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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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Posts Tagged: Arkansas

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.

24 hours

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

24 hours

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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.

Happy Spring

What better way to celebrate the beginning of spring than with… SNOW!

Wait. What?

Yeah, that’s what I thought when I woke up this morning.

spring snow!

It started falling on Saturday and continued all through late afternoon on Sunday. This is especially crazy considering that on Thursday and Friday I shared happy hour with girl friends on a sunny patio…

summer dreaming

summer dreaming

summer dreaming

summer dreaming

summer dreaming

Fast forward to Sunday and we have at least a foot of the cold stuff. Even though I am beyond ready for sundresses, margaritas, and swimming pools, we did manage to have a little fun…

Sadie & Everett had a couple friends over to enjoy the snow.

animals + spring snow

Sadie, Layla, Ellie, & Pinky the flamingo

animals + spring snow

animals + spring snow

Layla has a snow mustache.

animals + spring snow

Ellie says, “I’ll just be right here…”
animals + spring snow

Sadie!

animals + spring snow

Ooph..

animals + spring snow

I built a snow lady…

spring snow!

spring snow!

While my 10 year old husband built a snow fort.

spring snow!

He even built a doggie door.

spring snow!

spring snow!

I think Sadie had the most fun of all.

Till next year, snow!
Or so I hope…

(no. 1) Getting Married

This top ten list is in no particular order, but I just can’t help but start with my wedding day.

I was never the girl who dreamed of the perfect wedding day, but the moment I first saw Todd playing on stage with Lucero, I whispered in my girlfriend’s ear, “I’m going to marry that guy.” A few years later, my very first thought was confirmed. After a couple years of dating, Todd proposed to me in Eureka Springs. Thanks to the support of our amazing family and friends, we were able to have a wedding that truly fit us. Isn’t that what it’s all about, anyway? Our “ultra casual” wedding (as the invite states) was my favorite day of the decade, if not my life.

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Wedding favors: Stickers & Buttons.

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Front page wedding!

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I love September.

I have been insane-o busy lately with school. Besides my fourth semester of German (ich bin nicht gut), I am taking all upper level journalism courses that are very time consuming. On top of that, it’s finally time to start working on my senior paper.

Fantasy Football is also attempting to take over the few free hours that I do have. So far I lost my first match up, but it’s still crazy addictive. I can’t complain though, I did choose one guy because his last name is McAlister and I love love love to eat at McAlister’s. Anyways, go team Cuddly Kittens!

Next week I’ll be in Key West for Katie’s wedding and then a few weeks after that Laura & I are going to Vegas. I can’t wait for either trip, especially since I missed out on the big adventure to Kansas City this weekend. Somewhere in-between Florida and Nevada I turn a year older too. So not fun anymore.

I have a few exciting things to report…

+ Bittersweet Styles was in the newspaper a couple days ago in California.
You can read the full article here.

+ We were also featured on my friend Jazzi’s fashion blog!
Jazzi is a stylist in LA/NY who is also a contributer for Teen Vogue (at almost age 27, one of my major guilty pleasures).

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+ Laura & I did a fun little photoshoot for Mason’s for this month’s issue of Citiscapes…

+ Of course I have more wedding photos to share as well. I’m just going to post a few of my favorites because I uploaded all of them on my Flickr account a while back.

+ I’ll end with some photos from lately…

Too cute…

Todd built us a Chill Zone

Our Chill Zone (part 1)

We went to the fair!

As my grandma would say, “That’s all she wrote.”

Luv,
Sarah