totally random post: fascinators, two races, dinner group, thomas jefferson plants & so much more

carrie is getting married in a short while and one night i had the pleasure of meeting her out with some friends to go wedding dress shopping. she was such a good sport and tried on about 50 dresses. it was way fun. the best part was trying on the fascinators. i am ALL about these and so is carrie. we heart them.

side note to carrie: send me some photos of the other night or i can steal them from your blog). k? thanks.

the bride to be, being fascinating in a fascinator

(please note, this is NOT her wedding dress) 

it took me about 30 seconds to have one
of these on, wore it the whole time

i ran in the run for the school at the zoo with a ton of my friends. it was FUN. matt met me there with the kids and we did the zoo afterwards. it was a good day.

this is my 12th race so far

check out my friends! (the smiths, a blum, a hussar,
a davis, the overstreets, the palmers and me) 

kristina ran the show, and did a photo essay of the day 

the hussar twins ran the kid race - they took OFF 

miss mady ran it as well - she must get her talent from her parents 

then it was zoo time. lottie sue and rowdy had a great time.

we have the davis kiddos, the hussar kiddos
and the mowrer kiddos in the jeep 

uh, way to ham it up, lottie sue - not

lottie and matt ride a camel (this was the highlight of her day) 

megan with a cup of joe and watching the exciting camel ride

rowdy was chasing after dad and lottie 

rowdy chats up a camel 

megan and i cannot resist a photo booth

(kissy, happy, scared then pretty) 

the next day lottie sue went to vivaan's birthday party at bounce usa - she had a GREAT time and i took two shots with my phone.

they are blurry because she was never still

and now to the random photo section of the post. here is a photo of something lottie did...looks like snow white was going under the knife.

bb stopped by one evening and brought food for an impromptu picnic.

eating al fresco

THEN a dream came true! i have always wanted to be a runner, and a step up from that i want my family to be an active family. running together is a dream of mine. even though matt has completed a marathon, he hasn't completed a 5K. so on may 7th we ran a 5K as a family - i was so happy!

my race bib (#13)

i pushed the kids for mile 1 and 2 and then matt
came back after finishing to do the last mile

(matt, moi, mackenzie, amy and kelly - with
rowdy and lottie sue in the jogger) 

that night it was the langley's run to host dinner group - thai food was on the menu and is was AWESOME. it was tasty and pretty to look at, way to go! rick also built this crazy awesome deck. i wish i had taken a photo because nothing i write will do it justice. i will bug kate for one (kate, send me a photo!).

good food, good friends 

us cutie pie girls

(kate, moi, amy and jojo) 

and now i have more random photos for you. lottie sue is learning to count, here is she practicing while wearing fairy wings, glitter headband, beaded necklace while carrying a handbag.

the more you know the further you'll go 

our church's parent's day out program had an end-of-the-year festival. and of course we forgot to bring the camera so i shot two with my phone. lottie sue cried (big time) when it was time to go.

happy on the merry go round 

pink face after eating cotton candy 

and check out mr. knox! here he is at his 9-month appointment. check out those legs!!!

could he BE any cuter? nope. 

and now some other photos from my phone.

lottie sue golfed after running through the sprinklers last sunday 

rowdy at the park the other day, he
wanted to go down into that water 

here is lottie sue sulking after i told her it was time to go home

and now, i leave you with items of interest...

• the office a la georges seruat's 'sunday afternoon'
• matt and i love kristen schaal ever since the flight of the concords
• i am excited about the hunger games movies, i like jennifer lawrence but thought she was too old to play the part - but that is overshadowed by woody harrelson as haymitch (i lurve him)
• this is the most expensive photograph ever purchased: $3.89M
• you have probably been living under a rock if you haven't seen this video. i think it's fine but other people are gaga over it.

please say yes

• roseanne barr writes for new york magazine
• i loved melissa mccarthy when she was sookie on the gilmore girls (still love her and now she's in bridesmaids!!!)
• here's a list of the 50 most important women in food (i will NEVER be on that list)
• death cab for cutie is streaming their new album on NPR
• marc maron interviews garry shandling
• i just started watching web therapy, and it is ker-ackin me UP

i will leave with this...dear, sweet kitty kat send us a tomato and strawberry plant. i would take a photo but it is currently storming) all the way from monticello - how COOL and AWESOME is that? well, that's basically kat in a nutshell - cool and awesome. 

THEN she proceeded to write up these descriptions for us. i'm going to have them framed. she is thoughtful AND very pregnant. my brain was NOT capable of doing stuff like this when i had a bun in the the oven. bravo, kitty kat - and thank you again! 

stay tuned for photos of tomatoes and strawberries

alrighty, i have another post that i have to write for you soon. it's from easter and mother's day. stay tuned!

break out the kleenex, doodle this & fun times with friends

i HAVE to open with this photo, taken with the hipstamatic on my iphone while at shon's last week.

yes, i know - break out the kleenex, my two sweet kids

(this is not a posed photo, they did this all by themselves)

this is going to be one of those photo dump posts. lots of photos from lots of things. we have been social butterflies the past two months, usually february and march are bleh but it's been hopping. i won't put them all in this post so i have more, don't you worry your pretty little head(s). but FIRST i have have to share the coolest thing i have seen in a while. i SO WISH i would have know about this when i was in high school.

snakes on a plane

i know this girl talks so so so fast but it's worth watching a few times. she has several other videos that i will share with you but let's get this one down first. i will scan in my sketch page, some of them are funny - looks like lottie sue did them. anywho, i hope you like it as much as i do - i think it is awesome! i'm going to make some keeerazy doodles. just you watch. 

and now on to the photo dump.

here is lottie sue after bathtime, she loves these goggles (a gift from uncle johnny & aunt judy, birthday #3) and wears them in the bathtub quite often. i say, whatever floats your boat.

 

 crabby glasses

this is a photo of harlan and lottie when the apples were down in february

(sad, but this is the only photo i have - it gets
busy with four little kids in the house)

 lottie drive rowdy around the yard

oh, here's a segment. we are in a dinner club with some super cool friends. jo and blake hosted the kick-off dinner. they totally set the bar high. very high.

the pretty table

jo presenting the first course

sweet potato bruschetta dish - it was DELICIOUS

(jo, send me the recipe pretty please)

a ut bball game was on, you can tell from the body language we lost

i don't have any photos of the main course,
must have too busy scarfing it down

(but here is the souffle - yes, it was as good as it looks)

see? matt loved it

and you KNOW we brought over our little baby dragon. the langleys and hussars had not had the pleasure.

everyone got it (and even jo liked it)

then of course we have to dance. that is how we do. i think jo loves the game as much as i do, she's always game for it.

amy and i go tete e tete

 

 whee!

this right here is the best photo of the night. kate is whipping that hair! woo hoo!

whip it - whip it good

not to be outshown, rick pulls out a snazzy move

amy and jo have a go

matt and chris pull up the kris kross duet. it was awesome. they really sold it, they were breaking it down.

this is kris kross, i think i was in middle school when they hit it big. they were REALLY crazy and liked to wear their clothes on backwards. it's really funny and now that i think about it, i remember LOTS of guys doing this in the seventh grade. you know who you are...

yeah...

yeah...
(i guess i should have taken this photo from the back, eh?)

 

jo and blake make sweet sweet music together

jo and i take a break

then you can tell this photo is from later in the night. everyone was working up a sweat.

hair flying all over the place

and i leave you with my favorite photo of the night. i swear i did NOT photo doctor this.

some people just feel the music.

matt makes sweet sweet music by himself

(hahahahahahahaha - this photo makes me laugh long time)

alrighty, now i have another set of photos from wine night (at the cases). it was in honor of the rumpsa's, but a bad case of the icky ick kept them in michigan (but don't worry, we have rescheduled).

andywho, jo set up one of those wine tasting game thingies. i love stuff like that. everyone had to bring a wine and a cheese, then we voted.

yummy wine and cheese

the hussars came in with the most votes and won first prize. the blue ribbon went to them. congrats, guys!

disclaimer: amy does not drink wine directly from the bottle

(at least i don't think so), this was purely for giggles

then you KNOW we had to play just dance! this time, shon was there and got down with it.

break it DOWN

here i am giving shonnie bear kisses cause i love her so

break it, don't shake it, took your mama nine months to make it

and now i end the post with randoms. here is a texted photo of my two wonderful nephews. harlan and knox, kisses!

could they BE any cuter? no.

rowdy on the couch one saturday morning

my nutellamid

(jealous much?)

sand art by lottie sue

rowdy at a wendy's in winston-salem

(we went up there to invade the gilmores over spring break)

this is lottie sue's bestie, vincent - lottie spent
the afternoon at his house last week

(she never wants to leave, it takes me 20 minutes to get

her out of lisa's house and then she pouts for an hour)

another texted photo of little knox, check out the hair!

rowdy, lottie sue and myself went to visit granbunny yesterday (she recently had back surgery but is doing very very well). this is a photo of their barn. i used to spend many an hour playing in this barn. granray would come home from work and becce and i would get to go down and feed the horses with him. i loved it. i used to also go up in the top and climb over the bales of hay. good times.

 

they are horse people and live around lots of other horse people. as were leaving this fellow walked up to the car. lottie sue and rowdy were so excited. it was cute.

 mr. ed

OK, i hope you enjoyed this post. i leave you now with my world-famous items of interest:

• here is a cool blog to check out: celebrigum -  every afternoon this guy "stands by a second-floor window in the ed sullivan theater and takes mediocre photos of guests leaving the late show with david letterman".
• david lynch and duran duran? sign me UP.
• radiohead thank drew barrymore on the king of limbs' sleeve.
• i love frittatas! if you like eggs and are bored with sunny-side-up/scrambled and the like then check these frittata recipes from the times out. 
• looks like we may have to wait until the fall (not summer) to see the new season of mad men. poo.
• two teens, two videos - a story from the times that i guess is popular but it was news to me, two kids that made music videos that went viral - but not with the desired effect. 
• here is a neat ditty on how manhattan's grid grew.
• last week there was a debate that shut down dc comics commenting on its blog. the topic: who runs faster, superman or the flash?
• ricky gervais and will arnett will appear in the the office's season finale.
• five earphone designs that stay put when running (i need some of these for realz).

alright, my pets. stay classy, post to ya later.