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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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Holiday Weekend

The end of a long weekend is here.
I had the house, and the day, to myself.
As nice as it was,
bordom did sneak up on 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.

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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.

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The lovely day came to a close
with a rainbow!

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The rest of my holiday weekend in photos:

Fireworks on Dickson.

3rd of July

3rd of July

3rd of July

Vintage shopping.

First Week of July

First Week of July

First Week of July

First Week of July

More swimming.

First Week of July

Fair food.

First Week of July

Sparkers.

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Girl time.

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Real cupcakes too.

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And turning this floor length
vintage dress into a mini.

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

CCH

What do you get
when you give four girls
Champagne, Cupcakes, and new Hair?
A ton of self indulgent pictures
and a whole lot of sass.

But what else is new?

Salon Day

Salon Day

Salon Day

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.

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And invited my dog.

Salon Day

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

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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!

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

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

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

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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

Tacothon

Tacothon

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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More Wedding Photos

Here are a few more photos that (most of which our friends & family took). I will probably post more in a few days once the rest of them roll in…

silk screened poster invitations by Sasha Barr

wedding favors

our “guest book”

for the champagne toast

one of the few shots of the ceremony that i have right now

taking off

Tons more over on Flickr

Luv,
Sarah

wedding polaroids!

Thought I would go ahead and post the Polaroid portion of our wedding photos. Big thanks to the lovely Erin Abbott for almost all of these shots!

For those of you all who don’t know, we got married in a little old house right next to the University of Arkansas campus. It just so happens to be the house where Bill & Hillary Clinton use to live (and where they were married). Plus, we just so happen to be the first couple to get married there since them, hince all of the Clinton references below and the newspaper article.


Todd & Sarah Gill

my girls & me (and our airbrush backdrop straight from the Memphis ghetto)

cupcake wedding cake thanks to Laura & Darling Deserts

Polaroid wedding cake toppers

sharing the first cupcake

we had mini cans of Sofia Coppola champagne for the toast

making it official (in Bill & Hillary’s old bedroom of all places!)

dudes + cigars = true love

my husband

cheers Bill!

Brandy w/ a famed letter we got from Bill Clinton!

i think Three Six was playing

cracker jacks, salt water taffy, nachos, corndogs, & pizza!

true love for real

me in my wedding dress next to Hillary Clinton’s wedding dress

me + erin = true love

me with my niece Mariam & stepsister Roxy (who caught the bouquet)

Todd, his dad, & me

it was hot. we had tents, but it was still hot.

good friends

Todd w/ my mom

two hot ladies serving champagne

Be & Erin (we had toy flutes & kazoos instead of bubbles for our send off)

Cory & Karen

Brandy & Laura

bouquet toss

Joel, Kerri, & Brandy

the fam – Mariam, my mom, Roxy, & Tim

Kerri & Joel

Pretty ladies – Brandy, Kerri, & Erin

my dad video taping the fun

Brandy & Erin

Todd & Aaron

Laura & Bev

Jonathan + a beer = true love

Katie (Todd’s sister), Erin, & Bill

Erin & my momma

Kerri & Erin

Kerri & Brandy

Ed (Todd’s setp-dad) & me

me + my mom = true love

sexy bridesmaids

awww more true love.

all the ladies w/ Todd

the send off!

got married… & went to the car wash!

eating more cupcakes at our fab hotel room! we stayed at an old hotel on campus that use to be a women’s dorm long ago & now is suppose to be haunted.

snapshots from our honeymoon at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami

Luv,
Sarah