A Picture An Hour (Chicago Saturday)

I tweeted publicly, told Susannah to remind me, and set my alarm Saturday morning as "A picture an hour!"... I had every intention on really pulling through this time! Last time we were on vacation with Chris & Susannah I really meant to do one, but alas I forgot. This time though, I stuck it out! Until the last 2 or so hours, that is. We didn't wake up until 11am but that was because we had a long and very eventful Friday night. It may or may not have included darts, new old ladies at a little dive bar, awkward run-ins with a drunk lady, 3am bike rides (and subsequent 3am bike wrecks...). I still have a doozy of a bruise on my knee to prove it. (Thank goodness the people whose front yard I face-planted in weren't awake! Yikes!) I'm not the most graceful person and the bike I was on didn't have any hand-brakes so I was at a loss for how to stop the darn thing. Alas, I just went (down) with it.

Anyway, here you go!

11am - coffee and lounge time. trying to wake our bodies up for the day ahead.




12pm - finishing the "getting ready" portion. makeup, nails, etc.





1pm - saying "so long" to mr. little jeans and making our way out the door. mine & susannah's cars. & sweet susannah!





2pm - in the car. on our way to nom on some sushi station. being silly in the backseat.




3pm - finally! we have arrived. sushi time. the veggie rolls were delicious! mine and susannah's iphones. aren't they cuteeee?!






4pm - leaving sushi station. heading to target to pick up things for the cookout.




6pm - the boys play a handful of games on the wii while we kill time.



7pm - bottles are open and the chit chat begins.




8pm - burgers are ready and corn on the cob is awkward to eat. 




10pm - the conversation moves indoors as a result of the overwhelming amount of mosquitos.




11pm - mike is already pooped, but we start to get our second wind.



12am - chris plays his guitar and topher entertains us with his antics. twitter tweets, too! 




Not pictured: the many breaks taken outside on the front porch, run-ins with strange people, disappearing guests down the road, being entirely too loud for a small neighborhood, walking to the bonner road inn bar at 1am, subsequent new old ladies and fantastic conversation, walking back home at 2am and proceeding to grill out (again) and the intensely epic business convo that i got into with susannah and mike... then feeling inspired and heading to bed around 3:30am. All in all: a very good/needed vacation!

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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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Connections: Susannah's New Feature!

Susannah came up with her new feature idea a couple of weeks ago and I was in love with it! Her feature is called Connections and it showcases blogger-made friendships which are larger than life. I'm super excited because the first installation of Connections features my friendship with Susannah and how we became to be so close. Susannah is without a doubt one of my very very best friends and I love her so much! It was fun to write about the past year and even more fun to read her answers (which I didn't get to see until today!) If you're at all interested in reading about our connection then pop on over to Susannah's blog to check it out! You can definitely look forward to other rad ladies writing about each other so keep your eyes peeled for that!

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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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