Fashion Friday

This was not the first fashion choice this week.. I was super cute yesterday, wearing my wedding shoes and a fresh flower in my hair.. But it was super hot and by the time I got home, I looked like this. I've been rolling around this post in the back of my mind anyway, so maybe the timing is apropos given our current weather situation.

Swimsuits! It may not come as a surprise that I have a ton of them. A whole drawer, in fact. and I wear them all. I wear the supportive ones to teach dance and I tend to believe that when traveling in the summer, a swimsuit top and a skirt is the perfect outfit. I also love to add a bandanna or hat and earrings (and usually a necklace if rocking it with a skirt) and I am ready to go! Most of the time, I like to mismatch tops and bottoms. Below is an example. The top is one that I liked because of the skimpy, clasping back (not a tie...) and the metal rings. But it was a little too big, so I unstrung it, folded the bottom of the "V" up and sewed in a seam. The I restrung it and now I wear it all the time!
The bottom I like to wear because the inside is hot pink, so if I roll over the waist (like I tend to do with everything), a bit of color peeks out. and on the back is a silver guitar.
Does that make me a butt rocker?

Text 2-3-4, drink, and shrug, hold 7, drink drink!

as fun as this looks, it's even funner :)

Happy Anniversary!

4 years ago today, JJ and I got hitched!!!! I wish I could make some of those cool slideshows with music, but I, well.. OK, I never even tried, I just wish it would magically happen. So you get the ghetto version...

Right click on this to play our wedding song. Then right click on the Slideshow function here!

If that first song runs out, click on this to play our first dance song.

Happy Anniversary JJ! I love you!

Wordless Wednesday

Wayne and Dottie's rustic fishing cabins

Because so many of you were intrigued by the last one I thought it might be fun to share the little gem of a hotel we had for the weekend. It was a full house at JJ's folks' vacation house, so we went down to see about securing a spot in the tiny town's hotel. The sign outside directs you to an address, which in a town that maxes out at about 4th Ave, isn't very hard to find. We were greeted a little yipper of a dog and by Dottie, who was going to rent us our room. She was delightful and made sure to give us a card and invited us to take a pen so we could call if we needed reservations next time (which is actually really good, because these rooms go fast. I'm not even kidding). It was just me and JJ staying there, but we could have housed much more. There was a twin bed and also a twin bed with a single bunk! It had a little kitchen and everything. and then there was the bathroom... with a walk in shower... with a sink.
and an exposed pull chain light fixture. What could possibly go wrong?

Fabulous Fishing Photos with the Family

Though the weather was really threatening to not cooperate, we left on the motorcycle Friday afternoon and headed to Pendleton for the night. The next morning, we had a chilly ride across most of the rest of the state to meet up with John's family in Huntington for a weekend of fishing....

The weather was a little more July-appropriate once we got onto the lake and we spent the next two blissful days fishing... It goes like this: Once you catch a fish, you remove the hook..
Then you have to determine if it's big enough to keep....
If it's not, back it goes into the water...
If it is....
you pose with it...

We tend to get a lot of the same fish holding poses...
Bryan busts out a new one...
I'm not as creative...

Sometimes, there's swimming...
and since I don't actually fish (I'm the helper :)), my day looks a lot like this....
After two successful days of fun in the sun, we headed back....
When a weekend consists of motorcycle and fishing boat as your major modes of transportation, you know you're doing it right.

Fashion Friday

Orange! I've recently decided to just go ahead and love it! Oddly enough, it works better with the red hair than I thought it would. It seems the only color that I really don't like with the red hair is hot pink... hmmm. anyway, I scored this fantastic shirt at Goodwill and I think I'll have it for years. I love the fit and the neck and the beading and the color! Since orange is new to my closet, I don't have a lot to match it with. I'm going to avoid black because I don't want to look Halloween-y. I, oddly enough, don't have a brown skirt (inevitably to be remedied soon...) and even so, I don't know if it will work with the gray-ish beading. I will be trying the shirt with gray the very second that I find myself some orange shoes! I decided to pair it with denim, the trustiest of all closet staples, and chose this old skirt that I've had for millions of years.

I go back and forth about it, and I don't know if it's "cool" or not, but it never makes it into the Goodwill pile, even though it's seemingly styled after a mullet. Also, it's a size 3 (When I turned 35, I told myself it was time to get rid of all the 3's unless they really fit well. No need to squeeze, commit to the 5's and 7's :)) Every time I put it on, I love it. What's more, I like it in pictures when I see it too. The shoes are old gems from Target and are super comfy and able to walk for miles.
I busted out the orange jewelery and was surprised how many compliments I got on the ring! From guys even. Nana must have put a magic spell on it because I can't believe that a clip-on earring attached to a band would warrant so much attention. Especially when I'm busting out those triceps :)