Hoisted on my own petard....

Last week, New York friend Amy was in town and we got together for a quick little girls night! (Notice that BFF HI Kim is also here, hooray!)
Amy always appreciates a good shoe (don't we all?). So when I got dressed that morning, I wanted to wear something cool that she would covet.
Boy, did that backfire when she showed up in these crystal studded cowgirl boots......

Wordless Wednesday

Labor Day 2010

The weather looked just good enough that we'd be able to sneak one good trip in for the last weekend of assumed summer weather... We took off on a warm and beautiful Friday afternoon and made our way to our Pendleton home (read: Hamley's). We were welcomed by our lovely friends at the bar, they always treat us so well. The next morning started with a jog and a sandwich and since we had a little extra time, we took a back road around a huge tree farm and found ourselves kind of in the middle of no-where...
I guess not exactly nowhere, but Bombing Range Road, which isn't to close to anything. Probably by design :)
The first day was too windy to fish and we ended up hanging out and drinking beers. The next day, the weather cooperated a little more and we got to do that same beer drinking on the boat! We practically had the whole gorge to ourselves. Tonya caught first fish.
This is what happened most of the day.. Carl would get a big fish on.
John would net the fish...
everyone would talk about how big the fish was and into the live well it would go!
Kathy caught fish too!
At the end of the day, John calls that he is going to make one last cast and catch a fish with it. Awesomely enough, he did and Bryan did too! What a way to end the day!
After that, it's my job to help Captain Carl clean the fish. What an awesome time.
*last photo shamelessly stolen from Tonya's facebook page.

Fashion Friday

"You look like a Justin Timberlake dancer."
"Are the Backstreet Boys in town?"
"I keep expecting you to bust out a Michael Jackson move."
"Hey! Al Capone!"
"You look like a hipster."
I was more excited about my socks.

Wordless Wednesday

Written in the stars..or sidewalk chalk.

JJ and I were walking around doing that whole "looking at houses and picking which ones we'd like to live in" thing. We were talking about one we both liked and when when stopped to look, we were greeted by this on the sidewalk :)

Jersey Shore...

I have to admit that when we got the invitation to the Jersey Shore theme party, I had to look up costume ideas as I am totally unaware of this phenomenon. Even as I got ready, John told me I was too rock and roll and not enough Jersey Shore, but I think I finally got it figured out....
John's goal was to find an extra deep-V shirt to rock, however we found the clear winner with this bedazzled cross on the front with an eagle, and a Griffin on the back....

I didn't have to shop since I have the wardrobe of a thousand women. The skirt is actually a tube top that I started by wearing appropriately, but since nothing in my closet was short enough, pulling it down actually worked quite well. I think that actually helps my Jersey Shore street cred.
John was too embarrassed to be seen on the bus in his outfit and changed on the street on the way there. Although I don't know why it mattered, he looked like he was walking around with a hooker :)
The coolest thing is that EVERYONE got super into the theme and was dressed in their best douchebaggery. Gen-X should probably give Aaron commission for the uptick in Saturday sales on the day of his party.
so fun.