Happy Happy Birthday!!

Happy Friday loves!!

And a big, humongous 

happy birthday to my mom!

While we're spending the day celebrating, 

check out my guest post for miss Ali

over here. 

Happy weekending!!

xoxo.

A Little Vitamin C for your Monday

Mornin' lovebugs!

I hope y'all had a great weekend!

(I seriously wanna hear all about it so linkup with Sami, Dana, & Leann)

Mine weekend was busy busy busy.

Little bro graduated on Saturday; and of course we couldn't make it through the day without playing Vitamin C's Graduation. 

As we go onnnnn

we rememberrrrr

all the times we

spent togetherrrrr

:)

I'm not sure that I've shared this with any of you before, but my mom home-schooled all four of us. I was only home-schooled for 3 years but my brother, whose the youngest, started when he was in 2nd grade. So now my mom is out of a job so to speak, but I'm pretty sure she's ready to start doing her own thing....aka traveling.

By now y'all should know that I pretty much suck at taking pictures. 

But I did manage to snag some from a few people's cameras :)

We had an ahhh-mazing dinner at PF Changs after the ceremony and then it was partay time the next day. Of course, Jake went golfing all day and just had to show up at his party with everything done. I guess that's what happens when you're the baby of the family. ha

And these would be the only pics I got of the party. 

Funfetti cupcakes. 

go me. ha

happy monday!

xoxo.

May the odds be ever in your favor

happy hunger games. i mean monday.

ahh!

I was so excited to see the movie this weekend.

tickets were sold out friday & saturday so the only day we could see it was yesterday.

I can honestly say that I have never looked so forward to a sunday.

I went with my friend/stylist, Audrey, and her hubby, along with 6 other girls. 

We went to this theater called Cinebistro. Do y'all have one where you live? 

Let me just tell you, once you cinebistro, you don't go back.

I will never go to a regular theater again. Not that I'm a regular movie go'er anyway, but they seriously have outdone themselves. We got to the theater around 11:30 and ordered mimosas. Since Audrey was the first to order a drink that day, she got a free specialty drink. Then we went into the theater to get our seats and there were waiters taking our food orders (that's right, they serve you legit food before the movie) and we decided on a bottle of wine for the movie. So fun! Oh, not to mention that we are sitting in huge leather chairs that were super comfy.  

So, what did y'all think of the movie?

I loved it! I'm glad I read the book before though because you definitely don't get a lot of the backstory. And even though it was two hours, I still felt like it was rushed. But it was still so good! and I would totally see it again :)

1. me & my man peeta {I know you're jelsss}

2. #1 for seeing the first movie

3. the girls

4. movie & mimosas- hollaaa

5. us in front of the hunger games flag

6. hunger games cocktails. yes please!

in other news, I went to tarjay this weekend and got these goodies.

{please excuse the lemon juice in the background. I'm trying to get rid of a bajillion scars on my legs from the river last year- blech}

Ok, so goodies {clockwise}

- Sally Hansen in Racey Rouge

- Dove dry shampoo (review to come)

- Elf Makeup Brush Shampoo

- fun sally hansen nail files

- Maybelline Baby Lips chapstick x2

- Maybelline Define-a-lash mascara

And finally, last Thursday Jake and I went down to CNU to watch Olivia in her end of the year dance performance. We had to wait until the last act but it was so worth it. She did such a great job! {love you liv:)}

phew!

how was your weekend?

ps. - don't forget to enter my giveaway!

xoxo.

Thanksgiving Recap/Weekend/Day to Remember

Happy Monday loves.

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend and that you ate just as much food {if not more} than I did! ;) I feel like this post is going to be a bit lengthy so I won't be offended if you don't stick around long enough to get to the bottom. {I lie...cause I always save the best for last.}

Seriously! 

Let's begin shall we?

Thanksgiving-

We had our entire family over for Thanksgiving this year, which was the first time since I can remember. There were 14 of us total....well 15 if you count Toby. Little man got some turkey and had his own baby turkey leg. It was a huge success and we all had so much fun, and surprisingly enough, I can't wait to get together with everyone again. 

Here are some pics from my sister's iphone-

I was not one of the many crazies to head out on Black Friday this year. I did it last year and that cured it for me...and Olivia....and Jake. I knew lots of people that started their shopping Thanksgiving night. I don't know about y'all but it seems to me like Thanksgiving is starting to lose it's meaning. It used to be a day spent relaxing with family and friends and now it's turning into another shopping day....isn't that what Friday is for?! That's my take on it anyway. Cyber Monday is my new bff. Speaking of, there are some sales calling my name today! 

Weekend-

Saturday I went to the Tech/UVA game in Charlottesville. Huge Rivalry! In Virginia, regardless of whatever college you decide to go to, you are brought up choosing one of those 2 schools to root for. I chose VT a long time ago :) History lesson over. Back to Saturday. It was my first time tailgating ever. Hard to believe that I made it 25 years without doing it. Anyway, we got to the stadium at 6...as in 6am....still dark out. I refused to come out of the truck until at least 9am...7am doesn't even come twice a day for me, ok? Needless to say, tailgating was tons of fun....not sure I wanna do it again for a while though. I had a little too much fun ;) If you didn't tune into the game, Tech not only beat UVA, we shut them out! As in 38-0. Whoop whoop! Next week we're heading to Charlotte for the ACC Championship game against Clemson. Go Hokies!!

 new friends :)

Logan Thomas aka QB/man of the game

#7 Marcus Davis 

Huge game for him...and we got to tailgate with his momma. Girlfriend is a riot!

Day to Remember-

Today is special for 2 reasons. 

one. 

Grandpapa would be 70 today. Instead of being here, he's celebrating his birthday with Grandmama in Heaven. I love you so much Grandpapa! 

two.

Toby is 9 months today. I can't believe how fast the little stinker is growing! 

1st night home- 2 months old

8 months old- still cute as ever! :)

Phew! Told ya it was a read! 

How were y'alls weekends? Did you brave the crowds and end up going out on Black Friday? 

xoxo.