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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Sauced

Lord.
Have.
Mercy.
On my belly.

Wingathon

This past Saturday
I spent a full
eight hours
eating hot wings.
And drinking beer.

It was a very tough job,
but somebody had to do it.
Fayetteville Flyer‘s Flyer Foodie
collected a few fine folks
and led us on an adventure to find
Fayetteville’s best hot wing.

We did this last year
with the quest to find
Fayetteville’s best taco.

Tacothon 2009

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Wingathon 2010
consisted of ten restaurants
with two different wings at each location.
Exhausting, delicious, and messy.
Just my style.

I’ll link to the results
once they’re published,
but for now here’s our journey
in 140 pictures or less.

The girls rode in the way back.

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Even though there was no need to.

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First stop,
Louie’s.

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Second stop,
Buffalo Wild Wings.

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World Cup fans
out in full force.

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Headed to Wingstop.

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Next up,
Slim Chickens
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Risked our lives.
Running across College Avenue
to Foghorn’s
.

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The day (and food babies)
started to drag us down.
It was just halfway over.

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Next on the list
was my personal fave,
JJ’s Grill-N-Chill
.
I had never been here before,
but the wings were great,
the margaritas were two bucks,
and the girls all wore cowboy boots.
Which all helped us get
our second wind.

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From there, we just walked
across the way to Boar’s Nest.

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Where our drinks came in
Mason jars.

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By this time a few of us were were
feeling just a little silly.
So we made a pit stop in Dollar General
And the laundry mat.
Duh.

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Finally at Lucky Luke’s.

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Xaxby’s was second to the end.
And boy were we excited.

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Our final stop
was on Dickson

(either genius or worst idea ever)
at the lovely Hog Haus Brewing Co.

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Where we drank blueberry beer.
And continued to act silly.

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It was quite a day,
which led to quite a night
given our ending spot
right on bar row.

We rolled (literally) to Kingfish
where we watched Razorback baseball
with a couple friends.

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We didn’t win.
As if you couldn’t tell from
their faces.

Somehow,
before the night was done,
I was able to fit in
frozen yogurt from Orange Mango.

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Orange Mango.

Great.
Now I’m hungry for frozen yogurt.
And hot wings.

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Record Breakers

When I was little
I use to fall asleep
flipping through
the 1987 version of the
Guinness Book of World Records.

Many of the records were awesome.
Others were ridiculous.
Oh, and some were just gross.
I was mesmerized by it all.

So when there was a chance to help out
in breaking a world record here in Fayetteville,
I had to be there.

The brave citizens of my town
were attempting to break the record
for world’s largest swim lesson
at the city pool in Wilson Park.

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And with 262 people,
we did it!

I was a little apprehensive
of being in the pool with that many people
(that much pee).
Especially when part of the lesson
was to blow bubbles under water.

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But as two of the oldest participants,
Brandy and I did our part.

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Now, we are a part of
(random) history.

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Just call us heros, badasses, whatever.

Town Yarnage

Last week a gaggle of yarn bandits
were on the loose in Fayetteville.

The sneaky knitters managed to
yarn-bomb the town square,
sewing warm colors
around cold city fixtures.

In the sad case that
the city took it down,
A note was left
on a light poll
asking to please
donate the creations
to the animal shelter.
For doggie beds.

Can’t get any cuter than that, folks.

My amazing hairstylist
was the mastermind behind
bringing this phenomenon to town.

First Thursday 6/3/2010
Taylor, Cameron, me, & Brains


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Thank you Taylor
for making my city
(and my hair)
pretty pretty!

Lazy Lake Saturday

It’s just the first weekend of June
and this is already the summer of
water, sun & fun.

After a night of photos
and last call at the bar,
a few of us headed to the lake.
Just a short hour away.

I get so use to the day-to-day
that sometimes I forget how
pretty Arkansas really is.

Bluffs, rocks, mountains
and water that was surprisingly warm.

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We found a homemade fishing poll.
I used a lime as bate.
And lost the hook.
Immediately.

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Now it’s Sunday, which is typically my
lazy at home day.
I spent the afternoon under the sun
listening to Dr. Dog in my kiddie pool.
But while lounging in my shark-pool-for-one,
Todd surprised me with this

pool

A little trashy?
Why, yes.
Do I love it?
Why, hell yes.

So now you can expect
about 1,000 more summer photos
and for me to have a
crazy awesome tan.

The Miracle Photobooth

This past week there
may or may not
have been a large event taking place in Fayetteville.
This event
may or may not
have been for the world’s largest employer.

Mariah Carey,
Jamie Foxx,
and Enrique Iglesias
may or may not
have been just a few of the guests in town.
And us girls
may or may not
have gone out on Friday night
in hopes of spotting a celeb or two.

Instead, we found something even better.
We met two guys who
may or may not
have been in town working the event
photobooth in tow.

Their company
may or may not
have worked other events such as
the New Moon premier

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A party with the cast of Glee.

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And maybe even a CW show or two.

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The evening started off
completely normal.

Happy hour.
Two dollar beers.

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Cute patio.
Sitting outside.

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Then things got
amazingly fun.
If you know me,
you know how much I love photos.
Of anything and everything.
And photobooths?
Well, they have my heart.

And on Friday night,
we had access to
Free. Unlimited. Photobooth pictures.
We took hundreds, but below are some of my faves.
Complete Flickr set is here.

The set up

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Our new friends.

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We finished the night at
good ole Kingfish.
Where we inspected
our loot.

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And said goodbye
to our new photo pals.

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Hearts!