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My Super Secret Happy Surprise!


    So that silly secret surprise I was so excited about...
    Yesterday was an awesome day as Mike and I hopped in the car and drove 9 hours north to Chicago! All for the sake of surprising Miss Susannah Bean on her (belated) birthday! We told her we weren't going to be able to make it (and we weren't), but after both Mike and I got bummed we decided to drive up anyway, make it happen, and surprise her! Chris was in on the whole thing luckily (we had to have someone up here help us coordinate!) We were going to surprise her at work but decided just sitting on her couch when she got in from a long shift was a better idea. We're super excited to be here and help her start off her 25th year! Do you read Susannah's blog? If you don't, you should. She's adorable! We're off to make a day of it! Hopefully I'll be back to share more soon! xo

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My Super Secret Happy Surprise!


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Wilmington Roadtrip: A Photo Journey



    Finally! I'm starting to catch up on my posts and I can finally subject y'all to a million iPhone photos of our roadtrip! Granted we've been back from said trip almost a week now, between all of the NYC and Levi's shenanigans, I'm only starting to feel less stressed. I'm sure work this weekend didn't help! More on that later! I'll post several photos and then coordinating captions under them. Then a few more and so on. If you have a slow internet connection then you should probably just skip this post all together! It's going to be all sorts of ridiculous!

    oo1. part of the 14 hour drive. oo2. i fell asleep for an hour and a half, and mike proceeded to drive the wrong direction the entire time. oo3. our classy establishment. oo4. getting ready to grab some dinner. oo5. our choice of thursday's meal. pizza and beer.


    oo1. breakfast of a mocha and blueberry muffin at port city java downtown. oo2. lunch at susannah's aunt's restaurant. oo3. walking on the beach oo4. mike taking photographs oo5. pretty pretty beach houses in kure beach.

    oo1. brew thru! a drive-thru beer shop just for novelty. oo2. pretty beach homes in kure beach. oo3. inappropriately dressed for the beach. oo3. an incredibly strange souvenir. oo4. fishing pier.

    oo1. pier. oo2. from the brew thru. oo3. mine and susannah's drinks. ~*getting loko. oo4. key fence public art installation downtown. oo5. my favorite artwork downtown.

    oo1. same eldeman "zoe" boots in edge of urge (must buy!) oo2. bento box dinner from nikki's sushi. oo3. fork free friday! oo4. left our waitress a sticker. oo5. little dipper for fondue dessert.

    oo1. pretty pretty drinks at mixito oo2. the opera room (upstairs) quickly became our favorite bar. oo3. chris & susannah have never had waffle house so it was a *must* for saturday morning. oo4. snagged this dress at a consignment shop but i need to shorten the torso. oo5. mike and i were fueled for the day! 

    oo1. the river downtown. oo2. tongue in the panties at the opera room. oo3. what i wore to dinner with susannah's family at blue water (a few hours before mike proposed!). oo4. sunday lunch at nikki's (again!) and my bento. oo5. mike's sushi.

    oo1. sunday's breakfast at java dog cafe (i'm all out of order!) oo2. rain rain rain. oo3. we may be obsessed. oo4. sitting at the italian market cafe on front street. oo5. italian gelato (actually, raspberry and lemon sorbetto)

    oo1. random love left in a cafe. oo2. homestyle tofu lunch at the noodle shop in asheville. oo3. genghis grill mongolian stirfry for dinner in franklin. oo4. chris and his corn-cob pipe from a convenience store on the drive home. 

    Overall we had a blast! So glad Susannah and Chris came along! It wouldn't have been the same without them! Now I'm tired again. Phew! xo

    PS; Almost all of these photos were edited in the iPhone app, Cross Process.



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Wilmington Roadtrip: A Photo Journey


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Why Did the Cupcake Cross The Road?

    Answer: To Take Outfit Pictures, Of Course!





    By the time you read this it will be Friday afternoon.. I'm writing it a few minutes before midnight. Susannah, Chris, Mike and my sleepy self are happily in Wilmington! Finally! These pictures were from Wednesday as we were waiting on them to get into town. This is one of my new dresses from Modcloth! So glad it fit. I feel like a cupcake! The suede wedges are my new Jeffrey Campbell shoes (they're a deep purple, but they're hard to see!) and the bling on that finger is a new Juicy Couture ring. Normally I'm not a big fan of JC stuff (I only own a charm bracelet) but that little ring did something for me! I've picked up a few of those Sally Hansen nail strips that Kaylah and Laine have been sporting lately and I paired the leopard print with the OPI Teenage Dream by Katy Perry nail polish. I'm obsessed with it!

    Anywho, Chris and Susannah got into town and then we headed to Lawrenceburg to stay at Mike's parents' house. We grabbed a sub-par dinner and some beers before heading over and we stayed up way too late talking to his parents and then with just each other. We settled into bed and woke up at 5:30am to get on the road. We were in the car of 14 hours on Thursday! I drove a few hours of it but Mike really took the wheel on that one! I fell asleep at one point for about an hour and a half and what would you know! Mike drove the entire hour and a half in the wrong direction... yea.. Luckily it only added about an hour or so to our trip since he went North instead of Southeast. But that's fine! We're here! We settled into our hotel and then we went to Slice of Life downtown for some pizza and beer.





    I'd go into detail about Friday's plans but aside from photos and meeting up at Susannah's family's restaurant for lunch, we're an open book! If you have any suggestions for us or want to come hang out, speak up! We'll be here til Monday!





    Oh! And some super ridiculously exciting news was sent to me while driving today!  So do you guys know about Levi's and their Shape What's To Come campaign?! Well, last week they had a little Twitter contest and all you had to do was say who you thought the most iconic woman of the decade was and why. Well, being that I love everything about Ellen Degeneres, I nominated her. And today I got a phone call saying I won! SO GUESS WHAT?! They're flying me to New York City on Tuesday morning for 3 days/2 nights and I get to attend the Levis/Vogue Women's Day Celebration Party! Yes! Crazy right!? I never in a million years thought I'd get to do something like this and I almost didn't think I'd be able to make it! We'll drive the 13+ hours back to Tennessee on Monday and I'll wake up super early Tuesday to drive the 2 hours to the airport and fly out! We're trying to find Mike a flight, too, so that he can come with me! I hope we can! Either way, NYC, I'm coming for you! I hope everything works out and nothing messes up my plans! If you're in NYC and you want to get together, I'll be free all Wednesday and the first part of Thursday!

    Okay! off I go!

    Home Before Ten Dress: ModCloth
    Caridgan: Forever 21
    Tights: Hue
    Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell Hamilton Suede Wedges
    Ring: Juicy Couture

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Why Did the Cupcake Cross The Road?


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