Sweet summertime!

*Before beginning, I’ll let wandering minds rest -- I did go with the Camry!

So as we all know summer is in full swing. Hot and muggy days that make you scream until you can get the AC pumping in your car, even before even buckling up! Summer just hasn’t been exactly the same since I finished school and started working fulltime. You work year round and seasons seem to mesh together, and the years roll by much faster for me now. Currently, I’m anxiously waiting July 10th…… BEACH TIME! One week at the beach with about 11 other people, all under one roof sharing the same toilets (YIKES-for all those that know my toilet phobia this good be interesting). >>>INSERT SHORT PHOBIA DESCRIPTION<<< The family beach trip will be tons of fun I’m sure of it, but will also bring back bitter sweet memories of my dad’s routine for us all to take turns lathering up his back with sunscreen before we even leave the beach house, walks on the beach, coffee on the beach to watch the dolphins, washing the cars before heading home (since they were clean when we left home they should certainly be when we head back home!), and many more fond family beach trip memories. We now have new memories in the making, including the boys & their many beach toys-A MUST!, naptime in the middle of the afternoons, earlier bedtimes for all, (this year) Miss Lyla on the move and many more to come!

>>>INSERT SHORT PHOBIA DESCRIPTION: Ever since I’ve gotten married and my own place I seem to cringe -like it’s almost painful- when I go to use my bathroom after another male has been in there. Tyler doesn’t bother me a bit but we all can understand why, however, other males come over and soon after I will be cleaning the toilet. Weird, I know, and you say I don’t understand, I know and I do not expect you to because I do not myself!<<<

I did have a brief flash back to my high school summers, where there was not a care in the world beyond that day/evening. This is Laura’s birthday “week,” yes Stokes County style everybody thinks they deserve a whole week—HA HA! She made a few birthday requests and one of them was to go fishing at a pond other than the carp pond (you know like normal people)! So Tuesday evening we made a plan to venture off to the Tesh Farm in Germanton (this is <3MY LOVE’s<3 great-grandmother’s farm) and fish to our hearts content. Laura and I took full advantage of her fishing trip and we caught 10+ fish each, one after the other. <3MY LOVE<3 was the worm putter-oner and the fish taker-offer for both of us until “Crawlspace” (Justin’s new nickname) decided to join the party. We had an absolute BLAST! This evening of acting silly, letting loose, being only who I wanted to be, getting dirty, chewing a HUGE piece of bubblegum—brought me to a place of serenity! I enjoyed not worrying about what we were having for supper, switching the laundry, or any other household/wifely duties. All I had to be was ME just they way I like and having <3MY LOVE<3 and good friends right there with me topped it all off.

Ok….onto the funny stuff as you all LOVE! There is a fellow blogger (check her out HERE) who I do enjoy reading, however, this should be seen as a tribute to her blogging ideas, not to been seen as “put down.” (Ha ha I know you all were laughing at me bringing back the “put down” phrase-old school) Here it is a full description of this lovely, well thought through outfit that I rocked out to Laura’s fishing excursion.



The Way I Wore

Tank tops: Old Navy layered tanks (Pink over Brown example shown here)

Jeans: Old Navy old school (meaning over 3 years old), rocking them tucked in the boots

Shoes: Ariat Fat baby Boots--gReAt investment!

Fishing pole: Zepco, pink edition hand-picked by <3MY LOVE<3

***Please do not insert too much jealousy after this post ladies. Anyone that has known me for any amount of time knows I strive VERY hard to be completely different from anyone else and I rock it out oh so perfectly!