supermodel dog

We took Cams to a different dog beach this past Sunday because the Montrose Beach dog park is just nutso! We finally tried the Foster Beach dog park and we could tell a total difference in Cami's interactions with the other dogs. I don't think we have ever seen her have so much fun. She was running around with the other pups and got in the water pretty deep (she hates to swim)! She was being a social butterfly and ended up being pretty popular with the other dogs! Definitely taking her to this smaller beach from now on! Here is her supermodel beach photo running along the water...haha!

Happy Tuesday!

         

tv time

Finally! After a very cold and boring spring with nothing to watch on TV all of the best shows are back! 

Breaking Bad is finally back and better than ever! I swear that is the only show I watch where I have to cover my eyes because it gets soooooo INTENSE! 

The Big C is so sweet and funny that you forget the entire show is about dealing with cancer. 

True Blood is the best by far with bad vampires, werewolves and NOW witches duking it out! Oh!!!! How I've  missed the opening song on that show annnnd I can't help but have a girl crush on Sookie. ;)

Here is the song I am talking about....I wanna do bad things to you....so hot!

wedding #1

FYI: I am by NO means getting engaged, married or anything anytime soon!

But I am a girl who likes weddings. I am also a girl who has been in a LOT of weddings. This January will be my 10th turn as a bridesmaid for another one of my closest friends.

So I have decided that I will start dedicating my Wednesday posts to random stuff about weddings that I love and also my history of the weddings I have been in.

Let's start this post with the very first wedding I was ever in! I believe I was only 7 and it was for my dad's wedding to my step mom, Christine. I don't have pictures of the wedding now but will post some once I get my hands on them! Christine looked beautiful and I want everyone to see!

Christine's mom, our Grandma Joe, made the bridesmaids dresses. And I remember getting little pink ballet slippers to wear with the dress that we had to dye blue! We also had to wear bustles under the dresses so they would be nice and poofy! I just remember feeling so pretty, like a little princess!

This is my sister's dress below. I have mine locked away somewhere in storage! You like? :)

I love my man

Sean started his new job this week! He is just so super happy and I am so super happy for him. He is the most hard-working, kind, and selfless boss anyone could ever have! Everyone at his work is lucky to have him! We went out celebrating at our local watering hole and this is us waiting for the train home...after a few beers. We just couldn't stop laughing for some reason! :)

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!

          

cami in the wind

Soooo our air conditioner has not been working lately in the good old Highlander, and this came at the perfect time for our trip to the super HOT state of Oklahoma. This pic is of Miss Cami in our car. We had all the windows down driving North to Chicago and everyone's hair was blowin' in the wind!

stock the bar!

It has been a crazy past two months getting ready for Sean's sister's wedding in Oklahoma. We got back last week and are completely exhausted! The wedding week was absolutely the BEST TIME. Sean and I threw a couple's shower for Stacy and Charlie and the theme was Stock the Bar! I think it was my most successful shower I have thrown to date! I made all of the decorations myself (Sean helped too, you should have seen him helping me shop at Michael's...crazy!) and I also got to design my first party invitation. I don't know what I would do without Paper Source, they basically know me by name now!

We collected wine bottles over the past few months and wrote with chalk paint Stacy and Charlie's wedding date, initials, etc. Then we used the rest of the bottles for vases! I made the banner from the extra invitation paper and used the cutest paper cutter (from Paper Source) to make a design on the corners. Sean helped me make the coasters which was so fun to do and I highly recommend for any kind of couple's shower. I printed off a fun pic of Stacy and Charlie and used waterproof Mod Podge to glue it to squares of cork! So cute! Sean and his dad worked the grill for us and Nikki made the rest of the yummy food, the lemon cream cheese cupcakes were to die for! I, of course, was in charge of the alcohol. We brought some Chicago beers with us (Old Styles and Goose Island 312) and  I made the best white wine sangria from a Martha Stewart recipe. I'll post the recipe later this week for all my OK friends because it is the perfect summer sangria to serve in that crazy heat!

We had a great turn out of family and friends! I appreciate my friends and sister making their way out to Norman to attend the party and I hope everyone had a lot of fun! I have the prettiest girlfriends and sister! :)