HELLO
Mom to Iris. Wife to Todd. Our little family lives at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Fayetteville, Arkansas. We love it here and I love sharing little bits of our life.

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We Like The Nightlife

Just got back from a three night
stay in Memphis.
We stayed up late
and were lazy all day.
Pretty stellar agenda
if you ask me.

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.

MEMPHIS

MEMPHIS

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

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Lil @bethykins

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And good ole Cory Branan

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The Lamplighter

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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.

MEMPHIS

The P&H

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40s & Watermelon.
The new Champagne & Cupcakes.

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Girls dinner

Me and my BFF @kerrisnead

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My other Memphis BFF, Brandy.

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The talented Nina

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…Who took this purty picture

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©Nina Westervelt

The damage.

MEMPHIS

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.

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

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Last night in (mid)town.

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Blues on the Bluff
Memphis music by the Mississippi River.

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Goodbye breakfast
at Otherlands.

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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.

Seth’s Pants Studio

We spent the weekend
in one of my favorite towns, Kansas City.
Just three and a half hours aways,
we couldn’t pass up spending a couple days
celebrating our friend Seth’s birthday.

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

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Sadie was a bit unsure of Mr. McNugget.

Seth's Pants Studio

We enjoyed drinks with friends
and played with iPads.

Seth's Pants Studio

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

Kansas City

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

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

Seth's Pants Studio

We went on a field trip to Costco.

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

We tailgated outside of the
T-Bones game.

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

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

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

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.

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

We even played some
basketball with strangers.

(and one of us in heels)

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Good times.

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

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.

Seth's Pants Studio

Birthday boy goes
cray-zay.

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

Seth's Pants Studio

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

And so did we.

Seth's Pants Studio

Weekend Getaways

Just a quick post on how
I plan to spend the rest of my summer
– with many mini vacays!

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

Kansas City

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

Memphis - Girl Trip!

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

2009 Las Vegas Girls Trip

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…

Collection: Vintage Big Eyed Kid Paintings

Somewhere in between my
weekend boredom & eagerness of a new camera lens
I decided to photograph
some of my favorite belongings:
my collection of big eyed kid paintings.

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.

Collection.

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).