roots and lawn party - two things that go together

Ok, you know it's bad when your grandmother asks you if you are letting your hair go dark again!  And to top that off, it's worse when your 5-year old tells you that your hair is supposed to be blonde, not dark.  These comments are not made up.  And they came just in time for my touch-up appointment for tomorrow.  Only thing is, I have to reschedule because of my crazy busy week.  

Guess I will be rockin' these roots for the next couple days.  

I will say that I fit in pretty good with last night's crowd, although I did wear a hat to cover up the nastiness. 

We ventured out to the lawn party (redneck rendezvous, but oh so much fun).  And boy was it the venture.  All 13 of us!!  Me, Travis, Briley.  My parents.  My sister, her husband and their two boys.  And some friends of ours and their two kiddos. 

Here, you might enjoy this picture of us taking up an entire picnic table....covered in fried food and everyone stuffing their faces.  HA!

 

The food at these shindigs is simply amazing.  We had:  fried chicken, french fries, white bread, baked bbq chicken, hamburger, white beans with ham and onion, snow cones, caramel cake, peach, raspberry and chocolate homemade ice cream and funnel cake.  No lie.  

 There was a band and we caught the two upcoming first graders doing a little admiring from a distance.  Hey, who doesn't love a hot cowboy?!?!  (Yes, I can say that...Travis has tight jeans, boots and a cowboy hat - triple check! ;)

We the girls (and Travis on one or two) rode rides alllll night...thanks to the $10 arm band.  Gotta love it. 

I interrupt this segment on rides to give a quick thought on the 'carnies' operating the rides.  Definitely not trying to be downgrading here, but seriously.  This is what our children are subject too for two minutes whirling through the air?  

I seriously think he dozed off for a few.... 

All in all, there were lots of laughs and more memories made with friends and family.  Gosh, I just love livin' in the country :) 

And since we live in the fair capital of the state, I'm sure you will be seeing plenty more posts like these round' these parts over the next couple of summer months...

Please pass the cotton candy.

'GG' {glittery golden}

I love being tan.  I mean realllllllllly love being tan.  Like obsessed with it...if the sun is shining and I am not out in it - go ahead and mark me up as being in a bad mood.  Ok, I may be exaggerating slightly, but only slightly. 

The days of growing up with a pool and spending college days at the beaches of the world are long gone.  The biggest question of my day is no longer which suit to wear and what oil to slather on my body.  

Now, it's off to work I go and in the office I sit.  Sucks.  

Fortunately for me, I stumbled across some self tanner where I am actually pretty pleased with the results.  In the past two days, I have had several commenter's on 'how tan I am'.  I was also recently in the sweetest southern wedding (definitely deserving of it's own post OR two) and my great bridesmaids friends commented on my golden tone.  

 [WAS GOING TO INSERT CUTE GOLDEN PICTURE HERE, BUT BLOGGER IS BEING ANNOYING. POSTING ANYWAY - MY EYES ARE GETTING BLURRY...FROM PREVIOUS OFFICE SITTING OF COURSE]

Lovin' this product.  Best part, there are glittery sparkles in the lotion.  Must stock up for the rest of office sitting summer.  Blah. 

Braids are IN

The quick and easy, been doing since we were 5 hair do.  THE BRAID.  I am sure you have seen them around...

My friend Kara and I recently tried to pull them off.

(a couple of times to be completely honest)

Actually, the day she got ENGAGED she had put her hair in a WET BRAID.

(obviously the engagement was a complete surprise to her)

Soooo, we went with the assumption that braids bring good things.

 (like diamonds)



Kara (left), me (right), and our two braids facing inwards (embarrassing). 

 



Briley and me.....matching outfits AND braids. 

After reviewing the pictures, we have ONE question!

Why don't our braids look like this?!



NOT FAIR.





Top 10...

Top 10 reasons to start 'blogging' again:

10.  BECAUSE I may just become famous one day off this little creation, have a book written about me and a camera crew to follow me around (doubtful, but hey, a girl can dream).  In fact, already have the name of my show...Kitchen Catastrophe's with Corri.

9.  BECAUSE alllll [7 of them] of my followers have been upset due to lack of reading material.  ha! kidding.

8.  BECAUSE I celebrated number 29 this month.  It's my last year in my twenties...enough said.

7.  BECAUSE I was having fun!  Although it did cause some undue stress when I didn't have the most perfect post or the exact words to say, Oh well! - that's life for ya.

6.  BECAUSE my friend Amy, who has a private blog, has several printed blog books and during a recent visit I LOVED reviewing.  Need my own.  Period. 

5.  BECAUSE I want to erase all of the pics saved in my blackberry, but keep thinking I need a place to dump them.  Why not in a 'lately' or 'my life in blackberry pictures' post?

4.  BECAUSE I am funny and my life is interesting and people enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoy reading about other's lives.  (first half may be a stretch....second part is totally true, I am nosy.)

3.  BECAUSE My totally awesome sister made me a wonderful birthday dinner (Kobe style and worthy of it's own post) and asked me if I had "updated my blog"?  My answer, "no, but I really want to, just been soooo busy."  Her response, "well, you should, it was realllllly good." (Ok, maybe there wasn't an exaggeration on the really, but she did say it.  Honestly.)   

2.  BECAUSE of number 10. 

1.  BECAUSE My family is too adorable for just memories in my mind.  Briley captures my heart every single day with a funny story, cute sayings and sassy poses.  MUST document to look back on and smile. <3  And although Travis gives me a hard time with my picture taking and when the keys start typing away.  I KNOW he secretly loves it and will thank me for it one day.  I just know it.

Be on the look out for posts people, maybe multiple posts/day (well, I won't go that far). 

I have a lot of catching up to do.