My Favorite Collector's Item

Need I say more?

I found this little gem at H&M in Seattle. 

I decided to pass on this purchase because there were a few other items that I could NOT leave the store without. Plus- I don't know if I would have been brave enough to sport that on the street! 

I guess I could have added it to my collection in the laundry room...

sweet tooth

I think I want (no I need) to have to a Dessert Bar at our Wedding.

I haven't mentioned this to Chris yet, but I know that he will have no argument on this subject because he loves all types of dessert. He does not discriminate. The more sugar, the better to him. Because of this we agreed that he would pick the flavor of the cake when we first started planning since he is such a Sweet Treat Connoisseur. Lookout, we may have a cake encrusted with sugar cubes along with maple syrup as the filling.

Anywhoo back to the dessert table...

scrum-diddly-ump-tious

I am suddenly obsessed with a Dessert Bar because we originally wanted to have a Candy Bar and decided that it wouldn't be very practical.

Reasons why it is a BAD idea to have a Candy Bar:

a) if I was at a wedding I would be too shy to go up to a candy bar and fill doggie bag up

b) candy is ridiculously expensive, even in bulk

c) we didn't really want 45 candy cracked out children running wild at our reception

       1. candy crack addicted children will ultimately spill candy on ground creating safety hazard and we DO NOT want a guest doing the funky chicken on the dance floor to slip and break their neck over spilt goobers

Reasons why it is a FANTABULOUS idea to have a Dessert Bar:

a) pretty much ALL of the women in my family HAVE to have something sweet after each savory meal. Even if it's just a bite. (OK, OK- me, my mom, and nana is all I know for sure- but I am trying to build my case here people)

b) everyone likes a little variety, duh

c) we can have sweets from our childhood that we loved then and still love now (Grandma Morphis' Cake Brownies/Nana's Pecan Pie minus the pecans, just the gooey center)

d) who needs more reasons? I vote yes- isn't that a majority vote? 

So- here is what I propose to serve on the dessert menu (I still need to get Chris' suggestions):

• Strawberry Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing
• Mini Pecan Pies
• Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Peanut Butter filling
• Sugar Cookies (plain but oh-so-good)
• Mini Apple Pies
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Reese's PB Cup Cookies (Nana's Recipe)
• Mini Cherry Pies
• Pie Pops

As you can see there a few different varieties of pie so this list will probably change at least 25x before the day actually rolls around so don't be too disappointed if you the item you really want is not laying on the table waiting for you to devour it. Just fair warning. 

What would you like to munch on off of the Dessert Bar? I'd love suggestions.

can you believe this?

One of Chris' coworker's "Mama" (his gf but he refers to her as Mama) has a garden and has been sending stuff for us. We got a cantaloupe last Friday and this Friday we got 2 tomatoes (YUM!) and this gi-gan-tour cucumber. We'll be eating this for daysss.

I look super goofy in this picture because Landon walked up as I was making Chris take it and I realized how ridiculous I was being. Therefore we have the crazed face...

I wanted everyone to know that I was NOT exaggerating the size of this monster! 

Longer than my forearm.

Chris insists that now we owe them a cake so I guess that's what I'll be doing on Sunday!

Hope you enjoyed this ridiculous post and the even more ridiculous picture to go with it.

no.1 sweet as sugar

After reading some inspiration from abeautifulmess I decided I wanted to have regular feature Friday.

Every Friday I am going to post fun/delightful/fancy/inspiring/witty things that I stumble upon

• Since I can't seem to find an old school flip clock this screensaver will just have to do.

• Who doesn't love a hay bail sofa and cocktail table?

• I'm trying to figure out where I can hang these super cute and handy deep pocket floating shelves but all I can come up with is the bathroom...so I'm thinking I will hold off on them.

• ME + YOU = LOVE

• Does anyone recognize these bee-u-tee-mous b-maids dresses?

mini girl's roadtrip

this past weekend Mom, Macy, Rachel, and I went to Bastrop to get our hair done by Court.

Courtney made us take an after picture.

Poor Courtney worked so hard to blow out me and Macy's hair and then we just put it in a ponytail.

It was unbelievably hot outside and I couldn't take it anymore, so I unfortunately just had to look crazy in the picture

Pretty soon I will need to go back for Wedding Hair Trial...

I'm liking these two styles right now. 

Not sure what I'll go with, good thing I have eleventy-billion days figure it out.

tar-jay addicts anonymous

If you frequent the local target you HAVE to read this post from Harper's Happenings!

I could never put into words my obsession with the red and white as eloquently as the author of this post has.

It will make you laugh and most likely agree 100%!

bullseye

*thanks Rachel for sharing this with me.

In Chris' words...

IT'S ALLLIIIIIIIIIVE!

Don't worry, he has a helmet. He just rode to the end of Cody and Rachel's block.

and like a true guy the bike is now in pieces while he is rebuilding parts of it.