
and my puppy too.

As dusk settled in
so did my hunger.
Made my mom’s mac & cheese
with fried okra
and dinner cupcakes
(corn bread, mashed potatoes, & bacon sprinkles).
This was a last minute idea
that is already a new favorite.

The lovely day came to a close
with a rainbow!

The rest of my holiday weekend in photos:

Fireworks on Dickson.

Vintage shopping.

More swimming.

Fair food.

Sparkers.

Girl time.

Real cupcakes too.

And turning this floor length
vintage dress into a mini.

Hope everyone had the best
4th of July weekend ever.
♥

Okay, Okay.
If you must.
I guess we can at least come to visit.
And party hard when they’re about to go.
Which is exactly what we did last weekend.

Stephanie and Trip have packed their belongings
and made the move to Houston.
Jill hosted a “See You Later” party
and we made a weekend out of it.
Friends from Kansas City came to town
just to say goodbye.
It was bittersweet.

Farmer’s Market on Saturday morning.

World Cup watching.

Cupcake eating.

Smirnoff Icing.

Bar hanging outing.

Swimming.

The farewell party at Jill’s.

The reading of Winter with Whitecloud.

Making cards.

Ending the night with a silly photoshoot.

So long, friends!
We’ll miss you!

He turned 31.
But from our party set-up…

you’d think he was turning 11.

Except for the buckets of beer.

We had an afternoon full of
summer fun.

Once the sun started to go down,
Birthday Boy still wanted to party.
He asked for an adventure,
so off to the casino we went.

We danced with strangers to a cheesy cover band.

And with each other.

I won 50 bucks on the dollar slots.

And then it was time to go home.

Other weekend treats included:

Spending time with a friend
who now lives in Austin.

Running into @jfarm
(Razorback basketball player)
outside of a bar.

And shuffleboard with my pal GL.

I was still feeling the fun
on Monday morning,
but it was all well worth it.

But what else is new?

Special thanks to Taylor
for letting us get a little cray-zay
in her corner of the salon.

I may have shattered a champagne glass.

And invited my dog.

But that’s just what happens
when you put that mix together
on a random Thursday afternoon.

We had so much fun that we
just had to keep the afternoon alive.
Oh, and show off our hair.

Onwards to a Kingfish for patio beers
and take out hot dogs from Hammontree’s!

We (Sadie included)
met former Razorback football coach,
Ken Hatfield.

I gotta say,
I like these ladies.
Can’t wait to do it all again
in 6-8 weeks.

But I’m not sure about you, Miss Sadie.
You might need to cut back.